This article is from Issue 7, Called to be Filled With The Holy Spirit
By T. A. Sparks
“Even so the things of God none knoweth,
save the Spirit of God.”
(1 Corinthians 2: 11)
How will Christ be formed in us? Not by the acceptance of creeds and doctrines and teachings and orders, but by the receiving of His organic life, His divine life, His life from above. And that life is not an abstract thing. It is the Holy Spirit Who is the Spirit of life; we are not under the urge of an abstract force, rather we are under the instruction of an intelligent Holy Spirit.
But He is an inward revealing and teaching Spirit; that is, His revealing of Christ has got to be of an inward nature, a heart thing. It is not just an objective presentation of truth or truths. You have a witness over a matter, the thing is alive in a sense that means quickening to you, meeting you inwardly with life and power.
We may have all the information that is possible to accumulate throughout the ages about Christ and not know Christ. We may be very fully informed on all the truths as to Christ doctrinally – His person, His work, and all that has to do with Him – and still we may be in the dark as to Christ Himself. Knowing Christ is not a matter of an informed mind. It is a matter of a constituted nature and we only know Christ in the measure in which we have been constituted according to Christ, made after Christ, partaking of His very nature.
That is what the Holy Spirit has come to do; not just to present truths but to do some great thing so that the knowledge and understanding of Christ is in our very being. We feel it. It is a power, a force, an energy. We know. You say, “How do you know?” We may not be able to tell you how nor be able to define it, explain it, but we know. You may grow and advance in many mental conceptions, but the true knowledge of Christ is a part of your being.
Taken from Life On The Altar Publication
Issue 7 Winter 2022/2023
LIFE ON THE ALTAR 