The Hidden Manna — George Warnock

Father, this morning we open our spirits, our hearts, our lives to you. We thank you for that washing, moving, stirring of your spirit, of your presence, preparing, opening our being, enlarging our capacity, and granting us truly, Lord, spiritual eyes that we might see and understand.

For you've said, Lord, within your word that there's a people to whom it's given to know the mysteries of the kingdom. Lord, we would know the secret of the Lord, that which you have, that you'd greatly desire to share with your people.

And I ask this morning for that abiding anointing that will release, Lord, that depth of word, not just information, but a flow of spirit and life moving out and touching us, changing us, opening us up, Lord, and enlightening our understanding.

I ask, Lord, that abiding prophetic anointing as our brother comes, quicken, bless, and anoint. And in all, Lord, we give you the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. I think we'll turn to that same chapter we were in yesterday, 1 Corinthians 2.

Paul's Preaching of Christ Crucified

In this chapter, Paul was relating the manner in which he came to Corinth and the determination he had when he came to Corinth that he would know nothing among them save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

And because that was his determination, to know Christ crucified, he came crucified. He came identified with him. He says, I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power.

And he tells us why, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Albeit, he says, we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, but not the wisdom of this world, nor the princes of this world that speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, in a secret, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

The hidden wisdom, hidden yet openly spoken forth, but hidden. Jesus went up to the feast as it were in secret. He was right there at the feast, but as it were in secret, they didn't know who he was. And God has a way of hiding truth from the wise and the intellectual as far as attainment in this world is concerned and to reveal it unto babes.

Jesus rejoiced in the spirit one day as he thought of that. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou has hid these things from the wise and the prudent and has revealed them unto babes.

Even so, Father, for it seemed good in thy sight. And so it's very true what brother said, that if we're intellectually minded, if we put a lot of emphasis on the scholastic and the academic and our ability to comprehend, we miss out because God reveals his secrets to babes.

Even so, Father, for it seemed good in thy sight. And so we thank the Lord for his ways and for the truth that he's pleased to make known to the humble, to the meek, to those who come to him as babes.

And even though we talk about coming to maturity, there's no maturity that takes us beyond the realm of babes when it comes to the love of God. So in understanding, be men, said Paul, but in malice, be as babes.

And that should be a characteristic that remains with us all through life. As far as attitudes of forgiveness and mercy and love and things like that, always to be tender as babes. And that's what real maturity is.

Howbeit, Paul says, in understanding, yes, God wants to change our minds until we comprehend, even with our minds, the things that God has been pleased to reveal to us by his spirit, even the hidden wisdom.

The Tabernacle and the Hidden Manna

And we talked about the manna that was given to the Israelites. And then we talked about the special food for the priests in the holy place. But there was still a further realm. And no doubt you've all had a certain amount of instruction in the tabernacle.

There was the holiest of all realm, where I believe God is seeking to lead a people in this hour. A holiest of all realm, outer court, the cross, the atonement, also cleansing by the water, the laver.

Then coming into the holy place, where the light of that realm was the candlestick. A new realm, I believe it's more or less this Pentecostal era that we've known the last 50 years, 100 years. The realm of the spirit, which we rejoice in, which we are thankful to God for.

But there's another realm. I remember one teacher wrote, drew a little diagram of the tabernacle and had the three realms. And he says, some say there's still another realm. He says, don't they know the veil was rent there?

It's all one realm. Yes, in God's provision. But even though the veil was rent, it doesn't mean that you and I go in there. The veil was rent when Jesus died on the cross and there stood the priest before a rent veil and saw no glory there.

He wasn't smitten. We don't read where he was smitten because the glory of God had long departed. And so you see, it's true. God rent the veil at the cross. But Paul speaks about another veil. Remember how Paul put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the glory that was on his face, which glory was being done away.

And he put the veil there, and I just say this in passing, so that the children of Israel would not see the fading away of the glory. He didn't put it there to hide the glory. Everybody was squinting because they couldn't stand the glory coming from his countenance.

