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analice107:
If it comes from God, u won't have any chance of stopping it. But i believe it can also be induced.

Any induced trance is demonic and dangerous. I believe Séances are induced trances and this opens people up for demonic possession.

Hmmm
Experience it more than twice,but had to call myself back.

OLAADEGBU:
We thank God for that. Next time you are charged in court for breaking traffic law just tell the judge that Jesus paid it all.

Why would I be charged at the first place when there's nothing in me that can break any law?
The law of Spirit lives in me already.
Why would I break any law when He's in charge?

analice107:
Yes there are. You project one, one comes uninduced.

So trance should be encouraged then?

Peacefullove:
One in the true sense of the word " One " ?


If God was manifest in FLESH , note that word " Flesh " , does that not make Mary who gave birth to that Flesh ( which is God) the mother of God ?

Nope!!
The Word which is God became Flesh in her
...John1:14.
Mary was a vessel/an incubator through which Christ came.there was no mixture between both.

bedspread:
Yeah ichuka
See Malachi 3:8-10.
Verse 10 specifically directs where your tithes should be taken to.... it didn't say take your Tithe to give help... tithe is not your Money. If you can understand dt , You will have not any challenge paying it...
Rendering help to the needy or anyone is Wonderful.. it's Good.... it's awesome...You attract GOD'S Hands with dt.
But Tithe is not Rendering Help.. Tithe is NOT YOUR OWN.. THATS GOD'S CASH. You can't Help GOD. Simply obey and put it where he says you should......

First there's nothing like monetary tithe in the bible.
Secondly,that verse was referring to the Jewish people still under the law.
Not Christains.

frosbel2:
Isaiah 45:18
For the LORD is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. "I am the LORD," he says, "and there is no other.

Note the bolded ( ONE Person not TWO )

Hmmm
Ofcourse God is one.
As stated also in 1Timoty3:16.."And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was MANIFEST in the FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
Do you concur with this verse?

Attention seeker.
Though I believe and pray for restructuring then secession.
Even an unbiased person should know it won't happen.

frosbel2:
Nope.

So who created the heaven and earth?

Frosbel
No earthly church is perfect yet.
You can take a pinch from the seven(7) churches in Asia.they all have there flaws but are still part of the body of Christ.

frosbel2:
There is only ONE GOD who ALONE deserves worship, any other worship is IDOLATRY.

Only the creator of heaven and earth deserves Man's dedicated, undiluted and complete worship.

All other gods are FAKE.

Church members who keep singing praises to Jesus instead of God are committing an abomination because Jesus said that ONLY God deserves worship. We have replaced the one and true God with Jesus and Mohammed, no wonder there is so much confusion all over the place.

Funny but the same Jesus Christ created the heaven and the earth.

YungRichG1:
Im really still confused i have a friend who earns at least 100k a month from the hustle but has never paid his tithe but i do give out alms to the less priviledged...



So i wonder is it a sin that a Gee boy doesn't pay his tithe as at when due?

As long as he's a Gee boy and not a true Christains he can pay.

dingbang:
Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that, you do unto me.

The OP should follow these path.

bedspread:
Your tithe is your Tithe. It's God's Money...
If you must help,do it but Ensure u still pay that Tithe when the money comes....

You can't substitute Tithe for help and vice versa

Are you for real?

jiggaz:
Thanks bro.

You are welcome bro
Use to read most of your thread though keep it up.

