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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