“Jesus answered and said to them, ‘You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.’”
— Matthew 22:29 (NKJV)
There are spiritual errors that do not come from a lack of intelligence, but from a lack of truly knowing God. Jesus identifies here two great causes of error: not knowing the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God.
The Sadducees knew religion, debated doctrine, and asked complex questions. Yet Jesus said to them: “You are mistaken.”
📖 It is not enough to have a Bible; we must allow the Bible to possess us.
We can read the Scriptures without understanding their heart. We can know verses without truly knowing the One who inspired those verses.
But Jesus adds something even deeper: “nor the power of God.”
⚡ When we limit God to what we have already seen, experienced, or understood, we begin to build a faith according to the measure of our own reasoning. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection because they tried to understand eternal life only through the categories of earthly life.
This is our danger: trying to explain God within the limits of man.
🔥 Authentic Pentecostal faith holds these two realities together: the Word and the Power.
The Word without power can become cold knowledge. The pursuit of power without the Word can become confusion. But when the Holy Spirit illuminates the Scriptures, truth becomes life, faith, and transformation.
Never say, “This is impossible,” simply because you cannot understand how it can happen.
If God has spoken, His Word is true.
If God has promised, His power is sufficient.
If you cannot see a way, it does not mean that God does not have a way.
🙏 Lord, deliver us from the error of knowing words without truly knowing You. Open our minds to the Scriptures and our hearts to Your power. Help us never to limit the God of the impossible by the smallness of our thoughts. Amen.
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