Participants: Dwayne Lemon, Lance Wilbur
Series Code: TKS
Program Code: TKS000015
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00:30 Hello, my name is Dwayne Lemon. And I'm Lance Wilbur.
00:32 And we like to welcome you to another program with TKS, 00:36 a "True Knowledge of Self" where we get to know ourselves 00:40 from a biblical perspective. 00:42 We are so grateful that you joined us 00:44 again today for another session. 00:45 We are getting so deep into the word of God 00:47 as we are understanding 00:49 the role of true education versus false education 00:54 and how it effects people in times past. 00:56 We are looking in Bible times 00:58 but then we are also looking at it today 00:59 because they are several methods 01:01 of false education that are affecting society 01:04 and we are specifically because our program 01:07 is geared towards reaching those especially 01:09 in our urban communities and urban societies. 01:11 We know that hip-hop culture, RnB culture, 01:14 this is one form of "education" that comes to many individuals 01:19 upon which we have to find out is it true education, 01:21 is it false education, is it knowledge of self 01:24 or is it a true knowledge of self 01:26 and that's the reason why you are joining us again 01:28 and we welcome you. 01:30 Lance, we've been talking so much 01:32 about the Book of Daniel. 01:34 We've been looking at Daniel's life, 01:36 we've been looking at Nebuchadnezzar, 01:38 we looked at the fact that as soon as the Israelites 01:41 as they came into slavery in Daniel Chapter 1 01:44 that we found that Nebuchadnezzar had 01:46 for lack of better turns of modus operandi. 01:48 He had, he had a means of how he was going to 01:51 try to take away 01:53 the various stands and positions 01:55 that the Israelites held and to mold them. 01:57 And Nebuchadnezzar wanted to get the cream of the crop. 02:00 He wanted to start with the best 02:01 as we saw in Daniel 1:4. 02:03 And here it is that one of his first methods 02:06 of trying to take away the true education 02:08 was by introducing false education. 02:10 And we learned in previous sessions 02:12 that Ecclesiastes 1:9 02:14 it says "That which hath been, is that which shall be, 02:16 and that which is done is that which shall be done 02:19 and there is no new thing under the sun." 02:21 History has a tendency to repeat itself 02:23 and so we find ourselves in a circumstance today 02:25 even in our day 02:26 where individuals through the means of false education 02:29 are being pulled away 02:31 from understanding God and His truth 02:33 rather than drawing closer towards it. 02:35 And so it is that we looked in our last session 02:37 about this idea 02:38 and we looked at true education what is that, 02:40 false education what is that 02:43 and then of course kind of seen how does that fit today 02:46 in urban society. 02:47 How does that fit today in urban culture 02:49 and when you talk about urban society and urban culture 02:52 you can't help but to address the things 02:54 that are surrounding that society 02:56 and we know that the hip-hop culture 02:57 is very, very huge in that respect 02:59 and that's the reason 03:00 why we've been talking along that vein. 03:02 But I know that you, you know, you've grown up 03:04 in the public school system as well. 03:06 You introduced different concepts and principles 03:09 of false education when you were going through your journey 03:11 and I wanted to know if you can kind of build 03:13 on some of those experiences and how it affected you. 03:15 All right. 03:17 So I mean, I had a little different experience 03:20 in regards to the public school system. 03:22 I mean, I absolutely hated school 03:24 and everything associated with it. 03:26 So I treated it more like a, 03:28 you know, a social connection and network 03:31 rather than taking any actual academics seriously. 03:35 I had the capabilities to do it but other than athletics 03:40 and social interaction the class-- 03:43 there was always a few classes here and there 03:44 that I thought were important and I attended 03:48 but, you know, homework on time, 03:50 being on time, skipping school, 03:54 going to school leaving early, 03:57 you know, all kinds of crazy things I can-- 04:00 I mean, I could tell story after story after story 04:02 my experience in school 04:04 especially getting up to high school. 