CONTRAST OF SENSE KNOWLEDGE FAITH AND REVELATION FAITH

SENSE knowledge faith is based upon physical evidence. One believes in what they can see, hear or feel. We know that we have the Holy Spirit because
we have had physical evidence to prove it.

Multitudes have taken this attitude and have been unhappily deceived. Had they based their confidence upon the Word of God regardless of all sense knowledge evidence, life would have been another thing for them.

Others when they have prayed for finances, have not believed the Word until they could see the evidence. As one said, “When I see the money, then I will believe the Word.”
You see, that is not believing at all, because one needs not believe what they can see.
Faith is giving substance to things you cannot see, feel or hear. One says, “I know that I am healed because the pain is gone.”

He did not say, “I know I am healed because the Word says, `By His Stripes, I am healed’.” His faith was not in what God had said, but in what he could see, feel or hear.
These people give the Word a second place in their lives. They give to their body, the home of the senses, the first place.

One says, “I know that I am saved because I have repented of my sins. I have given up all of my bad habits.” Every one of these things that he claims for his salvation are things that he did himself. He has given no Scriptural evidence of his salvation. He has depended upon physical evidence rather than the Word of God.

After a while, he makes the discovery that the evidence of the senses cannot satisfy the craving of the spirit. Sense knowledge philosophy has gained control of the Church, but it cannot answer the cry of the human spirit. The human spirit seeks God as the flower seeks the sun.

Basing our faith upon what we have done and counting more on experiences than upon the Word eventually leads us into darkness and doubt. Acting on reason instead of the Word means to trust in man instead of God’s Word.

“Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, that maketh flesh his arm.” Trusting in the faith of some other person is dangerous. We should trust in the Word of God ourselves. Most people who are untaught in the Word are seeking for someone who can the prayer of faith for them. The prayer of faith may deliver temporarily, but unbelief will annul the effect of their prayer eventually.

It is having faith, believing in your own faith, trusting in the Word of God for yourself that will put you over. It is not talking about faith or the need of faith, but it is resting implicitly in the living Word.

The prayer for faith will necessarily be a prayer of unbelief. Consequently, there can be no answer for it. Then your praying for faith is simply unbelief attempting to get what the Word alone can give.

You understand that simple confidence in the Word is never sensible to the man who lives in the realm of the senses, for they only believe what they can see, hear or understand.

Faith is giving substance to things that sense knowledge cannot understand or see.
It lifts one out of the realm of the senses into the realm of the recreated human spirit.
Faith is always limited, as it was with Martha and Thomas. Martha said, “His body decayeth.”

Thomas said, “Unless I can see the wounds and put my fingers into the wounds, I will not believe.”

This kind of faith is commended by our modern religious leaders, but this is not the faith mentioned by Jesus or by the writers of the New Testament.

We have been trained to believe in the skill of men. We have more confidence in the surgeon than we have in the Word and because of that, we see little manifestations of the real faith in the Living Word, for the skill of man. and what we call science, has taken the place of the Word in the hearts of the people. Their faith is in man and they honor man with their lips.

Their confession is not that the Word of God is true, but that man and his words are true. You see, they honour God with their lies, but they trust in the arm of flesh with their hearts.