A BIBLE FACT: A REGENERATED MAN KNOWS GOD

“Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” (ACTS 27:25).

The Bible assumes as a self-evident fact that men can know God with at least the same degree of immediacy as they know any other person or thing that comes within the field of their experience.

 

The same terms are used to express the knowledge of God as are used to express knowledge of physical things:

 

“O TASTE and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8).

“All thy garments SMELL of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia” (Ps. 45:8).

“My sheep HEAR my voice” (John 10:27).

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall SEE God” (Matt. 5:8).

 

These are but four of countless such passages from the Word of God. And more important than any proof text is the fact that the whole import of the Scripture is toward this belief.

 

We apprehend the physical world by exercising the faculties given us for the purpose, and we possess spiritual faculties by means of which we can know God and the spiritual world if we will obey the Spirit’s urge and begin to use them.

 

That a saving work must first be done in the heart is taken for granted here. The spiritual faculties of the unregenerate man lie asleep in his nature; they may be quickened to active life again by the operation of the Holy Spirit in regeneration!

 

 

  1. W. Tozer