The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus with a Bountiful Supply for our Serving God

In Acts 16:6-7 the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus are used interchangeably, revealing that the Spirit of Jesus is the Holy Spirit; in our serving the Lord and ministry to Himwe need the all-inclusive Spirit as the Spirit of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

As we go through the book of Acts to see how the Divine Trinity is the structure of this book, we realise that, in instance after instance and situation after situation, the Triune God is dispensing Himself into us for the fulfilment of His eternal economy.

The Triune God is not for our mental understanding or theological apprehension; God is Triune for the purpose of dispensing Himself into us.

We, human beings, are the only ones into whom God desires to dispense Himself, for it is by Him being wrought into our being that He can carry out His New Testament economy.

The Divine Trinity, referring to the attribute of God being triune, is the framework of the entire New Testament.

The New Testament was written by multiple people from different backgrounds and education levels, but all their writings reveal the Divine Trinity at work.

Nowhere, however, do we see merely the doctrine of the Triune God; in every instance, we see how the Triune God works in His Divine Trinity to dispense all that He is into man for man to be one with God for the fulfilment of His purpose.

On the one hand, God is one, and there’s no other God than Him. On the other hand, God is three – He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit; He is a three-one God, a three-in-one God, a triune God.

If we look at the Lord’s ascension, it was Christ who ascended, the Father who exalted Him, and the Spirit who was poured out. Amazing!

The Father receives Christ, exalts Christ, and enthrones Christ above all. Christ the Son is exalted to the highest point in the universe and is given the glory, the lordship, and the headship over all things.

As such a One, He sends and pours out the Holy Spirit as power. Praise the Lord!

If we look at the Lord’s ascension and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, we see the Divine Trinity operating in oneness in a marvellous way.

We, the believers in Christ, are the beneficiaries and recipients of the work of the Divine Trinity to dispense the Triune God into us. We just need to open to Him, and enjoy Him, and He will have a way to flow in us and through us.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus for the Supply of the Apostles in their Ministry

In Acts 16:6-7 we see how Paul and the apostles with him carried out their ministry; they did not go somewhere according to their decision or preference, nor did they have a schedule made by a human council.

Rather, they were led by the Holy Spirit according to God’s counsel.

The Lord’s move through the apostles was by the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus. As Paul and his co-workers were seeking the Lord where to go for their gospel ministry, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go into Bithynia.

The apostles passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. Then, when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

The fact that the Holy Spirit forbade them and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them indicated to Paul and his co-workers that they should go directly forward.

Still, it seems that Paul was not clear, so the Lord gave him a vision at night, a Macedonian man calling him (v. 9), and then Paul was clear that his path should be toward Europe.

We need to pay attention to these two divine titles: the Spirit of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

In a sense, it seems that these terms are used interchangeably; in another sense, each of these terms mean and involve something very particular.

The Holy Spirit is a general title of the Spirit of God in the New Testament. The Holy Spirit was used for the first time at the time of the conception of the Lord Jesus.

When the time came for Christ to come and have a human body to initiate the New Testament dispensation, the term Holy Spirit was used, for the Holy Spirit came into Mary to conceive the Lord Jesus as His divine essence (Luke 1:15, 35; Matt. 1:18, 20).

According to the principle of the first mention, the Holy Spirit is related to Christ’s incarnation and birth.

The Spirit of Jesus, however, is a particular expression concerning the Spirit of God; it refers to the Spirit of the incarnated Saviour who, as Jesus in His humanity, passed through human living and death on the cross.

In the Spirit of Jesus, there’s not only the divine element of God but also the human element of Jesus and the elements of His human living and His suffering of death as well (Phil. 2:7-8).

What a Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus! As a Man, Jesus first lived a human life, then was crucified and resurrected, and then He ascended to the heavens and has been made Lord and Christ.

While the Holy Spirit refers to and implies only Christ’s incarnation and birth, the Spirit of Jesus involves His humanity, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension!

This is such a rich, wonderful, and all-inclusive Spirit, and such a Spirit was needed for the apostles to carry out their ministry for the Lord in the gospel!

On the one hand, the Holy Spirit forbade the apostles to go to a particular place, and on the other hand, the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go somewhere else.

It wasn’t merely the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Jehovah who did these things; it was the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus.

Of course, there is just one Spirit, but in its function for the carrying out of God’s New Testament economy, this Spirit has many aspects and many names, for He has many functions.

There’s no mention of the Spirit of God or of the Spirit of Jehovah in Acts 16; we only have the forbidding of the Holy Spirit and the not allowing of the Spirit of Jesus.

This is how the apostles lived and moved, and this is how they worked for the Lord to carry out their ministry. There was no human council that planned and scheduled their trips, nor was there the preference of one of the apostles and his desire to go here or there.

Rather, in the new move in God’s New Testament economy, the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus led the apostles to carry out their ministry. Amen!

This shows us that God’s New Testament economy is carried out through the Lord’s incarnation, humanity, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension.

All these processes He went through are in the Spirit, the all-inclusive Spirit, who is our supply and our leading in our work and ministry for the Lord today.

