The Heart Of A Servant Part-1

Ron:

It’s the lack of revelation of the Bible and this generation that leaves us without the power we need to act on all the other experiences we have received from God. I am Ron your host and, on this podcast, we are reaching into a deeper revelation of the Bible, God’s word. This is God’s chance to speak to us and impart His nature to us. For His Word is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. His word is awesome.

Dale:

It is the lack of Revelation of the Bible that leaves us without the power we need to act on the other experiences we have received from God.

I think the one thing that God is giving us in this day and age is a deeper appreciation for the Old Testament. Because we are beginning to realize some simple things. Christ, He was a Rabbi, He taught in the Synagogue and what did He teach from He taught from the Old Testament. And then we get into the day and age that we are living in now there has been so much focus on the New Testament. But what we have is appreciation for both. When God opens up something in the Scriptures He does it more than once. And what’s neat is, is to see where He did it first in the Old Testament. To where He began it. And it is amazing how God in His Scriptures does the same thing. The miracles, He does it over and over again. And I think that that is important to recognize because we are living in the day when He is doing the same thing.

Ed:

You can read the same Scripture over and over and over again. Weeks later, months later, years later, and yet you get something different out of it. You read it out of the American Standard Version on this time maybe on the next time you read it out of the King James Version and it got different words in there. That’s was all part of the same Scripture but now it means something to you because it is where you are at and that’s the important thing you have to grow and as you grow you’re not going be in that same spot that you heard that word a year ago. So, you have got to move on and God gives you that. You get a re-revelation of Christ. So that you can walk in that. The new revelation that is going to bring you forth into His word.

Ron:

We have already talked about the Scripture is being revelation, we have talked about reading the Word and it means more to you next time and next time and next time. To me, those are little peaking into the nature of Christ. Peaking into the presence of the Lord. The Word of God is much more than revelation. It’s life. It’s impartation in its very nature. It is an open door to have a relationship with Christ. It’s an open door to know the Father. It’s an open door to experience what we read about as far as Christ and the Father. And I am not putting down having revelation obviously there is more to that. It’s not these well I read the scripture a year ago and I saw this. Now I read the Scripture this year and I see something different. There is nothing wrong with that they are little previews. What we are talking about is the Scripture being an open door to a relationship where the Father is speaking to you, imparting His nature to you. It’s beyond our minds to comprehend the relationship that comes through the Scriptures. The impartation the nature change that comes through the Scriptures. You know we grasp a little bit. You know we read the Scriptures and we get a revelation of something again nothing wrong with that. That’s like a drop in the ocean. I believe that as we read the Word and God imparts His nature to us, our capacity to receive from Him increases. And so, as that capacity increases the ability for us to see and hear Christ and the Father increases. So, then it becomes more than just getting a new revelation. It’s sitting down and communing with Him. Communing with the Father, communing with the Spirit realm, with the cloud of witnesses. Because that is what the Bible is, it’s an open living door to the Spirit realm.

Ed:

You meet God you go around and come back and you meet God again and He is more to you. That is important because if you got a revelation from God and you stop there and you have heard of many people that they stopped and forty-five years ago God met me. What have they done since then? God wants to meet you daily. Not only does He want for you to see Him daily, He wants to get to know you. And if forty-five years ago is the last time that you connected with Him. You know it is not good enough. Not for God and not for you! People talk about reading the scriptures daily. And you read them until God speaks to you. That is so important. If all you do is reading the scriptures and you’re not getting anything out of it like we said that’s unbelief. But if you are setting there and you are getting more and more and more daily then you have a walk with Him. And He is going to continue and the more that you can take the greater the revelation He is going to give you. The course then it comes the responsibility, you have to walk in it, but you do that with such a joy in your heart because you’re talking with Dad.

Dale:

One of the things that we establish over our walk with God are certain principles. One of those principles is that we have been told that the Bible is the Word of God. That’s why we pick it up to start with there is a drive and a hunger to find out more about this guy. There is some type of initiative that we take even out of curiosity to find out what is in this book. That curiosity is quickly honored by getting the idea that there is a lot in here that I could benefit from. Many people say that you can just about trace a lot of the famous sayings to the Scriptures, they were said there first. Many of the laws of our society are taken directly from the Bible, the Ten Commandments. There is a lot of things in our everyday life that are governed by the Scriptures. And so, we have kind of a built-in knowledge and a curiosity to find out about more. God has guaranteed that if you give yourself to the reading of His Word that He will reveal to you more knowledge, more truth, but the Scriptures are so much more than that. And that is what we are trying to reach into. We’re trying to reach into much more than what we see in our culture, our society, and that comes by knowing how to read. And you talked about that Ed and I think what you said is wonderful and it is important that we give ourselves to a daily reading of the scriptures but it can’t be a thing of self-discipline. You should read the Scriptures as often as the Spirit moves you. That in itself is an old saying, God will quicken things to your heart and He will build within you a hunger for more. So, when you are hungry for more go to the Bible. That is something that becomes a way of life. Our hunger and thirst for righteousness. And a second thing is that we have to learn how to read it. And that is what you were alluding to Ed read a chapter, start out at verse one and by verse two if God begins to speak to you about it stop! listen, see what He has to say and that comes through a gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is that voice that can conveys to you the heart of God. No matter the situation, so you’ve got this chapter and you’re reading and you get to the second or third verse and God begins to speak to you. That’s the Living Word of God.