Biology

 Biology, did you ever take it? Have you ever dissected a worm, or frog since? The importance of how to learn, know and keep God's Word in our hearts and in our lives is of utmost importance. Did you know that there is a possibility of forsaking all or at least most of what the Lord has taught you?

Pro 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Pro 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

 How does one learn?

 Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. We should retain His words and by retaining His Words we'll live. Retain means To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with;

 Not only are we to "retain "God's Word but we are told not to Decline from God's Word;  

Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. There is the possibility of “FORSAKING” and there is a possibility of “FORGETTING.” How? This isn’t like riding a bike. Did you see that word “decline?” Decline means to lean, Do not turn away; don’t turn away from what God has taught you from His Word. Don't forsake what we have learned from God's Word.

  Proverbs 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

 We are given two reasons why we shouldn’t. #1-she shall preserve thee the word "preserve" means to keep or save from injury or destruction; to defend from evil. To save from decay; to keep in a sound state; #2- love her, and she shall keep thee. Could this be the reason we forsake God’s Word; is our love becoming weak? We can't hear if we're not in hearing range, if we don't read our Bibles then we're not in hearing range. If we fail to show up for Church services then we’re not in hearing range. If we fail to look into what we have read in God’s word by studying how will we think we’ll ever be able to retain? We retain what we love, we know about what we love? If we know nothing about God's word then can we say we love God's Word. If we don't read it or study how can we say we know anything about it?

Proverbs 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Don't let what you have read and studied decline but instead be attentive to what God has taught you from His Word and incline To have an appetite; Toward it! How?

Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from thane eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Principle #1- If God’s against it, so am I! No room for compromise here.

Principle #2- Every sin has its origin in our hearts. What’s going on within our heart?

Principle #3- It’s easier to keep the heart clean than to clean it after it has been defiled.

Principle #5- Small compromises lead to great disasters. Small not Big!

Principle #8- It is not possible to fight a fleshly temptation with fleshly weapons.

And if you want to be made free the truth is the only thing that will make you free.

Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

How does one “know the truth?” #1- Believe on Jesus #2- Continue in reading and studying God’s Word. #3- By learning of Jesus, that’s becoming a disciple. The results will be that you will know the truth and that truth will make you FREE.