Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

from the laptop, it’s just a computer collecting information. You must proceed from information to illumination, or understanding. Understanding is the ability to place information (or facts) received through study and personal experience in a proper arrangement. If we learn and do not put into practice all we have learned, our knowledge becomes like faith without action —it is dead (James 2:17). One hundred students can sit under a teacher and gain knowledge, but not everyone gains understanding of how to activate the information or make it work in life situations. For example, all smokers have knowledge that smoking is a habit that can eventually cause cancer. This is medically documented. Yet some smokers don’t think cancer will ever affect them. This is not a lack of knowledge but a lack of understanding. Christ encountered an understanding challenge among His listeners. Often those who heard His parables failed to understand their meanings. His personal disciples often assembled to ask Christ to explain the understanding (the story within the story). In Matthew 13:13, Christ said, “Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.” The Greek word for understand in this passage means, “to put something together and comprehend it mentally.” A person can hear a parable but not get the meaning. Once we have received understanding and can grasp the meaning and purpose of our information, then we must learn to apply that information. This leads to Solomon’s third key—the necessity of wisdom. True wisdom is the ability to apply the