What is the nature of this promised one? By examining the lexicons we find that Paraclete is: 1. One called or sent to assist another. 2. One who pleads the cause of another. 3. A monitor. 4. An instructor. 5. A guide. 6. A helper. 7. A supporter. 8. A comforter. Of this Paraclete Jesus says: 1. Whom the world _can not receive_. 2. He dwelleth with _you_ and shall be in _you_. 3. He shall teach _you_ all things. 4. He shall bring all things to _your_ remembrance whatsoever I have spoken unto _you_. 5. He shall testify of me. 6. He shall convict the world of sin. 7. He shall convict the world of righteousness. 8. He shall convict the world of judgment. 9. He shall guide _you_ into all truth. 10. He shall show _you_ things to come. 11. He shall receive of mine and show it _unto you_. Here we have eleven distinct things that the Paraclete is to do for the apostles. All these offices of the Paraclete were needed by the apostles in their work of proclaiming Christianity and establishing the church. They were ignorant and unlearned, humanly speaking, and could never have gone forth to success without this supernatural Paraclete. They took no thought what they should say, for it was given them at the proper time. Others have to take thought. Paul tells Timothy to "study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Timothy had to study because he did not possess the Paraclete. Yet Timothy did possess the gift of the Spirit. "For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands" (2 Tim. 1:6). Men to-day are required to study that they may know what to say. A failure to observe this exhortation of the apostle is the reason why a great many do not know what to say. The Paraclete was not only an instructor, but he was an infallible guide. This is evident from the fact that no apostle ever contradicted another nor said anything foolish. I never heard a man of to-day lay claim to being guided "into all truth by the Spirit," who did not say something foolish in the next five minutes. If any man claims the direct guidance of the Spirit to-day, he can not consistently deny that same claim to others. But we have all sorts of men teaching all sorts of doctrines, often contradicting each other. Does the Spirit guide one man to preach up Universalism and another man to preach it down! The same is true of Calvinism, Mormonism or any other ism. This teaching places the Spirit in a very unenviable position, that of preaching four or five different teachings at the same time, each within a half-mile of the other. Suppose a preacher were to do that! What would the people think of him? It would ruin the reputation of any preacher in Christendom. There is something wrong, and that something is _to apply to the world_ the promise of the Paraclete, which was _only given to the apostles_.