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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