When we have the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus, we have Christ in His incarnation, in His humanity and human living, in His death, and in HIs resurrection and ascension.

Lord Jesus, thank You for going through a process to become the all-inclusive Spirit with our spirit for us to enjoy, experience, and be led by. We open to You today. We open to You as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus in our daily living and in our work for God. Hallelujah, the Holy Spirit is involved with Christ’s incarnation and birth, and the Spirit of Jesus is related to Christ’s incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension! Praise the Lord the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus are with our spirit, for the Spirit is with our spirit! Amen, Lord, we open to Your leading today. Have Your way, Lord, to move in us and to lead us where You want us to go. Save us from our preferences and desires; simply lead us, forbid us, do not allow us, and guide us where You want us to be. We want to follow Your leading as the Spirit of Jesus and as the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord, the all-inclusive Spirit with His bountiful supply is with our spirit for us to carry out our work for the Lord and in the Lord!

Enjoy the Bountiful Supply of the All-inclusive Spirit of Jesus in Serving the Lord

It is good for us to read, pray, and prayerfully consider Acts 16:6-7 before the Lord so that we also may enjoy the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit in our ministry to the Lord.

As we live at the end of this age and the situations around us intensify, for the enemy wants to delay the Lord’s return and the preparation of the bride as much as possible, we need to know, experience, and live by the Spirit of Jesus.

The Spirit of Jesus is an aspect of the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit with our spirit. This aspect of the Spirit is related to how the Lord Jesus lived on earth in the midst of all kinds of trials, sufferings, and difficult situations.

We don’t just have the Spirit in a general or objective way; we have the Spirit of Jesus, which is ready to be applied to us with His bountiful supply as we live our Christian life and minister to the Lord in the midst of suffering.

The apostles were under attack all the time, being both persecuted and even stoned to death; in such situations, they enjoyed the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit as they ministered to the Lord (Phil. 1:19-21).

In the midst of our human situations, which are non-stop, we need to know and experience the Spirit of Jesus.

Wherever we are, whatever we are going through, whatever we are suffering and enduring, the Lord is going to care for us by functioning in us as the Spirit of Jesus.

It is by the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit that we can live Christ today, even live the same way that He did, while we pass through sufferings.

The Lord Jesus passed through so many sufferings, persecutions, rejections, and misunderstandings.

He knows what it means to endure and eventually overcome any challenge or event, whether it is physical, urgent needs, serving the Lord, or even having health problems.

We need to rest assured that the Spirit of Jesus is operating in us to shepherd us, supply us, and be everything in us and to us for us to express Christ and magnify Him.

In the Spirit with our spirit, we have not just the divine element, which we desperately need more and more for us to be constituted with God and filled with Him, but also the element of enduring the suffering, overcoming in difficult situations, and bearing with others as we suffer and are persecuted.

The sovereign God knows we need the element of Jesus in all kinds of situations.

We need to partake of this bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus with our spirit as we live the Christian life and minister to the Lord.

Many times we have no answers for what we go through, how others treat us, and why we suffer in this or that way.

But as we go through things, we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord, and we partake of the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus with our spirit.

So many times we go through things we cannot explain, even through heartbreaking situations, and all we can do is just turn to our spirit to enjoy the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus with our spirit.

As we enjoy this supply, as we experience the Spirit of Jesus, we are constituted with this Spirit, and others will enjoy this Spirit also.

When we meet with others, simply being with them and speaking to them, the Lord as the Spirit has a way to flow.

Many times we can’t help others, for we don’t know what to say to them; but we can be with them, pray for them and with them, and simply allow the Lord to flow through us.

We may not quote any verses or give them any teaching from the word, but the Spirit of Jesus will flow through us into them to bountifully supply them in their situation.

The sovereign God knows when we are suffering. And especially when it comes to suffering to be produced as ministers of the new covenant, the Spirit is our bountiful supply.

Suffering produces the ministry, and there will be situations with much suffering where we are manifesting and releasing the ministry.

May we open to the Lord day by day. May we enjoy the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus with our spirit.

And even when we’re in a prison, where all things around us limit us and constrain us, we can praise the Lord, sing, and bring salvation to those around us. Oh, there’s so much supply in the Spirit of Jesus!

Lord Jesus, may we be those who experience the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus in our daily living and in our ministry to the Lord. Thank You for being joined to us as one spirit. Hallelujah, the supply is in our spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to come to You. Even in the midst of sufferings, Lord, we exercise to contact You and partake of the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit of Jesus. We don’t know why we go through these things and we don’t understand why we are in these difficult situations. We just exercise our spirit to contact You and partake of the supply. Have Your way to gain what You are after in us. Produce the ministry of the new covenant in us as we go through sufferings and enjoy the supply of the Spirit of Jesus. Amen, Lord, impart into us and apply to us all that You are as the all-inclusive Spirit! We just open to You! We want to experience and enjoy You today as the Spirit with our spirit!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers, and portions from, Life-study of Acts, msgs. 2-5, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, One Accord and Crucial Aspects of the Book of Acts (2025 April ITERO), week 8, The Divine Trinity and the Kingdom of God – day 2.
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