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The Holy Spirit is also a gift-giver (1 Cor. 12:4, 11)
Holy Spirit gives Spiritual gifts as He determines.

The Holy Spirit also does Work Among Unbelievers. He “Convict the World Concerning Sin and
Righteousness and Judgment” (John 16:8 [ESV])
The Spirit testifies of Christ (John 15:26), pointing people to the Lord. Currently, the Holy Spirit is also
restraining sin and combatting (2 Thess. 2:6-10).

The Holy Spirit gives believers wisdom by which we can understand God (1 Cor. 2:10-11)
The Holy Spirit will NEVER leave a true believer (Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13-14; cf. Eph. 4:30; 2 Cor. 1:22).

The Holy Spirit is our Paraclete.

After Jesus announced to His disciples that He would be leaving them soon, He then gave
them a statement of great encouragement: “And I will ask the Father, and He will give
you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of Truth” (John 14:16–17). The
Greek word translated “Comforter” or “Counselor” (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; and 16:7)
is parakletos. This form is passive and means “one called to the side of another”; the
word carries a secondary notion concerning the purpose of the calling alongside: to
counsel or support the one who needs it. The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity was “called to
our side.”

To have the Holy Spirit as our Paraclete is to have God Himself indwelling us as believers. The Spirit
teaches us the Word and guides us into truth. He reminds us of what Jesus has taught so that we can
depend on His Word in the difficult times of life. The Spirit works in us to give us His peace (John 14:27),
His love (John 15:9–10), and His joy (John 15:11). He comforts our hearts and minds in a troubled world.
The power of the indwelling Paraclete gives us the ability to live by the Spirit and “not gratify the desires
of the sinful flesh” (Gal. 5:16). The Spirit can then produce His fruit in our lives (Gal. 5:22–23) to the glory
of God the Father. What a blessing to have the Holy Spirit in our lives as our Paraclete—our Comforter,
our Encourager, our Counselor, and our Advocate!
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The Holy Spirit Will Convict the World of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment

In John 16:8-11, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit: “When [the Spirit] comes, he will
convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.” In those verses, we see
a three-fold ministry the Spirit will perform in relation to the unsaved world. First, He will
“convict” the world; that is, He will reprove it or show it to be wrong. This reproof will target
three areas in which the world needs admonishing: sin, righteousness, and judgment. No
amount of preaching, pleading, or pointing of fingers will bring about the conviction of sin,
unless the Holy Spirit is at work in the sinner’s heart. It is the Spirit’s job to convict. Second, the world
must also be convicted of righteousness, and this, too, is something the Holy Spirit does. There is a
righteous standard we are all held to, despite the world’s stubborn denial of absolute truth (John
3:13; 8:28; 1 Tim. 2:5; Col. 2:9). He is righteousness personified, and none can measure up to Him (Rom.
3:23). Third, the world is facing judgment, and the Holy Spirit also convicts them of this truth.
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