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  THE DIVINE ILLUMINATOR
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: To know God in a spiritual sense is to enter into an unmediated
awareness experienced by the soul, beyond the reach of the mind.

Topics: "Experiencing God", "The Role of Intellect in Faith"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:105, Isaiah 1:18, John 16:13, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, Ephesians 1:17-18, Philippians 3:8-10, Colossians 1:9-10, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, James 1:5

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that knowing God transcends mere intellectual
understanding; it is an experiential awareness of Him that engages the
soul. He argues that while the intellect plays a role in understanding
biblical revelation, true knowledge of God comes through the Holy Spirit
illuminating the heart of the penitent. This journey begins with an
appeal to reason but culminates in a spiritual experience that surpasses
rational thought. Tozer encourages believers to seek a deeper, more
intimate relationship with God that goes beyond academic knowledge.

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CONTENT
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To know God in the scriptural meaning of the term is to enter into
experience of Him. It never means to know about. It is not a knowledge
mediated by the intellect, but an unmediated awareness experienced by
the soul on a plane too high for the mind to reach. Where then is the
place of the intellect in Christian experience? And why waste time
thinking when we know beforehand that thought cannot bring us to the
knowledge that is most of all to be desired, the knowledge of God?

The answer is that the whole biblical revelation is addressed to the
intellect and through the intellect reaches the will, the seat of the
moral life; if the will responds in repentance and obedience, the Holy
Spirit illuminates the penitent heart and reveals Christ, the image of
God, to it.

What began as an appeal to reason (Isaiah 1:18) ends in a spiritual
experience wholly above reason

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/the-divine-illuminator/
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