This document contains Paul's notes on knowledge, highlighting three important things to know: 1. Know your responsibility - Christians are called to judge righteously according to God's word and love God and their neighbor. 2. Know the rules of investment - An inheritance in the kingdom of God is earned through righteous living, and one's return on investment is influenced by how they live. 3. Know the rules of association - Christians should not operate undercover in the world or associate with sin, but should renounce dishonesty and live openly in truth. The goal is for Christians to master knowledge of Christ through spiritual growth and education.

1. Slide 1
The Seriousness of
Stupidity
PAUL’S NOTES ON KNOWLEDGE
I recall driving through
Nashville.
The highway signs are very
helpful,
Everything is clearly marked.
But two signs really got me
thinking.
The first said Merge Right (hmm,
good for Merge)
The second said Merge left. (if she
was right
Why did she leave?)
-Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of 14, my
father was so ignorant I
could hardly stand to have the old
man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was
astonished at how
much the old man had learned in
seven years.”
Isaac Newton
“I can calculate the motion of
heavenly bodies but not the
ignorance of people.”
The Seriousness of Stupidity
You are never so poor you can’t
pay attention.
There is a price to be paid for
Ignorance

2. Slide 2
The consequence of Ignorance…
• Captivity, hunger and thirst
–Isa 5:13
•Destruction, rejection from God
–Hos 4:6
•No excuse for ignorance
–2Cor 11:6
The consequence of Ignorance…
Isa 5:13(stupidity is willing
ignorance)
13) Therefore my people are gone
into captivity,
because they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men
are famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
• Hos 4:6
6) 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.
• No excuse for ignorance
2Cor 11:6
6) But though I be rude in speech,
yet not in knowledge;
but we have been throughly made
manifest among you in all things.
Paul’s tone in Gal. is disgust and
amazement that they don’t know
the basics.
We are the students; The H.S. is
the teacher; The Bible is the text
book.
The student doesn’t decide what
part of the text book
he wants to Learn and what part
to leave.
Prov 2:6
For the LORD giveth wisdom:

3. out of his mouth cometh
knowledge and understanding.
Paul’s notes on Knowledge-
Slide 3
Know your Responsibility
•Judge things that pertain to this life
–1Cor 6:2-3
•Where’s all the love man?
–Mat 22:36-40
–Lev 19:17-18
•Law is an individual judging
•Prophets judge their fellow man
Know your Responsibility-
Judge things that pertain to this
life
1Cor 6:2-3 (sanctificationof the
body)
2) Do ye not know that the saints
shall judge the world?
and if the world shall be judged
by you, are ye unworthy
to judge the smallest matters?
3) Know ye not that we shall
judge angels?
how much more things that
pertain to this life?
• Where’s all the love man?
Matt 22:36-40
36) Master, which is the great
commandment in the law?
37) Jesus said unto him, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy
mind.
38) This is the first and great
commandment.
39) And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.

4. 40) On these two commandments
hang all the law and the
prophets.
• Law, an individual judging
himself according to God’s
Word
• Prophets judge their fellow
man according to God’s Word
Lev 19:5 (Law)
And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD,
ye shall offer it at your own will.
Lev 19:15 (Prophets)
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment: thou shalt not respect
the person of the poor, nor honour
the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou
judge thy neighbour.
Lev 19:17-18
17) Thou shalt not hate thy
brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy
neighbour,
and not suffer sin upon him.
18) Thou shalt not avenge, nor
bear any grudge
against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself:
I am the LORD.

5. Slide 4
Know the Rules of Investment
•Inheritance is Earned
–1Cor 6:9-12
“Expedient”
–R.O.I, greatly influenced on “Investment”
Know the Rules of Investment-
Inheritance is earned
1Cor 6:9-12(selfish sins)
9) Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God?
Be not deceived: neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with
mankind,
10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God.
11) And such were some of you:
but ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit
of our God.
12) All things are lawful unto me,
but all things are not expedient:
all things are lawful for me, but I
will not be brought under the
power of any.
• (Expedient- profitable, for your
betterment) R.O.I, greatly
influenced by “Investment”
(Not brought under the power of
any- not going to the mob for a
loan)

6. Slide 5
Know the Rules of Association
• God’s soldiers don’t operate as undercover
agents
–1Cor 6:15-18
–James 4:4
–1Cor 3:16-17
–2Cor 4:2
Know the Rules of Association
God’s soldiers don’t operate as
undercover agents
1Cor 6:15-18 (social sins)
15) Know ye not that your bodies
are the members of Christ?
shall I then take the members of
Christ, and make them
the members of an harlot? God
forbid.
16) What? know ye not that he
which is joined to an harlot
is one body? for two, saith he,
shall be one flesh.
17) But he that is joined unto the
Lord is one spirit.
18) Flee fornication. Every sin
that a man doeth is
without the body; but he that
committeth fornication
sinneth against his own body.
Jas 4:4
4) Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity
with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
1Cor 3:16-17
16) Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?
17) If any man defile the temple
of God,
him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are.
2Cor 4:2

7. 2) But have renounced the hidden
things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God
deceitfully;
but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves
to every man's conscience in the
sight of God.
Slide 6
Paul’s notes on Knowledge
• Know your Responsibility
• Know the Rules of Investment
• Know the Rules of Association
Be a spiritual “jack of all trades,
and master of one”.
Eph 4:11-13(Rom 12:4-)
11) And he gave some, apostles;
and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists;
and some,
pastors and teachers;
12) For the perfecting of the
saints, (something to learn)
for the work of the ministry, for
the
edifying of the body of Christ:
(edifying= education)
13) Till we all come in the unity
of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son
of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature
of the fulness of Christ: