Proverbs 9:10
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Fools say, "There is no God" (Ps 14:1; 53:1)! They are hopelessly insane as they face life and its perplexities. Belief in the existence of God and reverently desiring to please Him is the absolute prerequisite for wisdom. Knowing there is a holy God with eternal power and Godhead is the absolute necessity for true understanding. Choose them both today!
All men reason from chosen assumptions. Consider it well. Wise men reason from faith that Jehovah is, and He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Heb 11:6). Since Scripture is easily proven to be a divine revelation of truth and wisdom, they include this important fact. And within the Scriptures are perfect answers for every dilemma. Wise men, beginning with the fear of the LORD, approach life soberly and successfully.
The fool reasons from his own existence and the thoughts of his depraved imagination. His opinions are peer-based between human sentiment and self-justification. He has no absolutes or limits to restrain his hallucinations. His own heart is his god, and he wallows in his own feelings. He may call it science - evolution and psychology - but it is only vain babbling to rid the universe of a sovereign God and moral restraints (I Tim 6:20).
Which of these two classes of men is reasonable? To enter life as a helpless, nursing, messing infant and think that your thoughts twenty years later are noble, sound, and wise is the epitome of insanity. To admit the universe has an infinitely wise Creator, Who has the right and wisdom to direct man's life is the only sensible view. Scripture plainly declares that men without faith are unreasonable (Ps 14:1; 53:1; II Thess 3:2). Amen!
God has revealed Himself to men, but they have rejected Him; so He has justly given them over to reprobate minds, which pervert everything from the identity of God to the sexual use of the body (Rom 1:18-32). They are profanely perverse, but they have no wisdom or understanding to even recognize their depravity. They have a lie in their right hand, but they cannot deliver themselves (Is 44:20). They cannot even begin to be wise.
These nuts want us to believe they can tell us about planets 5,000 light years away but cannot find Saddam Hussein, that a buffalo rib from 1845 is a giant woodpecker's leg from 50 trillion B.C., that a liberal arts college education makes a person wise, that sodomy is normal, that labor unions benefit a country, that the Bible is an outdated collection of fables by religious nuts, that capital punishment is not a deterrent to crime, that Nicole Brown Simpson got a fair trial, that apartheid is wrong but Indian reservations are right, that spanking children is abuse, that rap is music, that Picasso was an artist, that the Flood is a myth but the big bang is fact, that an 18-year-old child in the public daycare should have an equal vote with a property owner, that a jury of peers provides intelligent judgment, that Muslims are peace loving people, that Hinduism is a respectable religion, that animals have rights but husbands don't, that Freud was sane, that two lesbians are acceptable parents, that freedom of speech includes pornographic caricatures of the president, that asking political opinions of actresses is intelligent, that a national debt approaching the nation's GNP is wise economics, that separation of church and state forbids attorney generals from praying, that the Beatles loved peace, that Britney Spears is a role model for girls, that Harry Potter novels are valuable but I and II Samuel are violent, and ... among many other examples of ludicrous, insane thinking!
Reader, humble yourself before your Creator, now! Confess every thought as being the selfish hallucination of a depraved and rebellious sinner. Beg Him for mercy and truth. Promise to adore and obey Him forever. Read His word with total faith and submission. Cancel your newspaper subscription. Love sound Bible preaching. Prove all things by the word of God, hold fast that which is good (Ps 119:128; Acts 17:11; I Thess 5:21).
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