Lesson: Baptized by the Holy Ghost<br>
Reading: Comforter and Teacher<br>
Reference: John 14:15-31<br><br>
John 14:15: If ye love me, keep my commandments.<br>
John 14:16: And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;<br>
John 14:17: 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.<br>
John 14:18: I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.<br>
John 14:19: Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.<br>
John 14:20: At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.<br>
John 14:21: 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.<br>
John 14:22: Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?<br>
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.<br>
John 14:24: 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.<br>
John 14:25: These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.<br>
John 14:26: 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.<br>
John 14:27: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.<br>
John 14:28: Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.<br>
John 14:29: And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.<br>
John 14:30: Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.<br>
John 14:31: But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. <br>
(KJV)<br>