2a. What to Speak

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How The Spirit Helped the Apostles
& Close Disciples of Jesus in New Testament Times

Guidance, Remembrance & Wisdom

Jesus told His apostles and certain close disciples that the Holy Spirit would 1) guide them when they spoke, 2) help them recall what Jesus had taught them, and 3) give them wisdom.  Many of these early apostles and disciples became the inspired writers of the New Testament.  Nearly all of them faced persecution and/or death for their proclamation of Jesus as the Christ:

Jesus, speaking to Peter, James, John and Andrew:

"And when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit." Mark 13:11 (NAS)

Jesus speaking to His disciples:

"And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not become anxious about how or what you should speak in your defense, or what you should say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." Luke 12:11-12 (NAS)

Jesus speaking to the twelve Apostles and others at the Last Supper
(John chapter 13 through chapter 17):

"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you. John 14:16-17 (NAS)

"He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me. These things I have spoken to you, while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you." John 14:24-26 (NAS)

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me, and you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning." John 15:26-27 (NAS)

"But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said, that He takes of Mine, and will disclose it to you." John 16:13-15 (NAS)

Paul talks about the power of the word of God he received through the Holy Spirit:

"And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him." For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised." 1 Corinthians 2:4-14 (NAS)

John received words from the Spirit to teach what must soon take place to Christians, including those in the seven churches in Asia:

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.'" Revelation 2:7 (NAS)

In addition to teaching the apostles and early disciples what to speak, the Holy Spirit empowered the apostles to do certain miracles. 


2. The Spirit Was Given to the Apostles & Certain Disciples in those days:

a. To guide them in what they said. What to Speak
b. To cast out demons. Cast Out Demons

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