All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Everything the Father has belongs to Christ the Son, declaring His divine dignity, oneness with the Father, and right to all power in heaven and earth. The Father gave all things into His hands that He might be the world's Redeemer, with heaven's love and resources placed at His service to give to needy souls for their salvation. The Holy Spirit takes what is Christ's, which is the Father's and the things of God, and shows and reveals it to the disciples and believers, continuing Christ's teaching after His departure. He guides into all truth by opening and recalling Christ's words, making plain what could not yet be borne or understood, and thereby glorifies Christ and makes known the Father and the Son. Received by obedient hearts emptied of self who seek to know the truth, His revealing impresses the truths of redemption with living power, forms Christ's image within, and transforms the soul into the divine likeness.
Setting in Upper Room
These words were spoken privately to the eleven disciples alone in the upper chamber after Judas withdrew, when the peace of heaven returned to His face, before His separation from them and His suffering, to keep their hearts from being troubled as part of His burden of comfort, counsel and prayer. They belong to the sacred truths unfolded to His faithful disciples alone, recorded in John 15, 16 and 17, which the multitude could not understand. They were His last words before His suffering, given before He told them of His approaching separation.
They belong to the instruction of John 14-16 about the trials and temptations ahead, including the trials that would come to His church through unconverted believers. That instruction was given to keep the disciples from blindness and ignorance about the future and to make them acquainted with His purposes and plans. It was meant to strengthen them for what lay ahead and to help them remember His love in their work and counsel. With John 14-16 it is full of encouragement and hope, imparting courage to stand fast in the most trying hour and bringing strength and assurance to the true believer as long as time shall last.
Even the disciples could not bear or fully understand these truths until after the resurrection, and more fully after the ascension when the Spirit revealed the meaning of His earlier words. When the Holy Spirit came as on the day of Pentecost, eyes now blinded were opened and scales fell from them. At Pentecost the Spirit equipped them to testify with words their adversaries could not refute. Repeated again and again by the disciples to stay their sinking hearts in disappointment and trial, those truths spread from their testimony over all lands and live through all ages to comfort the desponding and give peace and hope to believers.
The instruction in John 14-17, including this verse, expresses God's will in regard to His people and shows what He desires to do for the human race. That teaching is to be appreciated and obeyed, and to be understood with new enlightenment through the Spirit of God. When lived out in the practical life it cures dissension and produces unity with one another and with Christ. So lived, it enables believers to stand the test in the shaking time.
Christ Owns Father's All
All that the Father possesses belongs also to the Son, and in that complete possession is affirmed His divine greatness and His oneness with the Father. The Spirit's taking of what is Christ's to reveal it rests upon this same ownership, for what the Father has is Christ's to give through the Spirit.
By a wonderful transfer from the Father to the Son all things were given to Christ, all things delivered to Him, and all power in heaven and earth placed in His hands. This was done that He might be the world's Redeemer, the incarnate Saviour, the Word made flesh pitching His tent among erring and sinful men as the tabernacle of witness. With what the Father gave Him He makes all familiar with His character, that human beings may become partakers of the divine nature and one with Him in faith and practice.
Because everything the Father has is His, Christ has a claim upon everyone in this world, with everything in heaven and on earth at His service. The great gift of heavenly love was not kept shut up with the Father but was given to Christ to give to needy human beings for the saving of perishing souls. He is full of grace and truth and is all and in all, so no human being is to take glory to himself, but all praise now and forever is to be given to the Son of God.
The Father's resources and glory are His to distribute as gifts and as a kingdom to all who claim them by faith. He lays His hand upon the eternal throne with the ease and assurance of One who rules and reigns, puts upon His head the crown of Deity, sits at the right hand of God, and receives supreme honor as God with the glory He had before the world was. In this is declared His pre-existence, His personal dignity and authority, and His divine right to appoint a kingdom and bestow its gifts. All power in heaven and earth thus delivered to Him He is ready to transfer to those who cooperate with Him in self-denial and self-sacrifice to leave the fold to seek the lost, straying sheep and to preach the gospel of the kingdom in all the world. Students must place themselves in the channel of light to receive this power and to impart light by making known the truth that made them children of God.
Spirit Takes and Reveals
The Spirit of truth takes what belongs to Christ, which is all that the Father has and the things of God, and shows and reveals it to disciples and believers, receiving from Christ and continuing His teaching after His departure and ascension. In doing so He communicates Christ's truth, guides into truth, brings the truths of redemption vividly to mind with God's promises made effective, and makes Christ's words living principles in hearts opened to receive them, so that believers come to know both the Father and the Son. Teachings shaped by this work come from Christ, not from claims that science is essential for spiritual understanding.
