Knowledge puffs up the Mind of Flesh.
 

Scientific knowledge of the world and the cosmos has seemingly exploded upon our present day scene.  Knowledge is good when it is applied to that which is good in humility.  This acquired knowledge may expand the natural mind of a man, but by itself does not expand the narrow and darkened heart of the man who will perish in spite of his acquired knowledge of the natural or the supernatural.  Do you think that Yahweh God, the Infinite Creator of this Universe and all things visible and invisible, is impressed with our finite understanding of His Creation?  All knowledge that is cultured with the pride of human logic, sooner than later, contradicts the Infinitely Holy Yahweh God, and questions the Creator's Own understanding of His Own Beloved WORD of Absolute TRUTH that holds all things together.  This questioning of the all wise Yahweh God originated in the Garden of Eden from its source of Satan, and continues to echo from hell, whose proximity is just around the corner. 

"Did the Lord God really say, and mean what He said?  Nah it is said: Choose for yourself."  

Yahweh God is not a contradiction to Himself, and neither is the revealed WORD of Yahweh God a contradiction to the unsearchable knowledge, power and the glory, ascribed to the Creator through His TRUTH expressed in the heavens and written in Scripture.  The wisdom of this world perishes, but the Wisdom of Yahweh God is Eternal.   After all, if you have ears to hear, the heaven's are declaring Yahweh God's WORD of Glory and Power: ^{(See Psalm 19 verse 1 thru 4.)} For it is by the constancy of Yahweh God's WORD that all things exist, and are held together in obedience to His Holy WORD of Power and Wisdom.  The TRUTH of Yahweh's Eternal WORD remains Constant because He is Constant with an unchangeableness in His Holy Essence that is One with His Eternal Holiness.  Yahweh God cannot but remain Faithful to His divine WORD and purpose in His creation, for Yahweh God and His WORD Yeshua/Jesus are One Spirit. 

Alas, it is unfaithful man, mired in the center of self that innately forms within his own willful mind, objections and contradictions to Holy Yahweh God and to His WORD.  Man's own self serving iniquity has blinded his mind, causing Mankind's to continue in his own idolatrous failures.  But the Grace of Yahweh God's Spirit calls the lost or failing soul to begin to comprehend within his darkened heart, of his eternal need for Yahweh God's Work of Salvation through the crucifixion death and resurrection of the Son of Adam/Man, Yahweh God's only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. 

The crucified Christ is foolishness in the wisdom of man. However, Yahweh God's Wisdom is a work of Divine Agapao/Love and Mercy so that if any person would hear and answer Yahweh God's call to His Sacrificial Offering of His Communion  Grace in Yeshua haMashiach, then Yahweh God's Divine Grace would bring that person into an intimacy with the Eternal Yahweh God through the sacrificial offering of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. 

Do you not know that Jesus Christ has conquered mankind's sin and death in His Own Body to the Glory of His Holy Father Yahweh God? ^{(See 1st Corinthians 1 verse 17 thru 25.)}

Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:  But let him that glories,, glory in this; that he understands and knows Me, that I AM the Lord Who exercises loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: For in these things I delight, says (Yahweh) the Lord. ^{(See Jeremiah 9 verse 23 thru 25.)}

The Word of Yahweh God is exhibited in His Incarnate Son, Yashua haMashiach for they are One Spirit, even before the Incarnation of Yeshua/Jesus! 

 If man, male or female, does not answer Wisdom's Call to Repentance and that of the Savior's Sanctifications, then at the very end, man, male and female, will inevitably find themself to be a dark enigma with their final opposition to themself.  It is only through the Communion Grace of Yahweh God that mankind's innate rebelliousness toward the only Infinitely Holy Yahweh God can be forgiven.  The wisdom of the wisest of men does not make one indispensable to the infinitely  wise Yahweh God.  Yahweh God is Gracious, but I wonder what became of the man Solomon, a son of David, who perhaps saw himself in his own wisdom, indispensable to Yahweh God?

Because the foolishness of Yahweh God is wiser than men; and the weakness of Yahweh God is stronger than men. For you see your calling brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called: But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and Yahweh God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has Yahweh God chosen; yes, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are, so that no flesh should glory in His Presence. ^{(1st Corinthians 1 verse 25 thru 29.)}

Within the cultural religions of Christianity, the institutional leaders are each right in their own eyes.  It is man's assessed correctness, confined to his own myopic vision and finite knowledge that creates contradictions in opposition to Yahweh God's Eternal Covenant that brings freedom from sin's bondage of death.  Within our minds of flesh, it is good to have an ongoing working knowledge of what is written in scripture: Nevertheless, it is far better in simple application, to have a heart that is one with the Spirit of Yahweh God, for He brings enrichment to the soul that would rest in the Love of Yahweh God that surpasses our understanding.

Knowledge makes one proud, but sacrificial Love builds one up.  If any man think that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he aught to know:  For if any man Loves Yahweh God, the same [person] is known of Him. ^{(1st Corinthians 8 verse 1 thru 3.)} He is the Source of your LIFE IN Christ Jesus, Whom Yahweh God made our Wisdom, our Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption: Therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord". ^{(1st Corinthians 1 verse 30 thru 31.)}

Paul, in his epistle, is referring to the same Scripture from Jeremiah that we have already seen above:

Let him that glories, glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I AM the LORD, which exercise Loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: For in these things I delight; declares Yahweh the LORD. ^{(Jeremiah 9 verse 24.)}  

