The Comforter Has Come to Us!

Grace Bible Church

Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy---We are to be a joyous, obedient band of brothers with Christ, our prince and our kinsman redeemer, knit together in joy, love, faith and courage. The purpose is that, in the end, all the joyous things Christ promised will be accomplished in every one of us who have trusted in Him.--No wonder Christ prayed that His joy would be fulfilled in His people. His prayer cannot fail for any of us---Christ's joy must be fulfilled in us- What He joys in must be accomplished in every one of His people, and when it is, His joy floods over us as well.--What brings joy to Christ, in the end, are the same things that bring joy to us all. We come to share with Jesus a common enthusiasm.--What Christ delights in is His sacrifice that takes away our sin, and reconciles us to a Holy God, and justifies us, declaring us perfect before God in Christ, and rescues our bodies from sin and death and corruption.--A principle means used by God to fulfill Christ's joy in us, is the miraculous work of the Holy Ghost. By Him we are quickened, who were before dead in our trespasses and sins, and we are brought to faith in our Lord Jesus.--Not stopping with that, God sends the Holy Ghost to indwell every believer, to knit our hearts unto His, to adopt us by His Spirit as His sons.--The Holy Ghost also comforts us, by drawing us to the knowledge of all the things that bring joy to Christ---On the night He was betrayed, Christ promised that all this would happen.--But God also institutionalizes that comfort, He instantiates that comfort in the Holy Ghost Who indwells us.