He guides into all truth by opening the truth Christ taught, recalling His words, and revealing what the disciples could not yet bear or understand. After Christ's departure He helps them understand and remember His teaching, enabling them to bear accurate witness and to grasp heavenly things. This was fulfilled after the resurrection, and more fully after the ascension at Pentecost, when the meaning of Christ's earlier words was revealed and the disciples were equipped to testify with words their adversaries could not refute.
By revealing Christ's truth the Spirit glorifies Christ and makes known the Father and the Son. This same work applies to Christ living in His human representatives, through whom He reveals His truth.
The Holy Spirit is Christ's representative and the Comforter sent from heaven by infinite love. Comprehending His office as taught here brings all blessings to believers and makes them complete in Christ. It gives wonderful encouragement to be kept before the people and presented in every discourse, and it is meant to enlarge expectations and lead disciples to value the gift and seek its fullness.
The Spirit conveys Christ's words and the things of God with assurance and living power to obedient hearts emptied of self. He does this for those who open their Bibles seeking to know the meaning of God's Word and asking what is truth, which is the privilege of being taught by the greatest Teacher the world ever knew, through whom attention is called to the world above that has been lost from view and brought again within vision. In obedient hearts He makes Christ's words living principles, brings the truths of redemption and God's promises vividly effective, leads into all truth, enables faith that works through love and purifies the soul, and forms Christ's image within.
Without His enlightenment the truths in God's Word are not discerned and its treasures are not appreciated until revealed by the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness, just as the lovely things of the natural world are not seen until the sun dispels the darkness and floods them with light. By His power the vital truths on which salvation of the soul depends are impressed upon the mind, and the way of life is made so plain that none need err in it, even people without much learning. Therefore study of the Scriptures calls for prayer for the light of God's Holy Spirit to shine upon the Word so its treasures may be seen and appreciated, and as people faithfully use their abilities God's Word becomes a living, powerful force whose influence comes from divine power, not from human learning or intelligence, so praise belongs to God.
The verse explains how the Holy Spirit operates upon the mind by taking what belongs to Christ and revealing it to people. Sin can impair understanding and hinder the heart and memory from discerning truth and doing its work upon them.
The Spirit constantly gives the soul glimpses of divine things while a divine Presence hovers near. He enlightens the mind by truth so it can see truth in distinction from error, and works with energy on the heart to lead the inclination of the will to Jesus by living faith and complete dependence on divine power to will and to do. He does this progressively, just as fast as the soul resolves and acts in accordance with the light already revealed, and Jesus abides with the person only when the mind responds and the door of the heart is opened. By beholding Christ's glory and character as the pattern the soul receives His likeness and is transformed into God's image, and this work continues until fully conformed to Christ the perfect Model.
This revealing is given to those who follow Christ in meekness and lowliness through earnestly seeking the energizing power of the Holy Spirit, being born again and receiving the new heart Christ gives. As people become students of Scripture the Spirit impresses truth upon the soul to plant it in the heart to control the life and form a character for eternal life. Every heart moved and drawn by Christ who makes God his strength and cooperates working in His lines extends golden threads of influence that fasten to other souls and draw them to Christ.
This work came with fullness and power reaching every heart upon the waiting, praying, believing disciples after Christ's ascension. It is God's desire now to refresh His people by baptizing them anew in His love, so there is no dearth or lack of the Spirit in the church. In the future this same work will lighten the earth with the glory of God as a holy, divine influence goes forth to the world from those sanctified through the truth and the earth is encircled with an atmosphere of grace.
Transformed Life and Witness
Everything belonging to the Father belongs to Christ, and the Spirit takes what is Christ's and reveals it to the disciples, so that by accepting Christ's grace and rightly using their entrusted gifts believers can glorify God and extend the knowledge and influence Christ desires the church to have. The Spirit takes the things of God and reveals them to believers, bringing the truths of redemption vividly to mind and keeping God's promises effective for them. Contemplating Jesus and His love warms their hearts and moves them to share the comfort those truths give. The Holy Spirit takes what belongs to God and reveals it to those who trust Christ, impressing on the mind the vital truths on which salvation depends and making the way of life clear even to people without much learning. Faith is belief in God's Word, and through believing in Christ and His Word people receive life in His name.
The Spirit takes the things of God and shows them to people and presents them through human instruments. Those who speak the truth are to present it plainly and distinctly, since the Spirit's guidance does not lead to indistinct speech. The impression made in preaching is not made by the preacher but by the Lord, and success does not rest in men and women but in God behind the human agent working through them, so no one glories in self or in any man but all glory God. Christ commands His own words to be taken and given to the people as Thus saith the Lord, with the works and words of Christ as sure evidence for what is presented. Young workers must arise and obtain a knowledge of the Word and its converting power, and when the lesson is studied and they are willing to take what Christ has commanded and give it, Christ's promised presence goes with them and brings evidence to the people that He is with them, with power to convert as at Pentecost when three thousand were brought to the faith.
