This document discusses the various ways in which Jesus Christ comes to his followers as described in the Bible. It provides examples from passages like John 14:18 where Jesus says "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you" to argue that Christ comes spiritually to instruct, guide, comfort and rule over his followers. The document examines multiple passages to support the idea that Christ comes in spiritual manifestations to strengthen faith, reveal truth, judge sin, and form himself in believers. It aims to prove that the Bible teaches of Christ's continued spiritual presence with his people.

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By: Elder Don Ellis
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2. John 14:18: "I will not leave you comfortless: I will
come to you."
In this article I will seek to prove that the bible
teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ does come in the
Spirit to instruct, guide and comfort and as our High
Priest, rule over the Kingdom of God (or Heaven).
1Timothy 6:15: "Which in his times he shall shew,
who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of
kings, and Lord of lords"
In this scripture there is ample proof as it says
"times" that he makes his presence known as a
Potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
John 14:3-18: "And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also. (14:4) And
whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. (14:5)
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither
thou goest; and how can we know the way? (14:6)
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(14:7) /fye had known me, ye should have known
my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him,
and have seen him. (14:8) Philip saith unto him,
Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (14:9)
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that
hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest
thou then, Shew us the Father? (14:10) Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of
myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth
the works. (14:11) Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for
the vety works' sake. (14:12) Verily, verily, I say unto
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3. you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do; because I go unto my Father. (14:13) And
whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that willI do,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (14:14) If
ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (14:15)
Ifye love me, keep my commandments. (14:16) And
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
(14:17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you. (14:18) I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you.11
As Jesus begins to instruct his disciples (as in John
14:12), he promises the disciples greater power and
works because he goes to the father. In John 14:3­
14 he promises to answer our prayers. In verse 16
he promises as our High Priest to pray or intercede
that the Father will send another Comforter that will
abide forever; this is the Spirit of Truth. Verse 18
explains that he will not leave us comfortless but he
himself, in Spirit as the Holy Ghost, will come
fulfilling his promise in verse 3. The preparation of
Heaven is Christ sitting down in the throne of God to
make intercession for us. What a great blessing this
brings to the church that keeps his commandments
and shows their love for Christl He that shows this
love for Christ will also be manifestly loved by the
Father.
John 14:23: "Jesus answered and said unto him, If
a man love me, he will keep my words: and my
Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and
make our abode with him. 11
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4. If this child of God will love his words, obey them
and learn to be meek and lowly, the Father will love
him. Then the Father and our Christ and Saviour will
both love him and make their abode with him.
Abode in Greek is #3438, "mone": a staying
residence, the act of the place abode, mansion ­
thus fulfilling verse 23. What a wonderful promise is
given to his New Covenant people! They will have
the truth thus fulfilling his promise in the following
scripture.
John 14:26-29: "But the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you. (14:27) Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
(14:28) Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go
away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye
would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father:
for my Father is greater than I. (14:29) And now I
have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is
come to pass, ye might believe. 11
Luke 4:17-21: "And there was delivered unto him
the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had
opened the book, he found the place where it was
written, (4:18) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised, (4:19) To preach the
acceptable year of the Lord. (4:20) And he closed
the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and
sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the
synagogue were fastened on him. (4:21) And he
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5. began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears. "
This is Christ's first appearance to prove his
promises of his comings and his nearness to his
disciples. To fulfill this scripture of future
manifestation, his very power and presence come
when the day of Pentecost was fully come. This
great manifestation of Spirit is the presence or
"coming" of the Lord.
The promise of his continued coming to bless us is
found in 1at Peter 1: 13 and proved in verse 21 :
"(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be
brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(21) Who by him do believe in God, that raised him
up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith
and hope might be in God."
Galatians 4: 19: liMy little children, of whom I travail
in birth again until Christ be formed in you,"
The Galatian brethren had departed from the Spirit
and turned to law having fallen from grace. Paul
begins to labor even as a woman travailing with pain
and labor in birth. Paul is laboring in birth until
Christ be formed in them. The Greek meaning for
"formed" is: to participate or receive, to accept, use
or to be a partaker, receive.
John 1:12: "But as many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name:"
Acts 3:18-20: "But those things, which God before j I
had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that
Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. (3:19)
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6. Repent ye therefore, and be convelted, that your
sins may be blotted out, when the times of
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
(3:20) And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before
was preached unto you:"
These are manifestly the "comings" of our Lord in
Spirit and are the very power of his Kingdom as
Jesus tells the Pharisees, "But If I with the finger of
God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is
come unto you."
1st Corinthians 1:7..8: "So that ye come behind in
no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ: (1:8) Who shall also confirm you unto the
end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord
Jesus Christ. "
If we wait in strong belief for his coming, he will
come in due time. God cannot lie but will fill his
promise.
1st Corinthians 4:4-6: "For I know nothing by
myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that
judgeth me is the Lord. (4:5) Therefore judge
nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who
both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of the healts:
and then shall every man have praise of God.
(4:6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure
transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes;
that ye might learn in us not to think of men above
that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up
for one against another"
Many times the Disciples of Christ will not know what
to do in the decisions of the church. It is
complicated and we do not know what to do or say
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7. or vote. Obey God and do nothing before the Lord
comes. He will bring to light; makemanifest the
council of the heart. And, these burdens of
indecision will be taken away and everyone will have
praise to God. Peace will prevail.
In 2 nd Thessalonians, the apostle is glorying and yet
worried about the condition of this church as all
pastors of the true church ought to be, fully realizing
the power of Satan and the weakness of the flesh.