04:06 Obviously elementary those things 04:07 are not even in your mind but as you get older 04:10 and more devious these things come into play. 04:12 So yeah, you see everything. 04:14 All right, you have all now 04:17 you are in a more multicultural setting 04:19 than you probably have been 04:21 in your local neighborhood schools 04:22 and you have people from different sides 04:24 of the town and different locations, 04:27 sometimes different cities, swapping students, 04:29 they had this program swapping students. 04:32 So, you see every possible thing going on in the school, 04:37 during school hours. 04:39 I mean, you are getting into, 04:41 you know, I used to sell drugs in school. 04:44 You know, I would sell all kinds of things in school. 04:46 You know, that we would steal things in school, 04:50 we would drink and smoke in school 04:53 and there was sex going on in school. 04:55 All of things. 04:57 Anything, anything you can think of 04:58 is going on in school 04:59 and that becomes now the focal point 05:01 and kind of the education aspect 05:03 is like a bio-product with something on the side. 05:06 So you don't realize 05:07 that you are actually getting indoctrinated, 05:10 you are kind of getting oriented 05:11 into this me first mentality 05:15 and then now in the social interactions 05:18 its kind of playing itself out 05:19 is being encouraged at every level, 05:22 it seems at every stage. 05:24 And you get this me against, 05:27 you know, them, me against the world kind of thing 05:29 where the administrators and the disciplinarians 05:35 become your enemies 05:36 and I mean, it gets to the point where to me 05:41 school became just a place of, 05:44 you know, I didn't take it seriously at all. 05:47 I eventually dropped out of high school. 05:48 I got to the point where I dropped out of high school 05:50 again as I shared in my testimony 05:53 I picked the street life over 05:57 the only thing that kind of kept me in school 05:59 which was the athletics. 06:01 The, you know, the organized athletics. 06:03 So once I made that decision in my mind 06:05 school was absolutely of no important 06:07 so I dropped out. 06:09 I did however go and I get my GED, 06:12 I mean, I understood kind of the importance 06:15 and at least that, you know, you should get your diploma 06:18 and, you know, I figured out there was a GED program. 06:21 My girlfriend who is my wife, 06:23 wife now she was my girlfriend at the time 06:25 she went this program-- you know, nonprofit in the city 06:28 so actually started going to school 06:31 just prepare to pass a test. 06:34 Oh, man, I thought that was way more practical 06:37 than the other side 06:38 and I was going to school for four hours a day working, 06:40 you know, in the city 06:42 and, you know, I thought I was doing what I had to do. 06:44 So in two months time 06:45 I was able to get my GED instead of, 06:50 you know, spending four years in high school. 06:52 So it was just to me I did not enjoy school at all, 06:58 so it's something that I never took seriously 07:00 but at the same time I did not realize 07:03 the impacts that all of those classes 07:05 that I did sit through 07:06 and all of those interactions that I did have with the staff 07:09 and the teachers and the administrators 07:11 and all the other shady things that you see from top to bottom 07:14 was kind of feeding the monster if you will 07:18 and played out in my life 07:19 and in my every day life because you are spending, 07:21 you know, six to eight hours a day 07:24 with these teachers and these people 07:27 in developing these relationships 07:28 and you being taught 07:30 and indoctrinate to such an extent 07:31 that it definitely impacts you whether you like it or not 07:34 or whether you know it or not. 07:35 Now did you see any type of connection 07:37 between this form of education that you were getting in school 07:42 and then of course the education 07:44 that started to come to you through hip-hop culture 07:46 because I remember you said, you know, you started reading, 07:48 you started learning some things 07:49 even though you did-- you kind of hated reading. 07:51 At first you were doing more listening than reading 07:54 but either way you were receiving education. 