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The sermon teaches that the Holy Spirit is Christ’s appointed successor as Teacher, Advocate, and Comforter, not a source of new revelations beyond Scripture. He lovingly and wisely applies biblical truth to the believer’s heart, exposing sin and bringing gospel promises to remembrance. Spurgeon presents salvation as an inseparable sequence in which justification necessarily leads to sanctification and glorification. The sermon’s strong warning is that those who reject Christ and remain without the Comforter will face condemnation, while all who believe in Christ are saved.
Theological center: The Holy Spirit is the promised divine Comforter who teaches and illuminates the completed revelation of Christ while applying the unified work of salvation to believers.
Applications: Examine your spiritual condition · Receive the whole gospel · Believe in Jesus Christ · Test your understanding of doctrine
Primary texts: John 14:26 · Romans 8:30 · Mark 16:16
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 GOOD old Simeon called Jesus the consolation of Israel, and so He was. Before His actual appearance, His name was the Day-Star—cheering the darkness and prophetic of the rising sun. To Him they looked with the same hope which cheers the nightly watcher, when from the lonely castle top he sees the fairest of the stars, and hails her as the usher of the morn. When He was on earth, He must have been the consolation of all those who were privileged to be His companions. We can imagine how readily the disciples would run to Christ to tell Him of their griefs, and how sweetly with that matchless intonation of His voice, He would speak to them and bid their fears be gone. Like children, they would consider Him as their Father, and to Him every want, every groan, every sorrow, every agony, would at once be carried. And He, like a wise physician, had a balm for every wound, He had mingled a cordial for their every care, and readily did He dispense some mighty remedy to allay all the fever of their troubles. Oh! it must have been sweet to have lived with Christ. Surely sorrows then were but joys in masks, because they gave an opportunity to go to Jesus to have them removed. Oh! would to God, some of us may say, that we could have lain our weary heads upon the bosom of Jesus, and that our birth had been in that happy era, when we might have heard His kind voice, and seen His kind look, when He said, “Let the weary ones come unto me.” But now He was about to die. Great prophecies were to be fulfilled, and great purposes were to be answered, and therefore Jesus must go. It behooved Him to suffer, that He might be made a propitiation for our sins. It behooved Him to slumber in the dust awhile, that He might perfume the chamber of the grave to make it— “No more a charnel house to fence The relics of lost innocence.” It behooved Him to have a resurrection, that we who shall one day be the dead in Christ, might rise first, and in glorious bodies stand upon earth. And it behooved Him that He should ascend up on high, that He might lead captivity captive, that He might chain the fiends of hell, that He might lash them to His chariot wheels and drag them up high heaven’s hill, to make them feel a second overthrow from His right arm when He should dash them from the pinnacles of heaven down to deeper depths beneath. “It is right I should go away from you,” said Jesus, “for if…