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The biblical account of ancient Israel describes a people abundantly familiar with God’s Word—more than any other people in history. Yet, with few exceptions, the Israelites failed to steadfastly live by their Creator’s instructions. Though God gave them knowledge of His ways, He did not, while they lived, give them the inner strength they needed to consistently control their fleshly nature. Yet He promised that the time would come when that spiritual power would be made available not only to them but to the people of all nations through the gift of His Spirit.
Their experience helps us understand that humans are incomplete without God’s Spirit. As the apostle Paul explains: "... No one knows the things of God except (through) the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:11, emphasis added throughout). He adds, "... The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (verse 14).
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