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Living in the Information Age Without Discernment

We live in a time when information is everywhere. Between social media, AI tools, and constant noise from the news cycle, we are constantly bombarded with opinions. Yet with all this knowledge at our fingertips, wisdom seems to be disappearing. Proverbs 1 reminds us that wisdom is not just about knowing—it’s about doing.

As I reflected on this passage, I couldn’t help but notice how our culture encourages everyone to act on feelings instead of truth. Emotions change daily, but God’s Word never changes. The challenge is that many people have stopped questioning where their beliefs come from. They hear something enough times and assume it must be true. But Scripture calls us to something higher: to seek wisdom and understanding, and to take responsibility for how we live.

Why the Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Wisdom

Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Without the fear of God, we can collect information but never truly understand truth. The fear of the Lord is not terror—it’s reverence, awe, and recognition that He is God and we are not.

When we lose that reverence, pride takes over. We start living for ourselves instead of God. That’s why so much of the world feels upside down. People call evil good and good evil because they’ve lost sight of who defines right and wrong. Real wisdom begins when we return to God as our source of truth.

Taking Responsibility for What You Know

We are each responsible for what we do with the truth we’ve been given. It’s not enough to depend on pastors, teachers, or social media voices to interpret everything for us. God expects us to open His Word for ourselves.

I can’t stand before God one day and say, “My pastor never told me that.” The Bible is available to us, and it’s our job to read it, study it, and live it. Proverbs 1 reminds us that ignorance isn’t bliss—it’s dangerous. Once you know the truth, you are accountable for how you respond to it.

Be a Doer of the Word, Not a Hearer Only

James 1:22 warns, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” You can listen to sermon after sermon, but if you don’t apply what you hear, you’re living in deception. Faith requires action. Wisdom requires obedience.

I often pray, “Lord, help me not just to know Your Word but to live it.” We can’t call ourselves wise if we never act on what we’ve learned. It’s time to move from hearing to doing—to take the truths we’ve been given and live them out daily.

Seeking Wisdom in a Confused World

We are living in a world that confuses knowledge with wisdom. But God’s wisdom brings clarity, peace, and truth. It gives us the strength to discern what’s real and what’s counterfeit.

When we fear the Lord and walk in obedience, we become the light that cuts through the darkness. The world doesn’t need more opinions—it needs believers who know how to think biblically and live accordingly.

If you’ve been letting the world think for you, today is your wake-up call. Open the Word. Ask God for wisdom. And start living what you believe.

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00:08 – Jaime Luce (Host)
Welcome to the Jaime Luce podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in today. I really have a different kind of podcast today. I feel like this is more a very practical time that we’re going to have. I just kind of want to talk over some things with you today, as I was reading in the book of Proverbs and really meditating on what does that mean? To be someone who is wise, someone who takes in information and rightly knows what to do with that information and then actually does it? And the reason this is mulling over so much in my mind. And if you’ve got your Bibles, go ahead and turn to Proverbs, chapter 1.

01:06
But it seems to me, you know, we live in what they’ve called the information age, the information highway. You’ve got not just your social media and every possible computer and gadget to get information, computer and gadget to get information, but we now have, you know, everyone uses chat, gpt and AI assistance and there’s just so much information and we’re trying to make sense. We’re living in an age where there is literal chaos happening all over the world, in major countries and cities all over the world. And it’s crazy to me as I’m watching yesterday I happened to see a video of a girl and I pray she finds the Lord. I hope somebody in her life is close enough to truly share the love of Jesus Christ with her and bring her to a place of salvation and hope. But this poor girl had believed the trans lie and for many years had undergone not just hormone therapy but every possible surgery, so from head to toe, every surgery you can think of. She had her breasts cut off, she had lower surgery, she had everything done that she could have done and she was making a video and just tears. She was just crying in tears because she is now detransitioning and is so distraught with how none of that answered what was going on inside of her and the anger and the betrayal she feels from adults in her life, from whether that be adult or school or medical, it didn’t matter from every possible place around her that she was encouraged, she said, by just feeling a certain way. And we were living in a time when everyone, all they care about is what they feel and they think what they feel is is right and that they should take action based on their feelings. And we’re living in this and in every possible way. And this girl was is now, after she has endured all this and is now forever changed by those decisions that, as a child, were made.

