Lack Of Knowledge???  A Word from THE WORD!!! #471

“My people are destroyed

for lack of knowledge:

because thou hast rejected knowledge,

I will also reject thee,

that thou shalt be no priest to me:

seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,

I will also forget thy children.

7 As they were increased,

so they sinned against me:

therefore will I change their glory

into shame.”  Hosea 4:6-7

We have forgotten to be a people “of the Book” and have changed our focus from teaching others the Word of God to entertainment, programs, appeasement and anything else we could think of to draw people to the church, but it seems we have drawn them to something less than the Biblical Jesus.  The same thing happened to God’s people long ago, and apparently, we have learned no more than they did. Yet we seem to think we can make a better way to reach people than that which God set forth.

“For Christ sent me not to baptize,

but to preach the gospel:

not with wisdom of words,

lest the cross of Christ

should be made of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross

is to them that perish foolishness;

but unto us which are saved

it is the power of God.

19 For it is written,

I will destroy the wisdom

of the wise,

and will bring to nothing

the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the wise?

where is the scribe?

where is the disputer of this world?

hath not God made foolish

the wisdom of this world?

21 For after that in the wisdom of God

the world by wisdom

knew not God,

it pleased God

by the foolishness of preaching

to save them that believe.”  1 Corinthians 1:17-21

God chose “the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe”!  God chose what the world calls foolishness-preaching-to save the lost who will believe and come to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, The Lord.  It’s why He came!  He didn’t come to entertain; to appease, to please the masses; in fact the masses who had followed Him around for some three years, turned against Him and less than a week after crying out, “Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest…” to “crucify HIM”!  People are fickle, then and now; when will we learn that only as we follow God’s Word and the leadership of the Holy Spirit, rather than the popular plans, programs and fascinations of the world, will we see a real move of God?

I simply want to ask you to consider what God has shown us in His Word and ask you to examine the way that you are going.

“My foot hath held his steps,

his way have I kept,

and not declined.

12 Neither have I gone back

from the commandment of his lips;

I have esteemed the words of his mouth

more than my necessary food.”  Job 23:11-12

“The steps of a good man

are ordered by the LORD:

and he delighteth in his way.

24 Though he fall,

he shall not be utterly cast down:

for the LORD upholdeth him

with his hand.”  Psalm 37:23-24

And one final passage for you to consider.

“Order my steps in thy word:

and let not any iniquity

have dominion over me.

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man:

so will I keep thy precepts.

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;

and teach me thy statutes.

136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes,

because they keep not thy law.”   Psalm 119:133-136

May we truly learn to be once again, a people of The Word.  Even so Lord Jesus, may it be so?

Amen and Amen!!!