God's Education |
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Elder
Robert Willis (dec) |
From
“Share The Word - 1-25-2014
Education (learning) comes in a number of ways from the time
we are born till the time we pass from the stage of this
life. We learn from our parents; we learn from our
environment; we learn from our schooling; we learn from our
occupations: and, we learn from God.
Many people have allowed their education go to their head
and it affects their personally in a negative way. The
“Book” gives us great learning for both women and men on
this subject. The wisest of mortal men, Solomon, said “A
foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth
nothing” (Proverts 9:13). So women, don’t be clamorous
or simple minded - (clamorous means: noisy, loudmouthed,
boisterous, brazen, overly outspoken). The most educated of
the Apostles, Paul, said in I Corinthians 8:2, “And if
any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing
yet as he ought to know.” One of my greatest pet peeves
is being around a man who “knows it all” and then proceeds
to fail in proving it.
The highest
learning I know comes from God. There is none better.
Matthew, in his writing in chapter 11:29 quotes Jesus as
saying, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls.” Many times over the years I have heard those who
seek God’s teachings say, “The more I learn of Him, the more
I want to know, and the more I learn how little I do know.”
There is a big difference from this statement as compared to
the man or woman who thinks they know it all and are more
educated than anyone else.
When Jesus gave us parables such as of the sower in Matthew
13:18; or of the fig tree in Matthew 24:32; the parable of
the kingdom of heaven liken unto leaven in Matthew 13:33;
and many others, all of them are for our learning. Jesus, in
Matthew 13:33-34, says “All these things spake Jesus unto
the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he
not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by the prophet; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I
will utter things which have been kept secret from the
foundation of the world.” The things which we learn from
our Lord are things we can never learn from all the preacher
schools, Sunday schools, colleges, commentaries, or secular
men’s writings. These things spoken of by Jesus are only
revealed by the revelation of the Spirit of God and from
diligent study of the Written Word of God - The King James
Translation of the Bible.
The men I truly respect in this life are those who are
schooled in the Word of God. Don’t preach unto me what some
other man says entirely, preach unto me what the Lord says
about it from the true source of learning - The Holy Bible.
The Apostle Paul spoke strongly against the Galatians and
even called them foolish for turning back to men’s teachings
of the law rather than the truth preached by Christ and the
Apostles. Paul said, “This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
(Galatians 3:2-3). The teachings of men in this vile world
are not spiritual. Once we have been born of the Spirit, we
are to look unto Christ and His teachings for our guidance
and learning.
While Moses told Israel in Deuteronomy 5:1 to learn the
statutes and judgments and to keep and then do them; the
Israelites failed to keep them. Might we fall into the same
condition and fail to keep that which we learn from God?
Lord forbid! Titus instructs us as he did Zenas the lawyer
and Apollos to, “also LEARN to maintain good works for
necessary uses, that they (we) be not unfruitful” (Titus
3:13-14).
May we this day purpose to be more fruitful in the cause of
Christ by learning more of the Will
of God; whether we are preachers, deacons, church members,
or just children of God who are seeking to do HIS WILL by
learning His Gospel found in HIS WORD. |