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The greatest obstacle to Bible knowledge is not culture, nor education, nor any other thing lacking in our lives, but rather it is something existing in our lives that should not be there.\u00a0 Paul said of the Corinthian church, That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge (1 Cor. 1:5).\u00a0 He even admitted that ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ (1 Cor. 4:15).\u00a0 Yet the apostle wrote, And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ (1 Cor. 3:1).\u00a0 The greatest obstacle to Bible knowledge never has been a lack of Bible study.\u00a0 It is and always has been carnality!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambrose said, \u201cAll are not fitted to teach; would that all were apt to learn.\u201d1<\/sup> Paul wrote, I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.\u00a0 For ye are yet carnal (1 Cor. 2:2-3).\u00a0 Even if Paul taught with the meat of the Word they could not digest it because of their carnality.\u00a0 No doubt, in many classrooms across our country today there is much information being given while no learning is taking place, not because the hearers are unintelligent, but because they are carnal.<\/p>\n

When I was in High School in the 1960s, chaos was quickly taking over the classrooms, the halls, and the campuses all across America.\u00a0 I remember the math teacher at my High School offering a suggestion.\u00a0 He said that they should close the school and go home.\u00a0 Then when just one student says, \u201cI want to know something,\u201d they should open the doors and begin again!\u00a0 I\u2019ve wondered if the same wouldn\u2019t work for many churches and Christian education institutions since it is often obvious that learning is not taking place because of carnality.\u00a0 Instead, however, we continue to load these babes down with Bible studies and discipleship courses.\u00a0 After all, if they are on milk, don\u2019t they need meat?\u00a0 That was not Paul\u2019s solution.\u00a0 Until the carnality problem was solved, they would only choke on the meat, or become puffed up in their knowledge.\u00a0 Rather, their repentance at Paul\u2019s rebuke brought a thorough cleansing that prepared them for learning (see 2 Cor. 7:8-13).\u00a0 The answer was in confession first and instruction second.\u00a0 The need for repentance was manifested in several ways.\u00a0 Here are a few.<\/p>\n

A wrong desire to be great.\u00a0 <\/strong>Their carnality had caused them to follow men rather than Christ.\u00a0 Therefore let no man glory in men (1 Cor. 3:21).\u00a0 Apollos must have been revered in this way by many and he is mentioned several times in this regard.\u00a0 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another (1 Cor. 4:6).\u00a0 It is too common (and should not be the desire of the teacher) for the student to idolize the teacher.\u00a0 Even if the student is sitting under a great man, he needs to realize that greatness didn’t come by a desire to be great.\u00a0 Tozer said, \u201cThe great saints of past eras did not know they were great saints.\u201d2<\/sup> Rather, great men shunned the carnality of the world and sought the things of God.\u00a0 Spurgeon wrote, \u201cMany through wishing to be great have failed to be good; they were not content to adorn the lowly stations which the Lord appointed them, and so they have rushed at grandeur and power, and found destruction where they looked for honour . . . A man does well to know his own size.\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n

A wrong desire to be worldly.<\/strong>\u00a0 A major section on worldliness in the epistle ends with that beautiful passage about our body being the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19-20).\u00a0 Paul even reminds them, Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? (1 Cor. 6:15).\u00a0 We all take up space and this body is the only space we get on this earth!\u00a0 It is important to God and it ought to be important to us!\u00a0 Paul wrote, God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power (1 Cor. 6:14).\u00a0 Carnality has to be dealt with in the body and it cannot be shared with demons.\u00a0 The real \u201clegalists\u201d were right there in Corinth and they complained numerous times, All things are lawful unto me (1 Cor. 6:12).\u00a0 They wanted spirituality without restraints on their \u201cspace.\u201d\u00a0 J.I. Packer wrote, \u201cThe idea that freedom is what you have when you have thrown off all that repressed or constrains you is a false trail which leads nowhere save to puzzlement and disillusioned bitterness.\u201d4<\/sup> Who wouldn\u2019t be bitter drinking milk all his life?<\/p>\n

A wrong desire to be comfortable.\u00a0<\/strong> Carnality often manifests itself in our lives in our desire to avoid all conflicts and those things that cause us inconvenience and stress.\u00a0 The Corinthians would not deal with fornicators, nor with factious persons, nor with fleshly false teachers.\u00a0 Sadly, the apostle lamented, For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.\u00a0 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face (2 Cor. 11:19-20).\u00a0 In fact, they boasted that the reason they hadn\u2019t dealt with the sin is that they were so broad-minded!\u00a0 But Paul wrote, Your glorying is not good.\u00a0 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (1 Cor. 5:6).\u00a0 A church\u2019s refusal to deal with problems, whether they be doctrinal, worldly or disciplinary is a sign of carnality.\u00a0 It is much like a lazy parent\u2019s refusal to discipline unruly children.\u00a0 Spurgeon wrote, \u201cWhen fathers are tongue-tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children\u2019s hearts remain sin-tied?\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