04:09
I can’t help but think of the scripture that says that for anyone who causes one of my little ones to stumble, it’d be better for you if a millstone be wrapped around your neck and you’d be plunged into the sea. Because, even though that stumbling that she did, even the sin against her own body that she willingly committed, was done because she had those around her who she trusted, who should have known better, feeding her information that was detrimental to her health Was not helpful, but it would bring death to her, not life, and she was looking for life. And I feel like we’re in this literally about every kind of thing, whether it’s your thoughts on immigration, your thoughts on religion, your thoughts on biology, your thoughts on education, it doesn’t matter, it’s in every segment of our life right now. And I happen to be reading I say reading because I’ve already read it, but now I’m listening to it again. Mere reading, because I’ve already read it, but now I’m listening to it again. Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, and he brings out how it’s amazing that we as a society don’t, we don’t take the next thought. Okay, this is this is Jaime’s translation we don’t take the next thought and question that thought and go to where it ultimately stops so that we can have actual, concrete information. So like if. If the question is, does God exist? Well, you have to. In mere Christianity, the question is more a question of where does morality come from? And if you go down that road, you have to keep asking questions because you can’t assume that there’s just an inherent in society immorality.

06:25
If we all believe that there’s a right and a wrong, you have to believe. Well, where did that right and wrong come from? Why do we just automatically seem to know you shouldn’t murder somebody? Why do we get so offended when we see in the news every day these people who have illegally come into our country and they are butchering people and they’re not being prosecuted? I mean, we’re offended, we think that there’s wrong being done. But why do we think that’s wrong and why is that offensive to us? Because there’s something inside of us. Well, where does that come from? And you have to take that down. You don’t have that.

07:04
If you’re an atheist, you have no answer for that. You don’t have that. If you’re an atheist, you have no answer for that you have no answer, because if life has no meaning, then you wouldn’t be offended. If you believe that God is in everything and you think that good is equal to bad, meaning God and the devil are equal and they’re just like battling it out light and darkness. If you don’t understand that good is bigger, supersedes evil, then you have a wrong concept of life too, because you can’t think something is bad unless there’s something good to compare the bad to. It’s always lesser. If you’re in a room and it’s completely pitch dark, but I light one single match. That light will permeate the darkness. The darkness cannot control the light. The light will have more control over the darkness. So there’s not an equal good bad thing going on here, and so you have to be willing to be curious enough and ask questions to find people who refuse to look at truth. Even if you have an opinion that you hate truth, you have to at least be willing to go, look at the truth and be able to tell me why you’re choosing what you’re choosing over this truth.

08:46
We have known for thousands of years that there is a male and a female, and now we all we can literally watch on our screens, whatever kind of screen you’re looking at and see people in Congress who are running our country, making laws that affect us, who cannot define what a woman is, and they can’t see the sinister evil behind stripping a woman of what she is, in that she loses all that the crazy women’s lib thing brought to the table. I mean, if you’re the same person, these are the same groups who scream for women’s liberation and want equal power, equal this, equal that, and yet if you strip what a woman is, she loses all of that. She doesn’t get any of that. The evil eats itself alive and somehow our society is just blind. It has never been more clear to me that we need to be praying sight for the blind, truly, over every government official, over every family member, over every institution, over every. We need the blind to see.

10:24
There’s a lot of talk about you know now everybody’s. We’re not woke, we’re awake, okay, but you can be awake and be blind. You can have knowledge and not use that knowledge you can have, and the reason that this can happen is because scripture clearly states and we’ll read it in just a second that you can’t truly have knowledge or wisdom if you don’t fear God, if you have no fear of God, and people like to bring all kinds of confusion to the table with the word fear. I’ve talked about this many times in previous episodes, but the fear of God is so necessary. It is so necessary if you are a Christian. And boy, does our society need this?

11:18
Because if you don’t fear God, if you have no sense that there is a creator and you are only a vapor, your life is a vapor, scripture says. Then your pride and your desire to satisfy the flesh will take over in every realm of your life and it will take you straight to hell. Because if you don’t fear God, you don’t fear and have understanding that this life is temporal, everything about this life is temporal and it’s just a vapor. And there is eternity waiting that. All of us will stand before the great judge, jesus Christ, one day, and everything will be laid bare, every thought we ever had, every word we ever spoke, every deed we ever committed. And either we have been given the grace of God through the forgiveness and the remission of sins by the shed blood of Jesus, or we will stand there guilty without mercy, guilty without grace. That was extended to us Not because it wasn’t available, but because we ignored it because we were blind to it, because we didn’t accept it, and so we have to be more vigilant than ever, more vigilant than ever.

12:44
If you’re thinking about just your own health, let’s say for those of us because I think I fall into this category and I probably have to be careful how I say this, because I don’t want, you know, stuff being pulled off, pulled off and I’m shutting down the feed here but I feel like I have had some of these symptoms of what they call long COVID. Now, I didn’t get the jab, so if you got over the virus, so to speak, there were spike proteins in the virus itself that have affected your cells and some people are suffering from, you know, symptoms that they think are related to that and don’t seem to get better. And I’m dealing with a large handful, if not two handfuls, of things that I think are related to that and don’t seem to get better. And I’m dealing with a large handful, if not two handfuls, of things that I think are related to that, and I have been diligently researching and learning what I could learn, with my eyes wide open and open to things, and learning things that are contrary to what I knew or thought previously. So I have to be willing to look at things, even though I had a preconceived idea, a perspective already set, a mindset that was either critical or open to certain things and, as I have learned about them, have realized that I had been, I believed and had been fed false information my whole life by those who make those decisions and have the availability and the means to propagate that propaganda through every means possible that I’ve taken in my whole life. So you know, I had to be willing to look at the facts, read the actual reports of what has been tested. What have the tests shown? What are truly the facts? But real science, real biology, real chemistry, real results. Not what someone tells me, not what a government tells me, not what an agency tells me, not what the commercials and the branding have told me my whole life.

15:31
I have to be willing to go and say so-and-so is saying that this helps, but that sounds bad. I’ll give you an example. The word nicotine can strike fear in the hearts of many because we have labels all over, all over, whether that’s on television, on packages, everything saying that nicotine is highly addictive. I’m just going to tell you maybe go watch some YouTube videos or on Rumble and follow Dr Artis. There are people right now on social media who and if I could remember their names, I would tell you their names right now who are also helping to propagate truth. But if you were to watch these videos and understand and know the science and know what happened in our governments and know what happened in our pharmaceutical companies and who was behind what, if you went down the you know proverbial rabbit hole, you actually would find out that what we’ve been told is not true. Been told is not true. Nicotine is actually a naturally occurring substance found in vegetables, in the nightshade vegetables, in your you know tomatoes and your peppers and your I think it’s eggplant and all those high doses Not at all addictive. Nobody runs out, so they can hurry up and every hour eat an eggplant. You don’t have this pull and you’ve got to go eat more eggplant or you’re going to start shaking. I mean you can’t, it’s not true.

17:14
The additives, the chemical additives and there are hundreds of them. I wish I’m not so well versed that I have memorized all of this, but you can find out all the additives that are put in actual cigarettes and things that use the tobacco leaf. Those are all highly addictive, very highly addictive. And those actual same additives some of those are actually even used in perfumes and in detergents, things that have smell, that are pleasing smells whatever smells you’re smelling, those same additives are in. There is why you love certain smells and you want to smell more, because those chemicals have been put in to cause you to want to smell them. They’re the same chemicals, just applied differently, used differently, and so we have to be serious and diligent about the responsibility that is ours and ours alone.

18:21
I will not stand before God in heaven with my parents. I can’t say if I’m not doing something right before God that it’s my parents’ fault. I will stand alone, each of us will stand alone and each of us will give an account for ourselves and each of us will be responsible for what we did or did not do with the things we were responsible for. So I just wanted to take today and I wanted to read to you just Proverbs, chapter one, and I want to hit some things in here and just hopefully open up our eyes and realize what is expected of us and how we have to take so seriously this life that we’re living, the Christian life we’re living Like if I. How this translates to Christianity. Not only am I going to read you what the Word says, but I can’t stand before God and say my pastor never told me that, my pastor never helped me understand that.

19:37
You don’t get to blame your pastor. You don’t get to blame your Sunday school teacher if you’re old enough to have had one of those school teacher, if you’re old enough to have had one of those you don’t get to understand. Or you don’t get to excuse yourself because your teachers didn’t tell you this is, you have access to a Bible. If you were in America, you still have access to the Bible. There are places right now Bibles are being burned, confiscated. They are not allowed. And the ones that are allowed, for instance in China, there are B ones that are allowed. For instance, in China, there are Bibles that are allowed, but they’ve changed them. They’ve actually changed them. So the woman who was caught in adultery gets stoned in their Bible. She gets stoned, so she doesn’t get Jesus coming to her and showing mercy. No, she deserved it, she got stoned, so they change it. It’s not the same Bible. Okay, we still have a Bible available to us and it would behoove us to not just don’t just let your Bible be on your phone because you want an actual Bible that can’t be altered when you’re reading it. It’s scary.

