Posted on 06/11/2021 10:50:22 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish” (Proverbs 12:1).
This word, “brutish;” you know what a brute is. A brute is a big old dumb beast. We think of an ox, or a donkey, or something like that; “but he that hateth reproof is brutish.” left to ourselves, the fact of the matter is that we are all brutish.
Did you know that sometimes a brutish man has two doctorates to his name? I don’t know who said, “Not all great men are wise,” but he was sure right. Consider Psalm 92 starting with verse 4, “For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep” (vss. 4-5).
Do you know that for sure? One thing about it, when you read the Bible through you come out with the understanding that the One that wrote it is a lot smarter than you, as you really comprehend so little of it sometimes. The Lord thoughts are very deep. You have to admit that. Consider what it says in the next verse, “A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this” (vs. 6).
One of the marks of a brutish man is that he does not know that God’s works are great and that his thoughts are very deep. He looks at the Bible as some sort of a contradictory bunch of nonsense, and it is that way to him because it doesn't make any sense to him, in spite of the fact that he has a bachelor’s a or master’s or a Doctorate from some university. He looks up in the sky and he sees the order and the design, but he sees it through the prism of evolution. Evolutionists do not believe there's a Designer, and so the Lord calls that man a brutish man. He's just like a dumb ox. He's got a brain the size of a walnut as far as spiritual things are concerned.
C. T. STUDD SAID . . .
Christ's call is to feed the hungry, not the full; to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build comfortable churches in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers and artistical musical performances, but to raise living churches among the destitute; to capture men from the Devil's clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of Hell; to enlist and train them for Jesus and make them into soldiers for Jesus.
But this can only be accomplished by a red-hot, unfettered preaching of Christ and Him crucified.
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