The Knowledge of Evil (Part 3)

   To choose life is to love truth, to hold to the truth and the Spirit of wisdom, despising the knowledge of evil!  Proverbs chapter 3 also makes this case.  “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, (soul, mind, and with all thy strength, (Mark 12:30); and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him (His every word, Matthew 4:4), and He shall direct thy paths.  Be not wise in thine own eyes (to live by the law of the flesh, I John 2:16) fear the Lord, and depart from evil.  It shall be health to thy navel (just as the umbilical cord supplies all the needs to the child in the womb), and marrow to thy bones (the source of life giving blood)… Happy (835- highly blessed with joy and contentment) is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding… She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her… Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.  She is a tree of life (comparing it to the tree of life that was in the garden of Eden which also appears in heaven, Revelation 22:2) to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retaineth her… Wisdom… knowledge… So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy necks (our salvation from the bondage to the knowledge of evil)… Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh… ...

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