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So, God says, “Alright. I took the Word and the Word
became flesh. I took the Word of God and turned it into the word
of God.” John 16:13, “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes,
He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His
own initiative, but whatever He hears, he will speak; and He will
disclose to you what is to come.” So, God says, “Here’s what I’ll
do. I’ll put My Spirit in your heart and He will take the words
from this book and He will explain that the Word became flesh
and you will know that the Word is God.” Do you see God’s
provision? We have the Holy Spirit to come to the book to show
us the Living Word.

1 Corinthians 2:11&12, “For who among men knows the
thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him?
Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of
God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely
given to us by God.” I have thoughts in my mind. None of you
know those thoughts. But the spirit that is in me, Ed Miller,
knows what I’m thinking. No man knows; only the spirit of the
man that is in him. How can I know God’s thoughts? I need His
Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:16, “For who has known the mind of the
Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of
Christ.” Do you see it? We have His Spirit, so we have His mind.
This is God’s provision and we’re calling it “revelation”. The
Holy Spirit in our hearts takes the written word and we behold
the Living Word, Christ, so that we might know God. The Word
was God. He wants us to know Him intimately. That was His
provision.

With that as the background, I want to give you Peter’s
testimony. In his early life, we read in the verse before, “Flesh
and blood didn’t reveal it. You got that from My Father.” But
you know Peter. He sometimes forgot what he learned. Thirty
years go by. The last book he ever wrote was 2 Peter, and the
last words he ever wrote were, “That you might grow in the
knowledge of Christ.” So, as he writes the last letter he ever