20:44
There are AI I’m using finger quotes for those of you listening on podcasts. There are AI pastors who don’t use the actual Bible. It’s a false Christianese talk and people are following these. There are actual churches who are using AI pastors instead of having a pastor, under the guise that they are smarter and more equipped. But AI is only as smart and equipped as the person who is feeding the information into the AI. So if someone has another agenda feeding that information into the AI, you’re getting that person’s not just what the scripture has, relying on the Holy Spirit, who is not only capable but very willing to explain to you what you need to know when you read God’s word.

21:38
God’s word will never pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. So the power of these words is necessary, is necessary. Every word has power. Every word has power, but you can’t access the power, you can’t use the power if you don’t know what it says. It’s our responsibility. I have to be in my word. I cannot wait for my pastor to feed me. That is an extra blessing for me to go to the house of God to sit under a shepherd’s care, to be amongst the body of believers, to be in the family of God. That is a blessing God has called us to that. He says do not forsake the assembling of yourselves together. We are called to that.

22:25
There are ministers who, if you’re not called to be a minister, don’t be a minister. But if you’re called, you need to be under a shepherd who’s called because they give an account for what they teach you and for your souls. They’re there to help, shepherd you whatever your needs are in the course of being a part of that body. But we have to be responsible for feeding ourselves. You don’t live as a baby at the church and your pastor spoon feeding you. That was Paul’s rebuke to the church. He said by now you should be teachers, but you’re still only able to handle the milk. You’re still acting like a baby. You should be grown and teaching by now. We can’t leave this to somebody else. We have to be the ones feeding ourselves, nourishing ourselves, digging in.

23:20
I don’t understand that word. Don’t just skip over it if you don’t understand it. Look it up. You’re a big boy, big girl. Look it up, find out what it means, do some research. There are so many tools, we have no excuse. There are so many tools available, we do not have excuse. You can get. I’ve got it in my cupboard. Here I have a giant old school Strong’s it’s. You know this thick that tells me every meaning of every Hebrew word in the Old Testament and the Greek meaning in the New Testament. It’s huge, massive, that one thing. It’s like a dictionary. I can look up any word I want and find every place that it’s listed in scripture and what it means. I have no excuse. I picked mine up for like five bucks, five dollars. You can do it. Look it up on your phone. You can find it on your phone. We have no excuse.

24:21
If you are someone who is truly sick, like I gave my example of some things that I’m dealing with and just crazy, you know crazy stuff and it’s up to me to go digging and to look it up. Well, that matters to me because I want to be well right. I don’t have the luxury, because once I know, I know. Once I know, I know, I can’t unknow something that I know. So once I know information, I have a choice to make with that information? Am I going to use it or am I going to ignore it? And right now we have a huge population in the. Whether you’re Christian or not, christians are included in this. So I would say, in the right leaning of the population, in the conservative movement of the population, there are people who know information and do nothing with it.

25:21
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26:26
According to God’s word, you disagree with those things. Even if you don’t you’re not a Christian. You think those things are terrible, but you don’t pick up your phone, you don’t call, you don’t send an email, you don’t do anything. You don’t call, you don’t send an email, you don’t do anything. You know it says to him who knows and doeth not, it is sin. It’s sin to you if you know something and you don’t do something with it. If we know to do right and we don’t do it, we are committing sin. Shocker right, but that’s because you’re choosing to be what the Bible calls a fool. Whenever you read in Proverbs the word fool, it means you’re somebody who had the information available to you, but you did nothing with it. You did nothing with it. You chose not to do anything with it. The Bible, God, calls you a fool. That’s not Jaime saying that. That’s the Bible God calls you a fool. That’s not Jaime saying that. That’s the Bible saying that.

27:20
And I can fall into this category too, folks, I’m not. I’m not pointing the finger. I’m saying we have to wake up, we are responsible. We are responsible. So, if I need health in my body and I go figuring out how to take my health into my own hands and be responsible for it instead of just listening to whatever somebody tells me, because we do this, we go to a doctor and we say I trust that that doctor knows exactly what he’s talking about. I don’t question him at all. I don’t question him at all.

