Education of the mind, heart, and ears:

Educated by the philosophies, religion, colleagues, academia? I have indeed been taught in the statutes and limitations of those utilities.

But most of all, I have been educated by the Spirit of Truth, God, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit.

One might say, ‘Is that different than Studying the Word?’

While it is necessary to study the ‘word of truth’, it is essential to know the truth that is within the ‘word of truth’.

Now one may ask, ‘Isn’t the ‘letter’ of the word the truth?’

There is no doubt that throughout the whole Christian Bible (both Old and New Testaments) is the true accounts of all things which pertain to life and godliness, and contains the truth in all things pertaining to the spiritual principles, and doctrines, and knowledge of God, which are hidden from the natural man, that he may not glory in them to himself, but are made known only to those who follow the patterns and principles of Jehovah God, which He has shown clearly and concisely by the hidden truths within the ‘letter’ of the word.

Yes, we must, by proper application, as declared in the scriptures, conform to the ‘letter’. And that is exactly what the Jews did under the law. (See Ephesians 2:8-10, below.)

But the Jews profited nothing by just performing the works of the law by the letter:

Romans 9:31-32:

31) “But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained unto (received)
righteousness.
32) “Wherefore (Why)? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the (very) ‘works’ of (the ‘letter’ of) the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone (faith).”

Ephesians 2:8-10: ‘Works’, by the law, vs. ‘good works’, through faith, which worketh by love, thereby manifesting the law in action:

8) “For by grace (which came by Jesus Christ: I John 1:17) are ye saved through faith; and that (neither grace nor faith is) not of yourselves: it is the gift of God (to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ):
9) “Not of ‘works’, lest any man should boast (or glory in any accomplishment of his own!).
10) “For we are His workmanship, created (re-created, born again, a ‘new man’) in Christ Jesus unto ‘good works’ (which are the product of our ‘faith, which worketh by love’: Galatians 5:6b), which God hath before (creation) ordained that we should walk in them.”

And that is how we, by the commandments of Jesus Christ, fulfil the law of Moses, and establish the law, through faith, which worketh by love:

Romans 13:8-10:
8) “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that (walking in ‘good works’, in ‘faith, which worketh by love’) loveth another hath fulfilled the law (of Moses).
9) “For this (reason), ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’, ‘Thou shalt not kill (murder)’, ‘Thou shalt not steal’, ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness (‘against thy neighbour’)’, ‘Thou shalt not covet’ (lust for that which is not yours, or not legitimately obtainable with fair consequence).
10) “And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’.”

But there is only one ‘pattern’ of the essential steps that we must take , in order to attain to that stature in the Infinite God whereby we are qualified to know the truth within those words of the scripture. And after the completion of those obediences, we then are given the capability of discerning the truths from the word of truth:

Romans 10:17:

17) “So then faith cometh by ‘hearing’, and ‘hearing’ by the word of God.”

Jesus spoke to Jews who were born again, for they had believed on Him (John 1:11-13):

John 8:32:

32) “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Emphasis on ‘shall’: Though they were born by the Spirit, saved from their past sins with their eternal penalty in hell and the lake of fire, they did not yet have access to the knowledge of the truth, any more than any other natural man with his natural carnal mind, as we also see so many who are currently in that same status of the believers who lived under the law, including the apostles (John 16:12-13), who were given the power over all the power of the enemy, the devil (Luke 10:19), and had the power to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, and cleanse the leper (Matthew 10:8); and it is obvious that so many true believing sisters and brothers do not know the (hidden) truth of the Spirit of God, because we have so many variations of what some call the truth in their doctrinal beliefs, most of which have been determined by man’s natural evaluation of the word of truth, the Christhan Bible.

And because of man’s natural (carnal) reasoning, and literal interpretation (with partial blindness, as the Jews had when they rejected Jesus and crucified Him: Romans 11:25), we are not keeping the commandments of Christ, which came from God the Father.

(John 13:34-35; John 14:21-24; Deuteronomy 18:18-19; Ephesians 2:8-10)

Thus, we do not in any way conform to the pattern which God has given for the Church:

I Corinthians 1:10

Here is the reason that man cannot, in his own natural reasoning and evaluations and analyses of the letter of the word, attain to the truth, stated in the following scriptures:

I Corinthians 2:14:

14) “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

By all of man’s many generations of accumulated knowledge and practical reasoning, natural man does not, nor can the natural man obtain, the capability of knowing any spiritual thing. For God has reserved that knowledge (and keeps it hidden) that it might be revealed by His Spirit to only His sons (children), ‘if we follow on to know the Lord’

Hosea 6:3a:

3a) “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:”

When we as individuals believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the only true and living God Jehovah, we are free from the guilt and ultimate eternal penalty of our past sins which we have committed (Romans 3:23), though our flesh still condemned to die because of those sins (Romans 5:12; Hebrews 9:27), our souls are saved from the current hellfire

(Psalm 9:17), which will be after our death sentence is executed, and from the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10-15), and our everlasting ‘fate’ then becomes our eternal ‘destiny’ (as shown in Revelation 21:1-7).