WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING:
Since Creation, much has been sought in relation to Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, leading to emergence of mans made Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding which has brought the Human race into much sorrow and pain over and over. Today people are so much confused than at that time Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, that fruit of Knowledge, knowledge to that which is which is good and bad.
Genesis 2:15-17 The Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden. 17 But you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it will you will surely die”.
Paul in his writing to the church in Corinth
1Corinthian 10:23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything” but not everything is beneficial.
1Corinthian 6:12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything” but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything.
When God placed Adam and Eve, and We are told that they Genesis 2:24 “The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame” but after partaking of the Fruit of Knowledge, which was forbidden of them, the Word of the Lord says there eyes opened and they realized they were naked they were naked, so they sew sewed fig leaves together and made covering for themselves Genesis 3:6-7, But when God came calling in His usual time that is in the cool of the day they (Man and Woman) hide themselves among the trees of the forest, Genesis 3:8. They turned to the ignoble forgoing the noble, Just like today many have turned to carved images, idols, fellow human being, nature, sorcery, witchcraft, world education systems in an attempt to solve numerous problems that man is undergoing because He forsook the divine source of Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding GOD.
In the Garden of Eden man depended on God totally, God was his sufficiency, he needed nothing else, he was contented but the moment he turned His back and sort other source of Knowledge, and Wisdom relying on his own understanding. His relationship with God crumbles, for the knowledge that man obtain from Satan lead him to sin against God by not only eating of the forbidden fruit but also disobeying God’s command.
The name Satan means the Deceiver, and one who deceives is one who takes the actual fact, twist with the sole aim of distorting its real meaning leading to an act which is contrary to the expected. Hence what Satan did to Eve was use the actual fact and through the questioning and answering method he leads Eve to misinterpreted what God had said command them and out of this we find Eve committing sin and even Adam is seductively induced into sinning by Eve.
Genesis 3:1-
Now the Serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the Woman, “Did God really say, “You must eat from any tree in the garden?”2 The Woman said to the serpent, “We nay eat fruit from the tree in the garden, 3 But God did say, “You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the Garden, and You must not touch it, or You will die.” 4 You will not surely die, “the serpent said to the woman, 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it you eyes will open, and you will be like God, Knowing good and evil”
Result of the twisting of the facts by the devil on Eve.
Genesis 3:6-
- The woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good and pleasing to the eye. (Sensational desire crept in)
- Noticed the fruit as desirable for gaining WISDOM. (idolizing of the fruit above God)
- She took of it and Ate (Deriving satisfaction from the perishable)
- She gave some to her Husband who was with her, and he ate it (Inducing others to sin)
Result
- There eyes opened
- Realized they were naked
- Sewed fig leaves as covering for themselves to cover there nakedness
- Hid from God when God came calling
- They became filled with fear
- lead to self withdrawal from the presence of the Lord.
In Genesis 3:5 Satan acknowledges a very important fact which am suppressed Eve and Adam did not pick up during there conversation, this fact would have made them not eat of the tree of Knowledge leading to knowing good and evil. Satan say this “…..and you will be like God, Knowing good and evil” that is powerful, Satan knew God is full of Knowledge and if Man constantly relied on God and desired for Godly knowledge then man even today would not be in his current state of afflictions.
John 1:4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God 2 He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, without him nothing was made that has been made, 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Knowledge comes from listening to the word, through a learning processes, and learning is a continues processes, precept upon precept, line upon line
Isaiah 28:9-13 9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and taken from the breasts. 10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah acknowledges the fact that learning is a continues processes which is systematic but due to lack of patience, we find ourselves doing that which is displeasing to the Lord and eventually leading to sinning against Jehovah YAHWE through our foolish deeds.
James 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize him. He came to His own, but His own did not receive him.
In our refusal to learn from God, and see Him as the ultimate and divine source of knowledge we have become utterly foolish in our ways of like and actions bring more depravity upon us and the generation to come, If Adam and Eve would have not looked at the created, instead looked at the Creator for Knowledge the world have been a better place. Making right choice and decisions would have saved man from alienation from God, even death as a result of sinful acts, and preservation of nature, for out of mans selfishness in seeking self knowledge a life was lost that day an innocent animal died in an effort to have man restored.
Haw many still have to die in your worldly quest for wisdom, knowledge and understanding?
Off what will it benefit man to have all the treasures of the earth and still lose his soul?
Seek yea the Kingdom of God and it’s righteousness and all shall be added unto you, Solomon asked God for Wisdom and out of Godly wisdom, He become the worlds powerful Kings ever, rich, honored, well fed and dressed owning everything lacking nothing.
END OF PART ONE
