Taught By The Spirit

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Who is your teacher? How are you being taught? Who are you teaching?

We should always be learning. We cannot learn unless we are taught.

We should also teach, instructing with our words, as we are being taught by the Spirit of God.

The Apostle Paul instructed the Corinthian church, saying, “And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.” (1 Corinthians 2:13, ESV).

We are taught by the Holy Spirit to teach by the Holy Spirit the things of the Spirit.

The person without the Spirit of God cannot understand the things of God.

Paul tells us, “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.” (1 Corinthians 2:14-15, ESV).

Those without the Spirit of God do not accept or understand the things of God’s Spirit, because they look like folly to them.

As followers of Jesus, we have the Holy Spirit, and we are taught by the Spirit, to teach by the Spirit, all that is Spiritual.

May we be filled with the Spirit of God, be taught by the Spirit of God, and teach by the Spirit of God everything we know by the Spirit of God.

A Collect for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany: “O Lord, our heavenly Father, keep your household the Church continually in your true religion, that we who trust in the hope of your heavenly grace may always be defended by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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