27:56
Well, now we’re learning that there were many doctors who purposely wouldn’t treat in the right way those who took a political stance different than theirs. There are people who make medical decisions for your health who, if they know what you believe and it is contrary to what they believe, they will not treat you. The same, there are doctors who won’t treat you at all. You cannot rely anymore. We cannot, as a society, rely anymore and blanket just trust that somebody out there who doesn’t know me, who quite possibly doesn’t believe what I believe or have the worldview that I have, that they will make the best decision for my life, regardless if that’s health-wise, education-wise, having to spiritually.

29:05
We have to be responsible for ourselves. This is my screaming in the streets wake up call. You are responsible for you and I’m sorry, but if you’re listening to this, you now know. And once you know, you have to make a decision with that. That’s your choice. You get to make a decision, free will. It’s beautiful. God gave us that ability, but we have to do something with it. And if we ignore it, we are doing something with it, but by ignoring it, you will eat the fruit of that folly. You will eat the fruit of that folly. Okay, let’s go to scripture. If you’re still with me, I hope you are.

29:42
Let’s go to Proverbs, chapter one. It says the Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. Now, it’s widely thought that Solomon wrote most of these Proverbs when he was in his younger days, because in his older days he went after the other gods that his wives. He ignored the truth that he knew the very thing that I’m talking about. He ended up the wisest man and he went astray. There are people on both sides of the camps who say he came back to the Lord, based off of the end of the book of Ecclesiastes, but I guess only the Lord knows. I’m not going to enter into that debate. I don’t feel like I have enough information myself yet to give information on that, but I’m trying to look real quick. My Bible, I think, had told me how many of the Proverbs we know that Solomon wrote. It was astonishing how many he actually wrote. But what we have in Scripture is what’s actually kept and been passed to us and it’s actually a far cry from how many were actually written. But anyway, what we have, we have, and the Lord made sure we had them.

31:08
So let’s go to verse two to know wisdom and instruction. So wisdom right off the bat. Wisdom presented means that there are somewhere in that wisdom is instruction for your life. Instructions means I now have to make decisions. I will make decisions based off of instruction to either heed or to ignore. To perceive the words of understanding. So if there is perception necessary and I would say there is I would say that when we hear information, the first thing we need to be praying about anymore, because we’re getting so much information, is we have to be able to have discernment to perceive. Is this right? Does something feel off about this? Because it is that curiosity that leads us down a path of searching for what is truth. To perceive the words of understanding. I want to not only hear the words, I want to understand. I want to have enough information that I actually understand, because with understanding will come a good, wise decision.

32:35
Verse three to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment and equity. I don’t know about you, but this is. These next couple of verses really just struck a chord in me. Couple verses really just struck a chord in me. We’re wanting to receive right now, and need so badly, instruction of wisdom and justice.

33:07
Look at the injustice that’s happening all around us. We need God’s justice and we need to know what is just. We’re the ones making these laws. We, the people, are voting people into things who are making decisions about our lives that affect us and the justice that we receive. All through scripture we hear how much God hates an unjust weight, when they would have the scales to measure, and people who would try to profit off you and lie to you. And things were unjust done, even in bringing somebody bringing an accusation against somebody. You had to have more. In fact, our court systems were made to follow this example. Only we’re now perverting it all. But to have one or two witnesses, you couldn’t just have one person, you had to have multiple witnesses. If you were going to bring an accusation, you couldn’t just have his word against her word or whatever.

34:09
To give prudence to the simple. Now, this word simple means to someone who basically doesn’t have understanding, and we need to read these Proverbs we need to gain understanding, we need to seek after hurt, we need to run after wisdom, because we need the simple need, prudence. We need to know what is the prudent thing, the wise decision to make, to know what would be dangerous or to know. The word simple is equated to naive and a lot of us can be naive about something, and we’re usually naive about things that we have no experience with. If you’ve experienced something and you know based off of your experience, know. If you think that you’re naive, you know, but are? We can tend to be naive, all of us, in some area of life, because we haven’t experienced that yet, we don’t have enough information yet.

35:09
And God is telling us through Solomon, through these. He’s saying you need to understand wisdom, you need instruction in wisdom, because you have to be able to have prudence in your simplicity, in the things that you don’t understand, in the things that you are naive about. And sometimes they’ll say you know, ignorance is bliss. Yeah, it’s bliss, until you get bit by the thing you didn’t have knowledge about. Temporarily it might feel like bliss because you don’t know, but just wait till that thing comes up and hurts you, harms you because you didn’t know. To the young man knowledge and discretion, he’s saying wisdom brings to the young man knowledge and discretion. So what is he saying? He’s saying when brings to the young man knowledge and discretion. So what is he saying? He’s saying when you’re young, the thing you really need is knowledge and to use discretion. You don’t just follow every whim.