He didn't grab a cloth and hide it. He beckoned to them, come near. And fearfully they drew near and he gave them the instruction that God had given him in the mount. And I know it says in our version, till he had done speaking, he put a veil on his face.

But every other version of it says when he had done speaking, he put a veil on his face, which is confirmed by the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 3, when he said that Moses put a veil over his face to the end, that the children of Israel would not see the end of that which was abolished.

One translator said, an older translation, I mean, as far as generations go, the Weymouth translation, so that the children of Israel would not see the last rays of that fading glory. It was a fading glory.

And as it faded away, Moses recognized that glory is departed. He covered his face so the children of Israel wouldn't see the last rays depart. But Paul says, not as Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel wouldn't see the departure of the glory, but we with unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, changed into the same image from glory unto glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, clearly telling us that we've got something surpassing what Moses had.

Wouldn't you and I settle for what Moses had so easily? But not as Moses. You see things like that. We're considered to be far out. I figure we're still just in the shallows. We're still just getting our feet wet a little bit.

I have not seen nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

So in the holiest of all, there was another food, hidden manna, which is in a golden vessel, because God told Moses, take a vessel of this manna and put it in the Ark of the Covenant to be kept for your generations.

To be kept there. They never ate it. No priest ever ate it. To be kept for their generations. I think kept for this day and hour, that hidden manna. Incorruptible. If it had lain out in the ground, it would have disappeared by noon when the sun got hot.

But because it was in a golden vessel and in the presence of God, it was kept. Intended of God to be kept throughout their generations. I think as a reminder to them what God would do in the fullness of time.

We don't read what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. They're still hoping they'll find it over there somewhere. It's too bad that so often ministry that goes to Israel goes along with all these carnal, natural things that they're so excited about over there.

Because when Messiah is revealed to Israel, it's going to be the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in a people who know him and who walk with him. Jesus said, you shall not see me until you shall say, blessed are these that come in the name of the Lord.

And that's when they'll see him. When Gentiles or Israelites from all nations, a man from Kenya or Nigeria or India or Africa comes to them in the name of the Lord, they'll see Jesus and they won't see him until he's revealed in that people.

And then they will see him. And to them, it will be life from the dead. As Paul said, with the casting of the way of them meant reconciliation for the world. What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead.

And so we know we're in a very wonderful hour, very tremendous hour. We anticipate as we come into this holy realm, this holiest of all realm to begin partaking of the hidden manna, that incorruptible food.

Christ, the resurrection and the life, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

The hidden wisdom. This is what he's talking about when he says, as it is written, that these things of the hidden wisdom are things that I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

This is the hidden wisdom that God has made known to his people, which I believe God will continue to unfold in this hour as the people come into the holiest of all realms. And Isaiah cried unto God for God to come forth and do something, for it is a time of great need.

Waiting for God's Timing

He cried unto God and he says, God, when we weren't looking for you to do anything, you came forth mightily. We weren't hardly expecting it and you did it. Now he says, if ever we needed you, it's now.

And why don't you do something about it now? And that's the cry of many of God's people throughout the land. God, we need you far worse now than they needed you 50 years ago when you moved by your spirit, or 100 years ago when you moved by your spirit.

You came forth very sovereignly, but suddenly the prophet was caught away in revelation and declared, since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

And Paul quotes that verse here, except that instead of saying that he's prepared for those that wait for him as Isaiah did, he says the things that God has prepared for them that love him. So what's really the difference?

So that waiting for God and loving God, it's one and the same thing. I know it's a day when we don't like the word wait. I mean, you just can't wait. I mean, they got escalators, you know, and got off the plane, get on the escalator, but so you get on, you have a ride.

But this one is for those who are standing there. This one's for those who are walking. I mean, it's carrying you, but you still gotta walk, you still gotta go faster than. It's a day when we just don't, can't wait.

And we can't wait because time is so short. And yet, I think 50 years, 100 years ago, they had much more time for God than they've got today with all our fast things. I think they had more time for God back then than they do today.

But waiting for God isn't just sitting around filling in time, you see. Waiting for God is just what it says. God, we just have to wait for you. We can't do it without you. And it seems a noble thing to be always ready to do anything that needs to be done.

