SEARCHING FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
Minister Lisa Kane
2025年9月3日
Objective:
To teach believers how to diligently seek, receive, and apply the Word of God as their greatest treasure, so they may understand the fear of the Lord, walk in His wisdom, and obtain the knowledge that guards, directs, and transforms their lives.
Synopsis:
This message, based on Proverbs 2:1–12, unpacks the biblical process of discovering the knowledge of God. It begins with receiving and confessing God’s Word, as Romans 10:9 affirms, and continues by treasuring His commands within the heart. Believers are called to incline their ears to wisdom, apply their hearts to understanding, and cry out for knowledge with the same passion as one who seeks hidden treasures.
The teaching emphasizes that when God’s Word is sought and hidden like precious silver, it brings divine covering and separation from the world’s snares (Psalm 91:1). This pursuit leads to understanding the fear of the Lord and finding His knowledge, which becomes a lamp to our path (Psalm 119:105). With wisdom entering the heart, discretion and understanding preserve the believer, delivering them from evil influences and guiding them in righteousness, judgment, and every good path.
Ultimately, the message calls believers to make God’s Word their highest priority—treating it as a treasure—so they may walk under His covering, avoid the traps of the enemy, and live in the awareness and authority of God’s presence.
Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above:
Opening scripture:
Proverbs 2:5 KJV
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Notice the first word in this verse, ‘then’. What must we do to understand the fear of the Lord and to find His knowledge.
Let’s start at verse 1:
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide (hoard, reserve) my commandments with thee;
The Holy Bible is the Words of God. In order to understand them, you need to receive them.
How do you receive them? By confessing and acknowledging them as Romans 10:9 tells us.
Romans 10:9 KJV
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
We can see a pattern in Proverbs 2. First, receive, then hide or hoard/reserve those words. How do you hide or hoard/reserve the words in the Bible?
By spending time reading the Words of God asking God out loud what do they mean.
Proverbs 2:2 KJV
2 So that thou incline (to prick the ears, hearken, attend) thine ear unto wisdom, and apply (stretching or spreading out) thine heart (feelings, intellect) to understanding;
When we receive, confess His Words, then hide them, we are inclining or paying attention to those words and applying (stretching or spreading out) to our heart or feelings and thoughts that lean towards understanding.
He continues in Proverbs 2:3-4 KJV
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge (understanding), and liftest up thy voice for understanding (intelligence, reason);
4 If thou seekest (strive after) her as silver, and searchest (hide self) for her as for hid treasures;
The author of this proverb tells us more about how to cry out and seek after His Words. He tells us to ‘strive after her as silver’. If you found a hoard of silver, the first thing you do is don’t tell anyone. The next thing is that you start to sell it quietly. And you do this with silver, gold or any special treasure you find. You hide it from others because others will then become jealous and possibly try to kill you.
His Word is like a treasure that we need to seek, find, and hide in our hearts.
THEN…
Proverbs 2:5 KJV
5 Then shalt thou understand (separate mentally) the fear (morally reverence) of the Lord, and find (attain) the knowledge (awareness) of God.
Here, back at our opening scripture, this is where we find understanding of God. We separate ourselves from the way the world operates and operate through His Words spiritually.
To do this, we do this by faith with works.
Psalm 91:1 KJV
He that dwelleth in the secret place (covering) of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
The way to show faith is by action. Action is when you take time to read His Words. Get to know His Words and apply His Words. And you do this in the secret place or another way to say this, this is where you put on God’s covering over yourself.
Once the separation from the world takes place and you are under His covering, then you become aware of God. You obtain His knowledge over you.
Yes, His knowledge. You start to see things differently and He keeps you from fall for the pitfalls laid as a trap for you.
Proverbs 28:10 KJV
10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
In essence, His Word is:
Psalm 119:105 KJV
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
As you continue in Proverbs 2:9-12 KJV:
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
You become delivered from the way of the evil man. The way the world operates, which is done through manipulation and sin you avoid because His Words are your treasure.
Seek His Word as the priority of your life because then you become aware of God in your life and you will know He is Lord.