Some Christians believe their group or denomination knows all there is to know and that they have received the last and final, latest and greatest revelation from God and that’s it.  They set up camp around the last revelation they received and refuse to go any further.

Ever since the Dark Ages when the devil tried to strip the church of her power and rob her of revelation by convincing ungodly leaders to lock up the Word in monasteries away from the people, the Lord has been restoring lost truths to us little by little.  He started in Martin Luther’s day by restoring the foundational truth of the New Birth “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17).  That truth came as a shock to people back in the 1500’s.  Religious leaders were enraged by it.  Multitudes puzzled over whether or not to believe it. Yet today, the entire evangelical church takes that revelation for granted.  We don’t argue about it anymore.  We know we are saved, not by our own works, but by simple faith in Jesus.

After that revelation was restored, God began adding others.  Througout the pentecostal movement which emerged in the 1900’s, God took us from New Birth to scriptural truths about the baptism in the Holy Spirit (Matt. 3:11).  Forty years later, during the healing revivals in the 1940’s – 1960’s, God restored the revelation of divine healing (1 Peter 2:24)

During the Charismatic movement in the 1960’s, God added revelation about the Gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:4-10).  At the end of the decade, He taught us about the power and integrity of His written word and how to operate by faith in that Word (Hebrews 4:12, Mark 11:23-24)

God takes us from “faith to faith” and “glory to glory” (Romans 1:17, 2 Cor. 3:18)  He never pours all revelation at once, He restores them one by one.

Some believers received the revelation of the New Birth and blessed multitudes by showing them how to get saved by faith.  However, when anyone tried to tell them about the baptism in the Holy  Spirit and speaking in tongues, they slammed the door shut on that revelation.

Then those believers who were baptized in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues rejected any teachings and revelations about healing and receiving financial provision by faith.

We must resist our carnal tendency to resist new revelation.  We must ensure that the truths we have learned from God’s word is not a dead-end, but a foundation, a building block, if you will.  We must go on and grow up “into the measure and stature of the fullness of Christ.”  (Ephesians 4:13)