Monday, April 28, 2014

The Authority of the Word: Knowledge of God

If anyone is to make a cup of Coffee. He would be requiring Coffee powder, Sugar, milk. Then why should someone need Tea Powder?
In the context of search for God, one should know what exactly he needs to know. One one can know everything in one's lifetime. What he needs to know about a particular incident, or what information will enable him to achieve his purpose for life, only those information is what he needs to know.

Ecclesiastes 11:3-5

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If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it [a]lies. He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. Just as you do not know [b]the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the[c]pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

Not knowing what will happen gives us two important lessons:
The first is to trust God for everything to be good,
The second is to give us enough courage to withstand any incident that may happen.

Most wise men in the world were not those who knew everything. They were those who knew what they wanted to know.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

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18 Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

As said earlier, If we want to make coffee and worry about not having Tea powder... It is like worrying about everything in life, what is not required.

Matthew 10:29-30

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29 Are not two sparrows sold for a [a]cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.


Ephesians 3

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Paul’s Stewardship

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles if indeed you have heard of thestewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you; that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. [a]By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight [b]into themystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets [c]in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power. To me, the very least of all [d]saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to [e]bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; 10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was in accordance with the [f]eternal purpose which He [g]carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,12 in whom we have boldness and [h]confident access through faith [i]in Him. 13 Therefore I ask [j]you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, [k]for they are your glory.
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom [l]every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the [m]saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations [n]forever and ever. Amen.

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