Therefore, the fruits or gifts of the “Spirit of the LORD” in Isaiah 11:2-5 are nine. He continued up to verse 5 where he mentioned other virtues or gifts which are righteousness, justice and faithfulness. It should be observed that Isaiah did not stop the count of the gifts in verse 2. The Spirit of the LORD mentioned in Isaiah 11:2 is the one Spirit of God which is also called the Holy Spirit of God (Eph. That is what many of our teachers have done here. If a tree has six fruits on it, you don’t count the tree with its six fruits and say it has seven fruits. All the six, namely wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and fear of the LORD are all gifts or manifestations of the Spirit of the LORD which is the Holy Spirit. If teachers are looking for sevenfold operations of the Holy Spirit, it is not seen in this verse because there are only six gifts or virtues seen here. They itemize the sevenfold operations as (1) the spirit of the LORD, (2) the Spirit of wisdom, (3) the spirit of understanding, (4) the spirit of counsel, (5) the spirit of might, (6) the spirit of knowledge, and (7) the spirit of the fear of the LORD. Those who teach that the seven spirits of God represent a sevenfold operation of the Holy Spirit, are often quick to refer to Isaiah 11:2 which says, “The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” (NKJV) Let us do away with every form of pride and honestly reason with the scriptures so that we may know the truth. Another reason is pride and prejudices already sown into them by their leaders or denominations. One of the reasons men are ever studying but failing to know the truth is due to the evil effects of false teachings they have swallowed at the early stages of their Christian life. In fact, most of these secrets have been clearly revealed in the Bible but men are just failing to see them. If we sincerely seek to know the truth, God will surely reveal it to us. We have been assured by the Lord Jesus Christ that His followers have been granted to know the secret truths about God’s kingdom (Matt.
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