Understanding the Holy One
The Knowledge and understanding of the Holy One
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How I use Scripture: unless quoted directly with quotation marks (““) the chapter and verse references are where you can find the verses in the Bible. I encourage you to read them, how else will you know if I’m quoting correctly? My job is to bring alive the treasures of scripture, from the new and the old, to help you study and seek God for yourself.
This is the duty of the Scribe (writer) / Teacher (explainer) Matthew 13:52
I have added parentheses to the KJV verses to emphasize the points being made, and unless otherwise noted, all scripture is quoted from the King James Version (KJV) which exists in the Public Domain.
This is my first post. I’ve retracted the “My Story” page for now. You might have read it. I began to publish it and I decided I didn’t want to relive the pain of the past. This blog is a place where I write about what God has taught me in scripture and where I attempt to bring to life what he has given me to possibly answer the questions you might have. There is “reading the Bible,” and there is “understanding what you have read.” Two completely different things, as it turns out.
After twelve years, the Holy Spirit has given me enough revelation, and man has given me enough teaching, to set about picking up my call to teach.
God told Moses to teach the people. Deuteronomy is full of verses commanding the teaching of God’s word. Teaching carries the greater responsibility to live what the Bible commands and says that Teachers will bear a greater burden of judgment before the Lord. Because if the teacher gets it wrong, the people go astray.
James 3:1 KJV
“My brethren, be not many masters (teachers), knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”
Matthew 13:51-52 KJV
“51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4 KJV
“3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Job 21:14-15 KJV
“14 Therefore they say unto God, ‘Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?’ ”
Paul said, the Old Testament contains all the examples of his teaching, and Jesus said to teach the New and the Old. But today, most ignore the beauty and the fullness of the Old Testament, from which Paul summarized the Gospel message. All the apostles taught from the Old Testament. And all their churches stood in the power of God for miracles. They did not set aside the Old only to preach the New. God still admonishes us today, and those things come from the Old Testament. Jesus did not set them aside, in fact, he came speaking the words of his father, as Moses said that he would.
How is flesh to become transformed into Spirit without instructing the flesh to cause actions of sin to cease? Carnal Christians do not go into the Kingdom because the carnal mind is against God, and without holiness no one will see God. (Matthew 7:6,14,21, Romans 8:7, Hebrews 12:14, I Thessalonians 4:3,7, Ephesians 4:24)
1 Corinthians 10:11 KJV
“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
Proverbs 3:11 KJV
“ 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding. “
Man has been chasing knowledge since the Garden, but the understanding we need is understanding of the Holy One. Not simply reading or memorizing, but gaining a working knowledge with understanding. Understanding is what changes actions.
The Book of Proverbs is 30 chapters and easy to read one chapter each day for a month. An architecture of what God, our father, expects. King Solomon wrote most of Proverbs, others of the Priests and Prophets added to it.
Proverbs 4:7
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”