Posted on 04/13/2022 11:32:41 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth” (Proverbs 14:5-6).
“A faithful witness will not lie,” a faithful witness goes by the “faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3). This is the body of revealed truth, which was given to the church, the decrees which they were to keep and so the church was established in truth, according to the Book of Acts. Our Bible is what we place trust in, and the person that witnesses according to this Book is a faithful witness. You can not take a King James Bible and teach heresy with it if you believe it just as it says, in its proper context where its stated and it is rightly divided.
That is the problem with all these new Bibles. They change the text just enough to where one can teach heresy in the context. They changed the Bible, and they have not respected the Word of God. You can’t teach heresy when you are faithful not to “handle the Word of God deceitfully” (II Corinthians 4:2). “A faithful witness will not lie.” You can’t teach heresy believing the Bible, just what it says.
So, if a man is full of faith, and the Bible says that “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God,” and you are willing to practice and live your faith, you’ll be a true witness and a good “ambassador of Jesus Christ.”
“. . . but a false witness will utter lies,” there’s your Jehovah’s witness, or your Mormons—they utter lies, they are false witnesses. One says that Jesus is not God, the other says that Jesus and Satan are brothers. They didn’t get that out of a King James Bible, even though they might carry one around. The Mormon does anyway, the JW’s have their own concocted Bible.
Some people that one verse is literal when it suits their purposes, but if there is a verse that disagrees with them, they claim that it is spiritual. Who determines whether it is literal or spiritual? “The scholars.” They have no foundation for what they believe, they have no personal knowledge of the Scripture—they just believe what someone has told them to believe.
“A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not,” a scorner is that fellow that looks down his nose at everything. Nothing ever pleases a scorner. Nobody what anybody does, “Well, it could be better.” He’s the fellow that has the opinion that everybody else owes him a living. He’s the fellow with the chip on his shoulder that believes that everybody is doing him wrong somehow. These are not pleasant people to be around. Because of his scornful heart, God isn’t going to give him anything—that is why he can’t find wisdom.
“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:10).
The scorner doesn’t get wisdom because of his attitude. Our attitude needs to be that only God can teach us anything, and we need to be taught by Him because we don’t know anything apart from Him. Paul said, “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise” (I Corinthians 3:18).
A scorner does not see himself as lacking, he sees himself as a little bit better than anyone else. He isn’t going to find wisdom.
“. . . but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth,” understands what? That knowledge comes from God and you and I don’t have it unless we get it from God and we are humble enough to go to God and ask for it.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).
A scorner wouldn’t think that he lacks wisdom.
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