As some of you may have noticed I get really bummed when I write a paragraph and someone takes a few sentences out and replies... this is because I feel the Spirit of what I'm saying is only fully in the complete context...
I first understood this principle back in the day when I was sitting there listening to a sermon and the pastor quoted. "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him." and like my usual bad (or good) habit self instead of listening to the pastor go on about how heaven was this place that we can't even imagine I continued to read on to the next verse, "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit."... my jaw dropped... I was waiting... actually hoping the guy was going to address the next part but he never did. He left what the Spirit made available out...
That was the first time I began to question what I was being taught... the pastor had just taken the sentence out of context and in doing so left the most important part unsaid, "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit." He had left out the Spirit and what the Spirit made available to us and still lived in the old.
Since then I've been really insistent about things not being taken out of the context of the fullness of what someone's saying...
Check the difference...
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
or
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.
Anyone else experienced anything similar?
I first understood this principle back in the day when I was sitting there listening to a sermon and the pastor quoted. "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him." and like my usual bad (or good) habit self instead of listening to the pastor go on about how heaven was this place that we can't even imagine I continued to read on to the next verse, "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit."... my jaw dropped... I was waiting... actually hoping the guy was going to address the next part but he never did. He left what the Spirit made available out...
That was the first time I began to question what I was being taught... the pastor had just taken the sentence out of context and in doing so left the most important part unsaid, "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit." He had left out the Spirit and what the Spirit made available to us and still lived in the old.
Since then I've been really insistent about things not being taken out of the context of the fullness of what someone's saying...
Check the difference...
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
or
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.
Anyone else experienced anything similar?