Into All Truth.
To many believers naming the name of Christ have settled for truth
as religion sees it and are missing out on TRUTH that the Spirit, (God's
appointed Teacher) desires to lead us into.
In
1 Corinthians 13:9 Paul writes; "We know in part". He himself is included in the "we" therefore, everything he knew and wrote was partial
spiritual truth when compared to all spiritual truth. However spiritual
the things we know may be, it is still only partial because our
spiritual knowing is incomplete and is subject to further enlightenment,
or abandoned altogether because the spirit of which it is of is not the
Spirit of Christ, the "All Truth of God". Spiritual revelational truth
that may be shed on the partial truth we now know may render that
partial truth incomplete or obsolete. We are on a spiritual journey
where we know in part, but the journey gets spiritually brighter as we
are open to the Spirits teaching and what the Reveal-er of spiritual
truth reveals to us. The partial will be then done away with.
John
14:26, informs us that God's appointed Teacher the Holy Spirit, that
Father God sent in Jesus' name, will teach us all things spiritual and
will endow us with everything that relates to Jesus.
God's
appointed Teacher has come to lead believers into the full realization
of every thing Jesus is and desires to endow us with all truth that is
resident IN Christ within us.
As much as yo may
believe that the bible contains "all truth", the bible itself does not
make that claim. Certainly everything that Jesus taught His disciples
was and is truth. "the word's that I SPEAK unto you, they are spirit and they
are life." (John 6:63). Though what He taught them was truth it was NOT
ALL the TRUTH that He knew. There were many things He wanted to teach
them, but they were not up to receiving it at that time as per John 16:13.
Following
Jesus is a spiritual journey leading to higher spiritual revelation
given by the Spirit of Christ...not a performance journey of religious
do's and don'ts ordained by religion as a means of being spiritual.
It
is one thing to read the truths of scripture, but becoming obsessed by
believing because we have read the bible we are fulling living in the
reality of all the truth of the Spirit is a contradiction to the bible itself. The Spirit knows the mind of
Christ, the written word about Christ without being made alive by
the Spirit has no power to give life. If we only read the written record
of what Jesus said in the past, or what the saints have said about the
past, we will miss the present voice of the Spirit of what Christ is
doing in the now and what He will be doing in the future...remember Jesus did not teach "all the truth" that he wanted man to know to His
disciples. Christ has not wrapped up all he spiritual revelation between the two
covers of a book that man has put together about Him. To do so removes
His sovereignty from Him and insinuates that man has receive all the
spiritual knowledge that Jesus Himself knows...how absurd!
As spiritual revealing as the written word may be, it does not contain "All
Spiritual Truth". Only the Spirit of God can lead us into the full
experiential knowledge of all truth contained in the risen Christ. Paul
wrote, "But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing
to each one "INDIVIDUALLY" as "HE WILLS" (1Cor. 12:11). The Spirit
works in each of us as HE WILLS, not as some trained denominated religionists wills. This is true spiritual life. As a religionists you may not
believe it, but Jesus said it Himself, "I have many things to tell you,
but you can't bear them now. However when he, the Spirit of truth, has
come. HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH."
So, can religious, man appointed denominated leaders bring God's people into all truth? Not according to Paul.
William
Law wrote, "But as Christ's teaching was only preparatory to His future
vital teaching by the Spirit. so the teaching of scripture by words
written with ink and paper is only preparatory, or introductory to all
inward essential teaching of God, which is by His Spirit and truth
within us. Every other opinion, of the holy scripture, but that of an
outward teacher and guide to God's inward teaching and illumination in
our souls, is but making an idol-god of it." End quote.
Though Jesus did lead people into Truth, He did not lead them into ALL TRUTH, the Comforter, God the Father sent in the place of Jesus would.
The
great need of the Community of the Redeemed is not more denominated
Bible teaching, it is not more denominational preaching, it is not more pray-less
prayer meetings, nor is it reading the bible to gain more bible knowledge. What is needed is a
understanding of what took place because of the death and resurrection
of Christ, to understand the breath, length, height and depth of His
accomplishment, and to understand the gospel message given to Paul by
Christ. That will only happen by a working of the Spirit of Christ in
the inner man because of Christ living in us. We need to shut out the
musings of the intellect of religious entities and open up to the Spirit
of Christ within. Paul prays in Ephesians 3:14-21 that the inward
virtue of God's Spirit would provide the ability to grasp the vastness
or entire dimension of this truth, not just parts of it.
Without
the inner working of God's Spirit we are powerless to know spiritual
things in the dimension that we ought to know. See Philippians 3:11-14.
Though The Lord taught Paul for fourteen years in the Damascus
wilderness, he realized that he did not know all truth. There is much
more to know about the workings of God therefore, we are on a journey of
spiritual learning that can only be taught by the Spirit. In order to
hear the voice of the Spirit, we as Paul did, should count the things of
our religious past as "mere dung", and reach forth unto those things
which were before, he pressed toward the mark. We, as Paul, need to
realize that all wisdom, knowledge and truth is found in Christ and not
in fallible religious religions nor their fallible leaders.
Most people within
Christendom, gladly hear what Jesus, Paul and others wrote in the past
(the scripture), but refuse to allow the Spirit lead and teach them in
the present. We serve a God that is active in the present and wants to
reveal His eternal plan for humanity as per His workings for the future. Instead God's people are dull of
hearing because they are deafened by the loudness of religious
rhetoric.
Why not allow the Spirit of the Living Christ lead you into all TRUTH.
Why not allow the Spirit of the Living Christ lead you into all TRUTH.
God told Daniel to seal up the book until time of end, then knowledge would increase. I believe this applies to spiritual knowledge as well. But the new spiritual knowledge will not contradict what Christ has already said or else it is not of Holy Spirit.
ReplyDeleteFor instance if Christ said hell is hot then new knowledge from Holy Spirit will not say hell is cold as many love preachers are declaring.
If Christ said that He was the only way to God, then new knowledge from Holy Spirit will not tell us that there are other ways to get to God as many love preachers say. Many evangelicals have formed an organization called Chrislam. They are saying that Allah is same God.
The grace preacher Paul tell us there is coming an appointed time when God will judge the world and we must all stand before God and give an account both saved and unsaved, the saved before the Bema seat of Christ and the unsaved before the white throne judgment. No amount of love and grace preaching will eliminate this. So if Christ through Paul said we must all appear then any new revelation will not contradict this.
I could go on and on but we have to be on guard as the grace preacher Paul was because there are many today like Paul warned us of in 2 Peter 2:
1.But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.