The Helper is the Spirit of truth. {\cf2\super [214]} The world cannot accept him. Why? Because the world does not see him or know him. But you know him. He lives with you, and he will live in you.
I don’t call you servants now. A servant does not know what his master is doing. But now I call you friends because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.
“You gave me some men from the world. I have shown them what you are like. Those men belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your teaching.
If a person wants to do what God wants, then that person will know that my teaching comes from God. That person will know that this teaching is not my own.
A person that is not spiritual does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks that those things are foolish. That person cannot understand the things of the Spirit, because those things can only be judged spiritually.
I pray that God will open your minds to see his truth. Then you will know the hope that God has chosen us to have. You will know that the blessings God has promised his holy people {\cf2\super [7]} are rich and glorious.
The Lord told you his Agreement. He told you the Ten Commandments and commanded you to follow them. The Lord wrote those laws of the Agreement on two stone tablets.