Daily Bread 9/24/2021

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Daily Bread – September 24, 2021 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) Acts 9:34 – Then, all of the churches had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, being built up and moving in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, multiplied. The comfort or encouragement, ‘paraklesis’, of the Holy Spirit is only one of the many different things the Holy Spirit does. He is called the ‘Parakletos’ in John 14:16. Parakletos is difficult to translate because it has such a wide area of meaning such as helper, encourager, comforter, mediator, advocate, intercessor etc. The most outstanding reality of the ‘Parakletos’ is that He was sent to take the place of Jesus as another ‘Parakletos’. Now, instead of the Lord Jesus teaching the apostles and being their companion, it was the Holy Spirit. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen