KNOWING GOD FROM THE STAND POINT OF RELATIONSHIP PART 2 HEBREWS 8:6-13 W hen you know God by law and not by relationship you will hate people whom God loves, you will stay in an abusive relationship that God wants you to come out from. So that we can know His heart and not just His Words, God gave us His Spirit in addition to His Word. The Holy Spirit helps us to know the heart of God behind His commandments so that when we read the bible we read by the Spirit and we receive life, 1Corinthians 2:11. To act on the Word of God without the Spirit of God is to receive ministration of death. The bible says the letter killeth but the spirit gives life, 2Corinthians 3:6. Many times when people come to us for counselling we just go by the Word alone and counsel them by the Word without the Spirit of God. So a person that God wants to liberate we put them in bondage by giving them the Word but not spoken by the Spirit. Only when we understand the heart o...