Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead. Proverbs 15:21

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. Proverbs 15:14

Truth & Knowledge: Episode 10 – "Beer and Wisdom": In this episode, Trey Knowles discusses the spiritual implications of drinking alcohol, emphasizing that it is wise to avoid it altogether. He references Proverbs 20:1 and Proverbs 31:6-7, which caution against being misled by wine and strong drink. Trey explains that beer is described in Scripture as something for "those who are perishing"—people who are trying to forget their misery and spiritual poverty. He argues that drinking beer is a sign of forgetting one's need for Jesus and His Spirit. To live wisely and spiritually, Trey says, is to recognize our continual dependence on God. Drinking, in contrast, dulls that awareness and can lead one back into a state of spiritual poverty. The episode calls listeners to live by the Spirit of God and leave behind anything, like alcohol, that draws them away from Him.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. Proverbs 20:1

What is in your heart? Am I just talking to the air? Was Christ crucified for nothing? You claim to be wise you Nations of Swine eaters (A wild beast that eats everything). God made Jesus Christ who did not know sin to be sin (Death on the Cross) for us so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us. The resurrection of life. The same spirit that raised Jesus up from the dead.

Although you claimed to be wise. You are fools. You say that sin is your human condition. How is that so? You the Vatican City of Rome and Nations of Swine. You exchanged the glory of the immortal God (God that does not die) for images made to look like a mortal human being. You worship the dead, you glamourize skulls. You wear tattoos of animals. You make cuts to your body as if you own your own body. Laugh out loud, do you give yourself breath to your own lungs? You say this is your human condition. You exchanged the truth about God for a lie.

What is in your heart? You worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen. Your mind has been deprived, morally corrupt; wicked: Look at you. You men who exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. You women who exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. You claim it’s your human condition. You lust. What is in your heart?

You have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. You are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. You gossip, you slander, you God-haters, you are insolent, you are arrogant and boastful; you invent ways of doing evil; you disobey your parents; you have no understanding, no fidelity (no faithfulness), no love, no mercy. Repent and change (turn your life around to God and to His Righteousness), you Nations of Swine.

To those who know God’s righteous decree. Are you trying to crucify Christ all over again? Was Christ crucified for nothing? No. Why do you continue to sin? or approve of those who do? Unless you deserve death meaning you don't won't be saved.

What is in your heart? Am I just talking to the air? Was Christ crucified for nothing? Answer my question and speak. Was Christ crucified for nothing? What is in your heart? For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is life and death to those who are perishing. Faith is acting on what God says. So what is in your heart?

Sincerely, Trey Knowles

Episode 9 – "The Obedience of One" | Truth & Knowledge Podcast Guest Speaker: Pastor Jordan Fowler. In this episode, Pastor Jordan Fowler explores the powerful truth that the Bible declares believers in Christ Jesus as righteous. But what happens when you don't feel righteous or struggle to believe it? Pastor Fowler unpacks how true righteousness is deeply connected to both faith and obedience—drawing on the example of Abraham, whose trust in God was credited to him as righteousness. This episode challenges listeners to reflect on their walk with God and the role obedience plays in living out their faith.

Paul draws a contrast between the actions of Adam and Christ. He also outlines the outcome of the actions of these two men. He compares the man that disobeyed God's command with the One that obeyed His Word - contrasting the one that sinned against God with the One that did only those things that He heard from His Father in heaven.

It was the result of one act of disobedience, which was carried out by Adam that condemned the entire human race. Adam was the federal head of God's creation and he was given one simple test - but Adam failed. It was because of this one offence that Adam brought condemnation upon all men. Adam was told: of every tree of the garden you may truly eat but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for the day you eat of it you will surely die.

The result of this one sin of Adam brought calamity of the entire human race and placed everyone under God's condemnation and death. As the single representative of all humanity, Adam's one transgression resulted in the condemnation of all men. We are sinners - not only because we sin but also because we are imputed with a sin nature because of Adam's transgression. In addition to our imputed sin nature from Adam, we inherit a fallen nature from our parents.. and we were born in sin. We were born dead in trespasses and sins, at enmity with God and without hope in the world - and the soul that sins shall die, for the wages of sin is death.

It was this ONE transgression that resulted in the condemnation of all men, but it was also through ONE amazing act of righteousness, that resulted in justification of life to all men. It was one act of disobedience that placed us under God's eternal condemnation, and one act of willing obedience, that brought justification of life to all men - and it is received simply by faith in the finished work of Christ.

Many like to bemoan the fact that we are made sinners because of Adam's sin. Many feel it is unfair that we have to inherit the sin nature from our forefathers, because of their sin.. but this is failure to recognise God's incredible grace in His simple plan for man's redemption - for as by ONE sin we were all made sinners.. so by ONE act of obedience we can all be declared righteous and receive justification of life. It was Adam's one sin that rendered us sinners and inputed us with a sin nature.. so too by Christ's one act of obedience we are declared righteous and receive justification of life- by faith in Him. By His one act of obedience we are inputed with Christ's righteousness - and it is ours simply by faith - by believing in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

It was by God's grace that Adam's condemnation rested on ONE single act of disobedience - in order that by God's grace man's redemption could also rest on ONE act of obedience - one single act of sacrifice which made possible the justification of all who will believe.

All who are born IN ADAM are eternally condemned and all who are born-again IN CHRIST are not condemned but declared righteous by God and given eternal life - for there is no condemnation to those that are IN CHRIST.

The wages of being IN ADAM is death.. for by one man's transgression we are all made sinners.. but the gift of God is eternal life for those that are IN CHRIST, for His one act of righteousness results in justification of life for all who believe. By faith we are placed in eternal union with Christ - the God-Man Who is our kinsman-Redeemer and the federal Head of God's New Creation.

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10