edification
(ɛdɪfɪkeɪʃən)
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN [oft with poss]
If something is done for your edification, it is done to benefit you in some way, for example by teaching you about something.
[formal]
Demonstrations, films, and videotapes are shown for your edification.
Synonyms: instruction,
schooling,
education,
information More Synonyms of edification
Yes - edification has to do with building others up, yet it has an instruction, teaching, providing information method - it is not just say to go seek Jesus to find out. However, it is the best advice to seek Jesus for teaching and advice, all though He (since we know Him) gives us information, teachings, education, and information to pass on to others!!!
Mat 10:27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear
whispered in
your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.
Note: that the above verse does not talk about "anointing" but simply about passing on what He tells you!!!!!!!!!!
Mark 6:11 “
Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them.”
Have we missed nor gotten any instructions from Him to go and speak, as He instructs? He sent people to speak to other people! To tell them to repent. To tell them that the Kingdom came close. And who was it that told those who wrote the bible to write? And did they not write what He told them.
Prov 9:9 Give
instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase
his learning.
Yes - tell people to listen to Him, our Lord. But did He not also tell you bits of wisdom, so that you might pass on what you heard whispered in your ear?
He once told me:
“If you push water up, it flows back to you”.
“If you push water higher, it comes back as fresh water.”
“If you let it go, it will flow away to a salty sea.”
“If you spread it over a field things will grow.”
“So it is with the Word of God.”
If you still don't understand - the Lord gives you a word - a bit of wisdom - if you give it to somebody higher like say the pastor at your church, they should you should get a word they got coming back to you. If you take what He told you back to Him and ask Him questions about it He will give you a fresh word. If you don't do anything with what He told you, it will flow away from you and be lost to this world. If you spread what He tells you around it will cause others to grow.
So don't just tell people to go to the Lord, but also use what He whispered in your ear and pass it around - you will help others grow - at least they will unless the reject you - then you "shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them.”
