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Comprehend the Truth
What does He want?: that we comprehend the truth
It’s nice to have an understanding of Greek and Hebrew, but God speaks to us in the language we speak.
That’s why, when you pray, you hear God in English!
God’s Holy Spirit teaches us.
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That’s kind of confusing.
Now look at verse
We understand because of the HS
The unbeliever CANNOT hear from God.
God’s first goal: know the truth about Himself
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He doesn’t just want us to have book knowledge, but personal knowledge of who He is and why He wants to communicate this to us.
The more time we spend in His Word and in prayer, the more we’ll know about Him.
God’s second goal: know the truth about ourselves
“God wants us to know our position and our supernatural privileges of who we are in Christ.”
Since we are one with Christ, His privileges become ours!
God’s third goal: know the truth about other people
We need a reminder that we aren’t to look at others with earthly wisdom, but the wisdom that comes from our heavenly Father.
When you are going through a difficult time, go to your Christian friends for encouragement-your real Christians friends.
Passive and Aggressive Listening
Passive Listening=bad :(
They don’t come to God prepared to listen.
They don’t expect to hear from God.
Indications according to Dr. Stanley of passive listeners.
The 40 year old Christian who won’t teach a Bible study class because “they don’t know the Bible well enough.”
What have you been doing for 40 years?
Aggressive Listening=good :)
They come ready to hear from God.
They have their Bible open, pen out, and notebook ready to go.
They are involved in personal devotions.
They ask questions, search, and compare what they hear to other data they’ve researched.
They ask, “How can I apply this to my life?”
Lives are transformed when people are aggressive listeners.
Nothing less will do.
Conforming to the Truth
When we learn about God’s truth we can do one of two things:
Refuse to be pushed into God’s mold.
Yield to Him and be fashioned into His likeness.
Timothy was a good example of this:
When we are conformed to the truth, it’s a whole lot easier to hear from God than when we are adrift.
Communicating the Truth
A couple of easiest passages to test whether we abide in the truth are and
Not only are we to listen to Him and allow Him to communicate His truth to us, but we are to communicate His truth to others!
Write down this Bible verse and make a commitment today to act it out.
I call it the 2-2-2 verse
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