Though the list of carnal things could be extended, the Scripture also presents many proper attitudes and actions that bring confession of our carnality and prepare us to learn from God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Here are three.<\/p>\n

A proper desire to please God.<\/strong>\u00a0 In his second epistle, Peter is very specific that virtue must follow faith but must come before knowledge.\u00a0 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge (2 Pet. 1:5).\u00a0 It is helpful to see that virtue comes from a word meaning \u201cto please.\u201d\u00a0 That is, when you fall in love with the Lord (\u201cfaith\u201d is just that!) you have a great desire to please Him.\u00a0 Perhaps you will or won\u2019t, but you have the desire.\u00a0 Knowledge is the proper direction for that desire, and if followed will direct the desire to its proper end.\u00a0 Paul complimented the Thessalonian believers that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and please God, so ye would abound more and more (1 Thes. 4:1).\u00a0 The information they had received from Paul fulfilled their desire to please God.\u00a0 Desire (\u201cvirtue\u201d) to please God is a spiritual prerequisite for Bible knowledge.<\/p>\n

The meat of the Word can only be chewed, enjoyed and digested by those who truly desire to find out what pleases God.\u00a0 Without that desire, Bible knowledge is just knowledge for the sake of knowledge, just Biblical information.\u00a0 In a world where information is valued above wisdom and comes easily from a vast number of sources, it is easy to substitute mere Biblical information for true knowledge and wisdom.\u00a0 T.S. Eliot asked, \u201cWhere is the life we have lost in the living?\u00a0 Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?\u00a0 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?\u201d6<\/sup> We might ask, \u201cWhere is the virtue we have lost in all this Bible study?<\/p>\n

A proper desire to read God\u2019s Word.\u00a0<\/strong> Peter also reminded his readers that even babes in Christ should have a desire for the milk of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious (1 Pet. 2:1-3).\u00a0 It is easy to misread that verse by ignoring the necessary comma, thinking it is a description of what babes do.\u00a0 Rather, the word \u201cdesire\u201d is a command that if followed will cause a person to grow \u201cthereby.\u201d\u00a0 If a person has come into the grace of God, and has a desire to please Him, he will have a natural (i.e. spiritual) desire for the Word of God.\u00a0 The desire can even be commanded.<\/p>\n

But this \u201cdesire\u201d in verse two follows the \u201claying aside\u201d of the carnality in verse one!\u00a0 And what is this \u201claying aside\u201d but repentance and confession of that sin?\u00a0 The new believer has a new nature reinforced by the Holy Spirit that now lives within.\u00a0 Carnality brings conviction from the Spirit Who creates a desire for better things.\u00a0 Paul could tell the Thessalonians that God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.\u00a0 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit . . . For ye yourselves are taught of God (1 Thes. 4:7-9).\u00a0 How can a believer despise holiness when he possesses a Holy Spirit Who places within him a desire for the things of God?<\/p>\n

A proper desire to follow God\u2019s leaders.\u00a0<\/strong> A spiritual babe has a spiritual father in the evangelistic sense.\u00a0 He has a close and abiding connection with the one who led him to Christ.\u00a0 This is a wonderful connection that ought to lead the new believer out of the world and into a walk with God.\u00a0 Paul told the Corinthians, I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.\u00a0 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.\u00a0 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me (1 Cor. 4:14-16).\u00a0 Instructors may \u201cshame\u201d us into learning but our spiritual father can \u201cwarn\u201d us.<\/p>\n

The Scriptures have no hesitation admonishing us to follow those who are following Christ (e.g. Heb. 13:7, 17, 24).\u00a0 In Corinth, there were those who assumed this spiritual leadership over others but who corrupted the Word of God (1 Cor. 2:17), and who adulterated the Word of God (4:2), and who gloried in appearance and not in heart (5:12).\u00a0 No wonder these believers were spiritual babes!\u00a0 How could they be fed when there were no examples to follow?\u00a0 Os Guinness is right when he writes, \u201cThe Puritans lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes; we modern Christians live as if we have swallowed Gallop polls.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

So let us be busy about the study of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 But let us also be busy about our own confession of sin.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. St. Ambrose, \u201cFuneral Oration For His Brother,\u201d Orations From Homer To Mckinley, M. Hazeltine, ed. (ew York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1902) 1158.<\/address>\n
2. A.W. Tozer, Whatever Happened To Worship? (Camp Hill:\u00a0 Christian Pub., 1985) 11.<\/address>\n
3. C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, vol I (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Books, 1978) 87.<\/address>\n
4. J.I. Packer, Truth and Power (Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1996) 22.<\/address>\n
5. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, vol II, 333.<\/address>\n
6. By D. Groothuis, The Soul in Cyberspace (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997) 86.<\/address>\n
7. Os Guinness, The Call (USA: W Pub, 1998) 162.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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