John 16:25

John 16:25 says, These things I have spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.  Until the coming of Christ, all scripture about His coming had been in prophesies, but after His resurrection, all would be based on facts.  Much of what Jesus said to His disciples was indeed in proverbs, but even the things He told them directly they didn't understand.  After His ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit, they would be in direct contact with God at all times.  We need to realize that as His followers, we are not told that the Holy Spirit will be with us just in time of great need but will indwell us.  Everywhere we go and everything we do God goes with us.  Verse twenty-six adds, At that day, ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I shall pray unto the Father for you.  We have direct access to God.  We must first go through Christ for salvation, but then we have a personal relationship with God.  We don't need anyone to intercede to God for us, because the Comforter, the Holy Spirit that indwells us, makes intercession for us.  Verse twenty-seven continues, For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and haveth believed that I came out from God.  God loves all of His creation, but through Christ, we have a special relationship with Him.  We can claim the promises of God because we believe in the salvation made available through Christ.  We believe, as did the disciples in that day, that Jesus is the Christ come from the Father. Verse twenty-eight concludes, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." Only one person has ever left Heaven and come to earth, and that is Jesus, the Christ.  We may speak of babies as little bundles from heaven but though they are gifts from God, they do not come from Heaven.  As followers of Christ, we will one day go to Heaven to be with Him.  Yet, to borrow a line from a John Denver song, we will be going home to a place we've never been before.  Jesus alone went home to a place He had been before.  As Jesus told the disciples, we now have the Holy Spirit indwelling us to lead us to the truth in any situation, so we don't have to unravel parables.  We are God's people forever, not some day after we die, but from the moment we accept Christ as our Savior.