2016 True Education Symposium

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Pattern Education

Vicky Jorgensen

Higher than Highest

We are going to start with the quote because, of course, this talk is higher than the highest human thought can reach.

And you recognize that that came from Education, page 18.

Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children.

Godliness, godlikeness is the goal to be reached.

And we have, I've just been so thankful to see how God has intermeshed all of the messages that we've been giving.

And we haven't consulted each other about any of these things but the Holy Spirit has truly blessed in a marked way.

So, again, this is from Isaiah 55 where God says in verse 8 and 9, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways my ways, sayeth the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Why does God give us this information?

You know, it's very, at times it can be overwhelming to think the high calling that we have in Christ Jesus.

We just have to become willing to come up higher and to allow the Holy Spirit.

And that's the reason I started yesterday with the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is the only effective teacher that can help us to understand.

Because if our thoughts are not His thoughts and our ways aren't His ways, we're gonna have to have Him to help us to see where the difference is so that we can, with a heart response, we're not just looking for outward conformity, we're looking for heart responses.

You can have education without a heart response.

But when you are looking for a heart response that is going to allow God's process to take you from point A all the way through, and then as we talked this morning about, Then you will actually go into the next school in the heaven.

So we are just so grateful that we have this privilege and that we have a perfect guide, a perfect guide.

And I didn't get to cover half of what I would have liked to have covered about the Holy Spirit, but if I've done anything, I hope I have been a catalyst.

So you will go and study what is it that God gave us.

Start in Desire of Ages 670, 671 and 672 and you will find there a description And it says that Jesus rejoiced that he had made such abundant provision.

He was thrilled that this was going to more than adequately meet the need.

And so that was Heaven's assessment of the Holy Spirit's help for us.

And that's why the devil doesn't want us to get hold of it.

He doesn't want us, and actually we don't get hold of it.

It gets hold of us, but we have to invite it.

And the way that it works is that when we realize our need, Well, in this case, that's why I read this quote, is because we have a real need here.

We're gonna go higher than the highest human thought can reach.

God wants you to enter into a union with Him, a dependence on Him that will enable Him to work out His will.

And in homeschooling, in any true education work that takes place, you need to always remember this 1 principle is so important.

And it is that as we work on the plan of addition, God works on the plan of multiplication.

When that happens, it looks like you're doing such an infinitesimal little bit that you just can see, how could this make any difference?

And when you obey God, it enables him to work on a plan that is far beyond anything that you could expect or you could even ask for.

This has become just a key for me because it tells about the character of God for 1 thing, because it shows here that in this whole process from start to finish, it initiates from Him.

Even if it doesn't look like It's something that we can figure out how to do if we just do the next thing.

If we just do 1 plus 1, it will enable him to take it to the next level.

And so Acts of the Apostles 478, it goes like this.

And I don't have time to read the whole thing because we have much to cover.

He says, he brings us to his Word, number 1, and from the tree of life presents to us leaves for the healing of sin-sick souls.

We're talking about how to restore sin-sick souls.

So he's taking us first to the Word and there's healing leaves there that he's going to give us, healing leaves that are promises, God's Word.

And then after he gives us those leaves, then he leads us to the throne of God.

Now you remember in Hebrews, we should come boldly to the throne of God.

Yes, we should come because we're coming in Christ's name and we're coming through the Holy Spirit's prompting.

So we have every encouragement that we could possibly have.

So he brings us now to the throne, and then what does he do?

So he's even initiating the very prayers we pray.

And he told us in Luke 11, 13 that we should pray and ask for the Holy Spirit, which will bring all other blessings in its train.

So when we ask for this, we will then understand, and that's why this quote, After he's put this prayer in our mouth, it says it's through this prayer, which we are brought into close contact with himself and get this, in our behalf, whose behalf?

We said a prayer and now it's in our behalf.

In our behalf, he sets in operation the all-powerful agencies of Heaven.

As you went and did your 1 plus 1, he prompted you to come to the Word.

He brought you to the throne and he put in your mouth a prayer and you prayed that prayer.

You asked him and you can even ask him to do for you that what you don't even know how to ask for.

And that's the promise there over there, so rich, so rich with meaning in Romans 8, 27, where that The Holy Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which we cannot utter.

But if we don't do our part, He can't do any of what He wants to do.

And so He sets in operation the all-powerful agencies of heaven and at every step we touch His living power.

Oh, I just get so excited about that because there's gonna be times in your homeschooling or in any endeavor for true education that you're gonna feel overwhelmed.

But listen, there's promises for every need in His Word.

We are told that, when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy." He truly is waiting to be gracious unto us and he will work in our hearts if we allow him And we invite him and we cherish him.

And that's why I invite you, go and study out.

What does the Holy Spirit really offer you?

I didn't get to cover it yesterday, but there is a false Holy Spirit, a counterfeit.

It doesn't really appreciate studying the Word.

It doesn't really find the joy of service.

What God is offering you is far beyond anything that you could ever hope for.

And once you get a taste of it, that's what Jesus was talking about.

He said, up inside your belly will flow out rivers of living water And you will draw out of the wells of salvation with joy.

So God has an experience for each of us, not just for the young people, but for us.

And that's why I started yesterday, too, is that we have to have it in order to give it, in order to guide our young people into this experience.

And when we have it, it's such a joy that it will bubble out and it will enable, and young people love this kind of thing.

And when they experience it, there will be a joy.

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