36:11
And what do we see? Our young people? It’s so when we’re young and we start to understand that many of the adults in our life are, they’re no longer perfect in our eyes and we see that they’re just human and we see some of the things, that the mistakes they’ve made, and we no longer just blindly trust adults. It comes, you know, somewhere in our teenage years we begin to see that. But what can settle in, especially in an environment, in a culture that we’re living in right now, is a rebellion. And the rebellion is I don’t think you know what you’re talking about, based off of how I’m seeing some things in your life and they’re taking in false information from people their own age who have no experience. They are the simple, they are naive and they just think they know better. And that’s filtering in and coming. So there’s a rebellion against what we trusted and this influx of false and limited information.

37:11
And young people, if they do not take responsibility for themselves, if they are not taught from the time they are young to take responsibility for themselves and the decisions they’re making, then they will rebel and make awful decisions based off of simply their whims, off of whatever their desires are, thinking nobody knows. It’s the old adage that you know. The parent tells the teenager you know, go ahead and move out and do everything while you still know it all, because they think they do know. And yet we don’t necessarily know and have made right decisions either. But hopefully, hopefully, by the experience that we have gained, hopefully we’re no longer simpletons in it and that we are making different choices now that we have grown and learned that we now are using discretion, that we are using discernment. Okay. So to the young man knowledge and discretion. If you are young, take this word to heart. You are being told. Wisdom screams. The whole book of proverbs is meant to be said to you, as if wisdom is talking to you. Okay, the, the one who does know wisdom is talking to you and wisdom says to you if you’re young, if you really want to succeed, if you really want to have a blessed life, if you really want to make decisions that are satisfying in your life, that you’re going to make decisions based off of knowledge, real knowledge and real discretion.

38:58
Sadly, we are sending our kids by the droves to colleges because we’ve told them you have to go to college and get a degree and now we have a lack Ford motor cars. Right now. They’ve come out and said they have thousands and thousands of need for job opportunity openings because nobody, they think working to make cars is now beneath them, because everyone’s been told that you have to go to college. And yet we have kids going to college and they’re getting a degree in you know, toenail clippings, I mean. They’re getting degrees in the most ridiculous stuff and their parents have paid through the nose. Or the government has paid or we, the taxpayer, are paying for that and we are getting rid of actual knowledge, actual history. They’re changing the history books right now.

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I watched a woman who was an African-American woman who said that she had heard so many times in the comments of her videos that the first person to own slaves in America was a black person. And she said I heard it so many times I’m thinking I need to do some research for myself, because something about this doesn’t sit right. And she went on to do all the research. Then she came back on this video to tell everything she learned, gave the dates, the names, the places, everything that happened, and she realized it was actually a true statement and she was shocked beyond measure. And then she was angry because she said, being somebody who is intelligent, this is an intelligent woman. She just didn’t know the facts. And what we’re being told and what they’re writing in history books right now is contrary to that. They’re changing names, states, places.

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If you’re not willing to go do the research yourself, you won’t know the truth and you will stand on that hill and die on a hill for nothing. For nothing. This is all of us are responsible for this, all of us In everything, everything that you blindly believe, everything that, because you’ve always heard it, you think, because you’ve heard it your whole life, that it’s truth. We have to be more diligent than that. We have to be wise, truly wise, and seek after this godly knowledge and wisdom To be able to discern, to discern and make righteous judgments. Okay, I know I’m on a soapbox. If you’re with me and you’re staying with me, thank you so much.

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Okay, to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear and increase learning. So we just don’t hear something. Wisdom says I heard it, we became really good listeners. A wise man has become a really good listener, but on top of that, he takes what he has heard and then he goes and gains more knowledge. He increases his learning. This should be said of us, of the Bible, every single one of us, if we call ourselves a Christian. You should be increasing in your knowledge and, like I said, not from other people. You, you have to increase your knowledge Now. Should you listen to other podcasts and other preachers? Sure, take it all in, but do your own research. Read the textbook, read it and if you don’t know what it means, look it up. Look it up.

