What is more important, knowledge or revelation? Both are
equally important to understand the truth of God. Knowledge is obtained through
the process of reasoning and intelligent mind given by God. For this process, studying,
reading, and meditation of the words are unescapably and essentially required. No
hearing, no knowledge. No studying, no learning. No thinking and meditation, no
grasping but passing. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.” (Romans 10:17 NKJV)
On top of that, revelation comes in the process of having
the mind of God. “For ‘who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct
Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16 NKJV) Revelation can
happen only by the divine activity of the Spirit who was given to the hearts of
all believers in Christ. No human effort can make it possible to have the mind
of the Lord. The gift of the Holy Spirit is given to those who were converted
through the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Once the Spirit comes, He never
leaves but indwells forever.
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the
Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor
knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will
not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” (John 14:15-18 NKJV)
All Christians have the inner Teacher who is the Spirit of
God. “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you
do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you
concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught
you, you will abide in Him.” (1 John 2:27 NKJV) The revelations come not by our
will but by His will. It’s grace upon grace to understand the full riches of
Christ, unsearchable, incomparable, unfathomable riches in glory, honor,
majesty, and immortal splendor.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
just He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and without blame before Him in love,” (Ephesians 1:3-4 NKJV)
Knowledge and revelation shall be balanced. Knowledge is in
our part and revelation, divine. Knowledge is like adding gas to the car and
revelation, like sparking the engine. What we do is to keep on reading,
studying, meditating the words of truth in season and out of season. “But his
delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm
1:2 NKJV)
Then, the next step which is the most significantly crucial
is the complete and full reliance on the Spirit within. Read and think though
the scriptures and then wait for the work of the Spirit in patience and trust
that He delights to reveal the marvelous truths in our lives. “Because it has
been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them
it has not been given. For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will
have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away
from him.” (Matthew 13:11-12 NKJV)
If not balanced and dependent on knowledge, the consequence
is eventually drabness, dryness, boredom, mannerism. If not balanced and
dependent on revelation, the outcome is inevitably fantasy, confusion,
frustration, fragility. The Lord says, “Only be strong and very courageous,
that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant
commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you
may prosper wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:7 NKJV)
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