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3,000,000 words. Thank You. But 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. Thirty years go by. The last book he