Always ready to minister, always ready to preach, always ready to travel, always ready. But Jesus said to his brethren who didn't really believe on him, your time is always ready. My time has not yet come.

And so let's not think that always ready is a good attribute. Sons of God who seek to move in the realms of the Spirit have a time. They wait for God's time. They move in God's time. And I believe that's going to become increasingly more important as we come into this hour when God is going to so coordinate his mighty workings and his people, that timing will be so important.

I thought of this when they landed this man on the moon. And on their way back, they said, now any moment now, they'll press the button that will put them in the proper orbit or whatever to get back to earth.

It had to be right specifically at a certain split second when they'd press the button. Otherwise, they said, if they miss it, they go off in orbit, perhaps around the sun. How important in this day when everything is geared to a vast, intricate machine, the whole society is just geared to, the whole society almost, the whole realm is like a computer, as it were, everything coordinated.

So timing is very important. And it's no less important than things of the Spirit, especially when God's mighty movements begin to take place in the earth in a greater way than we've known. And that's why when God was to give Ezekiel a very profound word for the children of Israel, he first of all gave them a vision of heavenly things.

He did the same with John on Patmos. I believe he's doing the same with us. He's giving us a little understanding, a little glimpse of heavenly workings. Because unless we have that, unless we know that God has it all planned and everything is intricately planned and woven together in his purposes, we'd be apt to just strike off, to do anything that seems it should be done, seems it's the right thing to do, so we'd do it.

But when you come to recognize that we can do nothing, and I mean thoroughly understand that we can do nothing of ourselves, which I pray God will bring us all to that. For even his only begotten son came to that.

Think of it, that he came to the place, because of his covenant relationship and walk with the heavenly Father, he realized I cannot do anything of myself, but only what I see the Father doing. And so he lived in that heavenly realm.

He lived in that realm. For no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven. Jesus said that while he was here on earth. And we must come into that, only God can do it.

The Anointed Word and Daily Manna

Remember in all that we're saying, and all that we're teaching, and all that we're exhorting unto, we realize only God can do it. But the thing that encouraged me when I realized I was going to be a teacher, I didn't ask for it, didn't want it really, because I grew up in Pentecost and the only minister that was really effective in the work of God was the evangelist, or a miracle worker, so you wanted something pertaining, you know, something in that realm, and not just to be a dry teacher.

And I admit it, it's dry. If God doesn't send it forth as rain, it's dry as dust. So it's so essential that in this hour when we believe God is doing a new thing, and I'm persuaded of it, if it isn't now, when's it going to be?

We know we've come to the end. And the prophet said, and Paul confirmed it, that the hidden wisdom that God is making known to his people concern things which eye has not seen, and which ear has not heard, and which have not entered into the hearts of men.

It hasn't entered into your heart. So what's God going to do? Well, you ask me, I say, well, I don't know, great things, a new thing. But if it hasn't entered into our hearts or into our minds, don't expect us to try and tell you precisely what it is.

Nor should we, I don't think we should be so ravenously hungry that we just want to eat for the fun of eating. If you find honey, don't gorge yourself on it till it makes you sick. He says, eat so much is sufficient for thee, lest if you eat too much you'll vomit it.

And so we like honey, and honey in the scripture speaks of wisdom and knowledge. But you don't gorge yourself on it because it's so sweet. You take a little. And so we pray, as Jesus bid us to pray, give us this day our daily bread, which means give us today what we need today.

Give us that portion we need for today. We don't need any more. We try and get any more and store it up like the manna, it stinks and breeds worms, wormy. We need that fresh manna every day. We need that fresh oil every day.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor. David says, Lord, you have anointed me with fresh oil. We need that fresh oil, that fresh anointing, that fresh manna, that fresh bread.

Like we mentioned, though that bread that was in the holy place there six days, still in our way of thinking, because it was in the presence of God, I'm sure it was fresh and meant something to those priests.

They alone in Israel could eat of it. Nothing wrong with the manna, but here was something special for them. And God has something beyond that for us. The time will come when we will not speak like we're speaking these days, for God will have taken his people on and there'll be new realms to talk about, new areas of truth.