The scholars, pastors, evangelist and teachers of scripture, having a knowledge of the history of mankid and the languages of the bible, have, by whatever gifted means, assisted each and everyone of us in attaining knowledge of the events and instructions of scripture, all of which is tended to establish faith.  But, even in our hearing of the instructions and being immersed in the written Word; Yahweh God is the only One Who can create a new LIFE IN Christ Jesus, and expand the humble heart that is yielded in Yahweh God's New Blood Covenant within Christ Jesus.  Paul writing to the Corinthian says:

I have planted, Apollos watered; but (Yahweh) God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planted any thing, neither he that waters; but (Yahweh) God, Who gives the increase. ^{(1st Corinthian 3 verse 6 thru 7.)}

Yahweh God, in all instances of His Salvation, provides the Good Seed, which is His WORD and His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  Through Yahweh God's reproductive design, His Covenant WORD, Yeshua haMashiach, is seeded in the soul and mind of repentant man, and is to reproduce the likes of Paul the planter, and Apollos the one who waters, and you and me who are all to have both the Likeness of the Image of the Love of Yahweh God, IN Jesus Christ.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is Perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. ^{(1st Corinthians 13 verse 9 thru 10.)}

Wisdom would say, if we would be perfect then the Love/Agapao of the Perfect Son of God would be abiding and ruling IN our hearts, for: 

God's Perfect Love (Agapao ) suffers long, and is kind; Love envies not; Love vaunts not itself, Love (Agape) is not puffed up, Agapao does not behave itself unseemly, Love seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, Agapao thinks no evil;  Rejoices not in iniquity, but love (agape) rejoices in the Truth;  Love (agape) bears all things, Love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Agape  never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. And now abides faith, hope, Love (Agape), these three; but the greatest of these is Agape/Love. ^{(1st Corinthians 13 verse 4 thru 8 and verse 13.)}

Owe nothing to anyone except to Love/Agapao one another; for he who Loves/Agapao his neighbor has fulfilled the (requirements of the) law.  ^{(Romans 13 verse 8.) NASB.}

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore Love/Agapao is the fulfillment (the requirements) of the law.  ^{(Romans 13 verse 10.) NASB.}

For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love/agapao your neighbor as yourself.” ^{(Galatians 5 verse 14,) NASB.}

If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, [then]“You shall Love/Agapao your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ^{(James 2 verse 8.) NASB.}

The Lord Jesus Christ, declares the TRUTH to those who have ears to hear;

I AM WAY, the only TRUTH and the only LIFE of men, No man come to the Father except by Me. "I AM the Vine, and without Me you can do nothing." ^{(See John 15 verse 1 thru 5.)}

Jesus states a very logical premise: Without the Vine, there is no production of fruit.  If Yahweh God is Love then He is Perfect Love, and without His Love/Agapao working within the hearts of mankind, then it must be that the mind of man, male and female, is severed from the Vine and the Production of Yahweh God's Perfect Love is impossible.  Without the flow of Yahweh's Holy Spirit IN the TRUTH of His Only Begotten Son, even with the hard work and seemingly good intentions of our human instructors of the scriptures, then essentials can be misconstrued in the communication and interpretation of words, and human error is reinforced with a dogmatic position of more error.

Knowledge puffs up, but agape love edifies. If any man thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know.  However, if any man Agape Loves God, the same is known of Him. ^{(1st Corinthians 8 verse 1 thru 3.)} And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not Agape Love, I am nothing. ^{(1st Corinthians 13 verse 2.)}

The dynamics of one word of one language of the bible, can be lost in the translation into another, and the natural man in us can pass over one vital point, and miss the essential heart of the matter that should make us all one within our faith in the One Christ Jesus.  

For There is one Body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all. ^{(Ephesians 4 verse 4 thru 6.)}

The TRUTH of the Infinite Yahweh Lord God Almighty is established mathematically as One God and Father of all.

However, in our confusion of our own individual fleshly thoughts of Who is God, and what is right and wrong, I'm afraid that in our divisiveness, we have substituted our own doctrines, and dispensed with the Lord's Sanctifying Words of His New Covenant instructions, leading up to, and during Jesus Christ's last supper with His disciples.  As the WORD of Yahweh God implies: The cultural traditions, and the understanding of man, can make the Word of God non effectual within the heart of man. ^{(See Mark 7 verse 13.)} In the following verse, Paul is dealing sharply with the permissive licentiousness within the Corinthian church and their not understanding the Power of the Love of Yahweh God in the Perfect LIFE of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.  Whereby our Faith in the Shed LIFE Blood of Yeshua haMashiach separates man from their sin and death. 

Your glorying is not good.  Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, for you are to be unleavened.  For even Christ our Passover, is sacrificed for us:  Therefore let us keep the Feast (of unleavened bread), not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the Unleavened Bread of sincerity, and TRUTH. ^{(1st Corinthians 5 verse 6 thru 8.)} 

The Unleavened Bread of our Communion within our Lord Jesus Christ, is Yahweh God's True Bread of Heaven free of sin and death, and when it is coupled with our repentance from sin, then the BREAD of HEAVEN  is our assurance of Yahweh God's cleansing Mercy and Grace through the Yahweh's New Covenant IN the Blood of Jesus Christ, therefore our souls would remain in Yahweh God's Kingdom of Peace.

Is it not time to put away the prideful intellectual leaven of the flesh that puffs up, divides and separates the bread, for Jesus Christ our Passover, is sacrificed for us sinners?  Shall we continue in sin that so easily entraps us in death?  Yahweh God forbid: For now in the fullness of Yahweh God's Covenant of Grace in the Blood of Jesus Christ, we are to be the many members IN the One Body of Christ Jesus, for our sin's have brought death to the Holy One of Yahweh God.  We sinners are to wait faithfully in the resurrection promise of LIFE In Messiah Yeshua. For whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.  Do you believe this?

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