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DEV:Gems from Tozer
For those who want a rule by which they can test everything, I make
available here a little secret by which I have tested my own spiritual
experiences and religious impulses for many years.
Briefly stated the test is this: This new doctrine, this new
religious spiritual experience - how has it affected my attitude toward
and my relation to God, Christ, the Holy Scripture, self, other
Christians, the world and sin. By this seven-fold test we may prove
everything religious.
3. Another revealing test is, How does it affect my attitude toward
the Holy Scripture? Did this new experience, this new view of truth,
spring out of the Word of God itself? Whatever originates outside the
scripture should for that very reason be suspect until it can be shown
to be in accord with them. However high the emotional content, no
experience can be proved to be genuine unless we can find chapter and
verse authority for it in the Scripture. (Isa.8:20)
Whatever is new or singular should also be viewed with a lot of
caution. Over the last half-century quite a number of unscriptural
notions have gained acceptance among Christians by claiming that they
were among the truths that were to be revealed in the last days. The
truth is that the Bible does not teach that there will be new light and
advanced spiritual experiences in the latter days; it teaches the exact
opposite. Beware of any man who claims to be wiser than the apostles or
holier than the martyrs of the Early Church.
4. Again, we can prove the quality of religious experience by its
effect on self-life. The Holy Spirit and the fallen human self are
diametrically opposed to each other. (Gal.5:17) Before the Spirit of
God can work creatively in our hearts He must have our full consent to
displace our natural self with the Person of Christ. This displacement
is carefully explained in Romans 6, 7, and 8.
A good rule is this: If this experience has served to humble me and
make me little and vile in my own eyes, it is of God, but if it has
given me a feeling of self-satisfaction it is false and should be
dismissed as emanating from self or the devil. Nothing that comes from
God will minister to my pride or self-congratulation.
- Taken from the Media Spotlight Publication