The difference between FACTS and TRUTH.
How many of Babylon’s systems hold to their cold, dead doctrines of FACTS about God? But facts are expressive only of that dead letter of the Word.
Facts can never make you free! Jesus never said, “You shall know the facts and the facts shall make you free,” but He did say, “You shall know the TRUTH and THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.”Truth is Spirit .....................
Truth is reality. Doctrine is never the truth. The truth is the substance, the life, the reality about which the doctrine merely speaks, to which it points.“When HE the SPIRIT OF TRUTH is come.” “HE is with you, and shall be IN YOU.”
You can feed into your mind any amount of information via the natural senses. Still, it will be just so much preaching, teaching, reading, study, research, and FACTS, until the Spirit, the life within, brings it forth as an ESSENCE in your being. Oh, brethren! It is not a matter of learning doctrines!
When I was young I went off to Bible School and studied all the doctrines, but they never ministered one ounce of reality to my spirit. Even in this Kingdom realm, it is so easy to be side-tracked in this area.
One may learn all the teachings, master the terminology the Spirit has brought forth in the realm of revelation, and understand all about the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, the manifested sons of God, the Kingdom, reconciliation, heaven, hell, and the various dispensations, but after all is said and done there is only ONE DISPENSATION which we need –
The DISPENSATION OF GOD HIMSELF INTO OUR LIVES! Oh! That we may partake of HIM in all His glorious and eternal reality in the Spirit.
Let us be filled with GOD HIMSELF – not merely these dispensational doctrines, even good sonship doctrines, theories of the pre-Adamic creation, pre-existence, nor yet of the ages to come, but rather let us be dispensers of the life of God in Christ. In all our walk learn how to contact and follow the Holy Spirit.Let us exercise our spirits to be full of the Holy Spirit rather than exercising our minds merely to understand the form of teaching.
Certainly, we need the teaching and right doctrines. But above all let us settle once and for all in our hearts that we are called into His glorious Kingdom to be “able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of THE SPIRIT.”
- Seven Spirits of God
By J. Preston Eby
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