Some people open their mouth and show how much they know.
Others open their mouths and show their ignorance! (how much they DON"T know!
This is not meant to offend, but to provoke thought. Honest thought!
The generation I grew up in was known as "The SILENT GENERATION"! We were told to
"listen and learn". "Kids are to be seen and not heard" Listen and learn we did. But just as
I believe Paul didn't mean women had to be quiet forever, I believe we were told to listen,
UNTIL we had learned!
Proverbs 18:13 "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
2 Tim. 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
We must "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5:39
1 Cor. 2:13 "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
There are things we learned from our parents, etc. and then we went to school and learned other thngs. In time when we became adults, we, like Paul, put away "childish things". Time to grow up in HIM! IN CHRIST!
1 John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing (Holy Ghost) teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him".
There are things parents, etc., teachers, etc., teach, and then there are things that the Holy Ghost teaches. The Holy Ghost teaches you of all things and is truth and is no lie.
The fear (reverential, respectful) of the LORD is the beginning of WISDOM, and also, of KNOWLEDGE AND OF UNDERSTANDING.
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