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Title: I need some help
Text: John 16:7-14
*Introduction*: No matter how good, how smart or talented you are there will always be an area of your life that you need help in.
But if you are a believer, you can rejoice because no matter what difficulties life may bring, you will always have help.
*Background*: Here in the end of upper room discourse, Jesus is about to break the bad news to His disciples.
He understood that they were going to need some help for their time of sorrow.
He knew that they would suffer for His cause.
But He also knew that He was not going be around when this was going to happen.
Jesus in this text tells his disciples that it is imperative that he go away.
What do you mean Jesus, your about to leave?
Imagine how these disciples were feeling when Jesus said these words?
The one who they left there families for, the one who that sat under for 3 years, the one who had been healing the sick, the one who raised the dead and cast out demons is about to leave.
Can you imagine the prick in their hearts and the void in their souls when they heard these words?
You know how you felt when you some one who you were close to moved away.
You experienced that sense of loss and abandonment.
They did not die but it felt like it because all they were going to be left with were memories.
Jesus the Messiah, is now leaving.
The One who was going to saves the world from sin was leaving so they thought.
But there are times in life it is always beneficial to leave so you can further yourself or your cause.
You never should stay to long.
When you hit the age of adulthood and maturity it is time to leave your parents house to further yourself and your cause.
You can stay at home but you will never become the man or woman that you are supposed to be.
Jesus could have stayed here on earth but He would never have overcame death and saved the world from sin.
But unlike a close friend leaving you only to have memories, Jesus might have left us but he did not leaves us with a void in our heart.
He left us /someone/ that would not only honor him but will give us power.
Who is this special one?
*I. **Who is the Holy Spirit?
v. 7*
He left us the Comfort, or Helper the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity.
The Holy Spirit is not an “it”.
It is not energy.
It is person.
And people have personalities.
The Holy Spirit has intellect, emotions and will.
He performs actions.
He guides.
He convicts and convinces.
He restrains.
He commands.
He intercedes.
In his personhood, He has certain ascriptions.
He can be obeyed, reverenced, grieved, resisted and lied to.
Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to glorify him.
But some may ask the question, if Jesus is the Lord and He is almighty, why did he send the Holy Spirit?
Jesus is God in the flesh.
Flesh is limit by boundaries such as sickness and death.
Due to flesh, Jesus earthly ministry was limited to time and space.
But it is now time for His fullness to be manifested.
And He could not do it in flesh so he sent the Holy Spirit who is not limited and has equal power that can be received by all who will to yield.
In our text the Holy Spirit is referred as a Comforter or Helper.
This is nobody in here today that does not need some comfort in their life or some help in some kind of way.
In the original language it is the word /parakletos, the Paraklete /which means one who is summoned or called to one side or an advocate.
The disciples will now have the help the need to make it through.
Saints, isn’t it good to know that you got help on your side that you can summons in the time of need.
It is nothing worse than needing some help and not getting it.
It is like getting a flat tire on an old country road with nobody around.
It’s like having a project to be done at work for your department and you are the only one trying to get it done.
But I am glad that the Holy Spirit is there when I am in need.
*II.
**The work of the Holy Spirit v.
8*
Here in verse 8, Jesus tells the disciple how the Spirit will work in their lives.
Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will *reprove* the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.
You don’t have to be a historian or a newscaster to realize the world we live in ain’t right.
It ain’t right to fight a war that we still don’t know what the real reason why we are fighting.
The world ain’t right that our young men want to be thugs and our daughters aspire to be video vixens more than they want to be doctors and lawyers.
It ain’t right that our elderly can’t get proper medicine because they can’t figure out Medicare part D. It aint right that we as African American still are treated sub par when we keep this countries economy going.
This is why we need the Holy Ghost.
The Spirit will right the wrongs so God’s people can be helped in the times of despair.
The Holy Spirit works in our lives to gently correct us from the wrong we do.
In verse 9-11, Jesus breaks it down further in details on what the Holy Spirit will does.
First, He will reprove us in regard to sin because we don’t believe on Him.
In his reproof:
· The Holy Spirit will convict us of our sin and makes us guilt that we miss the mark of Christ.
· The Holy Spirit convicts us when we transgress, that is when we wander of the right path.
· The Holy Spirit convicts when we violate God laws.
Second, He will reprove us in regard to righteousness because He goes to the father.
Only Jesus is acceptable to God.
And we are convicted because:
· We are only self-righteous
· But Jesus secures our righteousness
Third, He will reprove us in regard to judgment because the prince of this world, the devil will be judged.
That means all of his deeds and those who do evil.
Judgment is coming.
Romans 14:12 states that “/each of us will give an account of himself to God/”.
So don’t you dare think that you are going to get away with the hell you raised!
Do you think you really got over on people?
You will be judged for you mess not before man but before God himself.
The Holy Spirit will you bring you to judgment.
If knowing this not convict you, you are really going to need some help.
*III.
**The problem of Spiritual ignorance*
But the reason why we need the Holy Spirit’s reproof is because we are spiritually ignorant.
Jesus tells his disciples in verse 12 that He has many things to say but they cannot handle it all.
Why?
It is because they did not have the Holy Spirit yet.
There are things God desire us to have and do.
But you don’t have the Holy Spirit to accomplish the task He has for.
And there is a reason for this.
That is we don’t know or desire to know of the spiritual matters of the Lord.
We deny the power of the Holy Spirit.
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