KBM Lips Of Knowledge
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Our text for today’s study comes from Proverbs 20:15 which reads…
15 There is gold and a multitude of rubies, But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Truth is one of those moral issues that people seemingly have stopped putting much thought into. How many parents today, lie constantly to their children about any number of things? How many husbands lie to their wives to keep from having an argument or wives to their husbands? It certainly isn’t limited to the family, friends, and coworkers, we see it in the church often as well.
A young man recently asked me why so many preachers are bald or going bald. I told him it was because of how difficult it is to tell the truth to someone that doesn’t always want to hear it, because it is his responsibility to reprove, rebuke, and then exhort in the sermon (2 Timothy 4:2). And herein lies the reality of why many elders, preachers, husbands, wives, parents, friends, coworkers, and so on never tell those around them the “whole truth” of God’s word. Paul told the elders from Ephesus in Acts 20:27…
27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Yet many people today think it is far better to “tell a little white lie” than to tell someone the truth that might hurt their feelings. The the inspired writer wrote in Proverbs 20:15, “knowledge i.e., truth should be more valuable to us than a precious jewel.” That goes for the one telling the truth and the one receiving the truth, but simply put “truth” is not that valuable to many unless it agrees with what they perceive to be the truth.
Let me illustrate this in a very simplistic way.
Most of those that call themselves Christians believe baptism does not save but 1 Peter 3:21 clearly teaches that is not true.
21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
The bible even clearly points out that the only way to get “into Christ” i.e., be saved is through baptism.
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Most of those that call themselves Christians say “faith only saves” in an effort to remove baptism’s role in salvation, yet the bible clearly teaches that is not true as seen in James 2:24.
24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
So why do so many believe such obvious lies? It’s simple, they don’t want to believe they have been wrong all this time nor their loved ones about God’s word and salvation. Because if they have been wrong and if they have been teaching this and if those they love have passed already believing this lie…then it would emotionally devastate them.
And even though Jesus’ illustration of the rich man in torment shows him begging for someone to tell his family and loved one’s the truth so they don’t end up like him (Luke 16:19-31) they do not want to be wrong about something so important.
But if “knowledge and truth” are more precious than anything else in this life because it comes from God (John 17:17), we are set free from the bondage of sin and the lies that hold us back and keep us from an eternity from God (John 8:32). Let truth always be a most precious jewel to us.