Welcome to our series of studies on the Holy Spirit and an aspect that I think is sorely needed today. It is The Anointing. It is the Holy Spirit.
Without that... without Him... we cannot function as God intends. This is something that is vastly misunderstood, discounted, or misused yet the Anointing is the very thing that is necessary to be a Christian and it is the Anointing that is absolutely vital to be a successful Christian. Without it, all that one has is mere religion and the world has had its fill of religion in all its forms. Theology is great. Bible hermeneutics, apologetics, homiletics, exegesis and all such things are great. They are excellent tools, but they cannot be any substitute for genuine thing! He (the real thing) brings illumination or revelation, guidance and direction, correction and reproof (when required) that can only be achieved when the Holy Spirit is permitted to operate in our lives. He is the ultimate teacher and I say that because Jesus said much about His ministry.
I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper who will be with you forever. That helper is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept him, because it doesn't see or know him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17. However, the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything. He will remind you of everything that I have ever told you. John 14:26. “The helper whom I will send to you from the Father will come. This helper, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, will declare the truth about me. You will declare the truth, too, because you have been with me from the beginning.” John 15:26-27. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth. He won't speak on his own. He will speak what he hears and will tell you about things to come. He will give me glory, because he will tell you what I say. Everything the Father says is also what I say. That is why I said, ‘He will take what I say and tell it to you.' John 16:13-15.

The Jewish scribes had an excellent understanding of scriptures beyond peer, yet Jesus told them that they could not see Him in the pages. My friend, if you do not have the revelation in scripture that is absolutely necessary, because it shows us how to live right in every aspect, then you may as well forget it, for it will not produce what God wants. Jesus said to the religious intellectuals, who knew the bible backwards as far as what the words were, but never knew what they said-
You study the Scriptures in detail because you think you have the source of eternal life in them. These Scriptures testify on my behalf. Yet, you don't want to come to me to get {eternal} life. John 5:39-40.
Jesus was the exact image of the Father when He walked on this earth. Hebrews 1:3 declares, He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God's] nature. This means Jesus reflected the character of His Heavenly Father in every way. That is why Jesus told Philip, He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. He was talking to those who were persecuting Him for healing people on the Sabbath. The great debate that rages to this day is on similar lines. The very work that Jesus came to do — by the anointing — is the focal point of such opposition. Jesus said-
I can't do anything on my own. As I listen {to the Father}, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don't try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants. “If I testify on my own behalf, what I say isn't true. Someone else testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true. You sent people to John {the Baptizer}, and he testified to the truth. But I don't depend on human testimony. I'm telling you this to save you. John was a lamp that gave off brilliant light. For a time you enjoyed the pleasure of his light. But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John's testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me. The Father who sent me testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice, and you have never seen his form. So you don't have the Father's message within you, because you don't believe in the person he has sent. John 5:30-38.