Thursday, April 11, 2013

The price of ignorance


The last couple of decades have revealed to the American public that ignorance is one of the most expensive commodities we have in this country. It’s costing us more than we could probably calculate.

Most people are morally good, but they are ignorant of God’s word, and that condemns them. Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” (Hosea 4:6).

The ignorance of the Jews produced the worst of all crimes, the death of Christ: “And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers” (Acts 3:17). He furthermore said, “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God” (Romans 10:3).

Knowledge is intended to produce the fruit of obedience and righteousness. Peter wrote, “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14). Ignorance equals acting upon lusts, and the instruction that can pull people out of sin must overcome ignorance in the heart. The Hebrew writer knew this and rebuked his readers: “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing” (Hebrews 5:11). Don’t pay the high price of ignorance -- eternal condemnation. Learn of God what you need to do to be righteous.

Kyle Campbell

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