07:57 Is there a connection between the education 07:59 you were receiving in school 08:01 and then the education that you started to get 08:03 when you were really stopping to embrace hip-hop culture? 08:06 Well, at first the contrast was what now you are 08:09 being delivered in the street. 08:10 The street education and the street knowledge 08:12 and the science and all this from the brethren 08:14 and the places and the people and the music 08:17 and the culture is coming in 08:20 and now you are looking at the institution, 08:23 you know, the school and the system as suspects. 08:26 Now all together it becomes even more corrupt 08:29 because now you are learning things 08:30 outside of the system 08:32 that you now believe the system has been 08:33 deliberately keeping from you. 08:35 So they are deliberately keeping you in ignorance 08:37 and deliberately propping you up to fail 08:40 or to just be either a good member of their system 08:44 or become something that's discarded 08:47 and goes to jail or just get becomes 08:49 somebody that an undesirable if you will. 08:52 You know, you kind of opening up 08:53 something here that I think is very powerful 08:56 for our viewers to take a look at as well. 08:59 You, you are talking about, 09:01 you are in one entrapment already 09:03 which was this false education that you were getting 09:07 through the various things you were taught and exposed to 09:10 in the public school system. 09:11 Then comes this other form of education 09:14 and of course is the education of knowledge itself 09:16 and as you are coming into this education 09:20 it's more appealing, it seems more intelligent, 09:23 it seems more attractive than what you are currently in. 09:27 So it made it almost easy for you to say 09:29 let me break out of this and start embracing 09:31 this form of education. 09:33 Now this is powerful. 09:35 One evangelist one time he talked about the devil 09:36 and he said that the devil is a great trapper 09:39 and what he does is he will set one trap here 09:43 but then what he will do is 09:44 he will go ahead and set another trap here. 09:48 So when you are dealing with the kind of creature 09:49 that's hard to catch 09:51 what they will do is they will put a trap here 09:53 and when the creature goes near it 09:55 and they will make this trap somewhat obvious 09:57 so that the creature sees, oh, that's a trap 10:00 and then it will try to run away from this trap 10:03 to another trap that is far more subtle. 10:07 And they will run from one trap, bang 10:09 and fall into another trap. 10:11 And so it is that we find that when we look at hip-hop culture 10:13 and the type of education of knowledge of self 10:16 that comes to an individual we've already shown thus far 10:19 and we are gonna magnify it even more 10:21 that this is a form of false education. 10:23 It's taking us away from true education. 10:25 And it was interesting that 10:27 they played a role of being the more attractive 10:30 quite honestly trapped 10:32 because there is still a false form of education. 10:34 And now the comparison 10:36 there was the start contrast initially 10:39 but now looking at it it's the idea that both 10:46 were feeding the self-exultation. 10:49 So both were propped up 10:51 to generate in me and produce in me the idea 10:54 that I'm the most important individual 10:58 in my existence 10:59 and that my well being and the well being of my family 11:03 and my loved ones, my success is dependent upon me 11:07 excelling and the weaker individuals, 11:10 you know, decreasing and getting out of the way 11:12 and becoming extinct. 11:14 And but here is where it gets just so amazing 11:17 because you have one trap system here 11:20 which is false education 11:21 but then you have another fall of false education 11:24 but this one appears better and therefore you say, 11:27 hey, well, this is better than what I have here 11:29 so let me go to that which is better. 11:31 Now, viewers, this is a very powerful point again 11:34 because you know how it is. 11:35 We try to take the practical lessons 11:37 of what we are discussing. 11:38 The practical lesson is remember 11:40 that the greatest enemy of best 11:43 is that which is called better. 