Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny]. For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man’s thoughts except the man’s own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy] Spirit Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:10-12
We will never be able to understand our Father with our own intelligence and that is a great thing. It’s great because that means that we are not limited in anyway shape or form from knowing all of the Truth. Our Father tells us that He gave us His very own Spirit so that we may know His profound and bottomless things. We have the Holy Spirit so that we may comprehend and realize all that our Father has for us. The Holy Spirit allows us to appreciate all that Jesus has secured for us. The reason that we cannot stop believing, even when the world throws all of the evil that it has towards us, is because the Holy Spirit will never allow us to. We have been sealed by Him until the Day that Jesus eliminates the worlds sin.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [do not offend or vex or sadden Him], by Whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin). Ephesians 4:30
When I was younger preachers would always use this verse to scare us. They would say that we could somehow run the Holy Spirit off. Really? Our Father Who knows the beginning and the end, Who is in control of all things, and Who will never leave us or forsake us can be run off because we screw up? Here is the Truth, we are going to mess up. Our Father plainly tells us that we are, yet He says that He will still have mercy on us all. So the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is never going to abandon us. All that our Father is telling us here is to trust in spite of what is going on and to not get all caught up in worldly things. If you read the verses before and after verse 30 our Father is basically telling us to Love, which we cannot help but to do, because Jesus and His Love now abide within us. It is up to the Holy Spirit to teach us all of the Truth and always bring it to our remembrance.
But you have been anointed by [you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from] the Holy One, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things. 1 John 2:20
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