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The Indispensable Principle

As we come to study God’s word, there’s an indispensable
principle, and that is total reliance on the Holy Spirit. Don’t
ever take that principle for granted. We need to trust the Lord
when we study the Bible. Only God can reveal God. I used to
take that for granted. So, I went through my Bible and now
every page in my Bible I wrote an arrow pointing up to God.
When I open my Bible I remember the indispensable principle.

Song of Solomon 5:2, “I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking. ‘Open to me, my sister, my
darling, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched
with dew. My locks with the damp of the night.’” The bride
was sleeping but her heart was awake. She said, “I hear a voice
knocking at the door”; a voice knocking. A voice is the word of
God. Knocking is that someone wants to come in. Every time
God speaks, he wants to come in. His voice is an invitation and
He wants to come and have us respond to His word.

Heavenly Father, we ask You to speak to us and enable
us to open the door so that you can come in. We know how
much we need You. Show us the Lord Jesus in a fresh way and
a living way. Deliver us from cold academics and show us the
Living Word. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen
We are looking at these great foundations of our faith.
The foundation I’d like to look at now is called “Union with
Jesus”, “Union with Christ”. That truth is all over the Bible and
especially in the New Testament. It’s so comprehensive. We’re
to abide in Christ as a branch abides in the vine. We’re to relate
to Christ as a bride relates to a husband, and like children relate
to their parents. What the head is to the body; that’s union.
What the sun is to the earth; that’s union. What the soil is to
the plant; a picture of union. When you read the epistles of the

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