Everything the Father has belongs to Christ the Son, declaring His divine dignity, oneness with the Father, and right to all power in heaven and earth. The Father gave all things into His hands that He might be the world's Redeemer, with heaven's love and resources placed at His service to give to needy souls for their salvation. The Holy Spirit takes what is Christ's, which is the Father's and the things of God, and shows and reveals it to the disciples and believers, continuing Christ's teaching after His departure. He guides into all truth by opening and recalling Christ's words, making plain what could not yet be borne or understood, and thereby glorifies Christ and makes known the Father and the Son. Received by obedient hearts emptied of self who seek to know the truth, His revealing impresses the truths of redemption with living power, forms Christ's image within, and transforms the soul into the divine likeness.
Setting in Upper Room
These words were spoken privately to the eleven disciples alone in the upper chamber after Judas withdrew, when the peace of heaven returned to His face, before His separation from them and His suffering, to keep their hearts from being troubled as part of His burden of comfort, counsel and prayer. They belong to the sacred truths unfolded to His faithful disciples alone, recorded in John 15, 16 and 17, which the multitude could not understand. They were His last words before His suffering, given before He told them of His approaching separation.
They belong to the instruction of John 14-16 about the trials and temptations ahead, including the trials that would come to His church through unconverted believers. That instruction was given to keep the disciples from blindness and ignorance about the future and to make them acquainted with His purposes and plans. It was meant to strengthen them for what lay ahead and to help them remember His love in their work and counsel. With John 14-16 it is full of encouragement and hope, imparting courage to stand fast in the most trying hour and bringing strength and assurance to the true believer as long as time shall last.
Even the disciples could not bear or fully understand these truths until after the resurrection, and more fully after the ascension when the Spirit revealed the meaning of His earlier words. When the Holy Spirit came as on the day of Pentecost, eyes now blinded were opened and scales fell from them. At Pentecost the Spirit equipped them to testify with words their adversaries could not refute. Repeated again and again by the disciples to stay their sinking hearts in disappointment and trial, those truths spread from their testimony over all lands and live through all ages to comfort the desponding and give peace and hope to believers.
The instruction in John 14-17, including this verse, expresses God's will in regard to His people and shows what He desires to do for the human race. That teaching is to be appreciated and obeyed, and to be understood with new enlightenment through the Spirit of God. When lived out in the practical life it cures dissension and produces unity with one another and with Christ. So lived, it enables believers to stand the test in the shaking time.
Christ Owns Father's All
All that the Father possesses belongs also to the Son, and in that complete possession is affirmed His divine greatness and His oneness with the Father. The Spirit's taking of what is Christ's to reveal it rests upon this same ownership, for what the Father has is Christ's to give through the Spirit.
By a wonderful transfer from the Father to the Son all things were given to Christ, all things delivered to Him, and all power in heaven and earth placed in His hands. This was done that He might be the world's Redeemer, the incarnate Saviour, the Word made flesh pitching His tent among erring and sinful men as the tabernacle of witness. With what the Father gave Him He makes all familiar with His character, that human beings may become partakers of the divine nature and one with Him in faith and practice.
Because everything the Father has is His, Christ has a claim upon everyone in this world, with everything in heaven and on earth at His service. The great gift of heavenly love was not kept shut up with the Father but was given to Christ to give to needy human beings for the saving of perishing souls. He is full of grace and truth and is all and in all, so no human being is to take glory to himself, but all praise now and forever is to be given to the Son of God.
The Father's resources and glory are His to distribute as gifts and as a kingdom to all who claim them by faith. He lays His hand upon the eternal throne with the ease and assurance of One who rules and reigns, puts upon His head the crown of Deity, sits at the right hand of God, and receives supreme honor as God with the glory He had before the world was. In this is declared His pre-existence, His personal dignity and authority, and His divine right to appoint a kingdom and bestow its gifts. All power in heaven and earth thus delivered to Him He is ready to transfer to those who cooperate with Him in self-denial and self-sacrifice to leave the fold to seek the lost, straying sheep and to preach the gospel of the kingdom in all the world. Students must place themselves in the channel of light to receive this power and to impart light by making known the truth that made them children of God.
Spirit Takes and Reveals
The Spirit of truth takes what belongs to Christ, which is all that the Father has and the things of God, and shows and reveals it to disciples and believers, receiving from Christ and continuing His teaching after His departure and ascension. In doing so He communicates Christ's truth, guides into truth, brings the truths of redemption vividly to mind with God's promises made effective, and makes Christ's words living principles in hearts opened to receive them, so that believers come to know both the Father and the Son. Teachings shaped by this work come from Christ, not from claims that science is essential for spiritual understanding.
