The Bible - How to interpret it Part 4

It would be impossible to properly understand the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” This promise was specifically directed to Jesus’ apostles. They received help to record the events and words of Jesus. But the application of this verse extends to all Christians.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the believer’s understanding of the Scriptures. The following verses explain how this is done: “But as it is written: "EYE HAS NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NOR HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN THE THINGS WHICH GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God 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 that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1st Corinthians 2:9-14.

Some people believe that verse 9 is referring to heaven, but if you study the verse in the light of the context, it is talking about the Scriptures being revealed by the Holy Spirit. It is an amazing fact that we humans can fathom the wonders of God through His Book. In 1st Peter 1:12, when talking about the revelation of God through Scriptures, it says that this is so incredible that angels desire to look into it. “To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.”

Let’s pray as the psalmist prayed: “Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.” Psalm 119:18