If a man has but the Word of God but not the Spirit of God ,he dries up .
If a man has the Spirit of God but not the Word of God he blows up .
But if a man has the Word of God and the Spirit of God he grows up.
Some churches only emphasise the Word of God .
Others but the Spirit of God .
Those who emphasise only the Word of God see the errors and the excesses of those who emphasise only the Spirit of God reject often the truths about the Spirit of God .
Those who emphasise the Spirit of God and see the dryness of those who who emphasise only see the Word of God often reject sound doctrine and good order.
This posts objective is to show that you need both the Word or BODY of truth ;the scriptures and the Spirit of God who is the Spirit of truth. and while in Gods thinking they are indivisible.
That thinking is not so much thought in mans mind or understanding .
As with "all sound doctrine " it has its root or first mention in the book of beginnings the book of Genesis .
Those who dismiss or mix truth and error and do not believe Gods account of the beginning will find what follows hard to understand .Or accept.
But I will state it anyway. For it needs to be said and the truth propagated .
All quotes are from the KJV
Genesis 3:8
"And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the cool of the day;and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden"
"and they heard the voice of the Lord God WALKING ..........."
How can a voice walk? is or was for me anyway a question that one day arose in my thinking as I read this passage . One of the reasons I love God is that he provokes thought and demands we think .
I did not say to myself this passage is absurd and it therefore must be a wrong translation and I must (or another) change it to suit my thinking . But I believed the Word of God .But did not understand it .
After much prayerful thought I still did not arrive at any answer . So I went back a step.
What then is a voice? Every living thing has a voice of one sort or another . A lions voice is its roar a cats a meow for instance .
But they are animals and all be it their voices can be heard and know from what they come .
Here in this passage we are talking about the "voice of the Lord God"
Now any word search of the "Voice of the Lord" even of the word 'voice' would be profitable to anybody willing to study the matter .
But when it all boils down to it a voice is a Word without a body.
When a man speaks his voice is heard because he uses his breath or life through his vocal chords.Though he may not actually say anything .
But no mans words are heard or understood unless he gives his breath and life to his words .
If it is thought that you cannot use this as an example or the make up of man to explain something of the nature of God .
Then we need to remember that it is written "man shall not live by bread alone but by every WORD that goeth forth out of His MOUTH"
and he who said "He who made the ear cannot he not hear and He who made the eye cannot He see?" Must also say He who made the mouth cannot he not speak?
it is idols that have ears that hear not , eyes that speak not and mouths that speak not and feet that do not .
But our God ;my God is the living God who created man in His image .
Therefore to use the way a mans speaks to enlighten us in the things of God neither twists scripture or goes beyond what the scriptures teach.
For God uses the physical attibutes of men ;which is the natural or of earth to teach about the spiritual or of heaven.
A VOICE then is a word then without a body.
Then from that line we have a line added upon it .
Hebrews 10 : 5
Where for when he cometh into the world, he saith ;sacrifice and offering though wouldst not; but a body hast thou prepared me "
In other words a body to suffer in.
It is interesting to note that the great fish that swallowed Jonah was a prepared fish a prepared body . "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights"
This also was the only sign the Lord gave to an unbelieving generation.
Not only had Jesus a body to suffer in . he also has a body to be glorified in.
Jesus is the Word of God. That came forth from the father .
"My Word that goeth forth out of my mouth shall not return unto me void ,but shall accomplish that where unto I SENT it"
The voice of the Lord God that walked in the cool of the day ,in the garden of Eden was the same voice of the Lord God that walked in the cool of the evening in the garden of Gethsemane .
He then is the Spirit of truth and the body of truth .
".........I am the truth ......... " said Jesus .
The Word made flesh .
and "man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God "
in Christ
gerald
If a man has the Spirit of God but not the Word of God he blows up .
But if a man has the Word of God and the Spirit of God he grows up.
Some churches only emphasise the Word of God .
Others but the Spirit of God .
Those who emphasise only the Word of God see the errors and the excesses of those who emphasise only the Spirit of God reject often the truths about the Spirit of God .
Those who emphasise the Spirit of God and see the dryness of those who who emphasise only see the Word of God often reject sound doctrine and good order.
This posts objective is to show that you need both the Word or BODY of truth ;the scriptures and the Spirit of God who is the Spirit of truth. and while in Gods thinking they are indivisible.
That thinking is not so much thought in mans mind or understanding .
As with "all sound doctrine " it has its root or first mention in the book of beginnings the book of Genesis .
Those who dismiss or mix truth and error and do not believe Gods account of the beginning will find what follows hard to understand .Or accept.
But I will state it anyway. For it needs to be said and the truth propagated .
All quotes are from the KJV
Genesis 3:8
"And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the cool of the day;and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden"
"and they heard the voice of the Lord God WALKING ..........."
How can a voice walk? is or was for me anyway a question that one day arose in my thinking as I read this passage . One of the reasons I love God is that he provokes thought and demands we think .
I did not say to myself this passage is absurd and it therefore must be a wrong translation and I must (or another) change it to suit my thinking . But I believed the Word of God .But did not understand it .
After much prayerful thought I still did not arrive at any answer . So I went back a step.
What then is a voice? Every living thing has a voice of one sort or another . A lions voice is its roar a cats a meow for instance .
But they are animals and all be it their voices can be heard and know from what they come .
Here in this passage we are talking about the "voice of the Lord God"
Now any word search of the "Voice of the Lord" even of the word 'voice' would be profitable to anybody willing to study the matter .
But when it all boils down to it a voice is a Word without a body.
When a man speaks his voice is heard because he uses his breath or life through his vocal chords.Though he may not actually say anything .
But no mans words are heard or understood unless he gives his breath and life to his words .
If it is thought that you cannot use this as an example or the make up of man to explain something of the nature of God .
Then we need to remember that it is written "man shall not live by bread alone but by every WORD that goeth forth out of His MOUTH"
and he who said "He who made the ear cannot he not hear and He who made the eye cannot He see?" Must also say He who made the mouth cannot he not speak?
it is idols that have ears that hear not , eyes that speak not and mouths that speak not and feet that do not .
But our God ;my God is the living God who created man in His image .
Therefore to use the way a mans speaks to enlighten us in the things of God neither twists scripture or goes beyond what the scriptures teach.
For God uses the physical attibutes of men ;which is the natural or of earth to teach about the spiritual or of heaven.
A VOICE then is a word then without a body.
Then from that line we have a line added upon it .
Hebrews 10 : 5
Where for when he cometh into the world, he saith ;sacrifice and offering though wouldst not; but a body hast thou prepared me "
In other words a body to suffer in.
It is interesting to note that the great fish that swallowed Jonah was a prepared fish a prepared body . "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights"
This also was the only sign the Lord gave to an unbelieving generation.
Not only had Jesus a body to suffer in . he also has a body to be glorified in.
Jesus is the Word of God. That came forth from the father .
"My Word that goeth forth out of my mouth shall not return unto me void ,but shall accomplish that where unto I SENT it"
The voice of the Lord God that walked in the cool of the day ,in the garden of Eden was the same voice of the Lord God that walked in the cool of the evening in the garden of Gethsemane .
He then is the Spirit of truth and the body of truth .
".........I am the truth ......... " said Jesus .
The Word made flesh .
and "man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God "
in Christ
gerald