Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.

For so many of us, we have that little voice in our head that constantly tells us what

we need to do to be accepted by God.

In this classic message, Francis Chan helps clear away the fog that keeps us from seeing

God's grace and calls us back to the freedom that Jesus died to give us.

Well, this morning is kind of interesting because I'm actually speaking on something

I don't understand.

It's always fun, huh?

What I mean by that, and yet I understand it better than I did last week.

I understand it better this morning than I did last night.

You see, spiritual knowledge, spiritual knowledge isn't just about intellect.

You don't get to know things by God, things of God, just through pure intellect and

just through studying enough.

If that were true, then all the most intelligent would know, all the agents would know God best.

But the Bible teaches that, I'm kidding, the Bible teaches that in knowing God and spiritual

knowledge, it's more than intellect.

In fact, He says that He'll frustrate the intelligence of the intelligent.

And the Bible talks about how there's a direct correlation, direct correlation between

spiritual knowledge and obedience, that how you obey actually affects what you will

know.

That was the whole point of the parable, the sower, you know, when He says He throws out

seed and a lot of it depends on your heart and where it's at, and that's why at the end

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