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The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of Comfort
(Ac9:31; 2Co1:3-7)

God is the God of all comfort (2Co1:3).
He comforts with His eternal comfort (2Th2:16), and
He comforts His people (Is49:13), the lowly (2Co7:6) and the afflicted by His word (Ps119:50).

Faith is being comforted by God and His word (Is51:3; 2Co13:11) and
The life of this faith is comforting one another with His comfort (2Co1:4, 7:7; 1Th4:18).

While those who are suffering in sadness, loss, and toils may find comfort
Coming from individuals, society, and nation,
It is, however, only temporary, superficial, and not eternal.

The Bible tells the story of God’s eternal comfort.
Deceived by the devil, Adam the ancestor of mankind, sinned by taking the forbidden fruit (Ge3:4-6).
Thus all mankind became slaves of the devil, hell-bound with him (Mt25:41).
Yet, when God drove Adam out from the Garden,
He clothed him in garments of skin, signaling His comfort to come (Ge3:21-24),
For he had now become like one person of the Trinity, knowing good and evil, that is,
He would experience death and life like the Son, according to the plan of God (Ge3:21-24).

Jehovah was the God of comfort for Israel and
The commandment strictly forbid them making idols for themselves (Ex20:4) for
Idolatry was invoking comfort on themselves, rejecting God’s comfort (Dt29:19).
The story of Job who comforted himself with his righteous deeds (Job6:10), and
Refused to be comforted by anyone else (Job21:32-34),
But eventually confessed before God and received His comfort (Job42:1-11), was

The story of Israel whom God formed for Himself (Is43:21),
Chosen as His people so He would comfort them in their continuing afflictions (Is49:13, 51:12).
However, since they rejected God’s comfort, they were destroyed.

Thus, the prophecy regarding the coming of the One who would
Comfort the poor, the brokenhearted, the captives, and the prisoners (Is52:9, 61:1-2), and
A measuring line to be stretched out over Jerusalem, that is, the rebuilding of the temple
Gave them comfort (Is66:13; Zec1:16).

Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21):
• Jehovah—the God of comfort for Israel—the Law— comforted—the flesh/ prosperity, growth;
• Yeshua—the God of all peoples—the Truth—to comfort—souls/ by the redemption of the Son of Man (Mt20:28).

He healed the sick, became friends to sinners (Mk2:15-17), comforted those who mourn (Mt5:4).
After death, while Lazarus was comforted,
The rich man who rejected God’s comfort in life was in agony (Lk16:25).
Yeshua was rejected by the Jews who found the Temple to be their only comfort (Mt11:16-17).
He Himself refused to be comforted by the world, thus willingly choosing death (Jn10:17, 19:10-11).

As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that:
1) The Father alone comforts His suffering, sorrow, and loss (Jn10:18; Php2:6-11; He1:2);
2) Judged the devil who gives comfort in vain (Zec10:2; Ge3:4-6); and
3) His death—redeemed all mankind—comforted all men in Adam used for God’s plan;
His blood —souls—eternal comfort—the forgiveness of sin, children of God (Mt20:28; Jn1:12; 1Co15:45; Eph1:7).

He resurrected and sat on the heavenly throne, where He is eternally comforted (Rev5:19-12).
The Holy Spirit comforts the Church and the saints only with the comfort of God (2Co1:3-7).

Even in the worst suffering, the man of the Spirit finds comfort in
The fact that Yeshua Christ lives, the Holy Spirit is with me forever (Jn14:18; Mt28:20),
The Lord rewards for my toil (Mk10:29-30), and
The word, signs, answers to prayers, testimony, fruits etc (Ps119:50; Jn14:2-3; 1Th3:7, 4:18).
Therefore, he absolutely rejects the world’s false comfort (He11:24-26).
With the comfort of God, He can comfort those in distress (2Co1:4), the disheartened (1Th5:14),
Encourage to build each other up (1Th5:11) and to gather (He10:25), for
He wants to be comforted only by the comfort that comes from heaven.

O Lord,
I have been comforted by the King of kings!
Let me comfort those in any trouble with the comfort of God.
Let us build a church that seeks only the comfort from heaven. Amen.