by T. Austin-Sparks
First published in "A Witness and A Testimony" magazines, 1931-1932, Vol. 9-1 - 9-3.
A Consideration of the Great Revelation in the Scriptures Concerning the House of God
We would again point out the tremendous difference between an appraisement of any great truth of Scripture by an intellectual process and that truth coming as a revelation from God by the Holy Spirit to the heart. Some of us have had our lives entirely revolutionised by the latter even after we had known and preached all the same truth for years... Our need today is for a fresh revelation of what the house of God is according to God's mind and not according to man's construction. We have said that in that which is of God, man's judgment and wisdom have no place, everything is by the Holy Spirit. God never brings His house down to us, we have to be brought up to it. Very often there elapses a long period between our introduction to the truth of the house of God, and our coming to dwell experimentally and with understanding in it.
