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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can take notes on every sermon you've ever heard
and not be transformed.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
By Doctor Tony Evans says, change begins when we allow
Scripture to shine its light on our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Illumination is where God takes the truth of his word.
It gets deep down in the core of your being.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Have you ever
read something over and over and then one day it
just clicks That Aha moment doesn't come from us, It's
the Holy Spirit opening our eyes to understand God's truth. Today,
(00:39):
Doctor Evans explains how the Spirit brings Scripture to life,
helping us grasp things our natural minds could never comprehend.
Join him as he reveals why real understanding of the
Bible always starts with divine illumination.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Telling your Bibles the First Griffians, Chapter two, and I
want to talk to you about illumination. I want to
talk to you about having a face to face with God.
When I'm talking about illumination, it is the work of
the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, which opens
(01:16):
up the mind of the Christian, causing them to learn
understand and perceive God beyond the natural into the realm
of the supernatural. God is not giving new revelation today.
He has already told us time and time again that
(01:39):
nobody is to add to his words. If he wanted
to say more, he would have said it. You've got Genesis,
the beginning, You've got revelation the end. That's it. All
God wanted revealed has been inspired in the Bible. But
there is plenty of new illumination, which is where God
(02:02):
takes when he is written, and in a multiplicity of
ways all over the world every day he illumines believers
to its reality in their experience. In First Caribbeans, Chapter two,
were introduced to illumination verse nine. As it is written,
(02:26):
things which I have not seen, ear have not heard,
and which has not entered into the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him
For to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For
the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
When the Spirit of God takes the word of God
(02:49):
in the life of the believer, guess what he gives us.
He gives us things eyes cannot see. He gives us
things ears cannot hear and thus things that you haven't
thought about yet, that have not entered into the heart
of man. In other words, it transcends the natural and
(03:09):
takes you to the spiritual realm. There are three levels
of hearing. There's auditory hearing, where you just can pick
up the sound you hear it. But you can hear
things and not understand them. That is, you can repeat
what somebody said with not knowing what they meant by
what they said, which is the second level of hearing.
(03:29):
One is just to be able to pick up the
sound wave. The other is to understand what the sound
wave means. So hearing in terms of external or understanding
that has to do with meaning. But there is another
level of hearing because you can hear it and understand
it but not experience it. In other words, it hasn't
(03:52):
gotten deep down in you and caught a hold of
your bones, yet it had grabbed you and gripped you
and become attached to you. You can understand it and
explain it and repeat it, but it not mean anything
to you. Spiritual understanding has to do with God personalizing
(04:13):
his word to you. The Bible was not written simply
as an autobiography on God, where you can learn important
facts about him. You can take notes on every sermon
you've ever heard and not be transformed by them. Why
is illumination necessary? Illumination is necessary because sin has produced
(04:35):
static on the line. God wants to illuminate you or
personalize his truth to you. He wants to put your
name on what he wants to tell you from his word. Now,
all of a sudden, reading the Bible isn't so boring anymore.
If he's gonna talk to me, if he's gonna say
something specific to me, if he's gonna leap off the
(04:58):
pages of the Bible, not leave the Bible, but leave
off the pages of the Bible to illuminate my understanding
and my experience to how the truth has hit me.
For illumination to take place, you must have more than
human wisdom. Illumination is I want the truth to reach
(05:21):
me where I live. I don't just want to know
about it. So for that to happen, a combining must occur.
And it calls it spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. We
know what the spiritual words are. They are the word
of God. These are the spiritual words, these words of spirit.
(05:45):
This word is life. But in order for us to
be illumined, the Holy Spirit must link our minds with
these words so that there is a combining that occurs.
That's the way to illustrate this is through your xerox machine.
The picture that is taken of the paper put on
(06:09):
the xerox machine is then combined with another paper and
it is transferred from the paper that's the original onto
the copy, so that what was on the paper now
shows up somewhere else. Let me tell you about the
(06:32):
New Covenant. Jesus says, I will write my words on
your heart. So guess what the holyes first job is
to xerox the scripture Shushu so that it shows up
on your heart. He wants the xeroxet on you so
(06:52):
that it becomes not only God's word, but God's word
to you. See what the reason why you don't just
want revelation, you don't just want inspiration, But the reason
why you want illumination is because you want application. You say, then,
(07:12):
how come I'm not getting any illumination? Because God knows
you're not going to do anything with application. If there
is no application or willingness to apply, he will not
illumine that's why you must have spirit and truth. Jesus
told the woman at the Well and John four. If
you worship God, you must worship women spirit and truth.