You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. (Hebrews 3:13 NLT)
We talk about our motives, and we say, "Our motive was right!" We talk about our conscientiousness, we talk about our intentions; but you and I do not know what lies behind what we call our good motives. There is a deceitfulness about this human heart that defies our greatest attempt at tracking it down, and we shall never do it.... Here is where the church has become such a confused thing, and such a tragedy; for the prevailing idea is that if you give yourself over to God He will take you up and use you: "Bring over your humanity and consecrate it to the Lord! Consecrate your old man to the Lord, and go out and serve the Lord, with a consecrated old man!" it is utterly contrary to the teaching of God’s Word. The result is that in the work of God all the world over you have people serving the Lord in the energy of the flesh, in the reasoning of the flesh, in the emotions of the flesh. Meet them, counter them, frustrate them, and you meet something evil; you meet with a fight, a division, a schism, a scattering, and wholesale resignations.
Do you see what a havoc the enemy can make in that which is called the church, because people with best intentions and purest motives have come to serve the Lord with all their own intelligence, their own strength, and their own emotion? They have not seen that God has closed the door to the old creation, and that God’s attitude is this: "The only thing that can satisfy Me, that can serve Me is My Son, and if you are going to come into My service, He has to be the energy of everything, the Life of everything, the Wisdom of everything!" He has to be the governing, ruling reality in everything. It is not to be a matter of your impulses, but of His urgings and leadings by the Holy Spirit; not your sitting down to reason out what it would be good to do for the Lord, what ought to be done, what needs to be done, but what He shows you, nothing more.... You and I must not bring over our old creation and give it to God, expecting God to use it. God begins with birth. The church of the firstborn is something quite new, and it comes out of a death. That death is the death of an old creation, and the resurrection is of something that is not the resuscitation of an old creation, but the resurrection of something wholly of God.

jiggaz:
QUESTION
Please can you explain why, according to those who have had visions of Hell and Heaven or near death experience, they saw men and women of GOD in Hell because of one sin or the other. On the other hand, some of them told of people were refused entrance to Heaven because of the sin of unforgiveness not minding the fact that they are believers.



ANSWER
As I’ve said before, people who make these claims are either seriously mistaken or else they are consciously promoting a false doctrine.

The Bible is clear that Jesus died to pay for our sins so we can have eternal life with him (John 3:16). All who believe in Him are forgiven for all the sins of their life (Colossians 2:13-15) and cannot be sent to Hell for any reason. Our inheritance was made certain when we believed the gospel of our salvation and the Holy Spirit was sealed within us as a deposit guaranteeing it (Ephes. 1:13-14). Nothing can change that. Jesus said that no one can take us out of his or His Father’s hands (John 10:27-30). And 2 Cor. 1:21 tells us it is God Himself who makes us stand firm in Christ.

For someone to promote the idea that some believers will go to hell means they are asking us to believe these promises are not true, that Jesus did not die for all our sins, that our inheritance is not guaranteed, that someone can take us out of the Lord’s hands, and God cannot make us stand firm in Christ. That means no one can ever be sure of his or her eternal destiny regardless of what the Bible has promised us.

I’ve read some of the books people who make these claims have written, but I have also read the Bible. I choose to believe the Bible. After all these books are the words of fallible man, but the Bible is the Word of an infallible God.


https://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/more-on-believers-in-hell/

Nice one op

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them… Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. (Romans 12:9,10 NLT)

"He loved them unto the uttermost." And I think in that statement, there is the most wonderful thing that ever came into this world. Jesus had had a lot of trouble with those men. They had often misunderstood Him. They had often disappointed Him. They were really a very poor lot of men.... He knew what a poor lot of men they were, but He loved them unto the uttermost. That is the first thing about this love. It is not offended by our failures. He does not withdraw His love because we make mistakes. We may often disappoint Him, we may often fail Him, we may often grieve His heart, but He goes on loving us. He loves us unto the uttermost, right to the end. He is not offended by our failures. That is a very different kind of love from our love. This is God's love in Christ....
You know, it is so easy to talk about love, to pretend to love, to use the language of love, to sing hymns about love, and it can all be sentimental; perhaps we all know people who have told us that they love us, but very often they are the very people who have hurt us most. Now, the love of Jesus was not sentimental, it was practical. He did not go in with His disciples and say, 'Brothers, I do love you very much.' He showed that He loved them by what He did for them. It was not sentimental love, it was practical love. And this is the love with which He loved them unto the uttermost.... These things which characterize the love of Christ for His own ought to characterize us in love for others. That is why the Holy Spirit has come. So that as He loved us to the uttermost, so ought we to love one another.

segunojo866:
meaning your God can kiss my ass. The atheist voice

Lol
No matter what you say or think of Him
He still loves you,you know why?
Because there's no constituent of hatred in Him.
He simply can't hate because He is Love Personified....1john4:8

segunojo866:
Am God

Meaning?

@OP
You have done your part,it's now left for her to decide which part to take.
Funny but true,that most Christains struggle from self impose positions mainly caused by there pastors/mentors instead of the victorious position provide for us.
They like "DOING" instead of "RESTING"
They love "BATTLING and STRUGGLING"instead of "DECLARING and DEFENDING"
Still pray and talk to her sha.
Your path is the right one.

OLAADEGBU:
Astral projection is a dangerous and demonic occult practice where a person's spirit-body gets pulled into the spirit realm, and demonic beings groom them for spiritual deception & attacks:

http://reasonsforjesus.com/astral-projection-exposed/

Is Asral projection different from Trance?

OLAADEGBU:
It's either you pay your protection money or the thief might take it up.

Mine has been paid in full 2000years ago
Location:Calvary

Job 38:12-41New King James Version (NKJV)

12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
And caused the dawn to know its place,
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?
14 It takes on form like clay under a seal,
And stands out like a garment.
15 From the wicked their light is withheld,
And the upraised arm is broken.
16 “Have you entered the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in search of the depths?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is its place,
20 That you may take it to its territory,
That you may know the paths to its home?
21 Do you know it, because you were born then,
Or because the number of your days is great?
22 “Have you entered the treasury of snow,
Or have you seen the treasury of hail,
23 Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
For the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is light diffused,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 “Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water,
Or a path for the thunderbolt,
26 To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one,
A wilderness in which there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate waste,
And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?
28 Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
30 The waters harden like stone,
And the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
Or loose the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out Mazzaroth[a] in its season?
Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?
33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
That an abundance of water may cover you?
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go,
And say to you, ‘Here we are!’?
36 Who has put wisdom in the mind?[b]
Or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust hardens in clumps,
And the clods cling together?
39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they crouch in their dens,
Or lurk in their lairs to lie in wait?
41 Who provides food for the raven,
When its young ones cry to God,
And wander about for lack of food?
Footnotes:

If God can ask Job such questions
Meaning we are suppose to be in charge of our environments "Not Satan"
We should COMMAND our environments to hear Gods voice through us.when we speak

OLAADEGBU:
The fact that you are chosen doesn't mean you should not pray. Jacob was in fear for his life and needed God's sustenance hence he made that vow. Today there is the nation of Israel without Jacob there will be no Israel. Esau got blessed because of Abraham and Isaac's covenant with God although the only thing his descendants have given to the world is terrorism. Through Jacob came the Prince of Peace who paid the full prize of our redemption.

Jacob never pay a dim to God.
He was blessed even before he breathed an air,instead to wait for Gods will in his life,he was busy trying to HELP God fulfill His promise.God is not into naira bet.com nor is He a magician.
He's works are intiatated and completed by Him alone that's why He takes ALL the Glory in everything.if we comply or not His will must/has be done like it or not.
So whatsoever Jacob does good/bad Redemption must come!!(wether he pays or not.do you know why?
Because CHRIST HAS DIED FOR US BEFORE HE EVEN CREATED THE WORLD!!
Rev13:8....,,All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

OLAADEGBU:
I'm serious. Check out the deal Jacob made with God for his protection and provision:

"And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on" (Genesis 28:20).

Jacob was wise in the sense that he knew that you cannot enter into a deal with God and end up bankcrupt.

How many folks pay protection money to vigilantes, security guards etc for their protection?

Lol
That's why I said you should be serious.
Jacob was already chosen when he was in his mothers womb.meaning God has already blessed him before he was born.whether he pays later on doesn't really matter to God.
He was the chosen one and that's final.
Beside in material blessing his brother was even richer than him don't you think?

Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He now showed them the full extent of His love. (John 13:1 NIV)
No ministry of the servant of Jesus Christ can be a triumphant ministry unless there is a deep, strong, abiding love.... Love is going to solve our problems and to bring us into victory; but apart from a sufficient love, the problems of human make-up, the many differences of disposition and character and all that goes to make up a company, and the continuous drain and strain, with all the pressure that comes from the enemy, will present a problem, a perplexity and a paralyzing task....
We may ask, "How did the Lord manage to maintain the relationship with His disciples?" They were so difficult, so different, so disappointing. "Having loved His own... He loved them unto the end." That is the answer. Love got above all that they were; love gave the extra thing which enabled Him not to take them just as they were and end there. So in our relationships, the spirit of the true servant is only possible as there is a deep love. Upon all those who have ideas of serving the Lord and working for Him I would urge this consideration: that the work of the Lord is not some thing which you outwardly and objectively take up. It is (if it is the true thing) the outworking of love for the Lord and for those who are the objects of His love. That is very simple, but it goes to the heart of things. Sooner or later you and I will be brought to the position where the question will be, Have we sufficient love to go on? Can we find enough love in our hearts to get us through this particularly difficult situation? The situation will be constituted by all those factors which resolve us into servants, bondslaves. It would not have become so acute if only we had been esteemed and honored, and held in high regard. But when the situation is created by a great deal being expected of us, by demands being made upon our generosity, our kindness, calling for an almost inexhaustible fund of patience, and the letting go of personal feeling; when really the main issue in the crisis is this – I am being imposed upon: too much is being expected of me: I am treated as a servant – that is where we are found out. Love alone can support this service.

This is not to say that the work of the Lord Jesus on earth was not important.We are saying that a man has to believe that Jesus is the Christ before he can be begotten of God.If a man believes that He is the Son of God,he is begotten of God.We not only must see that Jesus is the Christ,the Son of God,but we must see the Bible.One cannot take away Jesus of Nazareth and still have the Son of God or Christ.Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God;He is the Christ.In the same way,one cannot take away the Old Testament or the New Testament and say that he knows Christ.He cannot take away the Bible and say that he knows the Son of God.Through the Bible,God gives us the knowledge of the Son of God.If we do not have revelation,we may read the book but only have knowledge of doctrines;we will not know the Christ contained in the book.This is a very fundamental issue.We can understand everything about this book and yet have not seen Christ at all.It is possible for us to touch this book without ever touching Christ.
What makes Christianity so complicated is the fact that there are two different realms. If all the outward things were taken away and only inward things were left, the situation would be much simpler:Those who have it would clearly have it,and those who do not have it would clearly not have it.But the problem is that there is a realm of "pressing" and there is also a realm of "touching."Some are pressing, while others are touching.The two are completely different. Pressing upon Jesus is absolutely different from touching Him.Can we see the difference between these two? There are two different realms. The pressing ones are in one realm,and the touching ones are in another realm.Those who are in the pressing realm experience nothing,while those in the touching realm are healed of all their sicknesses and relieved of all their problems.In one realm there are intellectual ones who can understand the Bible,the doctrines, and the truth.But in the other realm,one encounters light,revelation,and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.Brothers,do we see this?There are two different realms.In one realm there are the teachers of letters.In the other realm there are the MINISTERS of God's WORD.We can only preach what we know.God has to bring us to a point where we touch the inner realm.We cannot know the Lord Jesus in the realm of "pressing"we cannot know the Bible in that realm either.We must get into the realm of "touching"before we can be useful.Only in that realm do we find God's speaking.Only that realm will issue in any results, and only that kind of "touching" will yield any results.The amazing thing is that the Lord did not feel anyone pressing upon Him,but He was very conscious of someone touching Him.
A simple brother who has nothing and who knows nothing may come to the Bible and contact the word in fear and trembling,and in the Lord's presence,he may see light. Another brother may be well acquainted with the Greek and Hebrew languages.He may be very good at English and may have read the Bible from cover to cover many times.He may even have memorized the Bible. But if he has never received any light from God,he cannot be a minister of God's word.The most he can do is pass on Bible knowledge to others.He cannot minister Christ to the church. The Bible is LIVING,it is a PERSON In fact, it is the Son of God Himself.If we do not touch this living word when we read the Bible,whatever we know will not yield any fruit.

OLAADEGBU:
Jacob paid protection money. It's a deal he made with God.



If someone has paid for your debt why do you still try to stay out of debt? or are you saying that you can no longer get into debt?

If someone saved you from drowning would it not be your responsibility to keep yourself from drowning again?

Jacob paid protection money??
Bro be serious pls.

