The Lord Jesus was going to go away to Him who sent Him, and this was bringing sorrow to the hearts of the disciples. But He tells them that it would be to their advantage if He did go, for if He did not depart, the Spirit would not come to them. When He departed to the Father, He would send the Spirit. This shows that He must be God, equal to the Father, for a mere man or even a lesser form of God could not send the Holy Spirit, another Person of the Divine Trinity to do what He would do for them; that is, guide them into all the truth, speak of what He has heard as a Divine Person of the Godhead, from the Father and the Son. His not speaking on His own authority (not speaking "of Himself", or "by Himself") is not His subordinating Himself to the Father and the Son, but rather fulfilling their combined purpose as Persons in the Godhead in the way of agreed upon acting
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
