Posted on 03/30/2022 12:04:56 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy” (Proverbs 30:2-3 KJV).
Now, you will find in First Corinthians chapter 2 that the natural man does not understand supernatural things, and Agur says that he is even one step below that. The natural man does understand natural phenomenon, and natural principles to some extent, but Agur he says, “I am more brutish than any man.” A brute is like an animal, and you will find references on the root in Romans 1:31, Second Peter 2:12 and Jude 10 and some other places; and this is true of the last days.
Notice in First Corinthians 2:14 that “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
You must be Spiritually alive to understand Spiritual truths. That's why I wonder about some people that profess to be Christians. You can teach them spiritual truths, yet it just seems like it goes right over the top of their head and they don't catch it and received it at all. I really have a hard time believing that some folks are really saved. I mean, they say they are, but yet when they are reproved, and when they are exhorted; there's no response from them. It is as if they didn't receive it. It is as if it just kind of bounced off of a wall. Well, it says the natural man doesn't receive it, now verse 15 says, “But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.”
Now back up in verse 7, Paul says, “But we speak the wisdom of God,” these are the things that God teaches, teachers these are the wise things of God like Salvation, sanctification, the Saviour and sin and all those things that God reveals in the Bible. “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory,” and he goes on to say in verse 10, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
This is important, because in 30:3 Agur writes: “I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.”
You don't learn spiritual principles. Let me say that right now, you don't study the Bible like you study math or business or science or computers. The Bible is revealed. It's not learned, it's revealed. Now, if you'll set yourself down in a learning situation, like a Bible college you can learn some things, historical facts and other things. But the spiritual meat of the Word, you’ll only receive through the Holy Spirit’s teaching.
You don't learn it. Bible truth is a supernatural revelation. You understand it because of the spirit that is within you; not because you have a brain. You receive it because you have a Spirit, the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God shows you that, and He witnesses to it, and reveals it to you. So, he said, “I neither learned wisdom.”
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