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God’s own Word must not be taken
Just as knowledge but as life,
Not alone God’s thought conveying,
But Himself to us as life;
Not alone God’s mind revealing,
But His Christ as life within,
Not alone the teaching giving,
But experience of Him.
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God's own Word must not be
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taken
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knowledge
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life,
Not alone God's thought con
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veying,
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Not alone God's mind re
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Him.
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It is only knowledge to us
If we in the letter read,
But when reading in the spirit
It is truly life indeed.
All the knowledge in the letter
Only brings us into death,
But the Word in spirit taken
Gives to us the quickening breath.
It is only knowledge to us
If we in the letter read,
But when reading in the spirit
It is truly life indeed.
All the knowledge in the letter
Only brings us into death,
But the Word in spirit taken
Gives to us the quickening breath.
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It is only knowledge
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But when reading in the
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All the knowledge in the
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spirit taken
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If we miss the Lord in Scripture,
It is just as knowledge vain;
But when Christ we touch within it,
Then His life we may obtain.
When we read, the Lord not touching,
’Tis but mental stimulus;
But when Christ we touch by reading,
It becometh life in us.
If we miss the Lord in Scripture,
It is just as knowledge vain;
But when Christ we touch within it,
Then His life we may obtain.
When we read, the Lord not touching,
’Tis but mental stimulus;
But when Christ we touch by reading,
It becometh life in us.
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If we miss the Lord in
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Scripture,
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just as
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knowledge
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vain;
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within it,
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obtain.
When we read, the Lord not
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touching,
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stimulus;
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All the knowledge of the Scriptures
Into life must be transformed,
All the mental understanding
In the spirit must be formed;
All the Scriptural understanding
Must become the life received,
All the knowledge of the letters
In the spirit be conceived.
All the knowledge of the Scriptures
Into life must be transformed,
All the mental understanding
In the spirit must be formed;
All the Scriptural understanding
Must become the life received,
All the knowledge of the letters
In the spirit be conceived.
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All the knowledge of the
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transformed,
All the mental
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understanding
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conceived.
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Just to touch the Word for knowledge
Is to take the very way
By which Eve was lured by Satan
And by knowledge led astray;
But as life to take the Scripture
Is the tree of life to eat;
Thus the Word we must be taking
In the spirit as our meat.
Just to touch the Word for knowledge
Is to take the very way
By which Eve was lured by Satan
And by knowledge led astray;
But as life to take the Scripture
Is the tree of life to eat;
Thus the Word we must be taking
In the spirit as our meat.
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Just to touch the Word for
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knowledge
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Is to
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take the
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very
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way
By which Eve was lured by
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Satan
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led
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astray;
But as life to take the
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Scripture
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Is the tree of life to
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eat;
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Thus the Word we
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our
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meat.
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Fremont, California, United States
Hallelujah, we are living letters of Christ! Christ writes Himself onto the tablets of our heart of flesh, and the ink used to write Himself into us is the inscribing Spirit, the Spirit of the living God. Praise the Lord 😀
White Rock, BC, Canada
In John 6:63, Jesus tells us that "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." Hence, "God’s own Word must not be taken just as knowledge but as life" (cf. stanza 1). If we read God's Word (the Bible) just for knowledge, we need to remember "....for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life" (2 Cor. 3:6b), and we are like Eve, taking of the tree of knowledge. Lord, my our eyes be opened to see that we need to come to Your Word in spirit and reality, to take (eat) of the tree of life!