“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.  John 14:15-17

“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 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 have said to you.  John 14:25-26

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.  John 15:26

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.  John 16:12-14

A. The Holy Spirit in Relationship to the Truth: John 17:17

1. He authors the truth: the scriptures: 2 Peter 1:21

2. He illumines the truth: the scriptures

a. We experience conviction of its divine source: 1 Thess. 1:4-5a, 1 Thess. 2:13

b. We unashamedly embrace its exclusive claims: 2 Timothy 3:16

c. We faithfully rest in its unfailing trustworthiness:  Joshua 23:14, Psalm 119:140

3. He illumines the Person of the truth: Jesus Christ

a. Truth as it is in Jesus: Ephesians 4:17-24

b. Truth as it is in the message of Jesus: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6