Posted on 03/17/2022 9:28:47 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom” (Proverbs 18:1).
Our verse says there that a man intermeddles with all wisdom. We were never intended to intermeddle with all wisdom. Just because somebody is smart, and a great speaker does not mean that you need to listen to him. Right? There is a wisdom of this world that will kill you. It will defile you. It will corrupt you.
When they children of Israel went into the land, the Lord gave them specific instructions of what they could do and what not, and among other things that are kind of interesting that he said:
“When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise” (Deuteronomy 12:29-30).
Now, I know that some of you probably went to college. I did. Well, we had to take certain courses to fulfill certain requirements. I understand that. According to that right there, there is a bunch of sociology courses in college you have no business taking. You know what those classes are about? They are about studying what other cultures are, and how they lived, and how they worshipped and all that kind of stuff. That whole thing about diversity is a bunch of nonsense. Diversity really has no place. We are diverse enough as it is. Right? We are supposed to be one in Jesus Christ. If you want to be unified, then get in Christ. After you get in Christ, the other gods will have to go. You quit worshipping those gods. You do not study how they worship those gods. You do not go after those gods. Right?
If you come from a culture that worshipped and served other gods, you must reject those gods in order to accept Jesus Christ. God will share His glory with none.
So, we have to be careful with those desires, for “through desire a man, having separated himself.” All those old philosophers; the epicureans, the stoics, the Socrates guys, those Aristotle guys, they all got off to the side in their little conclaves and they all studied together and they all just labor together and live together and slept together and everything in the world and they just absorb themselves with each other just like a basically a monastery or whatever. Those things are not good.
“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.”
How will you read, let alone consider and meditate upon, the 31,101 verses in your King James Bible? Yet Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, commends the careful meditation of every verse. Only a man with great desire, who separates himself from other distractions, will make any progress in this extensive and valuable project.
Some with weak desire will say there is not enough time. So, the apostle told men to redeem time for wisdom. You can buy time by giving up other activities. There are 168 hours in a week, only half of which you work and sleep. There is much time squandered and wasted in foolish pursuits and slothful management. Lord, help.
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I usually stay out of religious threads, but by accident I saw this one.
‘seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom’
What is wisdom without knowledge and are they perhaps intertwined like dna?
I can also quote scripture
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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