Posted on 08/19/2021 1:52:52 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge” (Proverbs 19:27 KJV).
The first verse that comes to mind as I consider 19:27 was written by Paul: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8 KJV).
Inasmuch as the meaning of the word “spoil” means to “carry off as plunder,” know without a doubt that every false teacher and all worldly wisdom seeks to carry you off, body, soul, and mind. They would rob you of your very salvation if it were possible, but they are content to destroy your testimony. The word “philosophy” speaks of a “love of wisdom,” but it is the wisdom that comes from below—now above—it is not the wisdom embodied in Jesus Christ, but that which is spawned in the depths of hell.
Philosophy is also known as a “search for the truth”, but that is folly for man is “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7 KJV). Pilate could not find truth, though Truth was standing in front of him.
“But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus” (Ephesians 4:20-21 KJV).
In this world, there are but two sources of instruction. Two, and only two. The first and foremost is that which God’s Word brings. The Captain of our Salvation assures us that this, in fact, true: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17 KJV). Paul rejoices in his converts because of their acceptance of the Word: “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe” (I Thessalonians 2:13 KJV).
God’s Word will accomplish that which the world’s wisdom can never do: “. . .receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1:21 KJV).
Obviously, the other source of instruction is the world. Now, as unpopular as this thought might seem to most of the world’s “feel good” Christianity, it is still a fact that “. . . all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (I John 2:16 KJV). All of the world’s media: newspapers, television, radio, and even university professors are filtered through the “prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2 KJV). God is not in the business of maintaining the daily horoscopes.
The bottom line is there are only two sources of information: One is truth, the other is a lie. The One is God and the other is Satan.
“Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.”
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Right on the mark! Thank you Pilgrim as always for spreading Gods word.
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