Yom Ri-shon, Kislev 21, 6002 – December 10, 2017
Comfort And Comforting
Most humans want to find some level of comfort from something. As believers we long for the comforting of our Father. It seems obvious that this must be something that is built within us by Him. Can we be what we need to be in Him by being a tool of that comfort? This is an important point to be made here. There is some type of interconnectedness between these things. Receiving and giving are connected to each other. Standing back from this idea, it only makes sense that for there to be receiving there must be giving and vice versa. And all of it is tied to the comforting of the Comforter. Our Messisah Yeshuah (Jesus Christ) said that He would send the Comforter.
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 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.
The world does not see or know the Spirit of truth. There seems to be several connections here. One is to the asking for something to be done, loving Yeshuah (Jesus), and the Comforter. He tells us more about who the Comforter is.
John 14:23 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.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
There is also this multiplicity of interconnectedness, more than a duplicity it is a multiplicity. We see it earlier in Jesus (Yeshuah’s) description of He and the Father sort of as One.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
There is this indwelling experience back and forth. Jesus (Yeshuah) was both present here and in the Father, and yet going to the Father. It was the Father dwelling in Him that did the works. He was going to the Father that the Spirit of truth, the Holy Ghost, might come to us. But it would appear that when the Comforter comes, Jesus (Yeshuah) comes with Him.
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
And why do we need this comfort from a Comforter? Scriptures reveal this.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
It would appear that a comforter has power, the power to overcome oppressors. The scriptures tell us who oppresses us, and why we might need this Comforter to come.
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
To wrap this up, it would appear that we have a role in the comfort that is obtained by people – us – in this earth. We are to comfort others. If everyone comforts everyone else through the ministry of the Comfrter, then the oppressor will be repelled. As Peter says, Yeshuah (Jesus) had the Holy Ghost, and we should too.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name YAH! Let Your will be done here and let Your kingdom be here with us. Send us today Your overwhelming provision that it might overflow to those around us. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Cleanse us and fill us anew. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that has been taken or held back in any way that was good, and the more besides. Send quickly the $424,523,962.53 to advance Your kingdom. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask all these things of Your, Father, in Your name YAH! We ask in the name of YAH Yeshuah! Amen.