Joh 15:26-27 | KingComments | STEP | After His rejection out of the world and His return to the Father, the world will not be without witnesses. New witnesses will come. To testify, you must have seen something, you must have witnessed something. The Lord Jesus has testified of the Father through His words and works that He has seen with His Father. That testimony has been rejected. Once He will be glorified, He will send another Witness: the Spirit of truth. The Spirit will complete the testimony. They have rejected the Son as being a Witness. This will not happen with the Spirit. He will be a permanent Witness. That is why it is so grave to sin against the Spirit or to reject the Spirit of grace. Here the Son sends the Spirit to testify of Him. That is what proves the Godhead of the Son. Of course He does not send the Spirit independently from the Father. He sends the Spirit because of the Father. He also speaks about the fact that the Helper Himself will come. Again He speaks first about the Helper and then about the Spirit of truth ( ). The Spirit is not only sent or given, but also comes Himself, for He is also God and comes from the Father. Each of the three Persons of the Godhead always acts in perfect independence, but never separately from the other Divine Persons. Thereby the Son and the Spirit have both taken a position of dependence when They came to earth. The Son proceeded from the Father and so does the Spirit proceed from the Father. The Son has testified about the Father and the Spirit will testify about the Son. For His testimony about the Son, the Spirit will use the disciples and also others, such as Paul. A distinction is made between the testimony of the disciples and that of the Spirit. The disciples testify of what they have seen from the beginning, which is from the beginning when they went with the Lord Jesus on earth ( ). They are also witnesses of His resurrection. We have their testimony in the Gospels and in the beginning of Acts. Later witnesses, like Paul, will speak through the Spirit of the glorified Christ. Of course, their testimony of Christ in humiliation on earth also requires the power of the Holy Spirit, but the nature of their testimony has to do with the Lord’s life on earth before His death and His ascension. Apart from their testimony, the Holy Spirit will also testify. He will testify of what He sees in heaven, while the disciples of Christ will testify of the time He was on earth.

‏ John 15:26-27

The Witnesses

After His rejection out of the world and His return to the Father, the world will not be without witnesses. New witnesses will come. To testify, you must have seen something, you must have witnessed something. The Lord Jesus has testified of the Father through His words and works that He has seen with His Father. That testimony has been rejected. Once He will be glorified, He will send another Witness: the Spirit of truth. The Spirit will complete the testimony. They have rejected the Son as being a Witness. This will not happen with the Spirit. He will be a permanent Witness. That is why it is so grave to sin against the Spirit or to reject the Spirit of grace.

Here the Son sends the Spirit to testify of Him. That is what proves the Godhead of the Son. Of course He does not send the Spirit independently from the Father. He sends the Spirit because of the Father. He also speaks about the fact that the Helper Himself will come. Again He speaks first about the Helper and then about the Spirit of truth (Jn 14:16). The Spirit is not only sent or given, but also comes Himself, for He is also God and comes from the Father.

Each of the three Persons of the Godhead always acts in perfect independence, but never separately from the other Divine Persons. Thereby the Son and the Spirit have both taken a position of dependence when They came to earth. The Son proceeded from the Father and so does the Spirit proceed from the Father. The Son has testified about the Father and the Spirit will testify about the Son. For His testimony about the Son, the Spirit will use the disciples and also others, such as Paul.

A distinction is made between the testimony of the disciples and that of the Spirit. The disciples testify of what they have seen from the beginning, which is from the beginning when they went with the Lord Jesus on earth (1Jn 1:1-3). They are also witnesses of His resurrection. We have their testimony in the Gospels and in the beginning of Acts. Later witnesses, like Paul, will speak through the Spirit of the glorified Christ. Of course, their testimony of Christ in humiliation on earth also requires the power of the Holy Spirit, but the nature of their testimony has to do with the Lord’s life on earth before His death and His ascension.

Apart from their testimony, the Holy Spirit will also testify. He will testify of what He sees in heaven, while the disciples of Christ will testify of the time He was on earth.