our thinking. Contrary to popular belief it takes supernatural power to make the sinner understand Cod's truth. Je sus could say, "I am the truth." All spiritual truth centers in Christ, finding its embodiment in Him. Jesus is the Living Truth while the Bible is the written truth of Cod. The Holy Spirit takes both of these glorious aspects and reveals them to us. In order to give us the Truth, Cod had to become incarnate. He had to live, die and rise again after having become a Man. The Truth was sent from heaven to open the eyes of all men to the realities which are revealed in Scripture. The very nature of man requires a revelation of God. There is no oth er way. The Bible is not a luxury, it is a necessity. As Jesus pointed out, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro ceeded out of the mouth of God." Paul was writing to the Corinthians when he declared, "Things which eyes have not seen and ears heard not and which entered not into the heart of man, unto us God revealed them through the Spirit" (I Corin thians 2 :9,10). Human knowledge is largely lim ited to that which is discernable by sense and reason. We must first have the mind of the Holy Spirit before we can understand spiritual truth (I Corinthians 2:14). We are greatly indebted to the Spirit for a revelation of the truth. Who could have written the first chap ter of Genesis except as He used Moses as the penman? The crea tive handiwork of God before man arrived on the scene could not possibly have been known with out a direct revelation from the Lord.
Look at the background of Job. The scene centers in heaven when Lucifer appears before God. We are given a record of the conver sation that took place. We would never have known anything about this if the Holy Spirit had not re corded it in the Bible. We learn of Enoch's prophecy from the book of Jude. He is quoted as saying that Christ will be coming again with ten thousands of His holy ones. Without the Spirit's information we would not have known this since nowhere in Genesis are we told that Enoch even made a prophecy. In Daniel's unfolding of the whole Gentile era he points up clearly how it is all going to end in Biblical prophecy. Daniel himself could not understand the revela tion. The truth could have come in no other way. Thus, it is clear that the truth given through these men of old did not originate with them, but they were moved by the Holy Spirit (II Peter 1:21). "The Holy Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God" (I Corinthians 2:10). The word "things" is not in the orig inal Greek. The sentence therefore reads, "The Spirit searcheth the 'deeps' of God." Moses and the Old Testament prophets saw only the fringes of God's divine glory. It is the Holy Spirit who takes us into the depths of the divine heart of God. Truth certainly lies in a realm beyond our human compre hension. We would never under stand it had not the Holy Spirit put it into the Bible. As a further example, the second coming of Christ is considered by some people as if it were merely human speculation. The Apostle was inspired to write the book of Revelation. It was simply John's
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