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Okay, and a man of understanding, somebody who has learned, he’s heard, he’s increased his learning, he understands it, and a man of understanding will look what he will do, attain wise counsel. He still doesn’t go half-cocked, as they say. You know, running around with his own knowledge. He then goes and he gets counsel from those who are also wise. Those who have understanding Get counsel, make wise decisions. Thank goodness we have a Now. This can work against us or this can work for us, but I’m just going to use this as an example. You have a president of the United States who is supposed to have wise men gathered around him who have learned understanding and experience and great wisdom in those areas, so that they can give you wise counsel. I can tell you right now we do have some wise people in many positions, thank the Lord. Not all of them, probably, but I hope the majority is.

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It is evident to me that in previous administrations that was not the case, even in our president right now. When he served before as president, he didn’t have wise enough people in the councils around him. He’s made better decisions now. He took what he learned and he gained more knowledge, and he made better decisions this time. Ok, he applied this principle knowledge and he made better decisions this time. Okay, he applied this principle.

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But if you look at the previous administration, there were people who never once worked in the field of transportation, never once worked in the field of transportation, yet they were put in as the head of transportation. No knowledge about the subject and it was evident that nothing good came out of that. Nothing was helped. No tragedies having to do with that office were used or available to those who needed it when tragedy struck. That’s just one tiny example. This is across the board. We are living with zero wisdom. It is awful.

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We have got to get knowledge and wisdom and we cannot put the responsibility on somebody else anymore. It has to be us, us Verse six, to understand a proverb and an enigma. Think about that Things, that an enigma, that it’s something that, like has things we don’t even understand or know about and have to figure it out. It’s like untying the knot and figure it. We need to be people who are curious about this to understand it, not just understand a proverb and understand why it’s become a proverb. A proverb simply means that this is things that have been. These are the word.

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Proverb actually means a comparison. So through proverbs you’ll see that it’s, on one hand, this is what you should do and when you don’t, the opposite. Look at, let’s compare this. It’s either this or this. We compare the wisdom with no wisdom. Okay, that’s a proverb, but he’s saying for you to understand that means you understand the right way to go, and that would be opposite. And the bad way to go is Okay, to understand a proverb and an enigma things that you just. How are you going to understand that? How are we going to figure that out? The words of the wise we need to understand. When we’re hearing wisdom, you need to know. You’ve just heard wisdom.

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I was at dinner. My husband and I were at dinner with our pastors not too long ago and my pastor’s wife had just simply stated something in conversation and as soon as I heard that statement, I knew I grabbed it. It was wisdom. It was wisdom. I mean, it was like a treasure that just got threw out there and I grabbed it. I hold on to it, I meditate on it, I think about it. It was words of wisdom and I’m hoping to make right decisions based off of that piece of wisdom that I heard. I want to use it, I want to just okay.

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James 1.22 tells us that we’re not to be hearers of the word only, but doers of the word, because when we don’t do what does the scripture say, we are deceiving ourselves If you, you can sit and hear something so good, you can sit under the best preacher and hear the best, best preacher and hear the best articulation of the word of God and hear true faith in the word and hear true treasure out of God’s word and you can know it. You can be hearing it and thinking, oh, that is so good that it’s like literally like honey on the lips. It’s so good and you take it. But if you don’t do anything with it, you don’t do anything with it. Then the Bible tells us that I am a hearer only and I am deceiving myself Because I can go away thinking, oh, I heard that I’ve been so built up. I’m just doing what God’s called me to do. I’m such a great Christian and we can live this pious, crazy, false identity and not live in humility and know, oh God, help me to live that. Show me where I am not applying your word. Teach me how to live your word. We have to be doers of the word. That why Jesus can say you don’t love me. Unless you actually follow my commandments, you can call yourself a Christian all day long. I have harped this point over and over and over again. But it is those who do what he says that he calls his friends are those who love him. We follow him. We actually participate in what he did. We imitate him.

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James 2.17 says Faith without works is dead, and that’s a paraphrase Faith without works is dead. I would say that knowledge without taking action it’s the same principle is folly. It’s folly, it’s foolishness. I’m a fool before God. It is better that I didn’t know, because the minute I know, I’m accountable for what I know. And yet wisdom says you better know that ignorance isn’t bliss. You better know, you better want to know. If you don’t want to know, something’s wrong with your hunger. You need to be hungry for the Word of God. If you don’t have an appetite, you need to really spend some time in prayer and asking the Lord what’s wrong. Ask Him have you really accepted Him? Have you really desired to lay your life down and carry your cross daily and follow Him? That’s where true wisdom is found.