(07:34):
The reason why you need spirit and truth and not
spirit or truth is because they're two extremes. As a Christian,
you want to avoid. One extreme is over spiritualizing the Bible,
over spirit not taking the Bible as it is. But
the other extreme is over intellectualizing, thinking somehow you're more
(07:56):
spiritual because you have more information. Information does not equal illumination.
Many a person's gone on a blind date and been
sorely disappointed because what you heard and what you read
and what they live. Yet your lion friend told you
(08:22):
you were sorely disappointed. In other words, the illumination wasn't
even related to the information. Not so with scripture. The
Holy Spirit works through the word, not apart from the
word to xerox the word and its application onto our hearts.
(08:49):
In order for there had to be inspiration the biblical
writers writing the Bible, they had to be illumination. Why
because much of the Bible was written years after the
discussions of which they weren't taking notes. A lot of
the Bible was written without notes. But guess what Jesus
(09:11):
told the Disciples of John fourteen When the helper comes.
I love that word for the Holy Ghost. See if
you want to be, if you want to be really
like real, sophisticated sounding, he's the Holy Spirit. When you
want to get nasty wooded, he's the Holy Ghost, you know.
But when you want to get relational with it, he's
(09:33):
the helper. When the helper comes, anybody here need help,
guess what you got a helper? But you won't get
help from human wisdom. He says, it's divine wisdom. And
he says, when the helper comes, guess what he'll do.
He will bring to your remembrance all I've said to you.
(09:57):
Do you know some of this was years later, if
long forgotten. Some folk be taking notes. And that's impressive
when I look out and see people taking notes. Okay,
so don't feel bad. But not only can I not
remember the sermon, they don't know where they put the notes,
they can't And they can't even remember where they put
(10:17):
the No, they can't even remember to bring their bibles
to church. Sometimes they just just to be you know,
It's something deeper than that, he says when the Helper comes,
he will bring back to your remembrance so you can
Now you can't remember something you never had, but if
you have exposed yourself to it with the goal of
(10:40):
applying it, the holes bird will remind you of it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That kind of supernatural recall doesn't come from memory tricks.
It comes from something much deeper. Doctor Evans will explain
the powerful role of the anointing when he continues in
just a moment first, So if you've been encouraged by
what you've heard so far, I hope you'll take a
moment to check out the full length version of this
message and even more importantly, the complete ten part series
(11:08):
it comes from. It's called The Glory of God's Word,
and in it, Tony takes a deep dive into the power, purpose,
and authority of scripture. And right now we're offering the
entire collection on both digital download as well as on
either CD or USB flash drive. There are thank you
gift when you support the Alternative with a financial contribution,
(11:30):
plus for a limited time, we're also including a powerful
companion book from Tony called The Transforming Word, designed to
help you not just read the Bible, but receive it
in a way that changes your life. Visit Tonyevans dot
org today for the details, or call us at one
eight hundred eight hundred thirty two twenty two to make
(11:51):
your request. That's one eight hundred eight hundred three two
two two. We'll get back to more from doctor Evans
right after this.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
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Speaker 4 (12:04):
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Speaker 3 (12:07):
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Speaker 4 (12:39):
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Speaker 1 (13:01):
This process of connecting with us through the Word, not
apart from the Word. Through the Word, you know it
as the anointing. Turn the First John. This is a word.
You need to be familiar with the anointing First John,
Chapter two, verse twenty. But you have an anointing from
(13:25):
the Holy One, and you all know. Okay, let's get
something straight. Everybody is anointed if you're a believer, and
you all know all every believer has the anointing. Sometimes
(13:45):
you say, boy, he surely is anointed. Okay, well so
are you. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ,
you are anointed, all right. So let's get something straight.
You have the anointing if you are a true believer.
