Some people treat the Holy Spirit like an invisible friend from childhood games, made up to make ourselves feel better. Yet at the Last Supper Jesus promises His disciples someone very real: another Advocate, the Spirit of truth, who will be with them forever (John 14). This sermon unveils the most mysterious person of the Trinity, the One who answers our deepest loneliness, enables us to know Jesus and gives us strength to carry on His mission. Listen and discover who the Holy Spirit really is and what changes when He makes His home in you.
Discussion questions
For your small group or for personal reflection after the sermon.
- In John 14:16 Jesus promises His disciples "another Helper." What do the words "another" and "Helper" tell us, given that the sermon explained them as someone of the same kind who walks alongside to support, advise and defend?
- How might the disciples at the Last Supper have heard Jesus' words when He told them He was leaving and that they would do His works, and even greater ones?
- The sermon said the promise "whatever you ask in my name" is about continuing Jesus' mission, not fulfilling personal wishes. How does that change the way you understand prayer?
- The speaker stressed that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force but a person who teaches, comforts, guides and reminds. Which ideas about the Holy Spirit, yours or other people's, need correcting in this light?
- The preacher quoted the thought: I can't write like Shakespeare or live like Jesus, unless His spirit comes to live in me. Where do you most feel that you can't live the way Jesus teaches in your own strength?
- The woman in the story from India, after a night when she couldn't help three women in childbirth, built a hospital and a medical school in Jesus' name. What would Jesus do in your neighborhood, and what small step can you take this week?
