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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 16:8-15
  by J.C. Ryle
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"And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and
righteousness and judgment--concerning sin, because they do not believe
in me; concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and
you will see me no longer; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of
this world has been condemned.

"I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all
truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak
whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. He will glorify
me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to
you. Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the
Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you."

When our Lord in this passage speaks of the Holy Spirit "coming," we
must take care that we do not misunderstand His meaning. On the one
hand, we must remember that the Holy Spirit was in all believers in the
Old Testament days, from the very beginning. No man was ever saved from
the power of sin, and made a saint, except by the renewing of the Holy
Spirit. Abraham, and Isaac, and Samuel, and David, and the Prophets,
were made what they were by the operation of the Holy Spirit.

On the other hand, we must never forget that after Christ\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-john-john-168-15/
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