Let's go down verse twenty four. And as for you,
(14:06):
let that abide in you what you heard from the beginning.
If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you,
and you also will abide in the Son and in
the Father verse twenty seven. And as for you. The
anointing which you receive from Him abides in you, and
you have no need for anyone to teach you. But
as His anointing teaches you about all things and is true,
(14:30):
is not a lie, And just as it has taught you,
you abide in him. I gotta say something about the anointing.
The anointing is the process of the Spirit bringing spiritual
reality to the believer through the Word. So it's the
same concept of illumination. The anointing is the same general
(14:52):
concept of illumination. Any of you, when you're in school,
use a highlighter, you know, the yellow the yellow highlighter.
The things you wanted to amplify, things you wanted to
get focused on. You did that yellow highlighter, and now
you could you could see. You know, you may have
read the whole thing, but the stuff that you needed
(15:13):
to needed to grip you or you needed to review,
you highlighted or got your attention. Guess what you have
the anointing. You have the highlighter, and the Holy Spirit
knows how to paint red on stuff you need to
pay specific attention to. That's why he says in chapter
(15:34):
four these words the love do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirit to see which ones are from God.
For many false prophets are out into the world. By this,
you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses
that Jesus has come in the flesh is from God.
Everyone that does not is not from God. He says,
you can be able to determine what's real and what's not,
what's true and what's false, what's right and what's wrong,
(15:56):
what's good and what's bad, and guess where it's located
in you. The Holy Spirit is like a translator in
a foreign country. Even though you can't speak the language,
He'll tell you what's being said. Okay, how many want
to experience this illumination? Well, then the commitment is simple.
(16:20):
There must be the decision to learn and obey the word.
The Bible says, he that desires to do My will
shall know it. Don't reverse the order. He will only
tell it to those who have decided to do it.
(16:42):
The reason why is, I said before, we're not getting
more illumination. The reason why we're not responding more is
because God knows we're not gonna do it. God did
not write his word for us to evaluate it. He
did not write his word for us to decide which
parts we want, which parts we don't want, which parts
(17:02):
we like, which parts we don't like. If you want
the illuminating ministry of the Holy Spirit, that must be
the inadvanced decision to respond to him. Many of us.
Most of us probably have alarm systems. One of the
things you have in alarm systems of motion detectors. When
you move across the room, the light will come on
(17:25):
on the motion detector because there's movement, no movement, no light.
I'm going somewhere. A lot of people want the light.
Who don't want the movement. They don't want to move,
but they want to see the light. God says, when
you move, you'll see the light. No motion, no light,
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you'll just sit complaining. I don't know what to do.
I've been going through this for so long. I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
God says, if you decide to move in concert with
my will, I will show you the light. I won't
be your illuminator. You must agree with the revelation to
experience the illumination. He uses the word in John two.
(18:16):
It's a biding. That's his relational term for staying closely, intimately,
relationally connected to. In other words, the motivation here should
be to stay close to a person. Don't read a book,
(18:38):
look for a person as you read a book. Stop
living for the menu and start looking for the meal.
As you've heard me say many times, you don't go
to a restaurant to become an expert in the menu.
I memorize the menu. I can every meal time to
(19:01):
go home. But that's how a lot of people come
to church. They come to read pastor what's on the
menu for today. They even come to me and ask me.
They say, what's the special for today? But you're preaching
on what's the passage? And they look at the menu
and make the determination. What good is a menu if
you don't need a meal. The goal of the menu
(19:26):
is to introduce you to the meal. That's why Jesus
told the leaders of his day John five, verse thirty
nine and forty. He says, you search the scriptures, but
you're no better off because you miss me. You miss me.
Information is not enough. It's abiding in a relationship with
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a person. It says, I want to know you, I
want to love you, I want to experience you, and
I'm gonna find out about you through this word, but
it's about you. It's one thing for a mother to
hear she's pregnant. It's a whole different ball game for
the to see that first ultrasound picture and sonogram of
(20:11):
that baby moving. One is information that's nice to hear.
