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John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

John 14:26 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 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

It seems clear in the chapter above that Christ has revealed three powers that are working together to reveal God to man: God, His Son, His followers (be it angels and men).

  • “They must have His grace, the Spirit of Christ, to help their infirmities, or they cannot resist evil.” “Strength and grace have been provided through Christ to be brought by ministering angels to every believing soul.” SC 52.2 & 52.3
  • “That Christ should manifest Himself to them, and yet be invisible to the world, was a mystery to the disciples. They could not understand the words of Christ in their spiritual sense. They were thinking of the outward, visible manifestation. They could not take in the fact that they could have the presence of Christ with them, and yet He be unseen by the world. They did not understand the meaning of a spiritual manifestation.” SW September 13, 1898, par. 2

What is the Spirit, or grace of Christ, by which He would manifest Himself to us? (Notice, He and His Father would be in man to make Their abode with man so as to manifest Themselves to the world. See John 14:23.) The Spirit is His mind, not just the thoughts, it’s the life, the character, the inner man, the desires, will, purpose, etc–the Spirit that Christ had while He was on this earth. It’s not a third being/essence/ghost/wind/air/blob/disembodied spirit or any other thing in and of itself. (The word spirit is associated in the Bible with air, or breath, and even angels, but that’s not the aspect of the uses of “spirit” that I am referring to in this study. The body, any body, without the spirit/breath has no mind and is dead, see James 2:26.)

Notice the “spirit” or mind that is affected in these following verses:

  1. Genesis 41:7-8, Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled;
  2. Numbers 5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
  3. Psalms 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
  4. Psalms 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.
  5. Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  6. Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
  7. Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
  8. Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
  9. Isaiah 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
  10. Daniel 2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
  11. Daniel 2:3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
  12. Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
  13. Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  14. Luke 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
  15. Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
  16. John 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
  17. 1 Corinthians 4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
  18. 1 Corinthians 7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
  19. 2 Corinthians 7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
  20. Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
  21. Ephesians 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
  22. Ephesians 4:30 Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
  23. Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
  24. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
    1. Notice how Paul understood Isaiah’s words regarding the Spirit:
  25. Isaiah 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
  26. Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

These are some of the biblical proofs that the spirit can be understood as the mind, but as stated earlier and again emphatically—not just the thoughts—it’s the life, the character, the inner man, the desires, will, purpose, etc—the spirit.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words [from God’s mind] that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.