The Knowledge of Life by Witness Lee

Author:Witness Lee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Inspirational, Faith
ISBN: 9780870834196
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Published: 1988-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

THE INWARD KNOWLEDGE

We shall now see the eleventh main point concerning life, which is the inward knowledge, or the knowing of God by the inward law of life and the teaching of the anointing. The degree to which we know God from within determines how much we have of God and how much we experience Him as our life. Thus, the inward knowledge and the growth of life are fully related. If we want to know life so that life may grow, we must examine in detail the inward knowledge.

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING GOD

God delights in man knowing Him; therefore, He wants man to “follow on to know” Him (Hosea 6:6, 3). All that He does in the New Testament is in order that we may know Him (Heb. 8:10-11). When we are regenerated, His Spirit, containing His life, enters into us that we may have the capability of knowing Him from within. This knowing of Him, on the one hand, gradually increases with our inward growth of life, and, on the other hand, it also causes the life within us to grow. Because God has given us His life, we can know Him. The more His life grows within us, the more we know Him. The more we know Him, the more we will experience Him as our life, enjoy Him, and allow Him to live out through us. Thus, we may say that all the growth of our spiritual life depends on our knowledge of God. Let us pray that God may give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that we may really know Him (Eph. 1:17) and be “growing by the full knowledge of God” (Col. 1:10).

II. THE THREE STEPS OF KNOWING GOD

Psalm 103:7 says: “He made known his ways unto Moses, his doings unto the children of Israel.” This tells us that the children of Israel knew God’s doings, but that Moses knew His ways. Hebrews 8:10-11 says also: “I will put my laws into their mind...all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.” By this verse we see that all who receive the inward law under the New Testament can know God Himself. These two passages in the Bible show us that man’s knowledge of God is obtained in three steps: firstly, knowing the doings of God; secondly, knowing the ways of God; and thirdly, knowing God Himself.

A. Knowing the Doings of God

Man knows the doings of God by what He does and performs. For example, the children of Israel in Egypt saw the ten plagues that God sent to smite the Egyptians. By the Red Sea, they saw that God divided the water so they could pass through. In the wilderness, they saw that God commanded the rock to flow out with water to satisfy their thirst. And daily God sent manna from heaven to feed them. When they witnessed such miracles of God, they knew the doings of God. Again, for example, when the multitudes

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