"Jesus and the Helper" (John 15:26-27; 16:7-15)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus.In John 16, we see why it is better to have the Spirit inside us than a physical Jesus beside us. Jesus tells the disciples that it is an “advantage” for him to go, because then the Father will send “the Helper." This Helper isn't just some assistant, but is the regenerating, sanctifying presence of God Himself! Jesus is assuring his disciples that this Helper, God the Holy Spirit, will continue the work that he has started in and through the Church. “Every time we say, "I believe in the Holy Spirit," we mean that we believe there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.”--J.B. Phillips"He who supposes that Jesus Christ only lived and died and rose again in order to provide justification and forgiveness of sins for His people, has yet much to learn. Whether he knows it or not, he is dishonoring our blessed Lord, and making Him only a half Savior. The Lord Jesus has undertaken everything that His people’s souls require not only to deliver them from the guilt of their sins by His atoning death, but from the dominion of their sin, by placing in their hearts the Holy Spirit; not only to justify them, but also to sanctify them."- J.C. Ryle“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable."-John Stott