[RollingStone]

Originally Posted by OBW

Yes, we may get true enlightenment through the Spirit. But how do we know? Just because we know? That boat doesn't float.

From my perspective now. After 25 years on this journey with many twists and turns.

I can say I have seen this place.
2 Timothy 4:3
3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate the healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap up to themselves teachers, having itching ears,

I can say I have seen this place too.
John 14:26
26 But the 1aComforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the 2Father will send in 3My name, He will bteach you call things and remind you of all the things which I have said to you.

I think I started out with John 14:26 but couldn't believe it was really happening so I went looking for experts. They led me down to....

1 Timothy 1:7
7 Desiring to be 1ateachers of the law, though they understand neither the things that they say, nor concerning what they 2bconfidently affirm.

Somewhere in here I made a trip to Babylon too as I couldn't understand a few people.

and I was seeking to be confident like them but by the grace of God i found

Galations the whole book.
3 Are you so foolish? Having 1begun by the 2Spirit, are you now being 1perfected by the 2aflesh?

I was foolish,, trying to perfect myself, be holy, follow the law but failing over and over.

Then I read
2 Corinthians 3:15
15 Indeed unto this day, whenever 1Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart;

and I realized that all those who were reading to me Moses were veiled and that

Luke 5:38
38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

I once had no idea that I never left the tree of knowledge of good and evil because i was trying to be good.
I didn't know that the tree of life was in the New Jerusalem as I didn't even know there was such a place even after being with Christians who were Christians for generations because they were all veiled with going to heaven or hell and couldn't see it.

On this journey I can say that Watchman Nee opened my eyes to the churches described in Revelation chapter 2 and 3. I didn't know what a star was or a lampstand before that. I didn't know about overcomers.

I had been in Corinth for 10 years with the toys (speaking in tongues, tooting a trumpet and making a joyful sound with everyone seeking their gift)

I found the LC and thought I had found Philadelphia but it turned into Laodacia.

I have been many places and many are what is expressed in
Hebrews 6:1 1 Therefore leaving the 1word of the 2abeginning of Christ, let us
3be brought on to 4bmaturity, not laying again a foundation
of crepentance from ddead works and of efaith in God,

they are stuck in teachings on repentence
stuck on faith in God

2 Of the teaching of 1abaptisms and of the blaying on of hands, of the cresurrection of the dead and of eternal djudgment.

So I don't want to be stuck in these foundations

let us 3be brought on to 4bmaturity

and considering

John 1:9
9 This was the atrue light which, coming into the world
enlightens every man.

and

12 But as many as 1areceived Him, to them He gave the authority to become 2children of God, to those who 1believe into His name,
13 Who were begotten not 1of 2blood, nor 1of the 2will of the flesh, nor 1of the 2will of man, but 1of God.