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   From: .robert@mu.way   
      
   Really? So who was the first?   
      
   Jhn 14:16And I will petition the Father, and He will give you another   
   Comforter, that He may remain with you to the age,   
      
   Jhn 14:17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does   
   not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He abides with you and shall   
   be in you.   
      
   Jhn 14:18 I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.   
      
   Jhn 14:19 Yet a little while and the world no longer sees Me, but you see Me.   
   Because I live, you also shall live.   
      
   Jhn 14:20 In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you are in   
   Me, and I am in you.   
      
   Jhn 14:26but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My   
   name, He shall teach you all things and shall remind you of all things that I   
   said to you.   
      
   Jhn 15:26And when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the   
   Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, that One will   
   witness concerning Me.   
      
   Jhn 16:7But I tell you the truth, it is advantageous for you that I should   
   go; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go,   
   I will send Him to you.   
      
   Obviously from these scriptures, Jesus was the comforter who was on the earth   
   leading the disciples, not just the twelve, but all of them, yet some   
   rejected Him as they were not fully committed. Think about it, via the   
   scriptures above.   
      
   The other comforter, the Holy Spirit, was sent to inhabit the hearts of the   
   Born Again ones. The Holy Spirit empowers all the Believers who trust in Him   
   and allow him to work through them, empowering them, with the same power that   
   raised Jesus the Messiah from the dead.   
      
   This same Holy Spirit enables us us to do just as Jesus did, for that reason   
   he dispenses the gifts of God severally as He wills, and does not leave us   
   with certain gifts as we are able to ask for more with the expectancy of   
   receiving them so as to minister through love those that are around us.   
      
   Thus V20 speaks to us having full knowledge of him as we mature, growing in   
   love, so as to minister unto others that our Heavenly Father might be   
   glorified, not just to the believer but that the non-believer may see the   
   Glory of God in operation and see the evidences of the one true God.   
      
   You too can be a conduit of the Heavenly Father being used to, Luk 11:2 And   
   He said to them:------let Your will be done on earth as it also is in Heaven.   
      
   For the things a believer does, who operates in Love, desires Gods will be   
   done here, on earth, as it is being done in Heaven. Those that do not operate   
   with love as as a -----. 1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of   
   angels, but I do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging   
   cymbal.   
      
   Personally, I consider it a super great Gift to have “another Comforter”   
   dwelling in me, One just like Jesus. To lead us, and also to lead us into all   
   truth. He is truth and not AI. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)