Debrecen Messages #10 – The Revelation of Our Habitat and The Tree of Knowledge

I’d like to give you a definition of theology. It is a philosophical discussion of religion, and in some ways, that’s about how far we’ve gone.

I just want to say one other word, and that is that I haven’t touched on Plato. And that’s a whole different world. I’ve been talking about Aristotle.

Brothers, go back home and give God’s people Jesus. Don’t give them what I gave you today. I have given you information about the knowledge of good and evil in hopes that you will come to understand the difference between your soul and your spirit, your intellect, and the Lord’s life in you.

Brothers, be careful about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and know that most of what God’s people are getting every Sunday and through the week is knowledge. And I am telling you behind that video camera, and I’m telling you, brothers and sisters in this room, that the Bible study that we know today and the sermons that we hear today are basically a Western venture into knowledge. It is not life, and it is not Christ. Be careful of the tree you eat from. Tend the garden. Guard the garden. Walk with the Lord in the cool of the day, and be careful what you eat.

God’s people will look like they’re enjoying knowledge of Scripture for about two years. And after that, they’ll quit going because it gets boring and dead and there’s no real nutrition in it. And that’s when we’ve introduced the law out of our failure to introduce life, and you did not get life and joy from the law nor knowledge. You got it from an indwelling Lord.

Now I felt it was important to talk to you about this because you need to wake up to the fact that you are a westerner, that you are a son of Aristotle, and do the best you can for the rest of your life to not live up to that terrible fact.

We’re still in Genesis, we’re in chapter 2, verse 9, and this is our first bump into things that are not God’s eternal purpose. I think we need to know what’s not as well as what is, but let’s remain centered on what is.