John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

The Amplified Version of the Bible adds these terms to describe “another Comforter”; Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby. The Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition uses the word Paraclete which is literally a paralegal. This insinuates that we are or get ourselves in trouble.

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament terms defines paracletos as one who is sent to plead another’s cause to one.

Now let us place this plea in a proper perspective of who it is we are talking about. The another Comforter is the Holy Spirit. Now who’s cause is He pleading?

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Our advocate before the Father over the issues of our sins is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is sent to us to plead the cause of Christ to us. We do not need to have our actions justified here on earth, we need to have them corrected.

The Holy Spirit who is another Comforter is not Jesus Christ. They have separate roles and responsibilities within the will of the Father. Jesus testified of Himself, Who He was and what He is doing. The Holy Spirit does not testify of Himself, He testifies of Jesus Christ, He is the other Comforter.

Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For His cause.

1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

There are two schools of thought here, both are a form of seeing. A sign in this context is seeing what is expected, prophecy fulfilled, a promise kept, but that requires a proper understanding of the prophecy or promise. Wisdom is a right conclusion or outcome to an expectation based in logic, it makes sense. Once again a right understanding is required of events and circumstance for reasoning to become wisdom.

We use the term “I see” to mean I understand. Wisdom is an understanding. Both the Jew and the Greek take a different approach to the same issue, the truth. What good does it do to understand a lie?

The great obstacle for the religious and the intellectual is the lie.

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Genesis 3:14-15 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Satan was cursed for that first lie. His realm became dust, death and the enmity continues to this day. His only weapon against us is the lie. Our only defense against him is truth.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

See Jesus, see truth, the sign and wisdom. A proper and right understanding.