Wisdom and knowledge are crying out to us to hear the truths of God.\u00a0 Too bad we have become wise in our own eyes and cannot hear the truths of God.\u00a0 We create our own truth and we convince ourselves that this will work out better than the voice of our eternal God.\u00a0 It does sound strange when we put it that way doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Remember the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom.\u00a0 In verse 13 we are told what the fear of God looks like.\u00a0 This fear begins with hating what God hates.\u00a0 To align against what God has aligned Himself against.\u00a0 To choose to be on God\u2019s team.\u00a0 Secondly it is to hate the evil or \u201cthe flesh\u201d that is in us.\u00a0 Pride and arrogance is how we ended up ignoring the call and voice of God.\u00a0 We must surrender to God for salvation and continue to surrender daily to God so that we do not live in our flesh but obediently live in the Spirit.\u00a0 The third thing in fearing God is to hate the evil way.\u00a0 We are to hate the destructive ways of the world.\u00a0 Many wonder why we hate sinners.\u00a0 This is a false concept, we hate their ways, and the evil that sent them down that path.\u00a0 Why? We hate this because we fear God and stand humbly in agreement with God.\u00a0 We do this in part because sin in our culture will bring the wrath of God and move God\u2019s blessings away from us as a people.\u00a0 We do this also because we reverence God knowing that He is holy and just.\u00a0 God deserves our surrender and praise because of who He is.<\/p>\n
Our goal is found in verse 35 -\u201cfor whoever finds me finds life.\u00a0 And obtains favor from the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n
We love people, but we always love God first and foremost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}