Misconception regarding the Holy Spirit

When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord, you immediately receive or get the Holy Spirit. He is the One who makes the Gospel real to you and guides or leads you. The Holy Spirit is not reminding nor showing you your sins or the sins of others. That is not His mandate! Does He condemn? Judge you? Or frustrate you? Oh no! God forbid! When He shows you the area of your lack, it is because He wants you to receive God’s love, grace, goodness, wisdom, righteousness, acceptance and provision, not be judged, condemned or manipulated. The mandate of the Holy Spirit is to lead you to Jesus. He is here to point and make you focus on Jesus, not yourself. Jesus said this in John 15, “…the Spirit of Truth, which procedeth from the Father, shall testify of me” (v26).

Why would the Holy Spirit show you sin, or people’s sin, when He is instructed by the Father to reveal Jesus to us? If Jesus did not conquer sin, or if Jesus had sin in Him (and we know Jesus has no sin), or if He was unholy, then the Holy Spirit would show us sins. He is called the Spirit of Truth by our Lord. Not the Spirit of Sin. Jesus overcame on the Cross, and sin is no longer an issue with God. He dealt with it on the Cross through and on Jesus. The Lord’s goodness leads to repentance, that’s what I’m saying.

Our mandate is not to focus on sin, nor ourselves and our weaknesses, but on Jesus, even Him seated at the right hand of the Father. This, the Holy Spirit helps accomplish in the Father’s Love. The Holy Spirit’s mandate is to guide us into all Truth. Based on verse 12 of John 16, one has to ask themselves a question, did Jesus talk about sin in His conversation with the disciples beginning from John 13 to John 16:11. Someone might say what about Judas and Peter in John 13? Yes what about them? Well, Judas wasn’t there when Jesus started teaching in John 14. With Peter, Jesus immediately reassured him that even though he was going to deny Him, through the Work of the Cross Jesus would redeem Peter. And indeed He did after resurrection, Mark 16:6-7, John 21.

Come, come, come. Let’s head over to the scriptures for this truth. We’ll look at John 14:16-18 as our first scripture reference, Jesus’ words. “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” Look at this, the Holy Spirit will “abide with you forever”! As a born again believer, sin will never drive away the Holy Spirit. God shall under no circumstances take the Holy Spirit away from you. The Holy Spirit Himself shall never request from God to leave you. Whether you like or not, you are “stuck” with Him. He is not going anywhere from you. You have Him. He has you. He is in you forever. His stay in and with you has no conditions.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in this world. If He leaves where is He going to reside to accomplish His mandate in your life? He needs to be in you! You have God’s very nature through the Holy Spirit in you. How will you receive, know and have God’s love if the Holy Spirit is taken away from you? God pours His Love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5. Look, the Holy Spirit is a gift! It makes no sense that God, a gracious Giver will, because of your weakness, or you fail and sin, take away the Gift He freely gave you. He’s not like that. That would be undermining what Jesus did. In fact, God would be undermining Himself, a thing He doesn’t do. There is no such thing as the God taking away the Holy Spirit from you and there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit leaving you. That’s a lie. That’s just wrong and unbiblical. Study God’s Word.

This is what the Holy Spirit came to do; to help us not continue nor stay in sin. I hope you’re ready to see this truth. Before we get into that, let’s make this clear once more. The Holy Spirit is not in the ‘business’ of revealing sins to believers. He does not condemn you. He does not frustrate you. He does not tell your or other people’s sins. That’s the work of the flesh and the work of the devil. Not the Holy Spirit.