<TITLE>04. Par 29-37</TITLE>L-29 It's Proverbs 3:1. I'm sorry. I looked over here on--on my book, and I see that it is Proverbs 3 instead of 1 or 2. I'm sorry. Proverbs 3:1.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall be... shall they add to thee.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the tables of thine heart:
So shall thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thy own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path.

L-30 Oh, I think that's the most beautiful Scripture! Now I want to take for a text, out of the--the 5th verse, Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding.

L-31   Now this is a--a very strange text for the day that we're living in, because the emphasis today is certainly laid upon education and upon our own understanding of things, the day of--of learning. But we find out here that this strange statement, like other Scriptures, it has its place, and we trust that God will let us see where the place is.

L-32 Today we send our children to the school, to have understanding. Then after they are through the grammar schools, we send them to high school for a better understanding of knowledge. Then after they are through there, some children are even fortunate enough to go to college, and go through college to complete their education and their understanding of knowledge. What they are acquired of by... Many times, to get a job, you have to have at least a high school understanding, or a college education, or so forth.

L-33   Yet, the wise Solomon told us that, "not to lean to it, not to our own understanding; learn not of these things." Because, we wonder why that he would say such a thing as this, for it's because that usually our modern understanding is usually the wisdom of man, which is contrary to the Word of God. I think that's what that Solomon was trying to advise his sons, was not to be illiterate, but not to lean to their understanding.

L-34 And I think it would be a good exhortation today, if we said to our sons and to the sons of God, that, it's all right to have an education, there is nothing against that; but when that education is contrary to the Word of God, then lean to the Word and let your education go, see, because, the Word. And education will stand and will give you a good job, probably a good standing amongst intellectual people, but, that's all right, which will probably be a great help to you, help you in your financial and your--your livelihood, make living maybe a little better for you.

L-35   But remember one thing, my son, you've got to die. No matter how much education you got, how much culture you are able to accumulate, you've yet got to face death, because it is written, that, "Man must die, and after that the Judgment." And God, when... Death is not so bad, but coming to the Judgment is the bad part. Now, you can die, "but after that the Judgment." And God is not going to inquire of you how much schooling you got when you were here on earth, how much knowledge you accumulated, whether you've got your Bachelor of Art, or whatever degree you might have been, even as a minister. It's not going to be required of you.

L-36 But it's going to be required, of you, what you did about the understanding of God's Word. That's where the requirement comes, because That. Your education is fine, but the Word of God is Life. "My Word is Life," and to know It is Life. And He, He said, "Know Him." He is the Word. So you can only know Him by the Word, for He is the Word. And that's the only way you'll know Him, is by His Word.

L-37   Somebody could come up and say, "this is God," or "that's God," or "this is God," or "this is right," and "that's right," but we come back to the Word, which is the Truth.


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