Another's life, that's a whole different ball game. I've never
seen a mother record the doctor's statement, you're pregnant. I
have it on tape. The doctor said, I'm pregnant. I've
never seen that. But I haven't seen a bunch of
(20:33):
mothers walking around with pictures that you can't make nothing
out of head nor tail walking around top But look
at my baby. Look at my baby well. I hope
it gets to look a lot better than that that.
Look at my baby well. Because one is information, the
other is life, Jesus says, pursue relationships through the word.
(21:00):
To put it in another way, abiding means the closer
you get to the Holy Spirit, the more you'll be
able to see what's the result of all this. Inclosing,
you get to freely experience and roam around the spiritual realm.
You get the roam around the spiritual realm, You get
the room around there for free memory said freely given.
(21:24):
It makes the truth of God experiential. You'll know it
for yourself because you'll experience at the deepest level. What
does he say? The deepest level of knowing is your spirit,
not your brain. That's not your deepest level. It starts there,
but it's got to get deeper than there. It's one
(21:46):
thing to believe somebody loves you because they say I
love you. That's information. It's another thing to feel it
because it's so deep, it's gone so low that it's
rubbing against your be One is information. It's nice, it's
cute to you, but anybody can say that. But when
(22:08):
it gets deep down so that you know it, because
it becomes wrapped around who you are, that's a whole
different level of knowing. God says, I don't want you
to know information leaks. I want you to know because
I am wrapped around your being.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Doctor Tony Evans reminding us that God's word isn't just
meant to inform our minds. It's meant to ignite our
hearts with the reality of his presence. And he'll return
with one final illustration to wrap up today's message. In
just a moment, but first, don't miss your chance to
get Tony's powerful ten part series The Glory of God's Word,
(22:48):
along with his insightful book The Transforming Word. This is
a limited time offer and both resources are yours as
our thank you gift when you support the Ministry of
the Alternative Visitors today at Tonyevans dot org to make
your request, or call one eight hundred eight hundred thirty
two twenty two to speak with a member of our
(23:09):
resource team. Again, that's Tonyevans dot org, or by phone
at one eight hundred eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Three two two two.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Even the most beautiful sentence means absolutely nothing if it's
written in the language you don't understand. Tomorrow, doctor Evans
will show how interpreting scripture correctly is key to experiencing
its power. Right now, though, he's back with this closing
illustration for today.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
In the courtroom, if you say in your testimony, well
somebody told me that he did it, the lawyer will
stand up and say, Yanna, I object. That's his say.
He will object because that's second hand information. You know
what they want personal testimony. If you tied a secondhand information,
(24:03):
talk about what other folks heard, talk about what other
folks experience. If you want to stand up and say
I ab jacked, I don't want anymore here say Christianity.
I want to know him for myself. I want to
be like Job who said I heard about him with
the hearing of the ear. I had a lot of
hearsay in my life, but now I've seen him for myself.
(24:26):
No more hearsay. When you move from hearing about to
hearing from, you've experienced, at the deepest level illumination
You can take notes on every sermon you've ever heard
and not be transformed.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
By Doctor Tony Evans says, change begins when we allow
Scripture to shine its light on our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Illumination is where God takes the truth of his word.
It gets deep down in the core of your being.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Have you ever
read something over and over and then one day it
just clicks That Aha moment doesn't come from us, It's
the Holy Spirit opening our eyes to understand God's truth. Today,
(00:39):
Doctor Evans explains how the Spirit brings Scripture to life,
helping us grasp things our natural minds could never comprehend.
Join him as he reveals why real understanding of the
Bible always starts with divine illumination.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Telling your Bibles the First Griffians, Chapter two, and I
want to talk to you about illumination. I want to
talk to you about having a face to face with God.
When I'm talking about illumination, it is the work of
the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, which opens
(01:16):
up the mind of the Christian, causing them to learn
understand and perceive God beyond the natural into the realm
of the supernatural. God is not giving new revelation today.
He has already told us time and time again that
(01:39):
nobody is to add to his words. If he wanted
to say more, he would have said it. You've got Genesis,
the beginning, You've got revelation the end. That's it. All
God wanted revealed has been inspired in the Bible. But
there is plenty of new illumination, which is where God
(02:02):
takes when he is written, and in a multiplicity of
ways all over the world every day he illumines believers
to its reality in their experience. In First Caribbeans, Chapter two,
were introduced to illumination verse nine. As it is written,
(02:26):
things which I have not seen, ear have not heard,
and which has not entered into the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him
For to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For
the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
When the Spirit of God takes the word of God
(02:49):
in the life of the believer, guess what he gives us.
