The Price Of The Excellence Of Knowledge

Apostle Grace Lubega

Philippians3:7-8(KJV); But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.

The excellence of knowledge has a price.

In Ecclesiastes 7:12, the Bible says, ‘For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.’

Knowledge excels when life is given to those that already have it. Knowledge excels when the ordinary is infused with the extraordinary.

Paul defines this price as counting as loss all things that were gain to him.
What things were gain to him? These were the things in the flesh from which he drew his confidence, ‘Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee. Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.’(Philippians 3:5-6).

The excellence of knowledge begins when we lay down anything that defines us in the flesh. It works in us when we start to depend entirely on God for justification and not on the things that we can do through our own efforts.

God must take you to the end of yourself; the end of anything that you know; the end of anything that you can do.

At this place, you realise that the true excellence of the spirit starts where the man’s ability ends and God’s ability starts.

You cannot have the kind of life that wisdom gives to those that already have life through your own efforts. You cannot stand out amongst the great by your own ability.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Ecclesiastes 7:12, Philippians 3:5-6

GOLDEN NUGGET:

The excellence of knowledge has a price. God must take you to the end of yourself; the end of anything that you know; the end of anything that you can do.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this Word. Thank you for the places you are taking me in the spirit. Thank you for a life above the ordinary. Thank you for the supernatural that manifests through me. I know that it is not by power nor by might but by the spirit of God. I yield to your working in me that you will and do according to your good pleasure. In Jesus’ name, Amen.