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Talking Latin 3/24/2009 9:38:46 PM
When I was in grade school, I went St. Mary's College in Quezon City, Philippines, and it was a big Catholic school run by the Dominican Sisters. I remember the best thing that I learned then was to talk Latin. We were taught to pray the mass in Latin, and I could say the "Our Father" in Latin, or "Pater Noster". Talking Latin was great, but we never understood it.
A lot of people are like that today, they talk about God, dissect His Omnipotence, His Omnipresence, His Divinity, and all aspects of His Being as if He was a medical specimen they can analyze AND EXPLAIN. They talk about a God they know nothing about. Just like talking Latin.
Knowing things about God is different from knowing Him. Our knowledge of God will always be limited, and will only be determined by the measure of faith we have, and how much He Himself is willing to reveal to us.
"The man without the Spirit does not understand the things that come from Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 1:14)
When a true believer of God, a person saved by grace and forgiven by God, His child - reads the Bible, there is what we call a "rhema" word for him. This is God's spiritual revelation for that person, for that particular moment, or "kairos" time. It does not come from man, it comes from God. Ordinary men may read and devour the whole Bible, but will only encounter "logos" or the literary truths therein.
No revelation. no insight
Because it is spiritual, when that man speaks, the hearers
"feel" his words. There is an unexplained impact and effect. Once there was a gifted preacher who said a sermon
about the Psalm 23 or "The Lord Is My Shepherd" psalm. At
the end of his sermon, a young man sang a song using the same exact verses from that psalm. After the song, people were in tears and were greatly moved by the young man's
message in song.
The pastor was so humbled, he remarked, "I know Psalm 23 by heart, but he 'knows' the Shepherd."
