Knowledge of the unknown

1. KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNKNOWN
Prov 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and
he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Prov 19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reproveone
that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Acts 17
23 For as I passed by, and beheldyour devotions, I found an altar with this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto you.
IGNORANCE and APATHY confronted by “Know
ye not?”
I. The Unknown Development
Before salvation a man is dead, butthinks he is alive. After salvation God gives
man life, but he is to consider himself dead.
Rom 6
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buriedwith him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raisedup from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we
also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

2. Rom 8:10-11 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin;
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raisedup Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spiritthat dwelleth in you.
Phil 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashionedlike
unto his glorious body, accordingto the working wherebyhe is able even
to subdue all things unto himself.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is.
Col 3:4-5 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, andcovetousness,
which is idolatry:
The Unknown Development
II. The Unknown Director
Rom 6
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness untosin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
unto God.
Josh 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this
day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

3. Matt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannotserve God and mammon.
John 8:34 Jesus answeredthem, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin.
2Pet 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage.
The Unknown Development
The Unknown Director
III. The Unknown Deceiver
1Cor 5
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump?
1Cor 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as
ye are unleavened. For even Christour passover is sacrificedfor us:
1Cor 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I
then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an
harlot? God forbid.
1Cor 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corruptgood manners.
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerningthe former conversation the old
man, which is corrupt accordingto the deceitful lusts;
Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is calledTo day; lest any of
you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Jas 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it
not, to him it is sin.
The Unknown Development

4. The Unknown Director
The Unknown Deceiver
IV. The Unknown Disappointment
1Cor 9
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth
the prize? So run,that ye may obtain.
Eccl 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time
and chance happeneth to them all.
Jer 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee,
then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace,
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the
swelling of Jordan?
Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.
2Tim 4:7-8 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laidup for me a crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeingwe also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses,let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
The Unknown Development
The Unknown Director
The Unknown Deceiver

5. The Unknown Disappointment
V. The Unknown Declaration
2Cor 13
5 Examine yourselves,whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye
be reprobates?
Titus 1:13-16 13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be sound in the faith;
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn
from the truth.
15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiledand
unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobatemind, to do those things which are
not convenient;
2Tim 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also
resist the truth: men of corruptminds, reprobate concerningthe faith.
Jer 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them.
The Unknown Development
The Unknown Director
The Unknown Deceiver
The Unknown Disappointment
The Unknown Declaration

6. 2Cor 4:3-4 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image
of God, shouldshine unto them.
2Cor 11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
have been throughlymade manifestamong you in all things.
Prov 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know
understanding.
Prov 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from
the words of my mouth.
Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will also rejectthee, that thou shalt be no priest
to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy
children.