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Questions:

Since you have gained a closer walk with Christ, has the Holy Spirit revealed any truth to you about you?

Since we have been studying the bait of satan and the works of the flesh has any truth come out of these teachings?

Concerning behaviors, Things you have overcome etc?

John 14.17 States the world does not know or recognize him.

The Scripture States The World doesn’t know him.

So that would include Worldly, Lustful & Prideful Christians.

XVI.

The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding

The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of wisdom and understanding in Isa.

11:2

“And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.”

The significance of the name is so plain as to need no explanation.

It is evident both from the words used and from the context that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to impart wisdom and understanding to those who receive Him.

Those who receive the Holy Spirit receive the Spirit “of power” and “of love” and “of a sound mind” or sound sense

Mighty Power

Mighty Love

Mighty Mind

XVII.

The Spirit of Counsel and Might.

We find this name used of the Holy Spirit in the passage given under the preceding head.

The meaning of this name too is obvious, the Holy Spirit is called “the Spirit of counsel and of might” because He gives us counsel in all our plans and strength to carry them out

It is our privilege to have God’s own counsel in all our plans and God’s strength in all the work that we undertake for Him.

We receive them by receiving the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of counsel and might.

XVIII.

The Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord.

The significance of this name is also obvious.

It is the work of the Holy Spirit to impart knowledge to us and to beget in us a reverence for Jehovah, that reverence that reveals itself above all in obedience to His commandments.

The one who receives the Holy Spirit finds his delight in the fear of the LORD.

Isaiah 11:1–5 (KJV)

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

This is a perfect description of The Spirt of the Lord: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

XIX.

The Spirit of Life.

The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of life in Rom.

8:2, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”

The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of life because it is His work to impart life

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit (XIX.

The Spirit of Life)

In the context in which the name is found in the passage given above, beginning back in the seventh chapter of Romans, seventh verse, Paul is drawing a contrast between the law of Moses outside a man, holy and just and good, it is true, but impotent, and the living Spirit of God in the heart, imparting spiritual and moral life to the believer and enabling him thus to meet the requirements of the law of God, so that what the law alone could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, the Spirit of God imparting life to the believer and dwelling in the heart enables him to do, so that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is therefore called “the Spirit of life,” because He imparts spiritual life and consequent victory over sin to those who receive Him

XX.

The Oil of Gladness.

The Holy Spirit is called the “oil of gladness” in Heb.

1:9, “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”

Some one may ask what reason have we for supposing that “the oil of gladness” in this passage is a name of the Holy Spirit.

The answer is found in a comparison of

In Acts 10:38 we read “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power,” and in Luke 4:18, Jesus Himself is recorded as saying, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor,” etc.

In both of these passages, we are told it was the Holy Spirit with which Jesus was anointed and as in the passage in Hebrews we are told that it was with the oil of gladness that He was anointed; so, of course, the only possible conclusion is that the oil of gladness means the Holy Spirit.

What a beautiful and suggestive name it is for Him whose fruit is, first, “love” then “joy” (Gal.

5:22).

The Holy Spirit becomes a source of boundless joy to those who receive Him; He so fills and satisfies the soul, that the soul who receives Him does not thirst forever

No matter how great the afflictions with which the believer receives the Word, still he will have “the joy of the Holy Ghost”

On the Day of Pentecost, when the disciples were baptized with the Holy Spirit, they were so filled with ecstatic joy that others looking on them thought they were intoxicated.

They said, “These men are full of new wine.”

And Paul draws a comparison between abnormal intoxication that comes through excess of wine and the wholesome exhilaration from which there is no reaction that comes through being filled with the Spirit

When God anoints one with the Holy Spirit, it is as if He broke a precious alabaster box of oil of gladness above their heads until it ran down to the hem of their garments and the whole person was suffused with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

When You Got the Oil....