Wednesday | 03 December 2025
Apart from the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Scriptures are merely a book. However, the Scriptures speak to us through the agency of the Holy Spirit. Explaining this work, Jesus said, ‘He [the Spirit] will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.’ Joh 16:14‑15. This statement reveals the means by which the word of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’s Everlasting Covenant proceeds to us from Their fellowship.
Christ, who is the substance of the Father’s word, speaks to the church from the written Scriptures, by the Spirit. This implication of ‘One’ revealing ‘Another’ through offering is exemplified by the letters to the seven churches of Asia. We know that the words of Jesus, written down by the apostle John in the book of Revelation, became the Scriptures. Rev 1:11,19. Rev 22:18‑19. At the end of each letter, Jesus exhorted every person who belongs to His lampstand churches by saying to them, ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ Rev 2:7.
Clearly, the Holy Spirit is the agent through whom Christ speaks to the church from the Scriptures. It is the Spirit who makes what is hidden, or invisible, known to us. Explaining this point, Paul said, ‘No one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.’ 1Co 2:11‑12.
Further Study:
Revelation 2
References:
Joh 16:14-15
He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore, I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
Rev 1:11
Saying, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last’, and ‘what you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.’
Rev 1:19
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
Rev 22:18-19
For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the book of life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
1Co 2:11-12
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.