WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE-UNDERSTANDING

WISDOM-KNOWLEDGE-UNDERSTANDING

Exod. 31:3 "And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship."
To do this work, the Holy Spirit needed a man, and the man needed the Holy Spirit; perfect co-operation.

The craftsmanship was the result of a man being filled with the Holy Spirit making him a human instrument for Divine action.

Wisdom is capacity
Understanding suggests progress.
Knowledge is the ultimate attainment of skill resulting from this intelligent action of capacity. Cf. John 7:17
Men have to learn, to study, to go through processes of training, to obtain what He possessed without these processes. The Man Who perfectly does the will of God is the Man Who understands all mysteries; and is familiar with facts which ordinary men only understand by long effort and study. The secrets that lie hidden in Nature, fallen man with clouded intelligence must search after; but God's unfallen Man will read them upon the open page of Nature, discovering immediately the deepest philosophy of life. Never let Christ be robbed of the royalty of intellectual kingship. He was in no sense ignorant or illiterate He never learned, for there was no necessity, for learning. Learning  is a process made necessary by  the fall of man, and the sin of the race. God's perfect and unfallen Man needed no such.....process, being sinless, He knew letters without having learned. In Him was most perfectly fulfilled the wonderful words "The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear Him." (Psa. 25:14)
"He that willeth to do God's will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be from God, or whether I speak from Myself." This is a passage of which we have often made wrong use. It is said to mean that if we will to do God's will we shall know what God's will is. But that is not the statement. It is rather that if we will to do God's will, we shall know whether His teaching is God's or not. The attitude of soul for the detection of final authority, is that of willing to do God's will. When men are wholly, completely consecrated to the will of God, and want to do that above everything else, then they find out that Christ's teaching is Divine, that it is the teaching of God.
This is true also of the sanctification commandment He gave them in John 13:13-15. His will is the complete sanctification of His bride to be presented to the Father blameless, without spot and wrinkle.See Eph 5:27; Phil 1:6; 3:21; Col 1:22.