11:46 Better is typically the enemy of best. 11:49 When God gives us something 11:50 that is the best form of education 11:53 we ought to do everything within us fear, 11:55 influence, power and ability to embrace the best 11:59 because what can happen is just like 12:01 what Brother Lance is talking about. 12:03 He was in a bad situation he found a better situation 12:07 but better was still the enemy of best. 12:09 And as a result of that 12:11 he just found a better way to receive false education 12:14 which is gonna lead to the same end result 12:16 which is not-- a lack of acknowledging of God 12:20 is gonna lead to self-exaltation, 12:23 is gonna lead to a life of selfishness 12:26 and it ultimately will accomplish the goal 12:28 completely opposite of true education 12:30 which is it will lead to a loss of eternal life. 12:33 And so we find that when we read John 17:3 12:37 "This is life eternal, that they might know 12:39 thee the only true God, 12:41 and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." 12:43 That form of true education which is the mental, physical, 12:46 spiritual development of an individual 12:49 so that they may faithfully serve God 12:51 and serve their fellow men. 12:54 This is the kind of 12:55 true education, the best education 12:57 that God wants His people to receive 13:00 and it should be our life work to see Father, 13:03 how can You make this real for me in my life, 13:05 in my situation, in my circumstance. 13:08 Lance, where-- you were talking about true education 13:12 but where did it really come from? 13:14 Where does true education find is beginning from, 13:18 you know, let's say a biblical stand point? 13:19 Right. 13:21 Where would we find the true education 13:22 is in its origin or in its beginning? 13:23 Again we want to go to the Bible and we want-- 13:27 when we want to find the origin we begin at the beginning. 13:30 Find the earliest point in the Bible 13:32 that addresses this particular subject 13:34 and it addresses just 13:36 as many other subjects are addressed 13:37 in the very first book of Genesis 13:40 and we are gonna look at Genesis Chapter 2 13:43 and looking at Genesis Chapter 2 13:46 this is Genesis 1 and 2 is before the fall. 13:49 We kind of addressed the fall already in a previous episode 13:51 we are gonna address it again in a few moments. 13:53 But the fall comes in chapter 3. 13:55 So Genesis 1 and 2 is God's creation in perfection. 13:59 Everything God evaluates and He says it's very good. 14:03 The earth is without sin, there is no death, 14:06 there is no sickness, there is no sadness, 14:09 there is no suffering of any kind. 14:10 Everything is perfect including man, 14:13 all of those relationships 14:15 that we talked about were broken 14:16 and man's relationship with environment 14:17 and his health all of that was nonexistent. 14:20 It was all pristine and perfect. 14:22 Even though the war had begun in heaven 14:25 it had not penetrated the realm of God's creation on the earth. 14:28 And so this was the scene and this is the backdrop 14:31 to Genesis 2:9 for the origin of true education. 14:36 Genesis 2:9 says, 14:40 "And out of the ground made the Lord God 14:43 to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, 14:47 and good for food, the tree of life 14:51 also in the midst of the garden, 14:53 and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." 14:59 So we see here that God created or provided 15:04 a means by which man can eat and live. 15:09 Man needs food and water to live. 15:13 And so God creates this organism, 15:14 this physical being, man is a spiritual being, 15:18 he is a mental being 15:19 but physically he needs nutrients 15:21 and He provides him with every kind of food 15:24 and the end result of man 15:28 taking from that which God has provided 15:31 is access to the tree of life. 15:34 In this tree of life now 15:35 access to that tree of life is choosing God, 15:38 choosing that life in that eternal life 15:44 that we discussed that only God can provide. 15:46 So if man access that which God provided 15:49 he was given a reward 15:51 and that reward was that eternal life 15:53 and that tree of life was what he was provided with. 15:57 But in contrast to that there was the tree 16:00 of the knowledge of good and evil. 16:02 It's something that God explicitly commanded 16:04 that man should not eat of, 16:07 they could eat of every tree of the garden. 