“The Right Equipment”
Jesus makes clear the link between love & obedience. It takes more than just having the knowledge, but to show your love is to act in accordance with the values of the one you love. So, the right response to God is to love Him by doing our best to obey Him. In our faulty human nature, we can’t discern the right way to obey or understand the truth of God, so the Holy Spirit shows us the truth, and gives us peace in spite of troubles. The resident presence of the Spirit brings wholeness. There is so much more that the Spirit does, which we will discover over the coming weeks, just as having a set-top box on your TV reveals the programs you can’t watch without it. Without the Holy Spirit, we can never grasp the truth of the Gospel.
