The Spirit of Knowledge

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Study of Knowledge

There is a space in our humanity that has clenched its fist around the proclamation as God denying with every fiber the creator of heaven and earth His rightful place in our life.

In this work humanity appoints itself as the author, purveyor, and recipient of this space

That small place is what we have to come to understand KNOWLEDGE.

We have academies that teach on this subject… WE CALL IT THE STUDY OF WHAT CAN BE KNOWN.

In this we declare that if there is something we do not know it is waiting to be uncovered or simply does not exist.

It makes no difference if the first “known” Philosopher arrives on the scene and is acknowledged between 624-545 Before Christ

It makes no difference that Philosophy appoints humanity as the authority of what can be known

Where philosophy in it of itself promotes an EPISTEMOLOGICAL IN OUR SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE combines;

A subjective interrogation about things around us…

An objective reality to develop;

forms our knowledge

what in effect we created are truths that are relative to our view and perspectives… in lesser confusing words we resolve with Knowledge that is TRUE FOR ME even if it is not TRUE FOR YOU.

We have produced the most brilliants of minds (or so we think) and the knowledge they come up with sounds something like this…

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Fredrick Nietzsche

This inescapable reality for such an avowed atheists; We created this God, We created Him out of necessity, When we no longer needed Him we killed Him yet He still lingers..

I WANT US TO COME TO TERMS WITH THIS REALITY… OUR HUMANITY IS LIMITED IN NATURE to what we will allow our created mind to accept is the Objective (TRUE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT) Reality.

I would suggest we cut out the middle man and turn our focus to the creator of Heaven and Earth and allow Him to define our knowledge.

True knowledge is found in the creator of Heaven and Earth alone.

Human Reason and Knowledge Leads to Death

Portion of Knowledge does demand that we use all of our senses as we come into the knowledge of the Lord

Personal acquaintance

Demands a response from the knower

Human reasoning devoid of the knowledge of God leads to death

Hosea 4:6 ESV

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Where the knowledge of God is rejected the people are the ones that suffer.

trading knowledge for entertainment has netted a destruction of God’s people.

When the people of God reject His knowledge we cannot serve Him (repeat)

We consult the area studies

we consult the business plans

We do area polls and ask how they want the church

We have looked everywhere but to the Source for How HE Wants his church

God then is limited by our human reason

God is confined by a reality the we impose on Him.

When those responsible for carrying the knowledge of God reject the Lord it is His people who suffer.

In and through this mess we create exalting our knowledge above God we are hit with a reality such as Nietzsche’s no matter how much we think we can function without His knowledge only its not a shadow that looms its His very essence that screams THERE IS A GOD…HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER…ALL OF NATURE REVEALS HIS MAJESTY… we cannot go on playing the part of knowing what only God can reveal.

The Need for Knowledge

Moses’ parting blessing over the tribe of Levi

The very thing entrusted to his care

Urim and Thummim

went with the priest

was to be consulted

Lights and Perfection

discernment

understanding

ability

NOT GENERAL IT WAS THAT OF THE LORD

Deuteronomy 33:8–11 ESV

And of Levi he said, “Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah; who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant. They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar. Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

the Revelation of God; His word; His ways are what we are to teach.

Before the cross it was a stone they consulted and it would reveal to them what was on the Fathers heart.

limited access was given

Promise of Knowledge

In the whole of the OT is a promise of a restoration of what broke in the Garden of Eden.

Psalm 78:1–2 ESV

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Later spoken by Jesus in Matthew tells us of a coming time which He would reveal things that were hidden away.

we would have access to such things

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

The promise of an answer… you have questions, you have doubts… whatever it is

CALL TO HIM AND HEW WILL ANSWER… HE WILL TELL YOU THINGS NOT YET KNOWN.

The promise of the atheist you live the world is what you make it you die the end… oh by the way theres this issue we cannot resolve “God or whatever” but trust me I is smart

Yet the promise of the creator is I won’t hide it I will teach you.

Walking in the Spirit of Knowledge

If you do not have it ask for it.

James 1:5 ESV

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

God is not hiding it from you He wants to give it to you

Call on His Name

Search for His knowledge

Proverbs 2:4–6 ESV

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

We are not commanded to seek after our own things

We are not asked to waste our time in pursuit of riches

What is asked of us Seek first the Kingdom of God right?

seek the knowledge of God like you pursue your own riches

from His mouth is where our Knowledge comes from

Guard the knowledge He gives

Malachi 2:7 ESV

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Priest of the living God no longer do you consult the Urim and Thummim it is in you when the Spirit is fully alive in you.

You YOU are the messengers of the Lord of Hosts.

you cannot sell the Knowledge He has given or continue selling yourself to the world.

You were made for more than just getting through life, trying to get riches, living your best life now

Ephesians 3:8–12 ESV

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

You were made to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ

To bring to light for everyone the plan hidden for ages in God

Through you and I the manifold wisdom of God may be made known

to the rulers

to the authorities

In the heavenly places

It is no longer just moving aimlessly you were made for so much more

That according to the word in the full knowledge of Christ the body would no longer be persuaded by human cunning but learn to walk in the Spirit of Knowledge.