The day before Jesus was nailed to a cross and died, He had dinner with His disciples. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the story of Jesus and the Last Supper. What I think is interesting is that the gospel of John talks of the other things that happened that evening.
John wrote five chapters detailing what Jesus did and spoke to the Apostles in that upper room. So, when almost 25% of your book details one evening’s conversation … it must be pretty important.
But what Jesus did at least four times that night was this: Jesus told them that even though He was leaving, He would send someone else to them … the Holy Spirit: John 14:16; 14:26; 15:26 and 16:7.
Same topic – four times in one night – significant.
In John 20: 21-22 we read: “Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’ And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’”
THAT, my friends, is one of the most wonderful scriptures in the Bible. You see, Jesus follows through on His promises. Every single time. And, did you know that we have a promise too?
In John 7:38-39 Jesus said, “’Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive.”
As believers in Jesus, as His followers, we have been given a gift that nobody else in the world has: the Holy Spirit -God – actually living inside of us.