Sermon No. 7

January 15, 2019

How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

~ Proverbs 16:16

          Our time on Earth is charted out once we are conceived, much like the path of the Jordan River that Jesus Christ was baptized in by John the Baptist.

          We learn as we grow and age. We all learn by observing, and by imitating the actions we bear witness to. But understanding comes not from imitating what we see, but by asking questions. And we must remember that both knowledge and wisdom are different.

          As the disciples gathered to learn the teachings of Jesus, they learned the knowledge of how to go out into the world and preach the message that the Savior had conveyed to them. His knowledge was then conveyed to those who came to believe in Jesus. But it did not happen overnight. Nothing happens overnight. It takes time to for knowledge to be absorbed and processed.

          But as the disciples went out and preached the message of Jesus, they carried with them the knowledge with them. But as they preached the message something wonderful happened. As they preached the got questions about Jesus and His message, it happened. They gained the wisdom of how to preach the message.

          And after they preached the message of the Savior, Jesus Christ they returned to Jesus. And after each disciple relayed how it went, they gained the wisdom that the method each used was different, because everybody they preached to was different and grasped it differently. This is the wisdom they gleaned from applying the knowledge they had learned.

          And as each disciple went out again and again to preach His message, the wisdom gained increased ten-fold and thus they became better at preaching to the masses.