Our relationship with the Comforter is very close and intimate, and He reveals Jesus fully to us. We get to know Jesus, who walked the earth in human form. He was filled with wisdom, knowledge, love, and compassion. The Comforter presents this nature of Jesus to us and makes us feel loved and special.

Jesus Was More Than The Comforter

But Jesus was far more than that, and He wielded great power that showed itself in how He dealt with evil spirits, sickness, and disease. When He dealt with evil powers, He spoke with authority and rebuked evil. He did not condone sin or allow anyone to make excuses for it.

This aspect of His nature seemed very different from His loving nature, and He looked like a different person. He said that the Father was living inside of Him, and at times, He manifested the holy nature of the Father in His anger against sin.

These qualities in Jesus showed us what God looks like as the Trinity. Each member of the Trinity manifests differently, and although we are looking at only one person, it sometimes looks like we are seeing three different people.

This is what we see in Jesus, but in fact, we should see the exact same thing in every true spirit-filled believer. And the reason for this is that we have the fullness of the Trinity living inside of us.

Let me show you this from the Scriptures. The best place to look is where Jesus was speaking about what was to happen after His death and resurrection. You can see it all described in the Gospel of John chapter 14.

The Place Where God Lives

Every believer knows that God lives in a realm different from ours, and everyone believes that this place is called Heaven.

This has led to the common idea that we as believers will all one day go and spend eternity with Him in Heaven and that this will be our home for eternity.

This kind of thinking was in the minds of those who translated the first few verses of John 14, and they translated it to speak about mansions in heaven where we will go to live one day. Some of us will have better mansions than others, depending on what kind of life we live on earth.

But if you read the Bible to the end, you find that the last book of Revelation speaks about us living with Him on a new earth. We will not spend eternity somewhere up there in Heaven, but Jesus will come down to earth and we will live with Him in this new earth.

If this is true, then perhaps the original verse in John 14:1-2 was translated incorrectly. I do believe that this is true, so we have translated this passage differently in the GBM Bible Version, based on the original Greek.

You see, the word that is translated as “mansions” in the older translations actually means “abodes or dwelling places.” And Jesus was not speaking about places for us to live. He was speaking about places for God to live.

So here is a better translation of that passage:

John 14:1 Do not let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many dwelling places: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, [there] you may be also. [GBMV]

Jesus was saying that He was going to prepare the way for us so that He could come and be with us for eternity. He was going to make us His place of abode, so these abodes were not made for us, but they were made for Him.

Jesus And The Father

As we continue in this chapter of John, the picture becomes clearer as Jesus explains to His disciples how it will work. It starts when Philip asks Jesus to show them the Father. Here is the full passage:

John 14:8 Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us.

9 Jesus said to him, Have I been such a long [chronos] time with you, and yet you have not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how do you say [then], Show us the Father?

10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the [rhema] words that I speak to you I do not speak from myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works. [GBMV]

Jesus replies that the Father is living inside of Him and is being manifested through Him.

After that, Jesus begins to describe the Comforter and explains exactly who He is.

John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter [like Me], so that he may continue to be with you forever;17 [Namely] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him, nor know him: but you know him; because He is currently living with you, but He is going to be in you.

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. [GBMV]

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