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Walking in the Spirit isn’t endlessly pressing God for more revelation, but God’s revelation flows to us in amazing ways in God’s timing.

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To walk in the Spirit, we must interact personally with the Holy Spirit. To receive divine revelation, we must interact personally with Jesus Christ. Christian thinkers need to seek the person of Jesus Christ, to wait in His presence. They need to acknowledge Him. Otherwise, all they have is human religiosity, which is of no spiritual value at all. So if we want to walk in the Spirit, we must keep in step with the Spirit.

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Walking in the Spirit isn’t a Sunday morning entertainment but a 24-7 ever-deeper immersion in God’s wisdom, righteousness, power, and glory.

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At Revive US 2016, Francis Chan mentioned there’s a huge difference between knowing about a person and knowing the person. Francis mentioned Michael Jordan. We might know all about Michael Jordan. We might know all his statistics. But if we show up at his door, he probably won’t let us in since he doesn’t know us.

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If the human mind has stopped communing with the Holy Spirit, Christ seems far away and unreal, and divine revelation can eventually degrade to dead form, ritual, theology, theory, and rationalization. The theory can even be correct in every way and yet without divine life. It seems a Christian can even be performing miracles in Jesus’ name without knowing Him.

“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’” ~ Matthew 7:22-23 Berean Study Bible

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We experience the conflict between the fleshly mind and the mind of Christ, but we can’t separate the mind of Christ from Christ Himself. So if a Christian isn’t communing with Christ, the revelation goes dead. It’s not that this Christian stops being God’s child, but communication with Christ breaks down, and the Christian’s heart begins to harden against Christ. Then the Christian begins to lean on his or her worldview rather than acknowledging Christ in every situation until, eventually, the fleshly veil obscures the Christian’s vision.

“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: The devils also believe and tremble.” ~ James 2:19 King James Version

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Just tasting of these heavenly blessings doesn’t instantly remove our fleshly nature, nor does it guarantee we’ll always be obedient. However, it does open the door to walk in His love, and love fulfills the whole law.

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.” ~ Galatians 5:25 Berean Study Bible

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God tells us not to lean on our intellects because human understanding is sin-tainted by the fall. Christ leads every person who follows Him. He makes His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding available to us as we stand in His presence submitting to the Holy Spirit. We contrast God’s wisdom with the weakness of human understanding.

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We were Satan’s slaves, but Christ rescued us from this slavery, and He opened the door for us to walk free from sin. Therefore, we can know Jesus Christ. Anyone can know Christ since every person who seeks Him finds Him, and He reveals Himself to us. So He’ll continue to lead us, teach us, correct us, and purify us moment by moment as we yield ourselves in obedience to His love. That’s His gift to us. It’s free. When we receive this revelation from the Holy Spirit, we’re born again into God’s family as one of His children. Our fellowship with God began at our new birth as we began an expedition of the unfolding revelation of Christ and His glory. Now, we continue our journey from one glory to the next glory in an ever-upward walk toward the fullness of Christ.

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