150 S Enterprise
Bowling Green OH 43402
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Rev Mark Davis, Pastor
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| Jesus said: I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. The Spirit of truth will guide you to the truth. In Jesus, is the fullness of truth, but can the church ever say, we have nothing else to learn from the Holy Spirit? |
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· If that were true, after Pentecost the church would have nothing more to learn |
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· After the Bible was completed, why would we have needed the Council of Nicea, or Trent, or Vatican II? |
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· If the church already had captured all the truth, why would John Paul or Benedict write letters and books? They would merely tell us to read what was written by other popes years ago. |
I)It seems to me that
humans can never exhaust the truth about God or even about the
universe.
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Since God is infinite
there is always more for the Holy Spirit to reveal to us
The Spirit continues an
ongoing unveiling of the truth and insights into the truth, which we
cannot grasp all at one time. Jesus
said: I have much more to tell
you, but you cannot bear it now.
While defined dogmas of faith cannot be changed, our
understanding of mysteries like the Trinity will never fully grasp that
mystery.
B) Even the scientific truths of the physical universe continue to be beyond human grasp. We don’t fully understand how our own bodies work, let alone being able to grasp all the workings of our planet. And we have only a tiny fraction of knowledge about what is really going in 100 billion other galaxies.
II} Since there is always
more truth to be unveiled by the Spirit of God, I must not limit myself
to what I already comprehend. While we are meant to enjoy today, we are
inexorably being drawn toward tomorrow. There is always more to learn.
Story: The psychiatrist, Scott Peck, in writing The
Road Less Traveled was drawn to become a Christian, as he came to
realize that life does not make
sense if what you see is all that you get.
The meaning of our lives is bigger than the sum of all our past
experiences.
Is God calling you
forward to More than you can ever grasp?
Is the ultimate meaning of your lives still ahead of you?
Even when you are enjoying life, do you have a deep inkling that
this life is not all that there is?
Legend: There is a
legend that the Sea wanted to have a human child of her own. So when a
group of people in small canoes were going between two islands, she
whipped up a storm, causing great waves which capsized their canoes. The
passengers fell into the water and a young boy almost drowned, but the
humans got him to dry land. When
the Land taunted the Sea because she lost the boy she was trying to
claim, the Sea responded: I’m
not worried because I was able to toss a wavelet into the little one’s
heart. He will come back to me,
because he now has the sea in his soul.
Do you feel something in you – a spirit – drawing you forward? Drawing you toward God? That Spirit is drawing you toward your home in heaven. The fullness of truth and love surpasses anything we have ever experienced so far on this earth.
Story: Wanting to go home reminds me of a man who was stranded
on an island. He tried many ways to try to get home – at first by
swimming, but the tide brought him back. Then he built a large raft with
lots of provisions, but the current brought him back to the island. He
began to think he would never get home.
But then a voice – can we say a spirit – called him to go to the top
of a high cliff. He argued with the spirit: How will that help me get
home? You have to jump off the cliff. But if the fall does not kill me,
the waves will dash me on the rocks. Finally he came to believe the
voice deep within. When he trusted the Spirit enough to jump, he did not
die. But rather he found a current that existed no where else around the
island and the current took him home.