Would you go please in the book of Proverbs today, and let's continue in a study that we've

begun a few weeks ago, and we're going to Proverbs 20. Proverbs 20 and 27. We're into a subject now that Phyllis and I have talked about so many times. We think

it is, well, I shouldn't say it like that. We know it is one of the most important things we have

ever learned in our life, period.

And it has to do with how God communicates with us,

how to hear from him, how to be led by His Spirit.

In Proverbs 20 and verse 27,

Proverbs 2027 says,

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,

searching all the inward parts of the belly. The complete Jewish Bible says it like this.

It says the human spirit is a lamp of Adonai.

It searches one's inmost being.

Now, back then, candles was all they had for interior lighting.

We have light bulbs. We have lights. And we would say it like that, you know, the human spirit is the Lord's light.

It's his flashlight.

It's his means of illuminating us.

God illuminates us through our own spirit.

In the W.E.B., the English Bible says,

The Spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts. The psalmist said, what is man that you are mindful of him?

This is something that I think most of the billions on the planet are not aware of, and that is

what we are. What we are. You've got millions upon millions

that believe we are nothing more than a more highly developed animal. It's taught as a fact.

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