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Bible Note: Ray I think you've got it. I look at the word "S"pirit as (God's) and "s"pirit as ours. God has given us His Spirit to indwell us. His Spirit communes with our spirit. His Spirit reveals the thoughts of God, the truths of God to us via our spirit. When God through His Spirit reveals a truth to our spirit we know it is the truth. The mechanism of "we know" is what Nee calls intuition. When Jesus revealed Himself to us "we knew" He was who He said He was. How would you describe the reception of that knowledge. Nee uses the term "intuition" and when you think about it fits. When I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior I KNEW that the Bible was God's word and it was absolutely true. No one has been able to convince me otherwise. I just know. Consider this from The Spiritual Man: . . . What then can man do other than deliver himself into the hands of God for Him to work? His spirit (man's asis) shall remain forever dead unless he confesses that everything pertaining to man is useless and unless he stands in the place of death with the Lord Jesus and accepts His life. Man's way cannot envisage acceptance of the Lord Jesus as Savior and a quickening of his spirit's intuition, but insists on substituting his mind for intuition. He thinks and cogitates until he creates many philosophies, ethics,or religions. But what is God's pronouncement? Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. [KJV] However intensively man may contemplate, his thoughts are earthly and not heavenly. After regeneration, God enables our intuition to know His thought and to apprehend His way so that we may follow HIM. . . (me now) This is what Pauls is saying by the scriptures in Ephrim's post. We cannot understand the ways and thoughts of God until we have the Spirit of God residing in us and allow our spirit to reveal His thoughts and ways to us. We just know - by intuition. Comprende? Si y No |
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