KNOWLEDGE & ARROGANCE

WITNESS

7-24-13

KNOWLEDGE AND ARROGANCE

Have you ever been around

Someone who is arrogant

Someone-who knows it all

Who KNOWS everything

Knowledge is great

But these people can be tedious

So full of their own self-importance

It is knowledge of God

And God’s ways

That are most important

“Granted

But they were broken off

Because of unbelief

And you stand by FAITH

Do not be arrogant

But be afraid

For if God

Did not spare the natural branches

He will not

Spare you either”                                                                     Romans 11:20

PUT ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

“The fear of the Lord

Is the beginning of knowledge

But fools

Despise wisdom and discipline”                                               Proverbs 1:7

Living off the knowledge of man

Put on

The knowledge of God

“We know that

We all possess knowledge

Knowledge puffs up

BUT LOVE BUILDS UP

The man

Who thinks he knows something

Does not yet know

As he ought to know

But the man

WHO LOVES GOD

IS KNOWN BY GOD”                                                                 1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Knowledge puffs up

Love puffs up

LOVE GOD

LOVE OTHERS

“And I pray that you

Being rooted and established in love

May have power

Together with all the saints

To grasp how wide and long

And high and deep

IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST

And to know this love

That surpasses knowledge-

-That you may be filled

To the measure

Of ALL the fullness of God”                                                              Ephesians 3:17-19

All earthly knowledge

Is somewhat arrogant

If used to rely on oneself

But godly knowledge

In humility

Is built upon

TOTAL dependency on God

Knowledge puffs up

LOVE BUILDS UP

Love God

Love others

This is the knowledge

That is built

ON GOD’S  OWN WORDS

Robert P. Wallman

9-10-12

Ps        WITNESS        7-24-13