Special knowledge

One man's 'un-Christian special knowledge' is for another man the presence of the Holy Spirit in his being.

The mocker of special knowledge doesn't really care if the knowledge is on-the-mark or not, or if it can withstand the tribunal of Scripture; the mocker of special knowledge really is a mocker of the Holy Spirit Himself, and a mocker of any notion that individuals can have the Holy Spirit in their being.

To a Christian on the spiritual battlefield the mocker isn't even a distant voice in the darkness. The mockers of the end times accost Christians when Christians are not out on the Way. They don't even get close enough to the Way to be able to heckle and mock from the sidelines.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and Discernment. Joh 14:26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." Gill: "he shall teach you all things: this is the proper work and business of the Spirit, to teach, interpret, and explain all things which Christ had said to them; to make them more plain and easy to their understandings..."

How does the Spirit teach? The mocker will say: "So, like, is God talking to you? Really? Does he, like, speak English and everything so you can understand?" The mocker - who self-identifies as Christian - is a practical atheist. As shallow as an atheist, as angry as an atheist.

So how does the Spirit teach? If you've been taught by the Spirit, you know. And it's not a simple one sentence response. The Spirit leads and guides. The Spirit inspires. The Spirit gives discernment for things that are of a higher nature. Influences that are rare. The Spirit teaches in many ways, in all stages and through all activities of the learning process. General Revelation included, by the way. It's like regeneration though. You can't defend it in a court of law to people who haven't experienced it. Abel could no more explain regeneration to Cain than Jesus could impart the value of God's word to Satan. You only receive hatred or practiced dissimulation from the other side.

Some mockers stop short of actual mocking and do the 'I have grave concerns' approach. Yes, anything that wakes Christians up establishment Christianity will have 'grave concerns' about, if not outright mockery.

The 'respectable Christian' who has 'grave concerns' and mockery for special knowledge is really on the same team as the shivering speakers in tongues and the snake handlers, because they both mock the Holy Spirit. They both need each other.