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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Lord's Servant, #6
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. (Ecclesiastes 12:12,13)
The assumption is that an increase in knowledge is a good thing in itself. It is not. There are many things more important than knowledge. A righteous, God-fearing character is vastly more important than a head full of knowledge.
Children today are expert in the use of the computer and the Internet. Yet in the realm of God and moral behavior they know virtually nothing. We are producing monsters. One day they will turn against us. They are amoral creatures, not understanding right and wrong. They will murder each other.
The government of Antichrist will emphasize money and education. These are gods in America. They are idols. The child who will survive in the future is the one who has been taught to follow Jesus. The Lord will be his or her Protection when God begins to cry out and pant because of the wickedness in the earth.
When God arises He will bring down that which is highly exalted and all the proud works of the flesh. The "Herod's temples" will lie in ruins. The rivers and pools of man's knowledge and wisdom will dry up and will be seen for what they are—an endless and unproductive pursuit of that which is not truth.
In that day the learned man will say, "I have spent my life pursuing vanity. All my knowledge is not helping me enter the Kingdom of God. The little children who love Jesus and sit at His feet are drinking of the fountain of life while I am weak and sickly because of the emptiness and deadness of my soul.
"I have played the fool. The poor and ignorant of the world are rejoicing in the majesty of the Lord but I am rejected. Had I only known! Perhaps I can find a child to help me."
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. (Isaiah 42:16)
Every member of the Body of Christ must become blind if he or she is to see.
God does not lead those who see but those who are blind.
When we say we see we mean we are living according to the understanding of our human mind. This is blindness. The human mind is an enemy of God and cannot behold His Glory.
There are only two ways in which people can live. We can live according to our human mind or we can live by committing each decision of our life to the Lord. To live according to our human mind and sight is to live in the flesh. To live by committing each decision to the Lord is to live in the Spirit of God.
The righteous live by faith, that is, by committing each decision to the Lord.
It is the Lord's will that every saved person learn to live in the Spirit of God.
The Lord Jesus always lives in the Spirit of God, in the sabbath rest of God. He does not think His own thoughts or speak His own words. He is the dwelling place of the Father, the eternal House of God.
To be continued.