Murder, rape, pillage, a suffering like nothing you and I could ever even understand. Then in Isaiah 5:13 he says, “My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge.” Now you say, “Oh well, exile for their lack of know…” Do you know what exile was? Slavery, the cruelest forms. My people are destroyed, he says, for a lack of knowledge. Why do we constantly teach our children? If we don’t teach our children they’re still our children, but we teach our children why? So they don’t kill themselves. In one sense it does, but I want you to know something, your lack of knowledge can get you into a whole bunch of danger. Hosea 4:6 (I believe Anthony quoted this on Sunday), “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.” Yes, “My people,” “My people.” You see, just because you’re His people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re just living in a secure place. But in other places in Scripture a lack of knowledge can lead to something far more detrimental.
In the case of the Thessalonians their lack of knowledge led to unnecessary grieving and because of that, a poor testimony among the pagans. So we must know our Bible’s so that it won’t be said of us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ” – Hosea 4:6. Yet the only thing the unbeliever should stumble at is the Gospel we proclaim. To the unbeliever the fanatic makes him stumble at Christianity before he ever gets to stumble at the Gospel. To the church they lay rules on the Christian that Jesus Christ never made and they burden God’s people like the Pharisees did. The person who is unbalanced and lacks Biblical knowledge can become a “Christian fanatic” and harm both the church and the unbelieving world.
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