John 1:12-14 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
The late Pastor McGee wrote that the day God saves you, He makes you His child and you are brought into the family of God as a full-grown heir. The Bible uses the word “saint”, which is defined as “anyone who has been sanctified in Christ”. Anything any mature saint could understand in the Word of God of the Holy Bible, You and I could understand because that mature saint needed the Holy Spirit to teach them just as much as you and I did.
Romans 8:16-17 “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”
God brings us in as full-grown heirs so we can understand spiritual growth. If you don’t understand it, it is your own fault because He has made every arrangement for you. To pastor McGee, the greatest tragedy in our Christian churches today is the number of Bible illiterates that fill the pews who are not able to find their way around the Bible in spite of how available it is to them. With all the books and electronic devices at our disposal, there is a virtual Seminary accessible to everyone at their finger tips.
John 14:15-17, 26 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
God wants us to understand spiritual truths on this side of eternity because “God has revealed them to us through His Spirit”. Most of our learning comes through the ear-gate) what we hear) and the eye-gate (what we see). But if we are going to get divine truth, then we will only get it because His Spirit teaching it to us through our heart-gate.
1 Corinthians 2:10-14 “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
As we grow in our faith and knowledge of God’s Word, God gives us an experience with Him. Many of us tend to play down experience. However, a sadness has come over the saints today. Many need to have the experience of the Spirit of God making real in their lives the fact that they are sons and daughters of God through Jesus Christ. In spite of circumstances, they are still a child of God. God’s Spirit whispers the Father’s nearness to the child of God.
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works.”
My friend, He gives the experience of being His child. God’s Law cannot give that to you, only faith in Christ can give that to you. You need to know in this hour that it is only faith in Christ that can save you – faith plus nothing. That is the equation for salvation.
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