Thursday | 10 July 2025
Christ Himself received the anointing of the Spirit at His baptism, signified by a dove descending upon Him. Joh 1:32. Luk 3:22. Jesus later testified, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.’ Luk 4:18. Isa 61:1-2. The prophet Isaiah explained that the Spirit of the Lord is the seven Spirits of God. Isa 11:2. Jesus received this anointing without measure in relation to His name as the Father’s Firstborn Son. Notably, He has the seven Spirits of God when He speaks to lampstand churches. Rev 3:1. The Holy Spirit takes what belongs to Christ and gives it to a person who is born again and in Christ.
After a believer has been baptised by the Son in the Holy Spirit, the Son then consults with the Holy Spirit in relation to their needs. Christ enquires of the Spirit regarding how they are connecting to Him in obedience to the instructions that the Holy Spirit takes from Christ. Rom 8:26-27. The Spirit uses these instructions to lead them upon the pathway of their sanctification, enabling them to do the works that Christ has accomplished for them on His offering journey.
The Son, then, in prayer, reports to the Father about the believer’s progress as His son. Rom 8:27. If they are obediently following the leading of the Holy Spirit, they are truly sons of God. God the Father is then ‘for them’, so who can be against them? Rom 8:31. The Father is freely giving to sons of God ‘all things’ as they walk and live in this way. 2Pe 1:3. They then proceed to understand that nothing can separate them from the love of Christ as they journey with Him in the fellowship of His sufferings. Rom 8:35-39. These sufferings are part of their experience from Him who is I AM. As a believer is led by the Spirit in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings, they are able to be ‘more than conquerors’ through Christ who loved them. Rom 8:37.
Further Study:
Romans 8
References:
Joh 1:32
And John bore witness, saying, ‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him.’
Luk 3:22
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.’
Luk 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
Isa 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.
Isa 11:2
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.
Rev 3:1
And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” ’
Rom 8:26-27
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:31
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
2Pe 1:3
As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
Rom 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter’. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.