Willfully ignorant

1 Cor. 14:38 (KJV)
“But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.”

1 Cor. 14:38 (NIV)
“If he ignores this, he himself will be ignored.”

If I do not see or know the truth or light then the truth will not shine in my heart or spirit. I will be ignoring myself because I am not being true to who I really am in Christ.

There is a contrast between a lifestyle or practicing sin versus not practicing. The contrast is will. It is His will in us. If I practice sin in my life then I do not know who I am in Him. I have not seen Him or known Him.

1 John 3:6 (NIV)
“No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.”

If I am growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, 2 Pet. 3:18, then I am growing away from the old towards His nature in me which is my true identity. In Him, I am not the old, but a creature of righteousness! His very nature, essence and substance is what I am growing towards and into. His nature is truth. The old (who I was) is not truth.

Gal. 3:23, “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.”

I am no longer shut up or literally in the Greek, “Enclosed on all sides.” Faith to faith, Rom. 1:17, is being revealed in me over and over. In this faith, His faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, it is affecting me. It is changing me inside out. Like a caterpillar or tad pole, but more! The Last Adam is being created again in me and in he or she who believes that He is. In this believing, there is a power towards them that believe, Eph. 1:19, “And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe.”

This power bears His nature and manifests His power according to His word.