We don't delve into it too much. We don't pry into it too much, I say too much, for God wants us to have a spirit that reaches out. But we just know, we ought to know, we must know that coming into this new realm, it's a realm that no man can go in and appropriate on his own.

Wilderness Testing and Preparing the Heart

From the time that the children of Israel gathered together and ate the Passover lamb with bitter herbs, as we mentioned yesterday, because their journey was to be a journey that would involve much bitterness.

Nevertheless, God's intention was in every place he led them, was to lead them to a place of refreshing and rest. But the Ark of the Covenant went before them to search out a resting place for his people.

Isn't that tremendous? The Ark of the Covenant went ahead, searching out a resting place for his people. And they said, there the cloud is moving, we must move on. God's gone ahead to search out a resting place for us.

And when they would get there, they murmured, they complained, this is not what we thought, this is not Canaan, this is not a place of rest, no figs here, no pomegranates, no fruit, no water. Because of the murmuring of their hearts, what God intended to be a resting place, became a place of murmuring and complaining, disappointment, because they hadn't come to know God.

Their hearts were not prepared, the psalmist said. They set not their hearts aright, or the margin says in some Bibles, they prepared not their heart. Nevertheless, God was preparing their hearts, unknown to them, and he desired that they would understand that the way in which he was leading them was preparation for that land.

God never told them that that next stopping place would be Canaan, or the one after that, or the one after that, or the one after that. 41 times he led them in the wilderness, never once did he indicate, now this is final.

But we always wanted to be final. Whenever something great happens, the old slogan comes out, like it came out in the early days of Pentecost, this is that, if this isn't that, I'm going to hang on until this to that comes.

Forty years later, God moved again and they said, this is that, this isn't that, I'll hang on to this until that comes. But the problem is that when the time comes for God's people to move on, he takes away the first that he might establish the second.

He takes away the first that he might establish the second. We try to hang on to it and lament the fact that somehow it's not there the way it used to be 40 years ago, 100 years ago. The reason is God's taking it away because he's got something better, got something better than 8 or 10 great healing evangelists going around the country setting up their tents and praying for the sick.

God took it away, got something better, got something better. And what God has in mind, and that's just in one area of course, the physical healing, a renewing of the covenant with his people who walk with him, that healing will flow through the body.

It just flows through the body. Without a great healer, someone in need, you just go over as God leads them, lay your hands on them and they're healed. And God is going to do that more, not only in healing, but in other areas of ministration, that all members of the body of Christ might have a very vital function.

And that will do away with the schism in the body of Christ. For God giveth more abundant honor to those parts which lack, that there be no schism in the body, but that the members have the same care one for another.

I never saw that a year or two ago. Striving to set up some kind of a structure, some kind of a system, so that there be no division in the body. Get into this system, this structure, under this covering, under this whatever, this apostolic order, eradicate the schism.

And Paul says it's because this honor that God has for all members is lacking. And God giveth more abundant honor to those parts which lack, that there be no schism in the body, but the members then will have the same care one for another.

So that if there's a hundred people here, you've got 99 people concerned about your welfare. But if that honor is not there on the body of Christ, you've got yourself to worry about. But as members of this glorious body, you've got every other member of the body concerned about your welfare.

In a very real vital way, as truly as when you cut your finger, everything gets working there to heal that cut. Whatever comes, the body sends out the necessary life to heal that injured member. How much more in the body of Christ, the body of our Lord Jesus, a body hast thou prepared for me.

Christ's Submission to the Father's Will

Jesus, we hear him saying coming into the world, you're not interested in sacrifice and offering anymore. God, and he quoted from the Psalms, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared for me.

In burnt offering and sacrifice for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, so God, you don't want all these goats and bullocks and pigeons. You don't really want that. Then what do you want? Then said I, lo I come to do thy will, O God.

That's what he wanted. And that was the commitment of Jesus when he came. And that's why he didn't go forth throughout the land in virtue of his messianic office, in virtue of the fact that he was a healer or because he was an apostle or a prophet or a teacher.

