Experience a teacher?
Start The Approach Achievements The Revelation Sense knowledge facts Experience a teacher? The limits Seven major guesses God is a Spirit God’s answer Three witnesses What the Word says Senses and the Word Walking by the senses Receive eternal life Summary of revelation Conclusion

 

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Experience is the best teacher

This is the slogan of Sense Knowledge. "Seeing is believing" is another favorite. Revelation or Faith Knowledge, seems unbelievable and impossible to the man who has only Sense Knowledge.

If I did not know that man was a spirit and created to be the companion of God, I would be hopeless; but I know that his spirit is God hungry, and whether he has ever been able to interpret the longing and continual yearning in his being after something that seems unattainable or not, makes no difference.

I know that yearning is after God.
It may lead him to the dance hall.
It may lead him to drink.
It may lead him to all kinds of excesses which have never answered the cry of his being.

But if the right message is given to man, his spirit will come to the place of ascendancy and will compel his reasoning faculties to listen. We have failed to recognize this tremendous tact.

There are two kinds of Knowledge.

One kind of Knowledge has to do with the spirit of man and

the other has to do with his senses.
 

We haven’t realized that spirit hunger is as real as physical or mental hunger.

We haven't realized that the Bible or Revelation Knowledge was designed by the Author primarily to answer this spirit cry and to satisfy the hunger of the spirit.

Jesus knew it for He said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Jesus came not only to minister to man's body, but to minister to his spirit.

The miracles that Jesus performed in the Sense Realm were to prove to men of the Sense Realm that He was God.

Revelation or Faith Knowledge is in the realm above Sense Knowledge. It is hard for Sense Knowledge folks to grasp it. By experience they have learned much, and it is hard to have to come to them now with Grace. All Sense Knowledge comes by works. Grace Knowledge comes by faith.

It is so revolutionary that it is hard for them to grasp it. Sense Knowledge has all come by hard work, close application and sacrifice. The man that has climbed to the top in the business world, in the professional world or in the inventive, creative world, knows that every step of his progress has been by self denial and hard work.

Now I come to him with something far superior to anything he has ever known in the Sense Realm. I tell him it is all of grace, on the ground of Faith. He is not a trifler; he is an honest man. He looks at me in amazement and says, "It can't be. If I could acquire this spiritual knowledge through the same channel of hard work, I could accept it, but you are asking me to accept by faith something that I cannot reason out. I can't understand it.

You tell me that Jesus was an Incarnation; that God was manifest in the flesh. That is contrary to anything I have ever known.
You tell me that God made Christ to be sin with my sin; that He suffered in my stead. I can't grasp it. There is no point of contact with the Senses.
You tell me that He arose from the dead. That is entirely outside of the field of human experience or of Sense Knowledge.
You are asking me to believe a thing that gives Sense Knowledge no basis upon which to build. I believe in things I can see. I can hear, I can feel, I can taste or smell. I believe in material things, because I can feel them and see them. But I cannot believe in God because I cannot see Him. He does not speak to me.
You ask me to believe in miracles. Miracles are outside of the realm of Sense Knowledge. Sense Knowledge says that faith cannot produce miracles like healing diseases and setting bones. It is unreasonable.

Then I ask my Sense Knowledge friend

Can you see love? He must acknowledge that he cannot. He can see the effect of love, but he cannot see love. Love is of the spirit. Love does not belong to the Reason Realm. Love did not come through the avenues of the Senses. Love is not produced by feeling, by hearing, by seeing. (I am talking about divine Love. What we often call physical love or Sense Knowledge love is nothing but creative passion. We are dealing now with spirit things.) Love is of your spirit.
You cannot see hatred. You cannot feel it, nor hear it. Yet it is one of the most powerful forces in the world.
You cannot see, nor hear, nor feel thought, but you know it is a reality.
You cannot see the imagination, yet it can take the pictures of Sense Knowledge and throw them upon a canvas, or can translate them into the most beautiful harmony.
You cannot see some of what we call natural phenomena.
You cannot see the wind, but you can see the effect of it.
You cannot see gravitation. You can feel the effect of it.
You cannot see conscience, the voice of your spirit, but you can feel the effect of it.

You see there are very few of the greater things of life that the Senses register. They register the effect but they cannot grasp the fact, the reality.

God is a spirit. Man is a spirit. They belong to the same kind of being.

Man's spirit is the real man. His Senses are but the servants of this real man. His reasoning faculties are servants of this real man, the spirit. The scripture calls it, "The inward man of the heart." My physical body contacts physical things. My mind contacts thoughts. My spirit can contact God.

Reason is the light that is shed by the oil of the Senses.
Conscience is the voice of the spirit.

Science is but arranged facts that the Senses have discovered.
Science has become the god of the scholastic world.

Ages ago the Senses built gods of wood, and of stone, and of gold, because they were God hungry. Man is still God hungry and now instead of building idols out of wood, and stone, and metal, he builds them out of Sense Knowledge.

He is worshipping still the work of his hands.  He can't help it.

Science does not explain the reason for Creation, nor the Reason for man, and
Science cannot discover spirit, nor can it find life. It can only see the effect of the spirit, the effect of life.
Science cannot answer the why of man's being nor where he is going.
Science cannot answer this age-long hunger after God, nor of man's unconscious faith in a life beyond the grave.
Science, as we know it today, is the blind child of the Senses.
 


 
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