He guides into all truth by opening the truth Christ taught, recalling His words, and revealing what the disciples could not yet bear or understand. After Christ's departure He helps them understand and remember His teaching, enabling them to bear accurate witness and to grasp heavenly things. This was fulfilled after the resurrection, and more fully after the ascension at Pentecost, when the meaning of Christ's earlier words was revealed and the disciples were equipped to testify with words their adversaries could not refute.
By revealing Christ's truth the Spirit glorifies Christ and makes known the Father and the Son. This same work applies to Christ living in His human representatives, through whom He reveals His truth.
The Holy Spirit is Christ's representative and the Comforter sent from heaven by infinite love. Comprehending His office as taught here brings all blessings to believers and makes them complete in Christ. It gives wonderful encouragement to be kept before the people and presented in every discourse, and it is meant to enlarge expectations and lead disciples to value the gift and seek its fullness.
The Spirit conveys Christ's words and the things of God with assurance and living power to obedient hearts emptied of self. He does this for those who open their Bibles seeking to know the meaning of God's Word and asking what is truth, which is the privilege of being taught by the greatest Teacher the world ever knew, through whom attention is called to the world above that has been lost from view and brought again within vision. In obedient hearts He makes Christ's words living principles, brings the truths of redemption and God's promises vividly effective, leads into all truth, enables faith that works through love and purifies the soul, and forms Christ's image within.
Without His enlightenment the truths in God's Word are not discerned and its treasures are not appreciated until revealed by the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness, just as the lovely things of the natural world are not seen until the sun dispels the darkness and floods them with light. By His power the vital truths on which salvation of the soul depends are impressed upon the mind, and the way of life is made so plain that none need err in it, even people without much learning. Therefore study of the Scriptures calls for prayer for the light of God's Holy Spirit to shine upon the Word so its treasures may be seen and appreciated, and as people faithfully use their abilities God's Word becomes a living, powerful force whose influence comes from divine power, not from human learning or intelligence, so praise belongs to God.
The verse explains how the Holy Spirit operates upon the mind by taking what belongs to Christ and revealing it to people. Sin can impair understanding and hinder the heart and memory from discerning truth and doing its work upon them.
The Spirit constantly gives the soul glimpses of divine things while a divine Presence hovers near. He enlightens the mind by truth so it can see truth in distinction from error, and works with energy on the heart to lead the inclination of the will to Jesus by living faith and complete dependence on divine power to will and to do. He does this progressively, just as fast as the soul resolves and acts in accordance with the light already revealed, and Jesus abides with the person only when the mind responds and the door of the heart is opened. By beholding Christ's glory and character as the pattern the soul receives His likeness and is transformed into God's image, and this work continues until fully conformed to Christ the perfect Model.
This revealing is given to those who follow Christ in meekness and lowliness through earnestly seeking the energizing power of the Holy Spirit, being born again and receiving the new heart Christ gives. As people become students of Scripture the Spirit impresses truth upon the soul to plant it in the heart to control the life and form a character for eternal life. Every heart moved and drawn by Christ who makes God his strength and cooperates working in His lines extends golden threads of influence that fasten to other souls and draw them to Christ.
This work came with fullness and power reaching every heart upon the waiting, praying, believing disciples after Christ's ascension. It is God's desire now to refresh His people by baptizing them anew in His love, so there is no dearth or lack of the Spirit in the church. In the future this same work will lighten the earth with the glory of God as a holy, divine influence goes forth to the world from those sanctified through the truth and the earth is encircled with an atmosphere of grace.
Transformed Life and Witness
Everything belonging to the Father belongs to Christ, and the Spirit takes what is Christ's and reveals it to the disciples, so that by accepting Christ's grace and rightly using their entrusted gifts believers can glorify God and extend the knowledge and influence Christ desires the church to have. The Spirit takes the things of God and reveals them to believers, bringing the truths of redemption vividly to mind and keeping God's promises effective for them. Contemplating Jesus and His love warms their hearts and moves them to share the comfort those truths give. The Holy Spirit takes what belongs to God and reveals it to those who trust Christ, impressing on the mind the vital truths on which salvation depends and making the way of life clear even to people without much learning. Faith is belief in God's Word, and through believing in Christ and His Word people receive life in His name.
The Spirit takes the things of God and shows them to people and presents them through human instruments. Those who speak the truth are to present it plainly and distinctly, since the Spirit's guidance does not lead to indistinct speech. The impression made in preaching is not made by the preacher but by the Lord, and success does not rest in men and women but in God behind the human agent working through them, so no one glories in self or in any man but all glory God. Christ commands His own words to be taken and given to the people as Thus saith the Lord, with the works and words of Christ as sure evidence for what is presented. Young workers must arise and obtain a knowledge of the Word and its converting power, and when the lesson is studied and they are willing to take what Christ has commanded and give it, Christ's promised presence goes with them and brings evidence to the people that He is with them, with power to convert as at Pentecost when three thousand were brought to the faith.