But that great one that Moses spoke about who would come, he never went around. I'm the one that, you know, I'm the prophet, I'm the evangelist, I'm the teacher. And everything that he did, every work he performed, everything he spoke, he only required that people would receive it because he was saying words from the Father and he himself.

Taking that position as that one dwelling in this body that God had prepared had one commitment. I come to do thy will, O God. In the role of the book it is written of me. But he went away. But that's all he had to do was live here on earth 33 years to do everything that was required of him as far as his work in the earth is concerned.

And he went away into a higher ministry in the heavens, a higher priestly ministry than could ever have come about on earth. He couldn't have even been a priest on earth because he wasn't from the right tribe where our Lord sprang out of Judah, concerning which nothing is said about priests.

But having gone to a heavenly realm, God gave him the priesthood that God conferred upon him a priesthood of a higher order than the Aaronic priesthood. Confirmed by the scriptures, it's right there in the Old Testament, but there wasn't enough scriptures to make any impression on the interpreters of the word in that day.

Because you know how you're supposed to interpret scripture? Get a doctrine? Well, get all the pros and cons on it. Fifteen scriptures against, fifteen for. So maybe you can find a few more pros and cons, and so that becomes good doctrine because you've got piles of scripture for it.

But there's only two scriptures in the Old Testament that confirm the Melchizedek order of Jesus, two scriptures, and literally hundreds that speak of the priesthood after the order of Aaron. And yet the Holy Spirit is able to take those two passages and show from the scriptures that the time would come when God would do away, completely do away with the old Aaronic order and bring in a new order after the order of Melchizedek.

You see, only the Holy Spirit can do that. That's why it's so essential that you and I come to a place where we not only have his spirit dwelling within us, where we have him, but where he has us. We've got to come to that.

Not only where we have him, and we thank him that he has condescended to come and abide in these temples which we are, but God bring us to the place where we belong to him, that these temples which we are, are temples that belong to him, the Holy Spirit.

Come possess this temple to thine, from it let thy glory shine. And God wants to possess this temple. He wants to possess this temple. I don't know what kind of dealings God must yet do within each one of us to bring us to that place where we recognize, not just with our minds, but with our hearts and our whole attitude, our whole way of life, we just know we are not our own.

We are bought with a price and that we are his. God help us to continue to recognize we have no rights. We have no rights anymore. We belong to him. And he wants to possess us through and through. And I believe that's also part of the holiest of all realms, where we come out from the realm of gift and ministry into a realm of his abiding fullness.

Going out of one realm into a greater, not forsaking what we have, but seeing it swallowed up in something greater. Not always easy to explain because people get a little concerned. You mean something beyond gifts?

We don't need the gifts then anymore. In him, in Christ Jesus are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It's all in him. And what we have in his gifts is a little portion that he gives, a word of wisdom.

You could stand and say, God said this, God showed me this. And it's very precious. It's a word from God. But there's something higher and that is to walk in wisdom. Because you're going to stand up and give tremendous words of wisdom and go out and do some very foolish things.

And so God gives a portion and really the gifts are that. It's a portion of God's own nature that he distributes upon his people. And we thank him for that. But he wants to bring us into a realm where we live in that realm.

We abide in that realm. That's John 15, which you can't help but read it and not just appreciate the tremendous truth that's there. And I'm sure we recognize that we're far from experientially really knowing any depth of it.

Abide in me and I in you as the branch can do nothing of itself except abide in the vine. So nor can ye except ye abide in me. It's all very simple, very beautiful. Herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit.

If ye abide in me, my words abide in you, you shall ask what ye will and it shall be done. You know, we've tried to make that work so often. Lord, you said, and we quote the scripture, scripture of God, in case God forgot.

God, you said now, try and make it work. But there is coming a day, I'm confident, where God's people are abiding in him and he's abiding in us in such fullness that anything we ask him, he does it. But you see, God could hardly just answer all our prayers now.

We would ruin God's work in our lives because in that day abiding in him, your thought has been taken over by the mind of Christ. You ask, what is the will of the father? You ask according to his will.