16:09 He provided them with abundance 16:10 that we probably know nothing about 16:12 and variety that we probably know nothing about. 16:15 But there was one thing 16:17 very, a very simple instruction, 16:19 God said, there is a tree there you can eat everything 16:23 except that one tree. 16:25 Don't eat it because if you eat it 16:27 you will die. 16:29 If you eat it you will die. 16:30 And some people say well, that's kind of, it seems, 16:34 you know, kind of arbitrary or corrupt. 16:36 Why would God do that? 16:38 Well, there was one heaven we remember. 16:40 Sin has already come into the universe 16:43 and literally everything is at stake. 16:46 God has allowed His creation to express the free will 16:49 to choose to follow God 16:52 or choose to follow something else. 16:54 Satan if it's that or yourself or what have you 16:57 and so God in His simplicity, 17:00 you know, He is beyond reason 17:03 and beyond our comprehension yet 17:05 He makes everything so simple. 17:07 God in His simplicity reduced the whole entire world 17:11 and the whole entire conflict to one simple choice. 17:15 And man was there and he could choose God 17:18 symbolize by the tree of life or choose himself 17:21 and say, you know what, I need 17:23 that thing that God says I shouldn't have. 17:26 And that essentially is the temptation 17:28 when we are talking about this battle or the war 17:31 between true and false is at times 17:34 we think we need something that God deliberately told us 17:37 to stay away from because it will destroy us. 17:40 And we find ourselves indulging in that 17:42 which destroys us and destroys those around us. 17:45 Now question, was this a big test 17:49 or was this a small test? 17:50 I mean, it can be semantics. 17:53 I mean, essentially it was big in the sense 17:56 that everything depended the future of humanity 18:00 and the earth depended upon this choice. 18:03 At the same time it was small and simple meaning 18:07 there wasn't thousand laws. 18:10 They could have everything they needed. 18:13 There is one thing that they don't need, 18:14 in fact they will be harmful for them 18:17 and God said don't touch it, don't eat it. 18:19 So it was small in the fact that was simple 18:22 in my estimation 18:23 but it was big in the fact that it really determine 18:26 oh, what's the big deal they just ate a piece of fruit. 18:29 Well, the big deal is they chose themselves over God 18:34 and that is immense. 18:35 Now you know the reason why that's important 18:37 and I asked this question because I see it as something 18:40 when God says of every tree in the garden 18:46 you may freely eat, 18:47 freely, that means that mangoes, 18:50 apples, I mean, you name it 18:51 its loaded with everything. 18:53 He says, only one tree, 18:54 He says, that just I don't want you to touch it. 18:56 Don't, don't, don't, don't eat from it. 18:58 Don't eat from it. Don't eat for your benefit. 19:00 Not to keep something from you, for you benefit. 19:03 For your benefit, small test and yet here it is that 19:06 that's exactly where they failed 19:07 and it brought sin into the world. 19:09 Now this is interesting 19:10 because when you read Luke 16:10 19:13 the Bible says, "He who is faithful 19:16 in that which is least is faithful also in much, 19:21 but he who is unjust in the least 19:24 is unjust also in much." 19:26 Adam and even were created full grown adults. 19:29 They didn't grow up from childhood to adult. 19:31 Now there is a differential. 19:33 When a person is born into this world as a child 19:36 they go through something called development 19:39 and they develop and they mature 19:42 and then ultimately they become adults. 19:44 Adam and Eve are created, they brought into this world 19:46 and they are full grown adults. 19:47 So therefore even though they did not have to develop 19:49 or mature to adulthood 19:51 they had to develop or mature in character. 19:54 And as a result of that 19:56 that's why God allowed a small simple test 20:00 for the purpose of developing character in them 20:03 to say, listen, of every tree go ahead and eat it 20:06 but this one don't eat from it 20:09 and there was nothing to pull at them 20:10 because they had everything available to them 20:12 freely other trees. 20:13 So this is a very power thing. 