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Okay, let’s go on, because verse 7, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, and in other places it also says of wisdom, knowledge and wisdom, because you can have information and have knowledge but not have wisdom. And it literally says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of both. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and it is the beginning of wisdom. You can’t actually have true knowledge because all knowledge comes from him and you cannot be wise without fearing the Lord If all wisdom, all knowledge, comes from God. Anything that can be known comes from the mind of God. Everything that was created comes from him. There’s nothing that can be known that didn’t come from him. So if you don’t fear him, this knowledge that you have, what good is that going to do? You don’t actually have it, because it’s the beginning. Because, if you don’t, to have it means you believe in him. To have real knowledge and real wisdom means you have him and to have him you understand. You now have access to salvation and eternity. What good does a ton of knowledge about subjects do you if you’re going to hell? What good does that do? What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and he loses his soul? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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I hope that this podcast today has stirred you at least a little bit to want to know, to look at your desires. I’m hoping that now that you know you can’t unknow this and you have to make a decision I hope I’ve sort of forced you into making a decision if you haven’t made one already. You need to know, you need to be a good listener, you have to hear really well and then take what you hear and increase your learning. You need to dig into the Word of God. A good place to start Read the book of Proverbs. Good place to start Meditate on it. If you don’t understand it or you think, yeah, yeah, I know that. Ask the Lord for deeper. Increase your knowledge, even if you’ve heard it. Increase your knowledge.

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We can’t hope for a better world if we’re not willing to be wise people. You can’t get better than what you’ve got using the same knowledge you’ve always used. We have to be wise, we have to use discernment, we need to be people of the Word and if we’re people who live according to this Word, all things are possible to him who believes. Let me pray for you, father. I just thank you for your Word.

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You could have been a God far off and we would just be in the dark trying to figure out who you are. But you are not a far off. You are closer than a brother. You are as close, as they say, as the mention of your name that we can come into your presence boldly and ask of you and I today am asking God, for your wisdom and your knowledge that we would know how to live in the culture we are living in, so that we can affect and influence our culture and change the culture we’re living in. According to your righteousness, according to what is right before you, god, according to what is truly just, what true justice is.

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We are asking for your intervention and I’m asking you, lord, to pour out hunger on your people that we would be those who are hungry for truth, that our eyes would be open, that you would truly open the eyes of the blind God, that our eyes would be open, that you would truly open the eyes of the blind God. Open our eyes, start with us. It starts in the house of God. Open our eyes, but, lord, open the eyes of the world around us to those, like the girl I spoke about, who were so blind and now they’re paying the lifelong consequences of believing things that were lies. God, we need the light of Jesus Christ to be shown all around us. Through us, we need to be speaking truth in a world that is screaming lies at us. Help us, o God, to be active and taking the responsibility that is already ours, without bypassing and walking away from it. Use us for your glory, o God. May we say here am I, lord, send me, cause us, father, to be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves. We ask for your grace, we ask for the abilities that we lack. We ask, father, for true discernment and wisdom, that we would fear the Lord with all of our understanding, with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength, that we would seek you and your wisdom, and we ask all of these things in Jesus’ mighty name, amen. Well, thank you If you hung in there with me. I appreciate that. I pray. It was a blessing to you.

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I’m going to encourage you today to share this message with those that you know need to hear this message. Share it and help me to spread it by hitting that like button, giving us a thumbs up and subscribing, if you haven’t done so already. That just helps us to continue to perpetuate and get the Word of God out there. I don’t care about my name being out there, I don’t care about Share other messages that you get. When you see truth, share it.

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I share so much stuff on my social media because there are nuggets of truth and I’m wanting the world to know, and it’s not just biblical stuff. I share all kinds of stuff so that people can know what is truth. Sometimes I will, and most of the time I don’t give comments. I just reshare things so that people will begin to search what is truth, what is not. I’m not giving you my opinion. I’m saying go look, go look for truth.

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And so I hope that you understand that when, if you’re someone who follows my social media, you’re thinking, Jaime, why are you sharing this stuff? And it’s not scripture and it’s not you know it doesn’t line up with it, does. I’m telling you to find wisdom. I’m telling you to live this life with your eyes wide open and let’s be let’s be truth seekers, but share this with somebody. And if you have any prayer requests or praise reports, I’d love to hear from you. You can reach me by going to my, sending me an email at mail at jaimeluce.com, that’s J-A-I-M-E-L-U-C-E. You could also visit my website, same jaimeluce.com, and I’d be happy to pray with you or give God praise with you. It’d be my pleasure to do that. So thanks again for taking time with me today. We’ll see you.