And God says, anything you ask, he'll do it. I'm not saying we don't have a foretaste of all these things we're talking about. I'm sure that somewhere in the church, God has given a foretaste of all these wonderful things that we're talking about.

But let's remember, it is a foretaste. So that when Caleb and Joshua came back from Canaan with a few pomegranates in their hands and grapes, carried the grapes on a big branch on their shoulders, what a tremendous, what a tremendous thing it was when they landed back home in the camp there at Kadesh.

And they said, look at it. That's the land that God has for us. Isn't that tremendous? So all we're doing really is trying to show God's people a little bit of the fruitfulness of Canaan to cause us to see and understand, yes, it is, it must be a wonderful realm.

And they recognized that, but they saw other things that terrified them. And because of the fear, they did not appropriate that land. It's well and good that you and I sing about Canaan now, but when we come to the doorstep of Canaan and God says, now is the time to go in, our hearts better be prepared right now.

Because on that day, and when we begin to see the might and the power that's arrayed against us in heavenly places, our hearts would melt too if they're not established now, steadfast in him. In the manner in which it was in Caleb and Joshua, who saw the fruit of the land, but who went with a different spirit.

The Bible says they had a different spirit. And the spirit wasn't that they were stronger or more eloquent or more powerful or anything else. The spirit was simply that if God says, go in and take it, we can do it.

Amen. That's all. If the Lord delight in us, he will bring us in. And that must always be our basis of faith. If God says it, if God wants us to do it, that's got to be enough. No other said we can't, we can't, it's too powerful.

Paul says, writing to the Hebrews, the word of the report did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it. They were not, it was not mixed with faith. The word was not mixed with faith.

There's different ways that some translators bring it out. Their hearts were not united in faith with those who brought the word. Those who had the word, those who had faith, Caleb and Joshua, they declared what they saw.

And God's intention was that their hearts would be joined unto those who brought that good word. Because like we mentioned, faith is in the word that goes forth. To do whatever God wants to accomplish, faith is there in that word.

Not in heaven that you search out the heavens to try and get the faith forward. It's not in the deep that you would say, who can go down there and bring us up that power to do it? But the word is neither even in thy mouth and in thy heart, even the word of faith which we preach.

And so there is faith in an anointed word to do whatever God's intention is in sending forth that word. I say the anointed word, I mean the word that comes forth by the Spirit, from the Spirit. And so these hidden things, Paul says, God has prepared for them that love him.

He hasn't entered into a heart and mind, but God has prepared it for those that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

We can't see it, we can't hear it. With our natural eyes, our natural ears, our natural understanding, but God has revealed it by his Spirit. And so if God doesn't reveal it by his Spirit, I think we better leave it alone.

No doubt there are many, many wonderful things there yet that God would reveal. But if he is not revealing it by his Spirit, we better leave it alone. For the Spirit is searching. The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God, literally the depths of God, the deeps of God.

Deep things, then you're thinking of maybe gifts and things that God has to dish out to his people. But it's the depths of God, the deepness of God, the deeps of God, it's God himself that the Spirit is searching out, these deep places in God, the Spirit is searching that out.

The Spirit is searching. Paul says writing to the Romans that he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

God is a searching God, searching out, the Spirit is given to search out those depths in God. I wonder, we're inclined, you know, I think, to take a lot of things for granted. We receive God's Spirit, we get the baptism of the Holy Spirit, maybe get a gift or two, and we're inclined to feel, well now, you know, we're all prepared now for, you know, whatever he wants us to do.

We're ready for it. Instead of realizing that there's vast depths in God that we know nothing about yet, that God's purpose is really to search out those depths in God and to bring them unto us. Before we continue a little with that matter of searching, let's read verse 11 and 12.

The Spirit Reveals the Things of God

For what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him? Simply saying that only mankind can understand the things that relate to mankind. An animal, a bird, they have very little concept of human nature because they're of a different kind.

Only those of the human family can really understand things that pertain to the human family in any degree of fullness. And so he says it's the same with God. If we have the spirit of man, then we can relate to mankind and understand what man's all about, how he thinks and feels and understands.