He gives us things eyes cannot see. He gives us
things ears cannot hear and thus things that you haven't
thought about yet, that have not entered into the heart
of man. In other words, it transcends the natural and
(03:09):
takes you to the spiritual realm. There are three levels
of hearing. There's auditory hearing, where you just can pick
up the sound you hear it. But you can hear
things and not understand them. That is, you can repeat
what somebody said with not knowing what they meant by
what they said, which is the second level of hearing.
(03:29):
One is just to be able to pick up the
sound wave. The other is to understand what the sound
wave means. So hearing in terms of external or understanding
that has to do with meaning. But there is another
level of hearing because you can hear it and understand
it but not experience it. In other words, it hasn't
(03:52):
gotten deep down in you and caught a hold of
your bones, yet it had grabbed you and gripped you
and become attached to you. You can understand it and
explain it and repeat it, but it not mean anything
to you. Spiritual understanding has to do with God personalizing
(04:13):
his word to you. The Bible was not written simply
as an autobiography on God, where you can learn important
facts about him. You can take notes on every sermon
you've ever heard and not be transformed by them. Why
is illumination necessary? Illumination is necessary because sin has produced
(04:35):
static on the line. God wants to illuminate you or
personalize his truth to you. He wants to put your
name on what he wants to tell you from his word. Now,
all of a sudden, reading the Bible isn't so boring anymore.
If he's gonna talk to me, if he's gonna say
something specific to me, if he's gonna leap off the
(04:58):
pages of the Bible, not leave the Bible, but leave
off the pages of the Bible to illuminate my understanding
and my experience to how the truth has hit me.
For illumination to take place, you must have more than
human wisdom. Illumination is I want the truth to reach
(05:21):
me where I live. I don't just want to know
about it. So for that to happen, a combining must occur.
And it calls it spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. We
know what the spiritual words are. They are the word
of God. These are the spiritual words, these words of spirit.
(05:45):
This word is life. But in order for us to
be illumined, the Holy Spirit must link our minds with
these words so that there is a combining that occurs.
That's the way to illustrate this is through your xerox machine.
The picture that is taken of the paper put on
(06:09):
the xerox machine is then combined with another paper and
it is transferred from the paper that's the original onto
the copy, so that what was on the paper now
shows up somewhere else. Let me tell you about the
(06:32):
New Covenant. Jesus says, I will write my words on
your heart. So guess what the holyes first job is
to xerox the scripture Shushu so that it shows up
on your heart. He wants the xeroxet on you so
(06:52):
that it becomes not only God's word, but God's word
to you. See what the reason why you don't just
want revelation, you don't just want inspiration, But the reason
why you want illumination is because you want application. You say, then,
(07:12):
how come I'm not getting any illumination? Because God knows
you're not going to do anything with application. If there
is no application or willingness to apply, he will not
illumine that's why you must have spirit and truth. Jesus
told the woman at the Well and John four. If
you worship God, you must worship women spirit and truth.
(07:34):
The reason why you need spirit and truth and not
spirit or truth is because they're two extremes. As a Christian,
you want to avoid. One extreme is over spiritualizing the Bible,
over spirit not taking the Bible as it is. But
the other extreme is over intellectualizing, thinking somehow you're more
(07:56):
spiritual because you have more information. Information does not equal illumination.
Many a person's gone on a blind date and been
sorely disappointed because what you heard and what you read
and what they live. Yet your lion friend told you
(08:22):
you were sorely disappointed. In other words, the illumination wasn't
even related to the information. Not so with scripture. The
Holy Spirit works through the word, not apart from the
word to xerox the word and its application onto our hearts.
(08:49):
In order for there had to be inspiration the biblical
writers writing the Bible, they had to be illumination. Why
because much of the Bible was written years after the
discussions of which they weren't taking notes. A lot of
the Bible was written without notes. But guess what Jesus
(09:11):
told the Disciples of John fourteen When the helper comes.
