Part 2 The Whole Counsel Of God
Part 2 The Whole Counsel of God for the Life of The Believer
Tuesday August 18, 2026
Acts 20:27 ESV for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
The Bifurcated Work Of the Holy Spirit In A Believer’s Life: Within and Without
The Holy Spirit was given to do essentially two things in our lives. He is to work within us and to work through us.
Philippians 2:13 NKJV for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13 NLT For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
Both are necessary if we are to accomplish the works of Him who sent Jesus. When He works within us, we are transformed into Christlikeness.
When He works through us, we are empowered to collaborate with God, as the projection of His power to achieve His will on earth as it is in heaven.
To transform us into Christlikeness, the Holy Spirit cultivates His fruit in us.
To project His power through us, He bestows spiritual gifts on us.
We need both parts if we are to fully manifest as the sons of God, as His viceroys, regents and plenipotentiaries.
Romans 8:19 NKJV For the earnest expectation of creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
Even our Lord Jesus, the ultimate Son of God, required the two aspects of the working of the Holy Spirit in order to fulfil His eternal mandate.
Acts 10:38 NKJV How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
When God is with you, you are anointed, to be and to do.
We have a limited understanding of the anointing. We only think of the anointing in the terms of power, manifestation of gifts of the Spirit. The anointing is that but also the anointing is inner transformation into godliness. The anointing is nothing but the presence of God with a person, a place (Solomon’s temple) or thing, (the Ark of the Covenant.)
When David was anointed, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.
1 Samuel 16:13 NKJV Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
When Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, he became anointed to do and to be
1 Samuel 10:6 NKJV And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man
Acts 4:13 NKJV Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
Conformed, Transformed or Malformed.
Once the Holy Spirit begins to work in us, we will no longer be conformed to the world. But if we only allow one part of the Holy Spirit’s work, we will not be fully transformed.
Too many of us are not conformed, not transformed, only simply malformed, like a butterfly that is stuck in the Chrysalis stage.
If we allow only the work within, we are saved, we are halfway-godly, but we do not function as God’s regents on earth. We have fruit but no power.
If we allow only for the projection of power of the Holy Spirit, but do make room for His fruits, we are in a more precarious position, like Simon the Sorcerer, who loved the power but not the nature of God. Acts 8:13; 19-24
It is only the inner working of the Holy Spirit that purifies us, and even our motives for working for God. Without the fruits, how will we be recognized?
Matthew 7:15-27 NKJV Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. [16] You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? [17] Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. [18] A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, neither can a bad tree bear good fruit. [19] Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. [20] Therefore by their fruits, you will know them.
[21] Not everyone who says to Me “ Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. [22] Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name, and done many wonders in Your Name?” [23] And then I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you practice lawlessness.”
[24] Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock: [25] and the rains descended, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. [26] But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, [27] and the rain descended, the floods came and winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
The Inner Working Of The The Holy Spirit Is Security
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
There is a concept in the Latin language called Incipit, wherein a list is often represented by its first item, eg. Alphabet, names of hymns.
The Greek Alphabet
Whenever the scriptures talk about love, we can infer that the fruit of the Spirit is the subject of discussion.
1 Corinthians 13
1 John 4:7-19 NKJV [7] Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. [8] He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
[16] And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. [17] Love has been perfected in us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