20:15 The least or the smallest test 20:17 and here it is that they still failed. 20:19 And could be friends that, 20:21 you know, many of times we face test, 20:22 we have various pop quizzes of life 20:25 that come our way 20:26 but if we can't learn to get victory 20:29 and to access God and His power 20:31 over the smaller tests of life 20:34 what makes us think that we are prepared 20:37 for the larger tests of life. 20:38 In other words, if a man or a woman 20:40 wants to really gauge 20:41 how strong they are in the Lord don't look at the big victories 20:44 that you had last year or the year before, 20:46 look at the little tests that you face everyday. 20:49 And the question is how do you deal with those tests? 20:51 Are you faithful in that which is least 20:54 because if you can learn and cultivate the habits 20:57 of being faithful in the little things, 20:59 the little duties of life and even the little trials. 21:02 If you can bear them right then it positions us 21:05 that we will be faithful even in the larger things, 21:10 the larger trials in our life. 21:12 So God is teaching us a lesson 21:13 even as we are looking at this study. 21:15 So, Lance, here we are, we are asking 21:17 where did true education began? 21:19 I would imagine that the true education 21:21 must tie into the tree of life and certainly not the tree 21:23 of the knowledge of good and evil. 21:25 So how do we see this more 21:27 because, you know, some people maybe thinking 21:29 that the tree of life represents true education, 21:31 how is that so? 21:32 Where did you get that from? 21:34 How would you have somebody see 21:35 that especially from the biblical perspective? 21:36 Again we will walk through a few verses here 21:39 and see if we can bring this to light. 21:40 I want to start in the Book of Proverbs 21:43 and in Proverbs 1:7 21:46 there is a verse here that we are going to build 21:48 and add some more verses to 21:49 so we can get a clear understanding. 21:51 In Proverbs 1:7 it says, "The fear of the Lord 21:56 is the beginning of knowledge, 21:59 but fools despise wisdom and instruction." 22:04 Now I want to read another verse 22:05 to kind of, to make a connection here. 22:06 So it says, "The fear of the Lord 22:08 is the beginning of knowledge, 22:10 but fools despise wisdom and instruction." 22:13 I want to turn over to Proverbs 3, 22:16 and Proverbs 3:13 it says, 22:20 "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, 22:25 and the man that getteth understanding." 22:27 So there's a happiness, a joy involved. 22:30 We talked about that joy before in John 15. 22:33 There is a happiness involved here. 22:34 So the idea that God gives instruction, 22:37 the idea that God provides wisdom 22:39 or gives a command if you want to call it that 22:42 is not designed again for oppression or suppression 22:47 or hiding things or keeping things from us. 22:50 It's designed for our benefit, our happiness. 22:53 So in the instruction of God whether it's a commandment, 22:58 whatever you want to call it, the wisdom that God provides us 23:01 the knowledge and the instruction 23:02 that God provides 23:04 it makes us happy if we follow it. 23:06 But we saw that in contrast in Proverbs 1, 23:08 "Fools despise wisdom and instruction." 23:12 It's foolish to reject that which God is providing 23:16 for our benefit and happiness. 23:17 And literally the word wisdom and knowledge 23:19 are directly associated with education. 23:22 So therefore we are seeing this that when God provides 23:24 a form of education to us, 23:26 to build us up and to develop us 23:28 we can see it's a blessing if we follow 23:31 but it's foolish if we deny it. 23:32 In fact, when hip-hop culture in the Five-Percent Nation, 23:35 a Zulu Nation, Nuwaubian Nation, 23:38 the analog, the nation of Islam talks about 23:40 knowledge, wisdom and over standing. 23:42 You know, its plain words on the understanding 23:45 but they get that idea 23:47 and that principle from the Bible. 23:49 So, you know, 23:51 it's kind of taking from the Bible 23:53 and then spinning it. 23:55 And we are seeing what the Bible is saying 23:57 without the spin. 23:59 And the spinning we find that was always 24:01 a manifestation of the character 24:02 Satan wasn't it? Right. 