Have You Stopped Learning?

April 13, 2013


Over a lifetime of ministry you will refine and adjust your general theology. Nothing will be contrary to the simplicity of Christ crucified, but as Paul demonstrates that as we grow and "mature" there is more to learn. He describes this as "Gods' wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom". He further says, its' revealed by the Spirit, and that the Spirit searches the depths of God. Since the time I was saved as a young child and since have walked this journey for 35 years already, I have come to some conclusions. One important thing is that we need to be expecting, asking, seeking the Lord to reveal His further truths through His Spirit. We are human and anyone that claims to have hold of understanding ALL of Gods word has deceived himself and misses out. "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." If you have been walking a long time w/God do you still ask Him to change your mind to line up with His? Do you still seek the Spirit on understanding? Many times when we come to Jesus we learn a lot in the first years, and kinda settle in...have you left any room for the Holy Spirit to still reveal peeks and revelations into the endless depth of the mind of God? Oh Lord, Your ways are perfect, Your depths impossible to know, keep me ever vigilant in desiring to see You revealed through Your Word, as the Spirit give understanding. In Jesus name, amen.

"And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden [wisdom] which God predestined before the ages to our glory; 8[the wisdom] which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND [which] HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."

For to us God revealed [them] through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the [thoughts] of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the [thoughts] of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual [thoughts] with spiritual [words].

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ."