Our Heavenly Father, we do rejoice in Thy
presence, knowing that we are the family of
God.
How we pray and thank Thee for Thy
great love towards us, that manner of love
the Father has bestowed upon us, that we
shall be called the children of God.
And we are truly Thy children because Thou
hast given us Thy own life.
We do praise and we thank Thee because
Thou dost tell us to know Thee the
only true God and to know the one
whom Thou hast sent.
This is eternal life.
We praise and thank Thee for giving us
this wonderful knowledge of Thyself.
We know Thee and we want to know
Thee more.
We pray that this evening Thou will open
Thy word to us and open our hearts
to Thy word, that Thou mayst be able
to impart Thyself to us in a fuller
way, that we may enter into the fullness
of the Lord.
Together we look to Thee to give us
the spirit of wisdom and revelation to the
full knowledge in the name of our Lord
Jesus.
For the past two sessions we have been
fellowshipping together over this matter of the heart
and its relationship with life.
The heart is the passage through which the
life of God enters into us and also
flows out of us.
For out of the heart are the issues
of life.
Very often we find that the life of
God is being obstructed or being bound up
within us.
It is not because the life of God
within us is not living, is not operating.
It is because something is wrong with our
heart.
If we turn our heart to the Lord
then the veil will be taken away from
our face and we shall behold the glory
of the Lord and we shall be transformed
from glory to glory according to His image
as by the Lord.
And this morning we mentioned how God desires
to be our God and how can we
be His people, not in a superficial way
but in a real way.
And the secret is God is to be
our God in the law of the Spirit
of Life.
And we are to be His people also
in the same law.
It's only when we learn to live according
to the law of the Spirit of Life
then we find ourselves truly God's people and
God is truly our God.
I think there is one thing which fascinates
me and that is when Paul said, My
God.
My God shall supply all your needs.
My God.
God is my God.
In other words, he knows God in a
way that makes God his God and he
is truly God's people.
And we say this morning that this is...
Now this evening we would like to continue
on this.
So will you please turn to Hebrews chapter
8.
Hebrews chapter 8.
This morning we read verse 10.
Tonight we will read verse 11.
Hebrews chapter 8 verse 11.
And they shall not teach each his fellow
citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, because all shall know me.
Now in this translation it says all shall
know me in themselves because in the original
it does have such a meaning in it.
From the little one among them unto the
great among them.
Let's read it again.
And they shall not teach each his fellow
citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, because all shall know me in themselves.
From the little one among them unto the
great among them.
1 John chapter 2.
First epistle of John chapter 2.
Verse 27.
1 John chapter 2 verse 27.
And yourselves.
The unction to make it clearer.
The anointing.
Not only the anointing oil, but the anointing
which ye have received from him abides in
you.
And ye have not need that anyone should
teach you.
But as the same anointing teaches you as
to all things, and is true, and is
not a lie, and even as it has
taught you, ye shall abide in him.
You have no need that anyone should teach
you.
Why?
Because the anointing teaches you in all things.
And it is true.
And not a lie.
And even as it has taught you, ye
shall abide in him.
Probably we'll read a few more.
Ephesians chapter 1.
In the first prayer that Paul prayed for
the saints there.
Verse 17.
And the first part of verse 18.
The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, would give you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge
of him.
Being enlightened in the eyes of your heart.
Chapter 3 of Ephesians.
Paul's second prayer for the saints there.
Verses 16 through verse 19.
In order that he may give you according
to the riches of his glory to be
strengthened with power by his spirit in the
inner man.
That the Christ may dwell through faith in
your heart.
Being rooted and grounded in love.
In order that ye may be fully able
to apprehend with all the things what is
the breadth and length and depth and height.
And to know the love of the Christ
could surpass his knowledge.
That ye may be filled even to all
the fullness.
Colossians chapter 1.
Another prayer of Paul for the church in
Colossae.
Verse 9.
For this reason we also from the day
we heard of your faith and love do
not cease praying and asking for you to
the end that ye may be filled with
the full knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding.
We mentioned this morning the reason why God
put his law in our heart is because
by doing that he is able to be
our God and we will be his people.
In other words this is the only true
way in which God can really be our
God and we really be his people.
His law is in our heart.
This is the law of the spirit of
life.
Life that God has put in us is
the law within us.
And if our heart is towards the Lord
we will love the law of God and
we will find it not only gives us
knowledge it gives us power.
We are able to listen to him.
We are able to obey him.
We are able to honor and respect him.
We are able to worship and to serve
him.
He is truly our God and we are
truly his people.
Now we say this morning this is God's
purpose.
But this evening we would like to say
this.
The new covenant does not end there.
God said putting my law into their mind
and write them on their heart that I
may be to them God and they may
be for me a people.
But that's not all.
It continues with verse 11.
And in verse 11 it says they shall
not they do not need to teach everyone
his fellow citizen and everyone his brother saying
know the Lord because they shall all know
me in themselves from the littlest among them.
God will be our God in the law
of life.
It's a purpose.
But it is also a process.
To earth why does God want to be
our God?
Why does he want us to be his
people?
There is an end purpose towards that.
And that end purpose is God wants us
to know him.
Because knowing him is to be united with
him.
To be united with him is to be
filled with him.
And this you will find is the end
result.
So we may say this the end that
God has in view before us is that
we may know him.
We may have the full knowledge and in
having the full knowledge of God we will
be filled with the fullness that is.
You remember in the Old Testament Moses cried
before the Lord.
There was a hot cry in Moses.
Moses was not contented just by receiving some
revelation from God.
And Moses received great revelation.
The Moses cry towards the Lord was this.
Let me see your glory.
He was not contented with just receiving some
revelations from God.
Great revelations.
But he wanted to see the glory.
This is just another way of saying I'm
not satisfied just by knowing something that comes
from you.
I want to know you.
And of course Moses being representative of the
Lord he is not allowed to see the
face of God.
He can only see the back.
God said I will go by you and
declare all my goodness.
And you shall hide in the cleft of
the rock.
And after I have passed you can see
my back.
Why?
Because that's law.
The utmost the law can do is to
see the back of God.
It is only by grace that we can
see the face of God.
And the cry of the psalmist.
In Psalm 27 you'll find the cry of
the psalmist is said, My heart says for
thee.
That is, My heart says for God.
Seek ye my face.
Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
That's the response of the heart.
So again you'll find the desire of the
psalmist is to see the face of God.
And that is just but the Old Testament
way of saying that he wants to know
God.
God himself.
Of course.
The cry of Paul is very clear.
He said, That I may know him and
the power of his and the fellowship of
his suffering.
That I may be conformed to his death
and I may attain to the out resurrection
from among the dead.
Paul said, I count all things as draws
for the excellency of the knowledge.
His passion was to know God.
And his prayer for the saints in Ephesus,
his prayer for the church in Colossae is
the thing that they may enter into the
full knowledge of God.
Not just know God a little bit, but
to enter into the full knowledge of God.
Because knowing God is to is to be
one with God.
Is to be like him.
Is to be filled.
And that is the real goal that you'll
find.
So brothers and sisters, there is one thing
which God desires us to enter into in
a full way.
Because that is God's purpose for us.
He wants us in a sense nothing
pleases God more than to know him.
He is the most unknown person, if I
may say, in the whole universe.
And he longs that we may know him.
If we know him, his heart.
And by knowing him, he is able to
impart himself in a full way.
In Hebrews chapter 8 verse 11 it says,
There is no need for you to teach
your fellow citizens, your brother, saying, Know the
Lord.
Why?
Because everybody knows him in themselves.
Now you'll find here two knows.
The first know is know the Lord.
The second know is all know him.
You know in the Greek, these are two
different words.
Not the same word.
The first word, know the Lord, is knowing
in general.
In other words, it is an objective knowledge.
It is a knowledge that you accumulate through
information.
It is a knowledge that comes through teaching
and instruction.
How do you know a thing?
You are being taught.
You are being instructed in your home, in
school, even in society.
You gather all these data and you gather
all these information and through the years you
gather a lot and you become a man
in the know.
You know.
Now that is one kind of knowledge.
It is objective knowledge.
The second know, because you all know him.
How?
Know means yourself.
This word know in the Greek is oida.
It is another word.
And that word means a conscious and intuitive
knowledge.
A subjective knowledge.
A knowledge that does not come from outside.
A knowledge that comes directly from within.
So brothers and sisters, you will find there
are two kinds of knowledge here.
There are two ways of knowing.
One way of knowing is by absorbing information
from outside.
And if you accumulate enough, you know.
In other words, you know about it.
But there is another kind of knowledge that
does not depend upon outside information.
There is another kind of knowledge that comes
directly from God within you.
And this kind of knowledge is real.
The first kind of knowledge, know the Lord,
is the Old Testament.
Old Covenant.
The second kind of knowledge, you know in
yourself, is the New Covenant.
The New Testament.
With the people of Israel, how could they
know?
The only way they knew was there were
these priests.
And these priests were not only those who
served in the temple.
Not only those who helped you to offer
sacrifices.
But these priests, some of them were teachers
and instructors.
The priests were those who were instructors.
They were to tell the people of Israel
what the will of God was.
You do not know yourself.
If you want to know, you go to
the priests.
They know the law of God.
They studied the law of God.
Therefore, you went to them and they will
tell you what was.
Now, in your daily affairs, now suppose, like
Saul, he lost the ashes.
What should he do?
He went to the seer.
And the seer will tell him, well, your
ashes were already found.
Don't worry about that.
So you find that in the Old Testament
time, the way to know is by being
instructed.
If nobody instruct you, how can you know?
That's the only way to knowledge.
But this kind of knowledge is external.
It's objective.
This kind of knowledge of God is actually
about God.
Not really knowing God yourself.
That's the Old Testament way.
But after Christ has come, after he has
finished this work of redemption, now God said,
you can know in yourself.
You do not need anyone to teach you.
Because, I wonder if your
sisters, across the brothers, are included too.
In the kitchen, do you know the difference
between sugar and salt?
Suppose you have two bottles here.
One is salt.
The other is sugar.
Now you look at these two bottles.
Can you see the distinction between sugar and
salt?
Suppose they are all refined.
Suppose they are all granular.
Suppose they are all white.
Can you tell the difference?
Have you ever made that serious mistake?
If you try to know salt and sugar
with your eyes, you may be deceived.
But there is one way to know.
And I believe you must have done that.
And the moment it touches your tongue, you
know.
And that know is real know.
You know the difference of salt and sugar
as heaven and earth.
They are so different.
So you find that one kind of knowledge
is deeper, is more accurate than the other
kind of knowledge.
That's why you find the scripture said, Come
and taste and see.
The Lord is good.
You need to taste.
It's not enough just to hear of him.
You don't know really.
And then you know him in a real
way.
Now brothers and sisters, how do you know
the Lord?
Is your knowledge of God of the first
kind?
Or is your knowledge of God of the
second kind?
Is your knowledge of God a knowledge that
has been accumulated through the years by being
taught?
Or is your knowledge a direct knowledge from
within?
Now, what is?
People may accumulate a great deal of knowledge
about God and doing that.
Other people may not have the ability or
the opportunity of having so much accumulation.
And strange to say, they may know God
so well, even better, than many who have
great store of knowledge.
As a matter of fact, you know, we
know God as it were in three steps.
In Psalm 103.
Psalm 103.
I think this verse is very familiar probably
with some of you.
Verse 7.
God made known his ways unto Moses, his
acts unto the children of Israel.
You see, the children of Israel know the
acts of God.
That's the first step of knowing God.
But Moses knows God more.
He knows the ways of God.
But in the new covenant, there is the
third step.
You know God or the nature.
The third step in knowing God is you
only know the acts of God.
Now, what are the acts of God?
The people of Israel?
When they were in Egypt?
They saw how God played the land of
Egypt with ten plagues.
Now these ten plagues were the acts of
God.
And by seeing these acts of God, they
knew how powerful when they crossed the Red
Sea.
God divided the water.
They walked through the Red Sea.
And when the army of the Egyptians followed
them, God closed that water and they were
all drowned.
So Israel looked back at the acts of
God and they could sing the song of
victory.
God was great.
God was powerful.
God was mighty.
In the wilderness, God rained manna for their
daily food.
God gave them water out of the smithing
rock.
These were the acts of God.
And by seeing these acts of God, they
realized that God was powerful.
God was mighty.
God was great.
In the New Testament, when the Lord Jesus
used five loaves and two fish to feed
the five thousand, immediately the people realized something
of the acts of God.
And they were attracted.
They wanted to make the Lord Jesus their
king.
Then the problem of food was solved.
Will be solved.
That's the act of God.
Lots of people knew God by His acts.
Lots of people knew God because they noticed
something that God did.
Some miracles.
Powerful works of God.
And by seeing these things, they bowed down
and said, now God really is great.
But do you know God?
By knowing His acts.
You look at the people of Israel.
They observed the acts of God how many
times?
Probably you would say, now if you were
among the people of Israel, surely you would
not react like these people of Israel.
You would believe.
How could you not believe after witnessing such
mighty acts of God?
But the Lord said, they could not enter
into the promised land because of the evil
heart.
They observed so much.
And yet they rebelled.
They did not believe in God.
They refused to follow God.
They did not know.
They only knew God.
When they saw the mighty acts of God,
they worshipped.
But after a while, that is not it.
But Moses was different.
Israel knew the acts of God.
But Moses knew the ways.
He knew the ways of God.
What does it mean?
It means that he did not need to
wait until God did something.
And then he believed.
He knew the ways of God.
He knew the principles by which God worked.
So before God did something, he knew already.
He knew how God would react to a
certain situation.
Before God reacted, he already knew how God
would react.
He knew the principles by which God would
work.
So you remember in the book of Numbers
chapter 16?
After the rebelling of Korah and his party?
And the punishment of God came upon them?
The earth opened up and swallowed up the
household of Dathan and Abiram?
And the fire came out and burned the
250 who were trying to offer incense?
The people of Israel saw the acts of
God.
And yet their reaction was they murmured.
They murmured and said Moses and Aaron had
killed God's people.
And while they were murmuring against Moses and
Aaron the glory of the Lord appeared.
You remember the story.
Moses lay flat and then he told Aaron
quickly take the golden censer put the incense
on it ring to the midst of the
people of Israel because plague has already begun.
How did he know?
He knew.
He knew how God would react.
Because he knew God by the principles which
God worked.
So when the glory of the Lord appeared
he knew God would react.
There would be plague.
So immediately he instructed Aaron to go and
to atone for the people.
And Aaron rushed into the midst of the
people.
He stood.
Now that's knowing God's way.
Those who do not know God enough.
You have to wait until God's act has
become apparent.
Then you know.
But those who know God a little better
you do not need to wait until God
can move.
Before God can move you know what direction
He will move.
Because you know the principles the ways of
God.
For instance Abraham.
You know in Genesis I think it's chapter
18 I think.
When God revealed to Abraham that he was
going to destroy the city of Sodom and
the city of Gomorrah.
Because the thing of this city Abraham
drew near to God and interceded for the
city of Sodom.
And he said now God is it you?
Is it like you?
To destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Can the judge of all the earth do
something like this?
If there were cities on
what ground did Abraham intercede?
Abraham interceded on the ground of the way
of God.
He knew God's way.
Being a just God he will never do
something like that.
He knew how to keep the righteous in
safety when he destroyed the wicked.
That was God.
So on the basis of the righteousness of
God on the basis of the justness of
God Abraham interceded and his prayer was answered.
Unfortunately there were not ten righteous in the
city.
But even so God delivered the righteous.
That is praying according to the principle of
God.
He knew the way.
Another example.
1 Samuel chapter 16 God
sent Saul to destroy the Amalekites.
He went.
He destroyed all the people and all the
weak and poor sheep and cattle.
But he kept the best of the cattle
and of the flock.
And he spared the life of Agath the
king of the Amalekites.
Samuel came.
Samuel said well what has happened?
Saul said I have done everything that the
Lord had commanded me.
I have killed the Amalekites.
I have destroyed them completely.
And then Samuel asked what did I hear?
What did I hear?
The bleeding and the lowly.
Oh he said because the people want to
keep the best to sacrifice to God.
And you know what Samuel said?
Samuel said obedience is better than sacrifice.
That's the principle.
Because you do not obey God.
Even if you want to sacrifice God has
rejected you.
How did Samuel know?
He knew.
Because he knew the way of God.
How God will react.
He knew.
And Saul was rejected.
Another instance.
David.
David numbered the people of Israel.
Out of pride he wanted to know how
many people he had.
He did not trust in God.
God will bless his people as the sand
of the seashore.
Nobody can count.
But out of his pride he wanted to
know.
And after he did that he knew he
was wrong.
The hand, the sword of the Lord came
upon.
He saw the angel of destruction at the
threshing floor of Aaronah the Jebusite.
So David went forward.
And he told the Jebusite I want to
buy your field.
I want to sacrifice.
And Aaronah said oh king the field is
yours.
The oxen I gave to you.
Everything is free.
You can take everything and just do your
sacrifice.
But in 2 Samuel 24 you remember David
said I will buy from you the field
and the sacrifice.
Because I will not offer to you.
What is that?
Knowing the way of God.
God will not accept anything that is without
cost.
You cannot borrow anything.
Get anything from others.
It has to come from you with cost.
He know, he knew.
Brothers and sisters you can see it has
to come from you with cost.
He know, he knew the ways of God.
Brothers and sisters you can see very clearly
that knowing the ways of God is more
advanced very much more advanced than knowing the
acts of God.
The people of Israel knew the acts of
God but Moses knew the ways of God.
There are certain people in the Old Testament
time they knew the ways of God.
They knew God.
But dear brothers and sisters even so knowing
God by his acts knowing God by his
ways are still thank
God today.
By his grace it is great.
We are supposed to know God more than
the people of Israel.
More than even Moses.
And those giants in the Old Testament time.
Isn't that wonderful?
Oh we may think we can never know
God like Moses knew God.
But no.
God has done a great thing today.
If we know God only as the people
of Israel knew God.
Today if we knew know God as Moses
and David and Samuel and Abraham knew God.
Still not enough.
These are Old Testament knowledge.
In the new covenant God said you shall
know me.
In other words we know God.
We know.
Now that's different.
Dear brothers and sisters I know in one
way you know we always have the feeling
now we can never know God as Abraham
knew God.
We can never know God as David knew
God.
In one sense that's true.
That's true.
But in another sense no.
Even if you know God as they do
or just as they do you are going
backwards.
You are not going forward.
God wants us to know Him.
How do we know Him?
To know His way.
To know His act is knowing about Him.
But to know Him is to know His
very nature.
If you know the nature of a person
then you really know Him.
If you only know a person by what
he does you know a little of Him.
If you know His habit the principle by
which He lives you know Him more.
But if you know Him so well you
know His very nature.
And knowing the nature of God is real.
So that's where you'll find it is a
knowing.
Now what is eternal?
John chapter 17 verse 3 says To know
Thee the only true God and to know
the One whom Thou hast sent this is
eternal.
Do you know that the life that God
has given to you that life has a
nature.
And because that life is in you therefore
you're able to know the very nature.
And knowing the very nature of God you
really know Him.
And is it not true?
You have life in you.
And because the life of God is in
you and that life has a nature therefore
you know Him in yourself.
You do not need anyone to teach you
because you know Him.
You know the trouble with many Christians is
this after we believe in the Lord Jesus
we tend to think well I just am
a newborn baby I know nothing.
Thank God you take that kind of attitude.
But because you think that you know nothing
therefore you feel that you have to ask
everybody to teach you and to instruct you.
Now in one sense this is a good
thing.
If a person thinks he knows everything he
knows nothing.
But on the other hand if you know
nothing how are you going to know something?
We all made a mistake.
We think well if we know nothing then
the only way we know how to know
something is to get instruction.
Therefore we go to this teacher we go
to that instructor and whenever we have a
problem we go to someone and say now
here tell me what should I do?
What is the will of God for me?
No you you are more spiritual than us.
You are to know.
Now just tell me and I'll do it.
And sure enough you'll find there is a
natural craze in human nature.
I have never met so many teachers as
in this country.
Everybody likes to teach.
If you don't ask them they will teach
you.
If you ask them fine.
That's a good opportunity.
And because of this it resolves in producing
a certain kind of that's always clean to
men.
They are not able to know God.
Their whole way of knowing God is external.
They know about God after ten years.
They don't know God themselves.
They don't know God's nature.
When the God's nature is holy they don't
know.
They don't know.
It's all instructed.
How do you know God?
The Bible said you shall not need anyone
to teach you.
Yes.
If you want to know God externally you
need teaching.
You need instruction.
Yes.
But today your knowing God is of a
different kind.
You don't need anyone to teach you know
the Lord.
About the Lord.
Why?
Because you can know God better.
You can know God by the life.
You can know God intuitively.
You know our spirit.
God has given us a new spirit.
And this new spirit has a function.
It has the function of sensing God himself.
We call it intuition.
Why?
Because intuition is direct knowledge.
It does not depend upon environment.
It comes directly from God.
The life of God will speak directly to
us.
How?
In 1 John chapter 2 it says Do
you know that the anointing is within you?
Abide in you.
Now why is it the scripture used the
word anointing?
It is because the operation of the Holy
Spirit is in you.
The Holy Spirit or the spirit of life
within us when it operates in your spirit
it is called the anointing.
Now just like when you have a wound
you put some ointment on it.
And when you apply some ointment on it,
you find it is very soothing.
Very soothing.
And when the Holy Spirit the spirit of
life is teaching in you in all things
it is like applying an ointment upon the
wound.
It is very tender very gentle very soothing
very healing.
That is the way the spirit of life
works in your spirit.
So dear brothers and sisters we have a
new spirit.
And the spirit of life lives in our
spirit.
And he is there in all things.
In other words your teacher is not outside.
Your teacher you have a private tutor who
follows you everywhere you go.
Never leaves you nor forsakes you.
Why do you have to travel a mile
to find a brother and ask him what
is the will of God?
Because your private tutor is with you.
He is ready to teach you in all
things.
All things, yes.
Big things and small things.
Even very very small things.
He is ready to teach you.
And the anointing is very diligent.
Does God speak today?
Does he speak in you?
Is the life within you living?
He is the spirit of life.
He is living.
He is operating.
He is working all the time.
He is a ready teacher.
He will teach you in all things.
How do you know?
Because deep down in your spirit when the
spirit of life begins to move begins to
teach intuitively well it's difficult
to explain but you know you think of
it.
Sometimes it is a restraint.
Sometimes it is a constraint.
Sometimes it is a check.
Sometimes it is a little fear.
Sometimes it is a little encourage.
A still small voice to put it in
another way.
Now that's not important.
But anyway you'll find that the life that
God has put in you this life as
it operates it reveals its nature.
And by its nature you know.
You know God.
What is of God.
What is not.
Sometimes your conscience bothers you.
Especially in the matter of sin you know.
If you do something which is sinful.
Now your conscience will bother you.
And under the conviction of your conscience unless
you repent and look to the blood of
the Lord Jesus you will not have peace.
But dear brothers and sisters this is not
good enough.
As you learn to follow the life within
you, you will find that life is holy.
It gives you a sense of holiness.
Anything that is not holy you immediately as
it were treat.
It may not be sinful.
Maybe other Christians are doing that.
But strange other people may but you cannot.
You shrink from it.
You abhor it.
Why?
Because it is not according to God.
Not according to God.
It's almost like Peter you remember.
After he had followed the Lord for some
time he went back to Fisher.
And the Lord came to him and did
a miracle you know.
And what did Peter say?
Peter knelt before the Lord and said now
Lord depart from me for I am a
sinner.
He knew the nature of God.
Knowing God's nature is knowing God.
How does God express his nature to you?
His throne.
So you find when the anointing is teaching
you.
He does not teach you according to right
or wrong.
Good or evil.
He teaches you according to God.
It's different.
You know lots of Christians always ask the
question now is it right or wrong?
If it is right I'll do it.
If it is wrong I cannot do it.
If it is good of course.
Anything good is God's God's will.
But if it is bad I won't do
it.
Now that is the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
You don't live by that.
You live by the tree of life.
When the anointing teaches you he does not
teach you according to right or wrong.
Good or bad.
Now that doesn't mean there is no right
or wrong.
No good and bad.
Of course.
But it is far beyond.
Is it God?
If it is not God even if by
all consideration it is good but it is
not God's will.
Brothers and sisters this is the way to
know God.
And the Bible said and this it is
true if not a lie.
Any knowledge that you accumulate from outside may
not be accurate.
Only the anointing gives you he gives you.
Therefore we who have the life of Christ.
God wants us to learn this.
This is not for the mature Christian.
From the littlest one.
In other words you have to start the
moment you believe in the Lord.
You have to learn to know God by
the teaching of the anointing.
And if you follow the teaching of the
anointing you abide in Christ.
You come to know God's nature.
It is all direct.
As a matter of fact very often you
go here and there to ask questions.
Whether you can do this or do that.
And you go to one person and you
are not satisfied.
You go to the next person, you are
still not satisfied.
You go to the third person and it
so happens that he tells you what you
want to do.
So you are satisfied.
Before you ask the question you know it
already.
You know it already.
But you don't want it.
Therefore you look for some teacher that will
go your way.
And you will find it.
You will find it.
Just like the Bible says in the last
days people's ears are itching you know.
And you will find someone who will try
to scratch your ears.
It is the teaching of the anointing that
we know God by his nature.
That we truly know God.
But maybe some brother or sister will ask
the question.
Now if that's the case we have no
need for anyone to teach us.
Thank God I throw the teachers out.
I have no need for these teachers anymore.
Because anointing shall teach me in all things.
But if you read the Bible you find
there are many places where the Bible speaks
of teaching and instruction.
Paul himself is a great teacher of the
nations.
And he exhorts Timothy to teach others who
can teach.
There is a place for teaching.
There is a big place for the word
of God.
Now how do you reconcile?
Basically every believer should learn to know the
teaching of the anointing within him.
And that is the direct knowledge of him.
But sometimes our spirit is not pure.
Sometimes our heart if our spirit is not
pure.
And if our heart is not right.
The teaching of the anointing is there.
But you will not be able.
Not that God is not speaking.
Not that the anointing is not working.
But as the scripture says God has spoken
once and twice.
Your ears your heart you do not understand.
God has spoken.
God is speaking.
But you don't hear.
Why?
Because something is wrong with your heart.
If your heart is not open to God
you will not hear God.
If your spirit is not pure you may
hear wrongly.
So for this reason you find God sent
teachers to us to instruct.
In other words these teachers serve the purpose
of repeating what God has spoken to you.
Or they serve the purpose of confirming what
God remember one thing.
In the New Testament time you have prophets
of the church.
But you do not have individual prophets for
the individual.
In other words in the New Testament time
you have prophets who will tell you of
the principles of God.
In a general way.
But they are not supposed to tell you
what you should do.
You should find it.
They will confirm what God has told you.
But they cannot substitute the teaching of the
anointing.
In other words we need to maintain a
balance.
On the one hand we should seek to
know the Lord intuitively.
But on the other hand because of the
weakness, our weakness because we may be mistaken.
And we often are mistaken.
We do not know our heart.
Sometimes our spirit is not pure.
Therefore you will find we need the teachers
or instructors whom God has given to the
church to correct us.
To repeat what God may have spoken to
us.
And to confirm God's speaking.
So there is a check.
So that is the reason why we need
instructions.
But instructions can never substitute the teaching of
the anointing.
They can only confirm but not substitute.
The Bible is the word of God.
The Bible is accurate.
But if you go to the Bible without
the Holy Spirit making it alive to you.
It is letter.
Accurate but dead.
The teaching of the anointing with you is
living.
But sometimes to you it is not too
clear.
Therefore you need the teaching of the anointing
together with the instruction.
They serve as a check.
Now this is what we say.
Teachers are necessary.
The Bible is a mark.
You have to check how you feel within
you with what the word of God says.
If it is from the teaching of the
anointing it always agrees with the Bible because
this is Spirit.
The Holy Spirit does not contradict.
That's the important part.
Now if we can remember these things then
as you learn to know God inwardly you
will not be otherwise you will find some
people will say all right I don't need
anybody to teach me.
I will not ask anybody.
I will just be led by the Lord.
Fine.
The teaching of anointing is true and not
a lie.
But he mistakes the teaching of the anointing.
And because of that he goes astray.
How we need the word of God.
How we need one another to serve as
champions.
But at the same time you have to
see that this is something you have to
go to the Lord.
That is knowing God.
And as you know God in this way
you will find God will impart himself to
you more and more until you are filled.
So in summing up we may say this.
Thank God for giving us a new spirit.
And giving us his Holy Spirit to broaden
our spirit.
Because this is the way that we can
receive wisdom to the full knowledge of God.
Thank God for taking away our stormy heart.
As he has given us a heart that
our heart may return to again.
And when God reveals something in our spirit
our heart may understand it.
Our heart may take it in.
And then the life of God will flow
from us.
And God so this is the way that
God will lead us as we follow him.
Our Heavenly Father we do thank thee because
everything comes from thee.
Thou has given us a new spirit.
The capability of knowing thee intuitively.
Within and before the presence of thy Holy
Spirit in us.
Who will teach us in all things.
Who will lead us into Christ.
All we do pray and thank thee because
thou art teaching us all the time.
We only pray that we have a pure
spirit.
We may hear thy voice and the eyes
of our heart may be enlightened.
We may know what thou art saying.
Lord that we may obey thee.
We ask thee Lord that we may really
grow in Christ.
That God may be increased in us.
Lead us in the way everlasting.
And Lord do balance us with thy word
and with thy church.
That we may not go our own way
but we may be kept in the way
of God.
Lord again we commit one another into thy
keeping in view of thy soon return.
We pray that thou will make us ready
because thou looking for a people we thank
thee for all thy mercy and grace.
Thou art our God in the name of
our Lord Jesus.