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Last week, we discussed how the spiritually mature can know the things of God.
Though God has hidden his plan since the beginning of time, he has revealed it to those who are his.
He reveals it through the Holy Spirit, the mind of Christ, the teachings of other Christians.
His wisdom is a free gift to anyone who asks.
Now, what use is something revealed, if it is never shared?
When I was in high school, I started researching colleges to attend.
My top choice was not the one I ultimately went to.
My top choice was Patrick Henry College in Lynchburg VA.
This is a school which specializes in government studies.
I didn’t ultimately apply there, even though I was invited to apply, because they wanted me to submit a lengthy essay, and I hated writing.
So, I chose the lazy way out.
I don’t recommend anyone using me as an example.
Anyway, I had the opportunity to attend a youth camp there.
Really nice campus.
All of the buildings are based on Colonial Revival Architectural style.
It’s been described like a Hollywood set of an Ivy League School.
Behind the buildings is Lake Bob.
It is a retention pond with no outlet.
Which means that there is always this nice layer of green scum over it.
Stagnant.
Whenever guy got engaged, he would be thrown into Lake Bob.
They called it Bobtisms.
Anything that does not have an outlet grows stagnant.
Paul says that the spiritually mature can reveal the things of God.
Let’s read the passage again.
Pray
The spiritually mature can reveal the things of God.
2A.
The spiritually mature can reveal the things of God
I love that last sentence: We have the mind of Christ.
Such an amazing privilege.
Such an amazing knowledge that we can know the things of God.
This amazing gift, privilege, responsibility, comes with a catch.
1B.
Having the mind of Christ demands that we speak
Having the mind of Christ demands that we speak.
Things with no outlet grow stagnant.
Why does having the mind of Christ demand that we speak?
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We are taught by the Spirit
Well, first, we have discussed that we are taught by the Spirit.
Paul writes:
The Spirit teaches us the things of God.
As Jesus said:
What are things that he teaches?
He teaches us what it means to have assurance in our salvation.
He teaches what it means to be fully transformed and reflect the image of Christ to those around us:
He teaches what it means to live in freedom
And, yes I just walked through Romans 8 from the end to the beginning.
Through the ministry of the Spirit,
we are able to understand the Word of God: what it means and how to apply it to our lives.
I have interacted with people before they came to Christ and they couldn’t understand verses in the Bible.
After they came to Christ, they could understand those same verses.
It’s like walking around in the dark and then all of a sudden a light turns on.
There is a reason the Bible describes salvation as being brought out of darkness into God’s light.
The Holy Spirit illuminates so that we can understand.
Last week, I talked about how the Holy Spirit is our instruction manual for the new life.
John says it this way:
The anointing he mentions here is the Holy Spirit.
So, all those verses to say: the Holy Spirit teaches us the ways of God, just as he empowers us to live them.
2C.
We are convicted by the things revealed
Have you ever taken time to consider how amazing the things are that he teaches?
Paul describes them this way:
He is not just talking about eternity.
He is talking about our daily life of having a personal, intimate friendship with the Creator of the universe and the Savior of our souls.
Each day, the Spirit reveals to us the amazing things which God has prepared for those who love him.
Which brings us to the second reason that having the mind of Christ demands that we should speak:
We are convicted by the things revealed
What we are able to participate in as a Christian is beyond the imagination.
No human mind has conceived.
Think about the days of Adam and Eve.
Not the beginning, but after they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
Their intimate relationship with God was broken.
They knew what it meant to walk with God and talk with him face to face and now all of that was gone.
They interacted with him through sacrifices, but even then, the relationship was broken.
They felt the distance from God.
They felt the whole in their heart that only God could fill and he wouldn’t.
We know what it is like to have a broken relationship.
We know what happens to families who are divorced, the awkwardness when the husband and wife are in the same room afterwards.
They had an intimacy which cannot be had again.
Take that and amplify it: you have Adam and Eve towards God after the Fall.
I am sure they could not fathom anything which could restore them to what was.
Sure, they had heard the Gospel told for the first time.
The amazing thing is: what God has in store for those who love him, is better than what Adam and Eve had.
They had a time of perfection, but they didn’t understand fully the perfect meshing of the holiness and love of God.
They did not know what it meant that God loved the world so much that he sent his only son to die for them.
They could not fathom it because God kicked them out.
Throughout the centuries, people knew the coming Messiah.
They knew that God was going to do something, but they never experienced it.
They couldn’t understand it.
Jesus said:
We have what they longed to see!
We possess what it means to be called a child of God.
Not only do we have what the prophets and the righteous longed to see and hear, but we have what the angels longed to see.
I guess what I am trying to say is this:
We have an amazing gift.
We have amazing knowledge and we should be bursting at the seams to tell it.
I love talking with young kids the week after Christmas.
They run up to me and start bursting about their favorite present.
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