Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 04/23/2023
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Knowing You, Jesus!
“Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.” I Cor. 8:1
This passage of Scripture, ch. 8:1-13, is a corrective response, most likely to a direct question. But I sense the Holy Spirit saying that Paul is using this opportunity to speak to more than the act of eating food offered to idols.
“an idol is nothing” vs.4. Also see Is. 44:13-20; Ps. 115:4-8
Except what we make it by way
of conscience.
Conscience is: “an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior”
The first commandment is, “you shall have no other god’s before
Me.” Ex. 20:3... vs. 5 says, “I am a jealous God.”
This jealousy is for us. We should be flattered to say the least. The number one accusation that God brings against the children of Israel is idolatry. He compares it to adultery.
In II Cor. 11:2, speaking further to the church in Corinth, and the church at large, Paul says, “For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
Often bogged down in our “light
afflictions” we lose sense of God’s
intention toward us.
The father of a young lady use to ask a suitor, “what are your intentions toward my daughter?”
The church is Christ bride, “prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband.” Rev.
21:2
So, what of this “knowing” business???
There is a sort of knowing, such as, knowing information.
We often say things like, “I know about someone” yet we can not claim to know that person. It may identify interest, but not necessarily affection, camaraderie, or any form of intimacy.
In this short passage of Scripture, I Cor. 8:1-13, we engage three similar English words; “knowledge”, “knows”, and “known”.
Each word has a different shading toward the same intent.
Knowledge, vs. 1 – “gnosis” means: knowing (the act). ie. (by implication) knowledge;- knowledge, science.
Knows, vs. 2a – “eido” means:
consider, perceive, see, wish, understand,
be aware
Known, vs. 2b, 3 - “ginosko” means: a prolonged form of a primary verb; to “know” (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with may implications
The big picture is Jn.
17:3, “And this is eternal life, that
they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
I Cor. 13:12 says, “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known.”
This knowledge transcends mere information, and is far more satisfying.
Pr. Jaron Halsted said, at the end of his teaching “Understanding the Need for the Anointing”.
“We have substituted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for the tree of life.
Gen. 3:1-7 – Eve RATIONALIZED the word of God.
Rationalism has eclipsed anointing – Exchanged God’s covering for man’s
covering. v.7
see Is. 30:1; 31:1
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Suzanna also shared the lyrics to Knowing You Jesus by Graham A. Kendrick as we briefly mentioned it at the beginning of the study:
Knowing You Jesus / Lyrics
All I once held dear, built my life upon All this world reveres,
and wars to own All I once thought gain I have counted loss Spent and worthless
now, compared to this
Knowing You, Jesus Knowing You
There is no greater thing
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love You, Lord Yeah-yeah
Now my heart's desire is to know You more
To be found in You and known as Yours
To possess by faith what I could not earn
All-surpassing gift of righteousness
Knowing You, Jesus Knowing You
There is no greater thing
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love You, Lord
Oh, to know the power of Your risen life And to know You in Your
sufferings To become like You in Your death, my Lord So with You to live and
never die
Knowing You, Jesus Knowing You
There is no greater thing
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love You, Lord
You're my all, You're the best You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love You, Lord Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Graham A. Kendrick
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