Posted on 07/07/2022 11:38:21 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge” (Proverbs 8:9 KJV).
“They are all plain,” talking about the words here, plain, easy, simple. In other words, they make sense. The words just ring like a bell. The Holy Spirit witnesses to it that it is the Word of God. That it is true, that it is right, and that it is plain.
“A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth” (Proverbs 14:6 KJV).
Let’s see if we can get this in our hearts and brains, this business of all these new Bibles. It is the product of scorn. People scorn the preserved Word of God. Now, they are seeking wisdom, so these people are out there publishing all these Bibles and are trying to replace the Bible that God has blessed to the saving of multitudes of souls over the past 400 plus years—they never will. Their claim is that they are trying the correct the mistakes of the King James Bible, and make it easier to understand. Well, The Words of God “are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.”
No one needs to find the King James Bible hard to understand with a little study, a little prayer, and a little patience—just waiting on God—God isn’t going to show you everything right now. Some things He may not show you because you are not yet ready for them. You don’t tell a baby or a child everything, he isn’t capable of handling all the information that you have. He doesn’t have the background. God doesn’t generally give man new truth until he has learned and applied the truth that he has now.
New Christians grow slowly, “here a little, and there a little” we read in Isaiah 28. We don’t need new Bibles, we need new attitudes. If you have the right attitude, where do we get understanding and knowledge? Proverbs 2 tells us that if we will seek for knowledge, if we will receive the Words, hide them in our hearts, incline our ears unto wisdom, apply our hearts unto understanding, study the word, work at it, cry after knowledge, pray, seek God, seek truth as after silver—search for it—there will be a good result: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7:7 KJV).
You can’t be a lazy Christian and expect something for nothing when it comes to growth in grace and knowledge. They want the blessings, but they don’t want the work, and the prayer, and the effort that is involved in getting it. They are part-time Christians that want full-time pay.
In Proverbs 2, we are told that if we will do those things, “Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints” (Proverbs 2:5-8 KJV).
The Bible will be plain and simple. It is people that are trying to live their own lives, their own way—that’s where the Bible becomes complicated to them, because it doesn’t say it just the way that they want to hear it—they just want it some other way so they can justify the way they live. That is the bottom line of the issue.
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