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Lord, I still don’t know You. Can you help me one more time? I’m
ashes and flesh. Please, don’t get angry.”

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, as we read in the verse before in Matthew
16:16&17, “Flesh and blood didn’t reveal it. You got that from My
Father.” But you know Peter. He sometimes forgot what he learned.