“Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1Jn. 1:3).
“I am ... the truth....
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.
He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.
Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” (John 14:18-23).
Jesus is saying that the other Comforter would be Himself and His Father, after He would leave them. Their presence would bring the comfort to His disciples. And thus it happens,
“If ye love Me, keep My commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14:15-18).
As the result of loving the truth, so much so that one obeys it (“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them”), Jesus and His Father come to the believer.
But how do They come? In what form do They come and abide in the believer? Where do They abide in the believer? In the heart? In the soul? In the mind? In the spirit? In the conscience?
Yes, to all five because the heart, the soul, the mind, the spirit, the conscience, are all the same. We have a spirit because we are especially made like God’s image. So Paul elucidates this divine-human likeness in a natural comparison. “What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” (1Cor. 2:11).
The rather obvious lesson here is that the spirit [mind] of man is the only entity that can know the private thoughts of that man, and anyone to whom he divulges his secrets. And likewise in this parallelism, the only One who can know the private thoughts of the divine God is the divine God Himself and His divine Son, and those to whom He deems trustworthy for His Son to communicate them. “All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.” (Matt. 11:27).
And the divine Son in due time reveals God’s private matters to His redeemed men and women and children through His earthly chain of command of prophets, apostles, and teachers. “At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” (Matt. 11:25). “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” (1Cor. 2:10). “For who hath known the mind of the Lord [the Father “Lord of heaven and earth”], that he may instruct Him? [(No one.)] But we have the mind of Christ.” (1Cor. 2:16).
And it goes without saying that Jesus unveils His Father to His angels. “Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves [the prophets], but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1Pet. 1:12,13).
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Heb. 1:14).
Where do Jehovah and His only-Begotten, how do They, manifest Themselves to us? They reveal Themselves as Spirit in our spirit. Their one Spirit unites with our spirit in one united Spirit. Our fellowship is with the Father and the Son. Then the remade connection and union with God that Adam had in Eden brings us great peace and happiness.
They reveal Themselves to us in our conscience, our heart, our spirit. But, in what form, in what substance do they reveal Themselves? In the form that our consciences can receive them, in Spirit, in truth. The Father and Son come to our conscience as truth. It is truth that our minds process in order for us to be remade into Their image, in Their Spirit. Therefore, from our perspective Their Spirit is Them in the form of truth, inductive reasoning and questions that bring out more insights about Jesus and our Father, right biblical doctrine, high and holy scriptural concepts, conceptualized in divine thought-forms of righteousness, visions — that is, thought-forms “seen” from righteousness acted out in the Bible’s sacred history. “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the Law, happy is he.” (Prov. 29:18). Without these visions of truth (which is Jesus) there is no life; but with truth as it is in the visions of Jesus comes abundant, everlasting life. “At that day” when Jesus would ascend to the right hand of God as the victorious High Priest to represent them before the Most High, He promised His forlorn disciples, “ye shall know that … ye [are] in Me, and I in you” (John 14:20). Fifty days later Jesus—in Spirit—would be the life of their soul.
Therefore, the Spirit, to our perceptions, is truth and visions of truth. The Nicene “substance” of the Spirit, is spiritual truth, which actually has no real substance. So if the members of the Trinity all have the same substance, then they all have no personality, no bodies. They are all fictitious and no better than panentheism. “It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all things.” “The anointingG5545 which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” (1Jn. 5:6;John 14:26;1Jn. 2:27).
G5545
χρίσμα
chrisma
khris'-mah
From G5548; an unguent or smearing, that is, (figuratively) the special endowment … of the Holy Spirit: - anointing, unction.
The anointing is the Comforter-Spirit, which is truth to our heart, to our spirit, in our mind, our soul, our conscience.
Where also does the truth abide?
In the commandments from Jesus, His precepts, His thoughts, reasonings, expressions, His injunctions, etc. As we see them we see Him (John 5:39;6:40).
“If ye love Me, keep My commandments....
He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them….
If a man love Me, he will keep My words...
He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings.” (John 14:15,21,23,24).
This is, as Judas asked, How is it “that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world?” (John 14:22).
In Spirit, that is, by truth that is received into His disciples and kept by them, Jesus would come to them and comfort them by His presence. In Jesus who is the truth, the scriptures would give them eternal life. The Spirit of truth would be His written word received into their consciences, and thus He could be present to comfort them.
“I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” (John 14:16-20).
At the throne of the universe the Father and Son are in Their bodily forms. But, in Their front yard here on Earth, and elswhere in the universe, They are in Their spiritual states, that is, in Their truth. So the Spirit of God not only brings to us—but also is to us —a new state of nature. When They infuse our possession of truth with the creative power that They bring to help us keep the truth, then we receive a mind under the possession of heavenly agencies. And the Spirit lives in the truth because the Spirit is truth. Therefore, the Spirit dwells in the written word and is inculcated into the believing soul. With truth rooted and grounded in us by the written truth and the Spirit, like Adam in Eden, we become a living soul.
And therefore the Spirit is not a third person. And everyone who knows the experience of Christ’s power and presence as His truth is imbibed in their repentant spirit knows that the Spirit of truth cannot be simply a person in a Trinity of divine beings. The Spirit is an experience. All who have been humbled and made penitent know that Christ gives them reconciliation with God, but the Spirit is their reconciliation with God; the Spirit is the new reconnection with Jehovah’s Spirit. They soon wake up to the truth that that third person is a thief and a deceiver, and has usurped the experience of truth in the minds of billions, by offering a supposed hope and an assumed blessing from a platonic god who is devoid of the Creator’s strong, scourging convictions by His high standard. The world has accepted a child-molesting kidnapper in exchange for a living experience with their Father who created them.
All who dodge the spiritual thrusts from stinging truth will never know the true God and His only Begotten. The conviction dodgers will never know the Father and the Son. They will never know the united Spirit by which the Father and the Son join the spirit of man to Themselves. They will never recognize the religious fraud. As it is written, “He that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit.” (1Cor. 6:17). Truth dodgers will always opt for the Trinity, and its religious system which offers no joining with the only true God, but offers empty promises of redemption, without any provision for victory over sin. And such a non-convicting god of lawlessness is just what the dodgers of truth desire. Therefore they will always remain among the billions of other lost, blind, and the dead of mankind, comparing themselves among themselves and measuring themselves by themselves. They will join hand in hand, and all will be punished in the last plagues and then come up in the second resurrection. They will do as all the perverted world have ever done, congregate with other godless Canaanites in temples dedicated to Dagon and will perish when the Lord’s Samsons bring down those houses of worship. All who in these last days disregard the straight testimony of Ellen White will be lost in the wicked and atheistic Trinity deception.
