Mark 2:5-8 “When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." (6) And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, (7) “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" (8) But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?”
The second example we will look at is that of our Lord Jesus. When Jesus walked in the flesh He walked as the Son of Man and not as the Son of God, and as such, He was anointed by the Holy Spirit to operate in the gifts of the Spirit. In this passage of scripture, Jesus had just said to the paralytic that his sins were forgiven. The moment He said that, the Pharisees began to say in their hearts that He was blaspheming. The Holy Spirit knew what they were thinking, and the Holy Spirit then revealed that information to Jesus. Jesus did not know that in the natural. And so, when Jesus perceived in His spirit, what the Holy Spirit had shared with Him, He was able to respond to them as He did. But I want you to notice that Jesus didn’t ask the Holy Spirit to tell Him what they were thinking. The Holy Spirit is the one who initiated the gift of the word of knowledge in this instance, and Jesus then acted on His word. In His earthly ministry, if the Holy Spirit did not give Jesus supernatural words of knowledge, then Jesus was limited to the natural, just as you and I are. From this example we see clearly that the Holy Spirit was operating the gift, and not the Lord Jesus.
Michael E.B. Maher
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