Salmos 25
Albert Barnes · Citado em PreceptAustin
Salmos 25:14-15
Barnes writes that "The word “friendship” would perhaps express the meaning here. The sense is, that those who fear the Lord are admitted to the intimacy of friendship with Him; are permitted to come into His presence, and to partake of His counsels; are allowed free access to Him; or, as it is more commonly expressed, have “fellowship” with Him. Compare 1 John 1:3 ("indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."). The language is such as would be applied to the intimacy of friends, or to those who take counsel together. The language belongs to a large class of expressions denoting the close connection between God and His people." Alexander
Salmos 25:14-15
Barnes says "Whatever there is in that arrangement to promote the happiness and salvation of His people, He will cause them to understand." We see a similar dynamic in the following passages where the key to increasing intimacy with God is obedience. Jn 7:17 “If anyone is willing to do His will (OBEDIENCE), he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. Comment: He will know is the Greek verb ginosko which speaks of knowing in an experiential sense. The basic meaning of ginosko is taking in knowledge in regard to something or someone, knowledge that goes beyond the merely factual. By extension, the term frequently was used of a special relationship between the person who knows and the object of the knowledge, in this passage God's teaching which is His will for us. Ginosko, like the Hebrew verb yada, was often used to describe the intimate relationship between husband and wife (Mt 1:25). Ginosko was used by Paul in Phil 3:10 when he said "that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." Wayne Barber helps understand the "experiential" aspect of ginosko noting that the "process of getting spiritual knowledge primarily involves OBEDIENCE (Jn 7:17: willingness, doing, then knowing or ginosko) As I OBEY, (as I choise to deny my fleshly way of thinking and instead choose God's thinking regardless of how I ''feel") I began to learn truth and as this truth sinks down into my life, the final product = GNOSIS. The process of getting the finished product, gnosis, is called ginosko. Have you ever gone through and trialand had no idea where that trial was taking you? And yet you are willing to take those steps God shows you and calls you to take and then afterwards you look back at the process of that trial and think "Look at all I have learned!" Ginosko describes that part no one really wants to talk about…the part where you are LEARNING. We say let's talk about the gnosis but let's not talk about the ginosko. We don't want to go through the Experience. Story of a man of great faith that caused the crowd to cry over what God had done in his life. Another man got up and said "Everyone wants this man's faith, but no one wants to go to the ''school'' he went to to get it!" A lot of people want the gnosis but they don't want the ginosko! No ginosko, no gnosis, the finished product. You have got to walk through the experience God is allowing or you won't receive the gnosis! You've got to remain obedient (cp Heb 5:8) in and thru the trial or you won't get gnosis. You can't get gnosis from a book, no matter how sound and how devotional or by going to church! You get gnosis by obeying the Lord, by being totally "sold out " to Him.