1 Timothy 6:20-21

1 Timothy 6:20-21  Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care.  Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith.  Grace be with you.

Proverbs 1: 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.  

2 Corinthians 4:6  For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

The beginning of knowledge is to fear God.  Otherwise, to place the AWESOME CREATOR in our conscientiousness is the beginning of knowledge.  All other thinking is ignorance and darkness.  If we truly respect and acknowledge the Almighty God, who is the beginning and end of everything, we will serve him with all of our might.  By serving him, we begin to appreciate our existence and to understand the purpose of life on this "blue planet."  Without the knowledge of God, we are inalterably lost in our own finite understanding, our terrestrial thinking.  We will always try to make two plus two equal four, understanding what is true in our domain.  But God is far beyond even our rational thinking, for He is a spirit.  We humans are bound to this earth's surface; we cannot travel even one light year away from our homes. How then can we claim to know anything about a spirit existence, a transcendental life?  Outside of Christ, outside of Biblical truth, we are like the blind leading the blind.  

On television we have self-proclaimed gurus and spiritual leaders, claiming to know something about God and the meaning of life.  They usually have an audience of gullible people, sitting before them spellbound by their great insights and wisdom.  Even some Christians grab tidbits of their supposedly great insights and incorporate them into their religious beliefs.  But I want to tell you if their great insights and their great wisdom does not come down to the fact that Jesus Christ is Lord and He deserves to be served, then their self-important words originate from the pit of hell.  For God has chosen to reveal himself fully through Jesus Christ.  In Jesus Christ and in HIM ONLY do we see the purpose of God, the wisdom of God, and the love of God.  The great gurus and philosophers of our age will reject this reality. They might cautiously admit that Jesus Christ was a great spiritual leader or that He was a good man, but they will not admit to his divinity.  They will not submit to his authority of being the Son of God, and they will not accept him as their savior.  They will continue to hold tightly to the doctrine that God can be found inside each of us, that we are all gods, and that we have to delve deeply into our own spirits to understand the god inside of us.  

In other words, these false teachers of our day hold tightly to the aggrandizement of SELF.  They represent clearly the antiChrist spirit.  This spirit leads men to godless chatter and opposing ideas to Christ that will eventually lead men to destruction and damnation.  Flee from such ideas, such men.  Paul tells Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care.  Don't add or take away from that which you know to be true.  Some are doing that and they are wandering from the faith.  They are losing their anchor.  They are losing their foundation, which is Jesus Christ and him crucified.  For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.  (1 Corinthians 3:11)  We know God through Jesus Christ and the revelation of the Holy Spirit.  Christ has paved the way to God's domain.  He and He alone is the transition to heaven.  We know God because we know Jesus. We know this for God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.  And He sent the Holy Spirit to reveal all truth to his children and to keep us from error.  If you are hooked into someone's ideas, his insights, his wisdom, and he doesn't know Christ the redeemer, flee from that influence, for the beginning of knowledge is to fear God and to know him through Jesus Christ our Lord.