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  DIVINE KNOWLEDGE
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: A discerning heart seeks knowledge, and those who experience
divine knowledge are drawn to seek more of it.

Topics: "Seeking God", "Divine Knowledge"
Scripture References: Psalm 42:1, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 15:14, Isaiah 55:1-2, Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 5:6, Philippians 3:10, Colossians 1:10, James 1:5, 1 Peter 2:2

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the importance of seeking divine knowledge,
likening it to the earnest pursuit of food by the hungry or gold by the
covetous. He explains that true knowledge of God is accompanied by a
deep desire for more understanding and clearer visions of Him. This
pursuit is characterized by diligent efforts, including prayer and
inquiry, as believers yearn for the sweetness and comfort that divine
knowledge brings. Just as a newborn craves nourishment, so too does a
soul that has experienced God's grace long for deeper communion with
Him.

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"The discerning heart seeks knowledge." Proverbs 15:14

Saving knowledge is always attended with holy endeavors,

and with heavenly desires, thirstings, and pantings after a

further knowledge of God, after clearer visions of God. The

Hebrew word that is here rendered "seeks" signifies an earnest

and diligent seeking; to seek as a hungry man seeks for food;

or as a covetous man for gold--the more he has, the more he

desires; or as a condemned man seeks for his pardon; or as

the diseased man seeks for his cure. The word signifies to seek

studiously, laboriously, industriously; to seek by pleading, praying,

inquiring, and searching up and down, that we may find what we

seek; to seek as men do for hidden treasure. A man who is divinely

taught, will set his heart and his ear, his inward and outward man,

to know more and more.

Divine knowledge is marvelous, sweet, pleasing, comforting,

satisfying, refreshing, strengthening, and supporting; and souls

who have found the sweetness and usefulness of it, cannot but

look and long, breathe and pant after more and more of it.

The newborn babe does not more naturally and more earnestly

long for the breasts, than a soul who has tasted that the Lord

is gracious, does long for more and more tastes of God.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/divine-knowledge/
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