The Spirit-Filled Life: Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit | A.W. Tozer Sermon

Can the human intellect know God—or only the Holy Spirit reveal Him?

In this Straight Bible episode, the hosts walk through Chapter/Episode 2 of A.W. Tozer's Ten Sermons on the Holy Spirit. The sermon itself is titled along these lines: How Christ Is Revealed by the Holy Spirit, Not Through the Intellect. Tozer presses a searching question: Are we settling for intellectual knowledge about God, or receiving Spirit-revealed knowledge of God?

Straight Bible hosts open with Tozer's outline, then read and discuss the message in full—pausing for Scripture, clarity, and honest conversation about orthodoxy's blunder, Bible study without illumination, “two Christs,” intuition and inner anointing, and why science and philosophy cannot prove divine things.

What this sermon covers:
• The natural (psychic) man cannot receive the things of the Spirit—they are spiritually discerned
• Orthodoxy's blunder: assuming spiritual truths can be intellectually perceived
• Why Bible study alone cannot remove the veil
• Two Christs: the Christ of history and the creeds vs. the Christ only the Spirit can reveal
• Intuition / inward illumination—not as a substitute for Scripture, but as the Spirit's inner witness
• Philosophy, reason, and science have no technique for what is divine
• “It is the Holy Spirit or darkness”
• When the Spirit comes, He does not throw out true learning—He sets it on fire

Scripture in this episode:
• John 3:27 — “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven”
• Isaiah 55:8–9 — God's thoughts and ways higher than ours
• 1 Corinthians 2 (esp. vv. 6–16) — wisdom of God in a mystery; the natural man; the spiritual man
• John 16 — the Spirit of truth guides into all truth and glorifies Christ
• 1 John 2:27 — the anointing abides and teaches
• 2 Timothy 3:16 — all Scripture given by inspiration of God

Series context:
This is Episode 2 in Straight Bible's reading of Tozer's Ten Sermons on the Holy Spirit—classic pulpit truth for anyone hungry for a Spirit-filled walk, not merely a clever creed.

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