THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD Part IV “Grace be unto you, and ...

the Holy Spirit of adoption, we find the Spirit possessed in different
measures depending upon the degree of our departure from the divine
image, and the degree of grace, faith, and maturity attained since coming
into the body of Christ.
To the extent that the apprehended ones resign themselves to the
Lord, and, ignoring their own wills and way, seek to walk in His ways,
they come to be “led by the Spirit,” “taught of the Spirit,” and can “serve
the Lord in newness of Spirit.” To continue under this leading and
instruction they must have a Spirit of meekness” (Gal. 5:22, 23; 6:1), so
that the “God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,” can give
unto them the “Spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of
Him; the eyes of their understanding being enlightened, that they may
know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of
His inheritance in the saints” (Eph. 1:17-18). It is only through being
“conformed to the image of His Son” that we can qualify, and become
capable of receiving that same measure of the absolute fullness of the
Spirit of God that Jesus possessed. The initial infilling of the Spirit is a
free “gift,” but the fullness of God must be appropriated from glory to
glory and pressed into.
In Jn. 1:1 and 14 we read: “In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, FULL of grace and truth.” Here we find that
Jesus was FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. Then verse 16 tells us,
“And OF HIS FULLNESS have all we received, and grace for grace.”
This does not say that we have received His fullness, but “OF His
fullness.” The Amplified Bible reads: “For OUT OF HIS FULLNESS
(abundance) we all received – all had a share and we were all supplied
with – one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual
blessing, and even favor upon favor and gift heaped upon gift.” If I have
a million dollars in the bank and withdraw “of” or “out of” my account, I
withdraw only a portion, a part, a measure of my abundance. Similarly,
Jesus was FULL of grace and truth, and as we receive “OF His fullness”
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