THE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The Value of God’s Wisdom
God gave us His Word to teach us how to live a godly life. At the start at any learning institution, you go into it with only the wisdom (worldly) you have, regardless of any prior education or books. You count on that institution to give you that particular education (wisdom) you paid for.
You cannot put a value on the wisdom that God has to offer us. When you dedicate your life to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you have signed the admittance paperwork of the school of godly wisdom.
So many have decided to skip this education and continue through life status quo. This, in my opinion, would be the difference of once saved, always saved. If you skip the course that God so graciously left for us, you risk the issue of ‘falling off the truck’.
Proverbs 2:1-5 (KJV), “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.”
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“11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
1 Timothy 2:11-14 (KJV)
1 Peter 5
Anyone that wants to be a pastor must adhere to these obligations
1 Peter 5:2-4 (KJV), “2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”
If you think you have a gift to share with the flock, wait on the Lord
1 Peter 5:6-7 (KJV), “6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
Go with God and learn with God, He will perfect you
1 Peter 5:10-11 (KJV), “10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
Hebrews 7 The King of Righteousness
Who was Melchizedek?
Hebrews 7:3 (KJV), “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.”
All priests through the law had to be Levites
Hebrews 7:14 (KJV), “For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.”
How then, from the genealogy of Judah, can Jesus be our Most High Priest?
Hebrews 7:12-13 (KJV), “12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.”
A better hope for us than the law
Hebrews 7:18-19 (KJV), “18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.”
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 7:22 (KJV)
Our Savior, our Priest, is the only priest who can live forever to be there for us
Hebrews 7:23-25 (KJV), “23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
“For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
Hebrews 7:28 (KJV)
Jeremiah 11
God said to do this
“And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.”
Exodus 13:5 (KJV)
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers.”
Deuteronomy 7:12 (KJV)
“26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
Deuteronomy 27:26 (KJV)
But they did not
“8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked everyone in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.”
Jeremiah 11:8 (KJV)
God is merciful and a just God, He is our ONLY Judge
Jeremiah 11:9-10 (KJV), “9 And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.”
Jeremiah 11:20 (KJV), “But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.”
Go crying to your gods, see if they are of any help
Jeremiah 11:12 (KJV), “Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.”
God’s judgment
Jeremiah 11:17 (KJV), “For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.”
Those in Anathoth, where Jeremiah lived, who knew he was talking to God, were threatening him
Jeremiah 11:19 (KJV), “But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
God protected Jeremiah
Jeremiah 11:21-23 (KJV), “21 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.”
Proverbs 2 Read
Ezekiel 10
“2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.”
Ezekiel 9:2-3 (KJV)
“11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.”
Ezekiel 9:11 (KJV)
The man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by His side is indeed referring to the pre-incarnated Lord and Saviour Jesus. Reference verses dealing with the man who is clothed with linen are Ezekiel 10:2-7, Daniel 10:5, Revelation 1:12-20.
Ezekiel 10:1-2 (KJV), “Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.”
VISION OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL ON THE RIVER CHEBAR
Grow in the Word of the Lord 