24:04 Because in Matthew 4 he would go ahead 24:05 and he was an instrument in tempting Jesus 24:08 but did Satan quote the Bible. 24:09 He did but he put a spin on it. 24:12 So we find that the origin even of using the words 24:14 of God to accomplish our own agendas 24:16 that that is not a faithful handling of the word 24:20 but that's actually that 24:21 and I'm gonna call it "satanic spin" 24:23 that can be used the ultimate release 24:25 to deception and destruction. 24:27 So I want to nominate 24:28 the connects of the tree of life 24:30 so we are still in the Book of Proverbs, 24:31 we are in chapter 3 24:33 and we are looking at verse 18. 24:35 It says, its talking about wisdom now, all right. 24:37 And it's referring to wisdom in the feminine, right. 24:40 Just like we referred to a nation as she 24:42 or a car or a boat or something like that, right. 24:46 So it is referring to wisdom now 24:47 as a feminine and it says, 24:50 "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her 24:55 and happy is every one that retaineth her." 24:58 So now-- That's the connection. 25:00 So wisdom is now connected to the tree of life 25:04 and this is what provides happiness. 25:05 So the thing that God wanted to provide 25:08 His creation in the very beginning 25:11 is that happiness, that joy, 25:13 that and essentially what that is, 25:15 is a perpetual last thing eternal 25:19 presence in relationship with God, 25:22 no separation, living, 25:24 literally living with our creator. 25:27 And this is what God promises to restore at some point 25:30 when He deals with sin and its sincerity 25:34 we will be talking about that in future episodes. 25:36 Right. 25:37 So I think is a clear connection there. 25:38 I want to go to another book in the Bible of Deuteronomy. 25:42 We talked a little bit about Deuteronomy, 25:44 we know that that was Moses delivering his final sermons 25:47 to kind of summarize the whole entire agreement 25:51 of God with his people. 25:53 Everything that God has done for them 25:54 and what God requires of them as he transitions out 25:57 and Joshua transitions in 25:58 and they go into the Promise Land. 26:00 So we are looking at Deuteronomy 26:01 and we are looking at chapter 30. 26:04 Deuteronomy Chapter 30 26:06 so we can, you know, kind of tie in 26:08 and give bookends to besides here the tree of life 26:11 and how it connects to true education. 26:13 Deuteronomy 30:19, 20, 26:18 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, 26:22 that I have set before you life and death, 26:25 blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, 26:30 that both thou and thy seed may live. 26:33 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, 26:36 and that thou mayest obey his voice, 26:38 and that thou mayest cleave unto him, 26:40 for he is thy life, and the length of thy days, 26:44 that thou mayest dwell in the land 26:46 which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, 26:48 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." 26:52 So that idea and that connection 26:55 God is the source of life. 26:56 He provided access to that source of life 26:58 in the very Garden of Eden 27:00 but they had a choice to make, life or death, 27:03 God or self. That's right. 27:06 And so we find then that 27:07 you're, you're connecting the tree of life 27:10 because the tree of life was a source of wisdom, 27:12 it was a source of knowledge. 27:14 It was designed as a medium 27:16 to bring out the point of an education 27:18 that God wanted to give 27:19 right there in the beginning before sin 27:21 was even in this world. 27:22 And this is what God wanted to impart unto man 27:25 and this gives us the true knowledge of God 27:28 which helps us have a true knowledge of self. 27:31 We want to thank you all for joining us. 27:32 This study is gonna-- is already deep 27:34 but it's getting even deeper as we prepare 27:37 our hearts to go into the next session. 27:38 So we want you to stay tuned, this is getting very exciting 27:41 because very few individuals have ever connected 27:45 true education with the tree of life. 27:48 We want you to tune in and come on back with us 27:50 and always remember to bring a friend 27:51 and until the next time remember Proverbs 2:6, 27:54 "It is the Lord that gives wisdom 27:56 and out of His mouth 27:57 comes knowledge and understanding." |
Revised 2015-11-02