If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Galatians
5:25
That which is called Christianity is essentially a spiritual
thing, and not an earthly order or system, and every fragment of it has to be
entered into in a spiritual way, by way of Life and Revelation. There is all
the difference between imitation and Life. Oh, what a difference there is
between seeing a thing in an objective way and coming into it in Life! It is
just there that the wonder, the glory, the vitality, the energy, the power of
things is found. You have perhaps talked for years about things in the
Word of God, as in the Word of God, and you believed them and gave them out as
truth, and after doing that for years suddenly you saw what they meant, and the
whole thing came in another way. All your talking, and preaching, and
believing before was quite true, quite right, correct as to doctrine, but what
effect had it on you? Now that it has broken like this it is transfiguring, and
has brought real joy and delight, life and ecstasy. That is what we mean by
entering into things by Life and by Revelation. In other words, it is coming
into things by the Spirit and seeing....
If we become spiritual in this sense, if the Holy Spirit is the
commanding reality in our life, and we are walking by the Spirit, we are bound
inevitably to come into all God's thought. The Lord wants a people to come into
His full thought. That is only possible as they cease to be governed by some
outward order of things, and learn what it is to move with God in the Holy
Spirit.
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