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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. 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 wrote just before he died, he said,
“I want to show you how to see Jesus in the Bible.”

If you were Peter and you looked back over your life, and you
had to choose only one event, what would you choose? Would
you think about when your brother introduced you to Jesus?
Would you think about the miracle of the coin lodged in the
fish’s gill? Would you think about Lazarus being raised from
the dead? You are ready to die. Would you tell them how you
one time walked on water? Would you tell them about
Gethsemane and about your failure? Would you tell them about
the resurrection or about the ascension? You were there when
you saw Him rise. Would you tell them about Pentecost when
He came in the Person of the Holy Spirit? Would you tell them
how an angel set you free and you got out of prison?