Posted on 01/03/2021 10:53:00 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth" (Proverbs 4:5).
“Get wisdom, get understanding.” Sure, get it on your own; but also come to the place where God ordained that folks should assemble and get under the thing that the Bible says is the power of God: Preaching, and “Get wisdom, get understanding.”
“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not,” that's the danger is it not? Forgetting stuff? One of the things that you'll learn is the more you learn the more you forget. It's just the case. I've had the uncomfortable experience of studying my Bible and memorizing entire epistles that Paul wrote and then forgetting what I had memorized just a few days later despite the fact that I was able to quote the entire book from beginning to end. It is just the way that our brains work. And I had to learn it all over now again, though what once took weeks and months of intense work now only takes a few days.
“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.” Do you remember a couple chapters back where it said to incline your ear unto wisdom, to incline yourself towards the word of God (2:2); well the opposite of that is decline. If a room is inclined so that all the water runs to that corner, well it's inclined that way. You ought to incline your heart to a certain direction. At the same time, to decline from the word of God means that you're basically veering in the other direction. Our tendency, if we are not careful, is to always veer away from the word of God. That's what the world does. If it's not openly hostile, what they try to do is just basically veer away from certain subjects. You couldn't get these political candidates to comment particularly on sodomy if you try because they're going to decline to talk about something like that because it's too controversial.
“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.” Never go the other way just stick with what came out of God's mouth. Folks, do you have the “words” of God or don't you? Do you realize how sad and how sick it is to quote a verse like that and then say, “Well, it's too bad that we don't have the very words of God anymore because after the originals all we have today are the best representation of them, and you know, no translation is perfect.” Do you understand how crazy it is to say that? After having been given a command like that.
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We now have, unfortunately, some churches who are “inclined” to “decline” to preach the true Word of God and instead are “inclined” to preach a social gospel.
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