Sense Knowledge Faith And Spiritual Knowledge Faith
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation (Romans 10:10).
There’s a difference between sense knowledge
faith and spiritual knowledge faith. Sense
knowledge faith is the faith that you’ve acquired
through the senses; it’s the mother of modern
inventions. Most of the institutions that we have today
are the products of sense knowledge faith. In fact, you
spent all your years in school building your faith on
sense knowledge.
Sense knowledge faith is based on our observations,
on what we can relate with using our senses of smell,
sight, feeling, taste, and hearing. That’s why you hear
people say, “If I can see it, I will believe it. If I don’t see
it, I will never believe.” It’s because they’ve built their
faith with their senses over the years. But that kind of
faith is dependent on your physical body; your body
houses your senses.
You’re however, not a body; you’re a spirit being.
So, your senses can’t contact God. You don’t believe
with your mind; you reason with your mind. Our
opening verse says with the heart man believes, not
with the mind. The heart is your spirit.
Being born again, God doesn’t expect you to run
your life with sense knowledge faith. 2 Corinthians
5:7 says, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” Sight
means sensory perception! Romans 8:13 tells us, “For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through
the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall
live.” The flesh refers to the senses; but you’re to live
by faith in God’s Word.
God’s faith, spiritual faith, comes from hearing
the Word of God. Romans 10:17 says, “So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.” When God’s Word comes to you, faith
comes with it. The Word imparts faith to your spirit.
That’s how come, for example, you’re able to believe
that Jesus is the Son of God, without resorting to any
scientific proof. You neither had to “feel” that He is,
nor experience a visitation from an angel in the night,
to know. The Word says He is, you heard it, and that
spiritual knowledge imparted the faith to your spirit to
receive it. Praise God!
Prayer
Thank you Father for the wisdom and revelation I receive from
your Word. My faith is active and it prevails, because it’s based on
spiritual knowledge. I’m making progress and flourishing on
every side as I grow in grace and in the knowledge of your Word,
in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study
John 20:29; Romans 8:1; Hebrews 11:1
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
1 Thessalonians 4:1-18
Isaiah 59-60
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 5:33-47
1 Kings 21