The following message by the late Dr. A. W. Tozer, to be THE key, the crux of this whole issue, is in verse 17. If any man is willing to do God’s will, he shall know.
included in a further volume of addresses by him now in preparation, is, we feel, so much in keeping with the ministry of A Witness and A Testimony, that we borrow it for our readers, assured that they will be very glad to read it. It was recently in The Alliance Witness of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. And while mentioning this, may I say that, in early years of ministry and the Lord’s work, I owed very much to the life of Dr. A. B. Simpson, founder of that ‘Alliance’.
–T Austin-Sparks
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People marvelled at our Lord as He taught. They asked: "How knoweth this man letters having never learned?" ‘How does He know learning’, in other words, ‘never having studied in the regular schools?’ In those days they had no schools as we know them; a rabbi taught little groups of students. Our Lord evidently never attended a rabbinical school so they asked: ‘How does He get His wonderful doctrine, since He has never been to the schools of the rabbis?’
Now, this question tells us a good deal about these people. It tells us that they held truth to be intellectual merely, capable of being reduced to a code. To know truth it was necessary only to learn the code.
Most of them had no books of their own—they learned by memorizing. That was their conception of truth. I gather this not only from verse 17 but from the whole Gospel of John. To these people truth was an intellectual thing—just as we know that two times two is four.
That is truth, but it is an intellectual truth only. They reduced divine truth to that status. They knew the laws: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.... Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.... Thou shalt not ...". But to them there was no mysterious depth in truth, nothing beneath and nothing beyond the obvious fact. It was exactly here that they parted company with our Saviour, for our Lord Jesus constantly taught the beyond and the beneath.
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