Wisdom’s Voice, Part 2

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As mentioned in our previous post there are three failing categories mention in our text:

Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city (of Christendom) She speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.” (Prov 1:20-22)

The first mentioned are the simple ones.

They are such as are satisfied and in need of nothing—a criticism particularly of Laodicea.

The Bible tells us that we are all born and shapen in iniquity. We grow up from an infant, to a babe, to a child, to a teenager, to a young adult, to an adult, and to one in old age. We start out knowing nothing.

The “simple ones” in Verse 22 have developed up to a certain level (a child). The NIV brings out the natural standpoint, viz.

"How long will you who are simple love your simple ways?”

But on a spiritual level, applying to the consecrated, we are told not to let anyone deceive us away from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Cor 11:3). God’s plan when rightly understood is truly simple, it is men who have made it complicated.

Unfortunately, some take this statement to far and abuse it. They are not interested in chronology, prophecy, or any other of thedeep thingsof God’s word, for these subjects cause divisions amongst the brethren. They emphasize the basics, that Christ bought us, that we are saved through faith, that our lives are joyous now, that we are guaranteed life in the future—but they do not recognize sin (right and wrong, righteousness and unrighteousness) in the truest sense of the word, as our Lord saw it or the need for growth and development.

Heb 5:13 refutes this type of thinking:

For every one that uses milk [only] is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe [a simple one, a child].”

A leading minister once said and with great enthusiasm, that continuing in the milk of the word was an evidence of maturity. That statement is completely contrary to the teachings of the scriptures. On another occasion the same minister said we should not seek to fellowship with studious brethren, for our Christianity is manifested when we go to the humble brethren who know little.

The same attitude is shown by many who study the Gospels and Epistles over and over again and neglect the rest of the Bible. They stress the heart knowledge to the neglect of head knowledge, but both are needed. The Scriptures tell us to develop from a babe up to manhood
.

The Scriptures admonish that we are to grow BOTH in the graces (the heart felt spirit of Christ) AND in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Apostle Paul continues on in Hebrews by listing the fundamentals of truth, telling us to leave them (NOT forgetting them, but retaining their lessons), and go on to more advanced truth: Therefore leaving the elementary principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again [and again] the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment” (Heb. 6:1, 2).

He also said he would like to tell more about the Melchizedek priesthood (hard things to explain), but could not because the brethren were still babes, and as such weredull of hearingincapable of receiving thedeeps thingsof the Word of God.

We will take a look at the last two mentioned in our text (scorners and fools) in our next post.
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