Matthew 9:13 KJV
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The phrase "go ye and learn" was a common Jewish statement in those days. Whenever a teacher was about to connect a spiritual truth he was attempting to teach with a passage of Scripture he would say something like "go and learn."
These leaders of Israel knew the Scripture, but they did not know what the Scripture meant. They did not connect the truth of the Word of God with the actions of daily life.
And there are some things that we just can't learn by hearing someone talk about it. We have to "go and learn." We have to learn it by practice and by both trial and error. We have to learn it from real-life experience.
I can teach on welding (my trade before entering the ministry) all day long, but a man cannot weld until he practices welding.
I can teach a child about bike riding over and over, but he will not learn to ride until he goes and does it
Even so I can teach what I see in the Word of God in every service but those listening will not really learn it until they go and put it into practice in their daily lives. No one really learns God's Word from hearing alone. We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only. We must hear - no doubt - but then we must go and learn, through daily obedience to the Word of God, what we have heard means.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The phrase "go ye and learn" was a common Jewish statement in those days. Whenever a teacher was about to connect a spiritual truth he was attempting to teach with a passage of Scripture he would say something like "go and learn."
These leaders of Israel knew the Scripture, but they did not know what the Scripture meant. They did not connect the truth of the Word of God with the actions of daily life.
And there are some things that we just can't learn by hearing someone talk about it. We have to "go and learn." We have to learn it by practice and by both trial and error. We have to learn it from real-life experience.
I can teach on welding (my trade before entering the ministry) all day long, but a man cannot weld until he practices welding.
I can teach a child about bike riding over and over, but he will not learn to ride until he goes and does it
Even so I can teach what I see in the Word of God in every service but those listening will not really learn it until they go and put it into practice in their daily lives. No one really learns God's Word from hearing alone. We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only. We must hear - no doubt - but then we must go and learn, through daily obedience to the Word of God, what we have heard means.
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