The same principle can be applied to our reading of the Bible.Many people are pressing upon the Bible,but few touch the Son of God.You can touch God's Son through Jesus of Nazareth. You can also touch God's Son through the Bible.The problem with many people is that they only see the Bible;they have not touched the Son of God.When the Lord Jesus was on earth, men knew Him according to two different realms.In one realm men heard His voice and observed His movements but did not know Him at all.In another realm one person touched His garment and was healed.Many people saw Him,but only one knew that God was with this Jesus of Nazareth.I am afraid that when we introduce Jesus of Nazareth to others,we are merely introducing them to the Jesus of Nazareth who was in the flesh.In the same way,I am afraid that when we introduce the Bible to others,we are merely presenting a book to them.We should remember that those who pressed upon Jesus of Nazareth did not receive any benefit from Him.Many sick ones were not healed even though they pressed upon Him.Likewise,those who are pressing upon the Bible do not receive anything from this book.They receive nothing, just as the pressing crowd received nothing from Jesus of Nazareth. But some receive the light within, and they touch the Son of God within the book.The word that the Lord speaks to us is spirit and life.As soon as we touch this,we touch the ministry of the word.What we present to men should not be just a simple book. In presenting the book,we should also present the Son of God to them.A minister of the word is one who,while serving others with the word of God, also serves them with the Son of God.We serve men with Christ. Only as we present men with Christ can we serve as a minister of the word.
Some people only know the historical Jesus.They do not know the Son of God at all. When many people read the Bible,they only see the historical Jesus;they have never touched the Son of God within the Bible. The Bible is not merely a book, inasmuch as Jesus was not merely a man.Within the Bible we find Christ.If a man only touches the book without touching the Son of God,he does not have the ministry of the word.
In Luke 24:13-31 the Lord Jesus met two disciples on the way to Emmaus,and He walked with them.While they journeyed,the Lord asked them questions and they answered,or they asked and the Lord answered.The conversation was not short,and the Lord expounded the Scripture to them.When they were near Emmaus,they constrained Him,saying,"Stay with us, because it is near evening and the day is already gone by" (v. 29).The Lord went in and stayed with them.They even invited the Lord to their meal. During this long conversation, they did not recognize the Lord Jesus.Only when the Lord took the bread, blessed it,broke it, and gave it to them were their eyes opened.Then they recognized the Lord.This shows us that even when a man walks with the Lord side by side,he still may not know who He is.Even when he talks with the Lord,he can still be ignorant of who He is.
Brothers and sisters,even if the Lord were to speak to us,we still might not know who He is.Even if He were to stay with us,we still might not know who He is.We should know something about the Lord that is far deeper than the knowledge we can gain from staying with Him,walking with Him,or talking to Him. We will only know who He is when He opens our eyes. Walking with Him, talking with Him,and having Him expound the Scripture to us are not enough to guarantee that we will know Him.We must realize that genuine knowledge of the Lord is deeper than these things.We may lament in our heart that we were not with Him when He walked on the earth, but we should realize that even if we had been with Him,we would not have known Him any more than we would today.Today,one of the least or weakest of brothers knows the Lord Jesus as much as Peter.When the Lord Jesus was on earth,the twelve disciples knew Him but not in a way that was greater than the weakest among us can know Him today.We should not think that we will know Him just by staying with Him for a few years. We have to realize that the Lord the disciples knew in their spirit is no different from the Lord we know in our spirit today.
The fundamental question is what constitutes real knowledge of the Lord.Real knowledge of Him does not come from the outside.We need God's revelation before we can know the Lord.The Lord has to open our eyes and show us something before we can know Him.The Lord has to open our eyes.This is what being a minister of the word is all about.A man may spend much time studying.He may recite all the verses in the Bible and may be clear about all the doctrines in the Scripture.He may answer every question quickly,but it is possible that he does not know God's Son at all. One day when God opens his eyes,he will see the Son of God. When God opens our eyes,we see Jesus of Nazareth and we see Christ.In the same way, when God opens our eyes,we see the Bible and the Son of God revealed in the Bible.

OLAADEGBU:
How do they do that?

Ok
Why do they still PAY Titthe?
2.Why do they still try to be Save when they are already Saved by believing and accepting The Price PAID by our Lord?....,etc.

"PAID IN FULL"
Love the Theme.
If He has paid in full why do most Christains still try to PAY what has been paid already?
Am just curious bro..

