What Does God Have To Say About Knowledge?

Here are three verses from the Bible that deal clearly with what God wants us to realize about us having knowledge of his Word, knowing what it means:

Hosea 4:6 – “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: …”

Hosea 6:6 – “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings”.

Isaiah 5:13 – “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst”.

“Gone into captivity” - because they have not the knowledge of God to keep them free.

“Their honorable men are famished” - famished for the truth of God’s word, spiritual meat, knowledge of the true word of God.

The subject of spiritual meat is covered in Hebrews 5:12-14 

12  “For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principle of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil”.
 

So the Bible is relating our level of knowledge to strong meat vs. milk.  And who is it that the strong meat (spiritual truth) belongs to? Those who by reason of use have their senses exercised. God tells us in Hebrews 5:14 – use your senses to learn my word, so that you are fed with spiritual meat, not milk.
 

In Isaiah 5:13, "Their multitude", the people, are dried up with thirst because they don’t have the living water, the truth of God, to give them drink.
 

These verses apply now, in our time, as much as then. That’s part of the mystery of God’s word, a beautiful mystery that once unlocked in our minds sends us out to search every day so that we won’t be famished or thirsty for spiritual truth.
 

We can look around us to see – the knowledge of the word of God is missing from our society. But we don’t have to follow society’s lead in this matter – we can, by reason of use, have our senses exercised. What good news! The word of God is for our use now, every day, so that we will not be destroyed by lack of knowledge.

 

Jesus says, “I have foretold you all things” – we will have no excuse for not knowing. Mark 13:23.

It is written.

 

Have you read it?