“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”
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and of death.”
Revelation 1:18
. The life that is sacrificed for Me is
preserved unto eternal glory.
At all times and in all places, in all sorrows and in all afflictions,
when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel
helpless and alone, the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer
of faith. Circumstances may separate us from every earthly friend;
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but no circumstance, no distance, can separate us from the heavenly
Comforter. Wherever we are, wherever we may go, He is always at
our right hand to support, sustain, uphold, and cheer.
The disciples still failed to understand Christ’s words in their
spiritual sense, and again He explained His meaning. By the Spirit,
He said, He would manifest Himself to them. “The Comforter, which
is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall
teach you all things.” No more will you say, I cannot comprehend.
No longer will you see through a glass, darkly. You shall “be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth,
and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.”
Ephesians 3:18, 19
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The disciples were to bear witness to the life and work of Christ.
Through their word He was to speak to all the people on the face of the
earth. But in the humiliation and death of Christ they were to suffer
great trial and disappointment. That after this experience their word
might be accurate, Jesus promised that the Comforter should “bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
“I have yet many things to say unto you,” He continued, “but ye
cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come,
He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself;
but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show
you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine,
and shall show it unto you.” Jesus had opened before His disciples
a vast tract of truth. But it was most difficult for them to keep His
lessons distinct from the traditions and maxims of the scribes and
Pharisees. They had been educated to accept the teaching of the rabbis
as the voice of God, and it still held a power over their minds, and
molded their sentiments. Earthly ideas, temporal things, still had a
large place in their thoughts. They did not understand the spiritual
nature of Christ’s kingdom, though He had so often explained it to
them. Their minds had become confused. They did not comprehend