AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Friday – September 23, 2022, Elul 27, 5782
FRIDAY NUGGETS
WHAT ABOUT LANGUAGE
Greetings dear and precious children of God and welcome back to another Friday Nugget. This teaching is centered on language. Is there a difference in our ability to communicate, speak and create, today compared to the day Adam was created? Please take a moment to share this teaching as widely as possible using every means available to you. Thank you for sharing. Sharing is vital to taking the message and the evidence of the goodness of God into all the world and to those observing our lives. In many ways our most powerful testimony is not what we say to purposefully convey our beliefs and invite others to join us (be born again) but the fruit (all of it) of our lives. A totally transformed life is the most powerful of testimonies. A part of the issue or problem is that our current known languages in the earth are inadequate to fully and precisely convey all the Truth.
As one reads through the gospels, we find Jesus giving us insights into the Kingdom of God (Heaven), the spiritual realm and workings, and Heaven itself with the use of examples in the natural with which people are familiar. The following is a Scripture that helped me over the years in immeasurable ways to understand other Scriptures, and the spiritual realm.
Romans 1:20 (KJV)
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
In short, if you know and understand how things work in the natural you will more readily see how things work in the spiritual reality. This is akin to reverse engineering. Never forget that this natural or physical realm is a mirror of the spiritual realm. Remember what God said to Moses about building the Tabernacle. He said to build it according to the pattern he was shown in Heaven (Exodus 25, Hebrews 8). We know quite a lot about God and His patterns and spiritual laws (mirrored in physical laws) from the Holy Bible. Based on what we do know about God, this creation, and descriptions of Heaven we see types and shadows that exist in the earth. Thus, we can arrive at some educated insights. Understand that it is impossible to adequately describe Heaven in human languages even if you have been there and spent time there. Notice the words of the Apostle Paul on this topic.
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 (KJV)
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Let’s focus on verse four of this discussion of a man caught up to the third heaven, which is Heaven, the abode of God. Notice that Paul never says it was him that was caught up to Heaven. Following is the fourth verse in two other translations.
2 Corinthians 12:4 (AMP)
4 Was caught up into paradise, and he heard utterances beyond the power of man to put into words, which man is not permitted to utter.
2 Corinthians 12:4 (YLT)
4 that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.
It is not that Heaven cannot be expressed; it cannot be expressed or articulated fully by current human language. So, anything I or others present will be a crude representation of what we who are born again are now and will soon see. The Lord showed me a connection that I think you will find fascinating and illuminating. Let’s go to the Tower of Babel.
Genesis 11:4-7 (KJV)
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Did you notice the intimate connection between language and the ability to create? When God confounded or confused their language there was a loss of communication, ability to come into agreement, and creative ability previously present. Adam and Eve, and any others present, could talk with perfect clarity to each other and to God. So, what did God do for us to remedy this problem? He gave us the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the gift of tongues, a prayer language, so that once again we can express the perfect will of God.
Romans 8:26-27 (KJV)
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
By the way being baptized in the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues (a language not learned) is taught clearing in Scripture. With the baptism also comes the Dunamis (Power) of the Holy Spirit. Jesus thought this was really important.
Luke 24:49 (KJV)
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
So not only is the Holy Spirit a language enhancer but makes it possible for the Power of God without limit to flow through us.
Lord willing, I will return next Friday with fresh golden nuggets from the Throne of God.
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Receive the blessing in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (MSG)
24 GOD bless you and keep you,
25 GOD smile on you and gift you,
26 GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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