So keep up your
courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me. Acts 27:25
The Bible assumes as a self-evident fact
that men can know God with at least the same degree of immediacy as they know
any other person or thing that comes within the field of their experience.
The same terms are used to express the
knowledge of God as are used to express knowledge of physical things:
“O TASTE and see that the Lord is good.”
“All thy garments SMELL of myrrh, and
aloes, and cassia.”
“My sheep HEAR my voice.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall SEE God.”
These are but four of countless such
passages from the Word of God. And more important than any proof text is the
fact that the whole import of the Scripture is toward this belief.
We apprehend the physical world by
exercising the faculties given us for the purpose, and we possess spiritual
faculties by means of which we can know God and the spiritual world if we will
obey the Spirit’s urge and begin to use them.
That a saving work must first be done in
the heart is taken for granted here. The spiritual faculties of the
unregenerate man lie asleep in his nature; they may be quickened to active life
again by the operation of the Holy Spirit in regeneration!
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