The Holy Spirit Reveals the Teaching of Christ

"When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 14:13)


The Holy Spirit not only reveals the person and the work of Christ - He also reveals the "teaching" of Christ. Our Lord said to the disciples before He left them, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16:12-13). That is, "He will remind you of the things I have said and that you cannot grasp now, and He will make them plain to you."


So if you are in trouble about the understanding of the Gospel, ask God to give you His Spirit in all His fullness, and you will begin to understand. The fatal thing in these matters is to bring your natural intellect to bear upon them: "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ... neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14).


Read 1 Corinthians 2, and understand that these things are in a different realm, they belong to a different order, and the only way to understand the teaching of the New Testament about Christ's personal work and teachings is to have the eyes of your understanding enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, if you are in trouble, do not waste your time trying to read books of philosophy about these matters; do not try to grasp them with the natural intellect, for that is impossible. We are dealing with miracles. We are in the realm of the supernatural and the spiritual, and the only hope for us is that the Holy Spirit will come with that unction, with His eye salve, to anoint our eyes so that they will be opened to the blessed truth.


A Thought to Ponder: We are in the realm of the supernatural and the spiritual, and the only hope for us is the Holy Spirit.


~Martyn Lloyd-Jones~