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Prov. 6:22
 
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“[C]omparing spiritual thingswith spiritual:”1 Cor. 2:13
 
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ow can we understand the “words of God”(Numbers 24:4)? How do letters on paper, whenread, become thoughts in our minds? How does the mind function? How do we learn, think and understand? Brainresearchers call it ‘cognitive function.’ To discover theanswers, it would be best to examine
how
God, the creator of the mind, teaches us and communicates with us throughhis word. The “holy scriptures” and the Saviour bear thesame name:
The Word of God 
(Rev. 19:13). He alsocalls himself the “Alpha and Omega,” which are “the beginning and the ending”
letters
which encompass theGreek alphabet. God identifies himself with words, whichare made up of letters. His revelation of himself to man alsotakes this form
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the written word of God, the Holy Bible.
“Comparing Spiritual Things with Spiritual”
The written word encompasses all
 spiritual 
“wisdom and knowledge,” like the living Word, Jesus,“Christ; In whom arehid allthe treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Col. 2:2, 3These treasures are taught to Christians by the Holy Ghost.The Spirit “bears witness in earth” through the word of God (1 John 5:8).“Which
things
also we speak,
not in thewords which man’s wisdom teacheth
, butwhich theHoly Ghost teacheth;
comparing
 spiritual 
things
withspiritual.” 1 Cor. 2:13  “...thewordsthatI speak unto you, they are spirit...” John 6:63Christians are commanded to
compare
 “spiritual thingswith spiritual,”that is, to let the word of God, the Bible,
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comment upon itself. We are to comparescripture withscripture. Just as there is nothing comparable to Christ, theWord, so there are no man-made books to which we cancompare the written word.“whatlikeness will yecompareunto him?” Isa. 40:18The Holy Ghost’s teaching tool, the Bible, is “spirit,” because it is the breath of God, not the words of man.Christians are
not 
to compare “spiritual things” (the wordsof God in the Bible) with the words of men, in lexicons,
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 the “wordswhich man’s wisdom teacheth.” Only forbidden“private interpretation” can be drawn from dipping one’snose deeply into corrupt lexicons, dictionaries, and commentaries by worldly wise men, like Strong, Vine, and Zodhiates (2 Peter 1:19, 20). Lucifer offered Eve the same“likethe most High” method for counterfeiting God’swisdom. Satan offers, not the leaves of the Bible, but pagesfrom the tree of “knowledge” (Gen. 3).
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“Yea, hath God said 
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Your Bible is not the words of God.
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“...desired to make one wise”
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You need an additional source for true wisdom.’ 
 
“Search the scriptures,” not the bookstores and the library(John 5:39). God’s hidden “things” are not found byreaching up on a shelf to take the forbidden fruit. Babes inChrist find true wisdom and the “more sureword ” in easyreach, “revealed” on their knees, on the bottom shelf in theBible itself (2 Peter 1:19).“...thou hasthid these things from the wiseand prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes” Matt. 11:25
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