04/28/24 brain picking
"I want to pick your brain." This is not a quote from the last moments of "uncle Bosie's," life.
To "Pick someone's brain," is to question a person about their area of expertise.
I don't think the phrase is used as much as it was in the past.
It could be that people trust the Internet and A.I. for information instead of the knowledge and wisdom of a living, breathing expert.
It could be that people think they are already smarter than anyone else.
It could be that people don't know enough about something, in order to know that they don't know enough about it.
I could be that people don't care.
Whatever the reason, people are ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Even in the natural realm, people spend hours, or even years, wrestling with issues that an expert can solve in minutes. But too often the person dealing with a problem does not have access to a, "computer person."
God has provided ministers of His word, who have studied God's word and the subjects associated with God's word (history, linguistics, geography, theology, doctrine, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and a host of other subjects), as they relate to God's revealed word.
The knowledge, insight, wisdom, understanding of a Spirit filled, well informed, anointed and appointed minister of God's word is not only found in what they know about the facts of a passage, but what they know about the errors and misinterpretations that have been attached to God's truth.
Some of the things that took me decades to learn from the word of God and from the scholarly, meticulous, research of other people, can be communicated in moments, if someone really wants to know.
Sadly, one generation comes along without mining the treasures, which an older generation has discovered, and as a result great truths are lost, or at least the younger generation must take the time to "reinvent the wheel."
Sometimes the directions concerning, "what not to do," are as important as the instruction on what to do. Sometimes false doctrines are taught and promoted by teachers who cherry pick and twist God's word in order to promote there nefarious agenda. This is where an honest and informed teacher can point out the error and danger of Satan.
Some folks think they can figure things out, though they lack the necessary foundation and background. The uninformed person might say that the best teacher is personal experience, when what they should besayingis that their personal experience is their only teacher.
Bible teaching is not simply passing Biblical information to someone. Bible teaching is communicating facts, principles, insights, experience, wisdom to others, learned from investigation, proclamation and confrontation with the fallacies of darkness.
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