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Intro -
“Any fool can know.
The point is to understand” - Albert Einstein
In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare develops various characters.
He gives them emotions and certain levels of information.
If Hamlet were a real person in the play how could he go about finding out more about Shakespeare?
Could you search the pages of the play write and learn Shakespeare’s favorite color or food?
Prior to it being written could he find out his own purpose or why Shakespeare had created him?
No, the only why Hamlet could learn anything about Shakespeare is if Shakespeare revealed it to him through writing it into the play.
There’s nothing that could be initiated by Hamlet to learn more about his creator, it is the creator, Shakespeare who must bridge the gap and provide knowledge and purpose to Hamlet.
TR: As we examine humanity through the lens of Scripture we see that one of the items that man needs to rightly view is “knowledge” and first we must consider that knowledge is bestowed...
Knowledge Bestowed
Knowledge was bestowed in two ways, by the revelation of God and relationship of God.
In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare develops various characters.
He gives them emotions and certain levels of information.
If Hamlet were a real person in the play how could he go about finding out more about Shakespeare?
Could you search the pages of the play write and learn Shakespeare’s favorite color or food?
Prior to it being written could he find out his own purpose or why Shakespeare had created him?
No, the only why Hamlet could learn anything about Shakespeare is if Shakespeare revealed it to him through writing it into the play.
There’s nothing that could be initiated by Hamlet to learn more about his creator, it is the creator, Shakespeare who must bridge the gap and provide knowledge and purpose to Hamlet.
Imagine the amount of intellectual power Adam had.
The innate ability not to learn the animals names but to bestow names upon them
Knowledge is something that is bestowed by the revelation of God.
Knowledge, instruction, intellect, wisdom....all are related and intersect.
While man may learn facts about things, they are only discovered through the revelation of God.
The gift of language, purpose, discerning the best path for all of God’s creation and cultivating it toward that path with no example to look to.
The true wisdom of this world, as Job states, cannot be found in the land of the living.
It is something that must be revealed.
The knowledge of God was bestowed upon them through the presence of God and a untainted mind.
Try as Hamlet might, he could not have discovered anything about Shakespeare unless it was written into the script.
Adam was familiar with God and had direct access to Him.
Imagine what those conversations would have been like as Adam explored his surroundings and discovered their potential.
Adam had a clear sense of identity and knew that there was nothing that was like him that was created.
Think of Adam and Eve, when creation started, were gifted with a tremendous task in stewarding God’s creation.
That creation was built on the foundation of God’s wisdom.
As God brought animals of all shapes and sizes to him he inspected them, observing their features, movements, habits, uniqueness and then naming them accordingly.
He walked around the Garden looking at all of the plant life, flowers, fruit and vegetation as he learned to eat and create meals, all for the pleasure of it.
Wisdom is more than mere knowledge but is the application of that knowledge to God’s designed purpose of things.
Imagine Adam, as he examined the animals, one by one, examining their design, function and behaviors then naming them.
Cultivating that ground with seeds that have been designed in a particular way by the Lord.
There was a discovery of the purpose of things that was revealed by God to him without question.
Pastor Brent mentioned how Adam, created physical, was tasked with exercising dominion over creation and helping it to yield its potential.
My son Malachi got a number of gifts recently but a couple of his favorite were some robots that he had to build.
It was amazing to watch him studiously pull all of the parts from the box, open the booklet for instructions and then spend hours in exploratory bliss as he built, unlocking the potential and place of each part.
Yet at the end of it what would he had done if he built it all and didn’t know what it as for?
There would’ve sat a creation of some sort but with no purpose given.
In much the same way, God placed various parts in creation for Adam to put together, build and combine.
Cultivate and manage, all through revealing it to him.
God’s masterful creation.
However that knowledge is also bestowed through relationship with God
And it was in this that Adam discovered purpose for that creation.
He had direct access to the source!
While like my son Malachi, Adam may have discovered various pieces, but he also had direct access to the instruction manual AND a picture of what the finished product should look like and was for!
He knew the reason for things, the reason he was in the garden, the reason he was given a spouse, etc.
He knew this not by simple discovery but by relationship with his creator who told him the purpose of things.
Think of the majesty of things as they explored and found gems, colors, effects and life.
Naming it and cultivating it toward God’s desired end which was to enjoy it, help it to flourish to the glory of God.
TR: However, not too long after that knowledge was bestowed by the revelation and relationship with God, it was broken.
Knowledge Broken
Knowledge is broken through divorcing it from the Creator and directing it toward man
Knowledge is broken through divorcing it from the Creator
If perfect humanity had knowledge that was dependent on revelation of God than to destory that would mean making it dependent upon something else, chiefly man’s efforts.
Genesis 3:6
Notice the temptation of knowledge.
It was that mankind, through his own efforts, can achieve divine level of wisdom in some other source than God.
You’re not dependent on Him!
The tree can give it!
It’s interesting how we are still going around chasing foolish things just like Adam did the Tree believing it can grant us knowledge but instead like them it ironically brings us simultaneously power and shame.
They had been naked this entire time and no shame, was nakedness somehow wrong, NO!
But like many of us they acquired a truth and didn’t understand it.
Fact, when I paid my first light bill I swore I was grown.
I knew that’s what grown people did and felt like a boss at that moment.
No one could tell me what to do.
I went home and like a boss left every light on I wanted to because I do what I want.
Next month the bill came....shame.
Society has done a great job of grabbing facts about things but divorcing them from who revealed them.
And when we do that we end up many times feeling things from those facts because our expectations aren’t met.
See to partner with what Pastor Brent said last week, emotions are valid and not wrong.
However, many times the way we feel about things is going to be determined by what we know about them.
But if that knowledge is divorced from the source than we’re left to our own devices to manage it.
Many times this leads to directing that knowledge toward glorifying man
When we direct knowledge to glorify man we become fools.
We miss the purpose of things.
The purpose of all that you know is to honor God.
Imagine all of the information that we have our hands on.
The internet exposes us to so much.
Philosophers swore that if people knew better that they’d do better and yet what has the result been for all of our intellectual advancements?
It’s because for all of our advancements the one thing that man can’t do without God is ascribe purpose to things.
For instance, if I were to show you this watch and ask, is this a good watch or bad, what would you say?
Or what about my car?
I tried to draw a picture with it the other day and it didn’t work therefore it must be a bad car.
You would look at me like I was foolish.
Why?
Because that’s not how it was intended to be used.
Yet this is how we approach so many things in our lives.
Is this a good marriage or bad marriage?
Bad marriage because it doesn’t bring me happiness.
Are they a good employee or bad?
Good, they rarely show up but when they do they skip doing any work and just play on their phone causing no problems at all.
Lastly, are they a good person or bad person?
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