When we receive a gift or an app on our cellphone, by nature we think of it as something to serve us or help us by giving us power to manipulate or environment by what it was built for.
Gifts from the Holy Spirit is not to serve us, they are gifts to us so we can serve Yahuah Elohiym better. We receive the gift like the military hands out uniforms and weapons. It's not for our personal agenda.
The mistake of religion and Paganism is that they use the gift of wisdom, understanding and knowledge and call it their own intellect. Once again by nature we want it all for ourselves. We act as if we were the only one that came up with intellect. We let it puff us up with pride. But intellect can be removed from us by Yahuah's command, accident or disease.
The gift of Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge from the Holy Spirit is something that Yahuah Elohiym works into us slowly. First we are baptized in the Holy Spirit and Fire. When we enter into the Holy Intellect of the Holy Spirit, it is at that point we can be receive a gift of the Holy Spirit. We are designed to specialize in one or two of the gifts, not all. Our second gift supports the gift what we major in.
When becoming part of the body that Yahuah Elohiym is building, it's not the reality we know that we are accustomed to. No longer is it that of human nature, it's the reality of the Spiritual Nature of being Born Again.
In Paganism we see an individual's intuitive hunch, intuitive perception, energy healing and the act of questioning so the mind can manage to find so called truth. Paganism is the foundation of Liberalism. But this verse makes it easier to understand. If you come to the conclusion that Jesus is not who the Gospels say He is, that Spirit is not of the Holy Spirit.
The question is, can human intuition prove that Yahusha is who the Gospels say He is? The answer is no. That's because we need more than human intuition to understand Yahuah Elohiym. We can only know Yahuah Elohiym and Yahusha through the Gospels and the Holy Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. And there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable.
There is one Spirit. We are baptized Into the Holy Spirit. That is to say we surrounded by the Holy Spirit. A gift of the Holy Spirit is worked into us. I see this as we are baptized into a gift so the gift can be worked into us. The variety of gifts worked into a group of believers in Yahusha, becomes one body always anointed with the Holy Spirit. The believer must understand the new spiritual reality of becoming part of one body.
For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
It's interesting that these Spiritual gifts are separated between people. At face value, one person is given Wisdom and not Knowledge. Or given Knowledge and not Wisdom. As having been a boss and also having layers of bosses over me, I used my wisdom in choosing the knowledge that was over me and those who were under me to guide the crew under me. I knew one crew member was specialized in a task that I chose not to perform myself. They were better at it. I would use his knowledge to guide others.
The question is, how does Yahuah Elohiym work Wisdom into us?
1. The fear of the Elohiym is the beginning of wisdom.
2. We ask Elohiym for Wisdom.
3. We must value Wisdom more than wealth.
4. By being humble we retain Wisdom.
5. Wisdom has meekness.
6. A wise man quietly holds wisdom back.
7. Those who take advice has wisdom.
8. A wise of heart will receive commandments.
9. Wisdom is with the aged.
I could go on with the other gifts, but there is no need to. My point of this study was to point out the difference between religious pride that cannot see past themselves and those who have entered into a spiritual relationship with Yahuah Elohiym through the Holy Spirit.