The Lord Jesus is God.At the time He walked on earth in disguise,men did not know Him. God was disguised among men, and men did not recognize Him as God.It takes God's Spirit to open men's eyes before they can recognize this Jesus as the Son of God and the Christ.The Bible, in a way, is like Jesus of Nazareth.Humanly speaking,it is a book.Perhaps it is a little more special than other books.But when God's Spirit opens a man's eyes,he will see that this is no ordinary book;it is God's revelation.It reveals God's Son. Just as Jesus of Nazareth is the living Son of God,this book is a revelation of the living Son of God.If we only see this book as a book,we do not know God's Bible.Those who do not know God's Son do not know Jesus. In the same way, those who do not know God's Son do not know the Bible.Those who know Jesus know God's Son.In the same way,those who know the Bible should know that the Lord Jesus is God's Son.They should know the very Son of God spoken of in the Bible.
When the Lord Jesus was walking on earth,His contemporaries had many things to say about Him.They criticized Him in many ways.Some said that He was Jeremiah,others said that He was one of the prophets.Some said this and some said that.But the Lord Jesus asked the disciples,"But you,who do you say that I am?" Peter answered,"You are the Christ,the Son of the living God." What did the Lord say?He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,but My Father who is in the heavens." Knowledge of the Lord Jesus does not come from flesh and blood,but from the revelation of the heavens.Following this,the Lord said,"Upon this rock I will build My church" (Matt. 16:15-18).Without such a revelation there is no church.This is the foundation of the church.The whole church is built upon this foundation.When a man recognizes that the historical Jesus is God's Christ and Son, this seeing becomes the foundation upon which the church is built.
Some people lament,saying,"I was born two thousand years too late.If I had been born two thousand years earlier,I could have gone to Jerusalem and could have seen the Lord Jesus face to face.The Jews did not believe Jesus was the Son of God,but I would have believed." But even if these ones had been able to live,walk,and work together with the Lord Jesus every day,they still would not have known Him.They would have known the man Jesus only; they would not have known who He is.When the Lord was on earth,men conjectured much about Him.They realized that He was quite special,that He was different from other men.But they did not know Him.Peter, however,was a man who did not have to guess about Him.He saw Him and he knew Him.How did he know Him?First God shone His light on him and showed him that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ,the Son of God.Without God's revelation, a man can follow the Lord everywhere and still not see.Even if a man followed the Lord to Caesarea Philippi,he still would not know who He is.A man can be with the Lord every day and still not know Him.He is not known through outward acquaintance but through revelation.The knowledge of the Lord Jesus is something that comes from revelation,not from acquaintance.If you do not have revelation,you may live with Him for ten years without knowing who He is.You will only know Him as the Christ and the Son of God when you have God's revelation,when He speaks within you,and when He unveils your inner eyes.Your outward acquaintance of Him is not a true knowledge of Him.
The same thing can be said of the Bible.God's Word is a person,and God's word is also a book.God's Word is Jesus of Nazareth,and His word is also the Bible.We need God to open our eyes before we can recognize Jesus of Nazareth as being the Word of God and the Son of God.In the same way, God has to open our eyes before we will recognize the Bible as being the word of God and a revelation of His Son.Those who were acquainted with the Lord Jesus and who lived with Him for many years did not know Him.In the same way,those who are acquainted with the Bible and who have read and studied it for many years do not necessarily know the Bible.There is the need of God's revelation.Only that which God reveals to us through revelation is living.
The story of the healing of the woman with a flow of blood in Mark 5 shows us that many people were pressing upon the Lord Jesus, but no one touched Him.Among them all,only the woman with the flow of blood touched the garment of the Lord. She thought that if she could only touch the Lord's garment, she would be healed.She had faith,and she was sensitive.She came to touch the Lord.As soon as she touched Him,she was healed.The Lord immediately asked,"Who touched My garments?"When the disciples heard this, they said,"You see the crowd pressing upon You and You say, Who touched Me?" (vv. 30-31).The disciples complained about the crowd that was pressing upon Him all around and wondered how the Lord could even ask who was touching Him.Yet as soon as someone touched the Lord,He knew it,and He could feel it. Many people pressed upon Him, but nothing happened to them. But the one who touched Him experienced an immediate change.Today, even if the Lord were to stand right next to you, He would do you no good if you were only pressing upon Him. Jesus of Nazareth is not known by pressing.Those who pressed against Him did not know Him. Only the one who had faith and discernment touched His garment and knew who He was. This man was Jesus of Nazareth, yet He was also the Son of God. Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God.Many people pressed upon Jesus of Nazareth,but they did not touch the Son of God. Many people touch the outward Jesus,but they do not touch the Son of God.