I love that word for the Holy Ghost. See if
you want to be, if you want to be really
like real, sophisticated sounding, he's the Holy Spirit. When you
want to get nasty wooded, he's the Holy Ghost, you know.
But when you want to get relational with it, he's
(09:33):
the helper. When the helper comes, anybody here need help,
guess what you got a helper? But you won't get
help from human wisdom. He says, it's divine wisdom. And
he says, when the helper comes, guess what he'll do.
He will bring to your remembrance all I've said to you.
(09:57):
Do you know some of this was years later, if
long forgotten. Some folk be taking notes. And that's impressive
when I look out and see people taking notes. Okay,
so don't feel bad. But not only can I not
remember the sermon, they don't know where they put the notes,
they can't And they can't even remember where they put
(10:17):
the No, they can't even remember to bring their bibles
to church. Sometimes they just just to be you know,
It's something deeper than that, he says when the Helper comes,
he will bring back to your remembrance so you can
Now you can't remember something you never had, but if
you have exposed yourself to it with the goal of
(10:40):
applying it, the holes bird will remind you of it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That kind of supernatural recall doesn't come from memory tricks.
It comes from something much deeper. Doctor Evans will explain
the powerful role of the anointing when he continues in
just a moment first, So if you've been encouraged by
what you've heard so far, I hope you'll take a
moment to check out the full length version of this
message and even more importantly, the complete ten part series
(11:08):
it comes from. It's called The Glory of God's Word,
and in it, Tony takes a deep dive into the power, purpose,
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This process of connecting with us through the Word, not
apart from the Word. Through the Word, you know it
as the anointing. Turn the First John. This is a word.
You need to be familiar with the anointing First John,
Chapter two, verse twenty. But you have an anointing from
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the Holy One, and you all know. Okay, let's get
something straight. Everybody is anointed if you're a believer, and
you all know all every believer has the anointing. Sometimes
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you say, boy, he surely is anointed. Okay, well so
are you. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ,
you are anointed, all right. So let's get something straight.
You have the anointing if you are a true believer.
Let's go down verse twenty four. And as for you,
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let that abide in you what you heard from the beginning.
If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you,
and you also will abide in the Son and in
the Father verse twenty seven. And as for you. The
anointing which you receive from Him abides in you, and
you have no need for anyone to teach you. But
as His anointing teaches you about all things and is true,
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is not a lie, And just as it has taught you,
you abide in him. I gotta say something about the anointing.
The anointing is the process of the Spirit bringing spiritual
reality to the believer through the Word. So it's the
same concept of illumination. The anointing is the same general
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concept of illumination. Any of you, when you're in school,
use a highlighter, you know, the yellow the yellow highlighter.
The things you wanted to amplify, things you wanted to
get focused on. You did that yellow highlighter, and now
you could you could see. You know, you may have
read the whole thing, but the stuff that you needed
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to needed to grip you or you needed to review,
you highlighted or got your attention. Guess what you have
the anointing. You have the highlighter, and the Holy Spirit
knows how to paint red on stuff you need to
pay specific attention to. That's why he says in chapter
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four these words the love do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirit to see which ones are from God.
For many false prophets are out into the world. By this,
you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses
that Jesus has come in the flesh is from God.
Everyone that does not is not from God. He says,
you can be able to determine what's real and what's not,
what's true and what's false, what's right and what's wrong,
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what's good and what's bad, and guess where it's located
in you. The Holy Spirit is like a translator in
a foreign country. Even though you can't speak the language,
He'll tell you what's being said. Okay, how many want
to experience this illumination? Well, then the commitment is simple.
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There must be the decision to learn and obey the word.
The Bible says, he that desires to do My will
shall know it. Don't reverse the order. He will only
tell it to those who have decided to do it.
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The reason why is, I said before, we're not getting
more illumination. The reason why we're not responding more is
because God knows we're not gonna do it. God did
not write his word for us to evaluate it. He
did not write his word for us to decide which
parts we want, which parts we don't want, which parts
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we like, which parts we don't like. If you want
the illuminating ministry of the Holy Spirit, that must be
the inadvanced decision to respond to him. Many of us.