He is thankful in verse 3 that their faith has grown
exceedingly and their charity toward each other has
abounded knowing full well that this condition in
God's churches only brings on persecutions and
tribulation. He sees that these things are the
righteous judgment of God that they might be
counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which
they also suffer. He is not speaking of a works
system whereby you qualify yourselves to be in
Heaven, but rather is speaking of the New Covenant
Kingdom where Christ is the King.
2nd Thessalonians 2:1-7: "Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him, (2:2) That
ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from
us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2:3) Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(2:4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he
as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God. (2:5) Remember ye not, that, when I
was yet with you, I told you these things? (2:6) And
now ye know what withholdeth that he might be
revealed in his time. (2:7) For the mystery of iniquity
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8. doth already work: only he who now letteth will let,
until he be taken out of the way. "
Satan begins to use the weakness of our flesh to
tear down this charity and faith and in the flesh we
begin to be lifted up with pride and self esteem and
to rule in the church after our carnal knowledge.
The only remedy for this is in verse 8, "And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming... " All of
this wickedness is often times scarcely noticed as it
seems reasonable to the carnal mind. When the
Lord comes in his powerful Spirit and the brightness
of his coming, he consumes it with the Spirit of his
mouth (which is the power of the true gospel) and
the brightness of his coming. As a people that
endeavor to worship God in truth we should depend
upon and look forward to his spiritual comings. Our
prayers should be "even so Lord, come quickly."
James 5:1-9: "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come upon you
(5:2) Your riches are co"upted, and your garments
are motheaten. (5:3) Your gold and silver is
cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
(5:4) Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back
by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have
reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
sabaoth. (5:5) Ye have lived in pleasure on the
earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your
hearts, as in a day of slaughter. (5:6) Ye have
condemned and killed the just; and he doth not
resist you. (5:7) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto
the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman
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9. waiteth for-the precious fruit of the earth, and hath
long patience for it, until he receive the early and
latter rain. (5:8) Be ye also patient; stablish your
hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. (5:9)
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the
door."
These comings of the Lord are not speaking of the
great final resurrection of our dead bodies. We look
forward to this as we have a Saviour who redeemed
us unto God by his shed blood. This is through
grace and nothing can separate us from the love of
God in Christ Jesus. The Lord himself will raise the
dead and we shall meet him in the air and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. This cannot be changed.
For this we do not need the Lord to manifest, or
come in Spirit, in our warfare with Satan.
2nd Peter 3:4: "And saying, Where is the promise of
his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation. "
In our waiting for help from God we become
impatient and forget that with God all of his promises
are yea and no lie. All of his words by his prophets
have been truth. This is proven in Acts 3:18, "But
those things, which God before had shewed by the
mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer,
he hath so fulfilled."This is also shown in Acts 3:24,
"Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those
that follow after, as many as have spoken, have
likewise foretold of these days. "
Revelations 2:5: "Remember therefore from
whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first
works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will
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10. remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou
repent."
The comings of the Lord are so needful and he
comes for different reasons. He reveals himself,
manifests himself and also comes in judgment. In
the seven churches in Revelations, he is walking
among the candlesticks showing his omnificence
and his care, being mindful of their condition. In the
church of Ephesus, they are a very active church but
following the attitude of law judging different people
but without love. They once loved God but had
fallen from loving God feeling that they were
qualified to just run things as they saw fit. The
candlestick is a figurative way the Lord feeds the
church to keep their faith and love bright. When we
forget where our strength comes from, he reveals
that it comes from the candlestick. Zechariah 4:1-3
talks about the candlestick, "And the angel that
talked with me came again, and waked me, as a
man that is wakened out of his sleep, (4:2) And said
unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have
looked, and behold a candlestick al/ of gold, with a
bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps
thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which
are upon the top thereof: (4:3) And two olive trees by
it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other
upon the left side thereof." Our punishment is then
to tell us we have fallen from loving God and his
commandments and if we do not repent, he will take
away the candlestick. When this happens, the
church begins to die. The people in this kind of
church will see it dying yet never know what causes
it. They will think they are doing right. They will
blame other things and people and yet the church
will still go down. What a great grace blessing it
would be for the Lord to come and raise up
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11. preachers that will tell them exactly what has caused
this deadness.
Isaiah 8:13-17: "Sanctify the LORD of hosts
himself,' and let him be your fear, and let him be your
dread. (8:14) And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for
a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both
the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. (8:15) And many among
them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
snared, and be taken. (8:16) Bind up the testimony,
seal the law among my disciples, (8:17) And I will
wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
house of Jacob, and I will look for him. "
Isaiah is teaching us to wait yet trust in him and let
him be your bright hope for things to be made right.
Isaiah 59:1-2: "Behold, the LORD's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear (59:2) But your iniquities have
separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."
Hebrews 10:32-38: "But call to remembrance the
former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye
endured a great fight of afflictions; (10:33) Partly,
whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by
reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye
became companions of them that were so used.
(10:34) For ye had compassion of me in my bonds,
and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing
in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an
enduring substance. (10:35) Cast not away therefore
your confidence, which hath great recompence of
reward. (10:36) For ye have need of patience, that,
after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive
the promise. (10:37) For yet a little while, and he that
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12. shall come will come, and will not tarry. (10:38) Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him."
Mathew 24:42-43: 'Watch therefore: for ye know
not what hour your Lord doth come. (24:43) But
know this, that if the goodman of the house had
known in what watch the thief would come, he would
have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up."
There was a great change coming from the old
Mosaic Covenant to the New Covenant - or the
Kingdom of God - where the law of God is put in the
mind and heart. Many would fail to change while
others entered into the kingdom of God and rejoiced.
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13. The Com ings, Revelations
and Manifestations
of the Lord
By: Elder Don Ellis
Novem ber, 2006

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