The Believer’s Mistake 609
earthly people, the Jews, during the millennial kingdom when there
shall be no satanic counterfeit. Unaware of this fact they view
supernatural guidance in a voice to be the highest form of guidance.
They esteem themselves more spiritual than the rest and hence
receive supernatural guidance of this type. They neither listen to their
conscience nor follow their intuition; they merely wait in a passive
manner for the supernatural voice. These believers hold that they do
not need to think, ponder, choose or decide. They simply need to
obey. They permit the voice to be substituted for their intuition and
conscience. And the consequence is that “(a) he does not use his
conscience; (b) God does not speak to him for automatic obedience;
(c) evil spirits take the opportunity and supernatural voices are
substituted for the action of the conscience.” (Penn-Lewis, WOTS,
121) The outcome is that the enemy gains more ground in the
believer. And “from this time (forward) the man is not influenced by
what he feels or sees, or by what others say, and he closes himself to
all questions, and will not reason. This substitution of supernatural
guidance for the action of the conscience explains the deterioration
of the moral standard in persons with supernatural experiences,
because they have really substituted the direction of evil spirits for
their conscience. They are quite unconscious that their moral
standard is lowered, but their conscience has become seared by
deliberately ceasing to heed its voice; and by listening to the voices
of the teaching spirits, in matters which should be decided by the
conscience in respect to their being right or wrong, good or evil.”
(Penn-Lewis, WOTS,121-22 )
- Memory. Text: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring
to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14.26).
Christians do not grasp that this verse means the Counselor will
enlighten their mind so that they may remember what the Lord has
spoken. They instead think it instructs them not to engage their
memory because God shall bring all things to their minds. They
accordingly allow their memory to degenerate into passivity; they do