Knowledge and Wisdom

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It is possible to obtain a great accumulation of knowledge without ever growing in wisdom. In this episode, R.C. Sproul identifies the key distinction that the Bible makes between being knowledgeable and being wise before God.

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0:00.0	There is no wisdom without that posture of the fear of God.
0:10.3	The Hebrew will not acknowledge the brilliance of the secular mind if that mind is standing
0:17.8	in contra distinction to the fear of God.
0:24.2	For the Jew, wisdom is sharply differentiated from knowledge.
0:32.9	The distinction is very clear between them.
0:36.8	A man may have knowledge without having wisdom.
0:42.3	Knowledge is a very important ingredient to wisdom but is never to be confused with it.
0:50.8	Most primarily for the Jew, wisdom involves the proper and right application of knowledge
0:59.9	to daily living.
1:02.4	That's why the conclusion of Ecclesiastes is this statement.
1:07.1	Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.
1:10.6	Fear God and keep His commandments.
1:14.9	That's a summary of Hebrew wisdom.
1:18.7	The wisdom, as it says in the Proverbs, what is the beginning of the wisdom?
1:24.8	The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
1:30.1	And the fear of the Lord here is that idea of standing in adoration and praise giving
1:38.4	proper exaltation to God.
1:41.0	Now what the Hebrew is saying is that that's where wisdom begins.
1:46.4	There is no wisdom without that posture of the fear of God.
1:54.1	One can have all of them always in the universe.
1:56.4	One can even be convinced of the codency of some kind of ultimate first cause and come
2:02.9	to the conclusion that there is a unifying factor in the universe.
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