The Spirit of Truth

John 14:16-17 Amplified Bible
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—
17The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

John 16:13-14
But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].
14He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.

The Holy Spirit, Who is called the Spirit of Truth, lives in us and will remain with us forever if we allow Him to do so. He is a gentleman and will not force Himself on us. We must invite Him into our lives and ask Him to guide us, to direct us every day in the perfect will of God.

The Holy Spirit of Truth is the One Who makes God’s Word come alive. The Spirit of Truth brings life to the Word of Truth and causes it to produce results in our lives. Jesus said that He was the way, the truth, and the life. We see in the scripture that God calls His Word Truth. The Truth of God’s Word takes priority over any earthly fact, because earthly facts are subject to change; they are temporal, temporary. But God’s Word is eternal, not subject to change. So what do we do with God’s Word? We take His Word and apply it to the temporary, changeable situations and cause them to conform to the Truth. And what is the Truth? You are healed; you are healthy; you are blessed; you are full of divine life; you are prosperous; you are strong; your children are blessed; you are victorious. And I could go on. If it is in the Word of God, then that is who you are.

Do you see here why God hates lies? Lies bring the father of lies, the devil, on the scene in your life and shut down the Truth, which is what the Word is, which is what God is. The Holy Spirit of Truth is shut down by lies and cannot operate. You see, God always has reasons for hating sin. The reason He hates sin is that it shuts Him out of your life and He cannot do what He loves to do, take care of you, watch over you and give you life more abundantly.

John in 2 John 4 and 3 John 4 said that he had great joy, that he rejoiced, to find his children walking in the Truth. It also gives God great joy to find His children walking in the Truth. Truth releases God to be in our lives. The Word, which is Truth, gives God the opportunity to do for us what He says He will do.

We see in the scriptures in John 14 and John 16 that the Holy Spirit of Truth guides us into all Truth. It is our job to know the Holy Spirit as our intimate Friend and Guide. We must believe what He says: He will guide us into all Truth; He will teach us the Truth so that we can live victoriously in this earth and be examples to others and make them hungry for what we have. If we live like the world, who wants what we have! But if we live above the same type of situations and circumstances they face and come through in victory, they want to know what the difference is between them and us. What is it that we have? We must make them hungry for the Truth that we have and that we operate in.