Most of us probably have alarm systems. One of the
things you have in alarm systems of motion detectors. When
you move across the room, the light will come on
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on the motion detector because there's movement, no movement, no light.
I'm going somewhere. A lot of people want the light.
Who don't want the movement. They don't want to move,
but they want to see the light. God says, when
you move, you'll see the light. No motion, no light,
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you'll just sit complaining. I don't know what to do.
I've been going through this for so long. I'm tired.
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I don't know what to do.
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God says, if you decide to move in concert with
my will, I will show you the light. I won't
be your illuminator. You must agree with the revelation to
experience the illumination. He uses the word in John two.
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It's a biding. That's his relational term for staying closely, intimately,
relationally connected to. In other words, the motivation here should
be to stay close to a person. Don't read a book,
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look for a person as you read a book. Stop
living for the menu and start looking for the meal.
As you've heard me say many times, you don't go
to a restaurant to become an expert in the menu.
I memorize the menu. I can every meal time to
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go home. But that's how a lot of people come
to church. They come to read pastor what's on the
menu for today. They even come to me and ask me.
They say, what's the special for today? But you're preaching
on what's the passage? And they look at the menu
and make the determination. What good is a menu if
you don't need a meal. The goal of the menu
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is to introduce you to the meal. That's why Jesus
told the leaders of his day John five, verse thirty
nine and forty. He says, you search the scriptures, but
you're no better off because you miss me. You miss me.
Information is not enough. It's abiding in a relationship with
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a person. It says, I want to know you, I
want to love you, I want to experience you, and
I'm gonna find out about you through this word, but
it's about you. It's one thing for a mother to
hear she's pregnant. It's a whole different ball game for
the to see that first ultrasound picture and sonogram of
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that baby moving. One is information that's nice to hear.
Another's life, that's a whole different ball game. I've never
seen a mother record the doctor's statement, you're pregnant. I
have it on tape. The doctor said, I'm pregnant. I've
never seen that. But I haven't seen a bunch of
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mothers walking around with pictures that you can't make nothing
out of head nor tail walking around top But look
at my baby. Look at my baby well. I hope
it gets to look a lot better than that that.
Look at my baby well. Because one is information, the
other is life, Jesus says, pursue relationships through the word.
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To put it in another way, abiding means the closer
you get to the Holy Spirit, the more you'll be
able to see what's the result of all this. Inclosing,
you get to freely experience and roam around the spiritual realm.
You get the roam around the spiritual realm, You get
the room around there for free memory said freely given.
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It makes the truth of God experiential. You'll know it
for yourself because you'll experience at the deepest level. What
does he say? The deepest level of knowing is your spirit,
not your brain. That's not your deepest level. It starts there,
but it's got to get deeper than there. It's one
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thing to believe somebody loves you because they say I
love you. That's information. It's another thing to feel it
because it's so deep, it's gone so low that it's
rubbing against your be One is information. It's nice, it's
cute to you, but anybody can say that. But when
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it gets deep down so that you know it, because
it becomes wrapped around who you are, that's a whole
different level of knowing. God says, I don't want you
to know information leaks. I want you to know because
I am wrapped around your being.
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Doctor Tony Evans reminding us that God's word isn't just
meant to inform our minds. It's meant to ignite our
hearts with the reality of his presence. And he'll return
with one final illustration to wrap up today's message. In
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Three two two two.
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Even the most beautiful sentence means absolutely nothing if it's
written in the language you don't understand. Tomorrow, doctor Evans
will show how interpreting scripture correctly is key to experiencing
its power. Right now, though, he's back with this closing
illustration for today.
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In the courtroom, if you say in your testimony, well
somebody told me that he did it, the lawyer will
stand up and say, Yanna, I object. That's his say.
He will object because that's second hand information. You know
what they want personal testimony. If you tied a secondhand information,
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talk about what other folks heard, talk about what other
folks experience. If you want to stand up and say
I ab jacked, I don't want anymore here say Christianity.
I want to know him for myself. I want to
be like Job who said I heard about him with
the hearing of the ear. I had a lot of
hearsay in my life, but now I've seen him for myself.
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No more hearsay. When you move from hearing about to
hearing from, you've experienced, at the deepest level illumination
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