The Importance of Theology...and Action

In Micah 3.11, this morning where the leaders of the people, the priests, and the prophets were all doing exactly the opposite of what God had told them to do and saying that God was fine with it. It does not matter what we say truth is, what matters is what the truth actually is. These guys were making their own truth and saying that God was in it. God was saying, "no, my truth is always the same, and you are making a mockery of it."

It is so important that we get our understanding of truth aligned with what God has told us because as humans we are prone to do what we want and call THAT truth. This leads only to destruction.

The Necessity of Devotional Theology

In Hosea 4.1, this morning, where the necessity of theology is clearly laid out. God chastises his own people because there is no faithfulness or steadfast love or knowledge of God in the land. I take from this that one cannot be faithful to God without knowledge of him. Nor is it legitimate to have a knowledge of God and not be faithful to him. These are two equal and opposite errors into which men fall.

If we do not have a robust, devotional, committed knowledge of God, then we cannot be faithful to him.

B. B. Warfield, in addressing the old saw about people who would rather be on their knees praying for ten minutes then studying theology for ten hours retorted: What? On your knees for ten hours with your books. Just so.