When I Prayer

Whe I pray, I pray with all my love to Jehovah God (Matthew 22:37 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind")

In Romans 15:30 show with love is a component too ("Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ sake, and for the love of the Spirit that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;")

Also Romans 10:1 shows our heart is a component too ("Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved")

Acts 1:14 "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the woman, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren."  This shows me to be of one mind ("accord").  By yourself, if your are thinking of too many diffrent things are you of one mind?

Last Matthew 21:22 says "And all thing, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."  Here I goto the Greek word "pisteuo that comes from the Greek word pistis meaning faith.

So have faith, beleive in all things when praying.

To live, or to die?

Who's life are you living for?  For if I live for the world, practice things that are not in Christ, I am dead to Jesus Christ.  If I die to the world, practice things that are in Christ, then I am alive in Jesus Christ.

Romans 14:8
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 8:13
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Philippians 1:21
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

John 11:25
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Matthew 10:39
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

James 4:15
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Would you do this or that and live?

Immortality?

What is immortality?

1 Timothy 6:16 KJV
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen , nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15:53 KJV
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortalit

1 Corinthians 15:54 KJV
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written , Death is swallowed up in victory.

Romans 2:7 KJV
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

2 Timothy 1:10 KJV
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

John 4:14 KJV
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish , but have everlasting life.

Romans 6:22 KJV
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

I guess I am asking you why is immortality in the bible and giving the answer to realize the truth from Jehovah God and not from mans wisdom, but believe in his powers.

1Co 2:4-5
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."

Romans 2:7 KJV
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

To me Romans 2:7 is Jehovah God's definition of eternal life.

Believe and Live

More on Faith...

As I look and watch the world I realized that many people don’t understand the power of faith.  In the King James Version at Heb 11:1 “ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  The Greek word of faith:

pis'-tis
From G3982; persuasion, that is, credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly constancy in such profession; by extension the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself: - assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
So what does this definition of faith say, one you believe, two you believe in God, three there is assurance and forth it has the power of persuasion.  So how do we exercise faith in something we have not seen?  Let’s take a look at some examples of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 8:5-10
 “5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”

Luke 7:7-9
“7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.”

These two examples are the one same story of a roman shoulder asking Jesus to heal his servant.  My understanding of faith here is one believing in God, assurance, and persuasion.  It is the faith of the roman shoulder that his servant got healed, not by Jesus faith thought he did the healing.
Matthew 9:21-22
“21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.”
This is an example of the woman who knew if she could just touch Jesus clothes she would be healed.  Notice that Jesus says by her faith she was healed by, not by Jesus faith though he healed her.

Matthew 9:28-31
“28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.”
In this example a blind man gets healed.  Jesus says himself by the blind man’s faith he gets healed.  Then Jesus tell the man not to tell anyone, but the healed blind man tell everyone!

1 Corinthians 2:5
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
Self explanatory.

What I would like you to get out of this is that faith is much more powerful than you think.  Jesus Christ has faith, you and I need to empower our faith.  Jesus Christ faith is strong; you and I need to strengthen our faith.  Notice much of what Jesus says in these examples, by our faith he healed, not by his faith.  With our empowered faith we can help others, strengthen our own faith more, give hope to ourselves as well as others who have little hope or faith.  When we give hope, faith, we give assurance, these acts of ours is what God acts on.  If you look for what is unnatural you will find and see faith with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but if you don’t you will not see faith and its works.

Faith

Hello friends and family, I am sorry it has been so long since my last blog post, taking on-line college classes is very demanding.  I am studying Computers and Information Technology at Ivy Bridge College of Tiffin University.  I am taking my core classes to which makes it boring, right now English and Math, and then more English and Math, with that said I do now like English at all, but it seems to have its place in the world.

Back on track to my goal on my blog post, today I like to talk more on sin and hopefully give it more clarification to you.  Then I like to talk on faith and the same give clarity and up-building.

Jehovah is very serious about sin, lets look at Romans 6:23 -

KJV from SearchGodsWord - "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

NWT - "For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord."

This shows us how serious God is about sin, if we sin we will die, and we do.  But we also see hope in this verse also.  As mentioned in a previous post sin is to miss the mark set by Gods standards.  If we look at a dicionary definition of bad we get "failing to reach an acceptable standard" from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad.  If we fail to reach a standard, is that not the same as to miss the mark?  We failed or missed, to reach a standard or the mark!

But in the same verses we learn the gift of life is through Jesus Christ.  Jesus said we need the faith the size of a mustard seed in Matthew 17:20.

KJV from SearchGodsWord - "And Jesus said (5627) unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say (5719) unto you, If ye have (5725) faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say (5692) unto this mountain, Remove (5628) hence to yonder place; and it shall remove (5695); and nothing shall be impossible (5692) unto you."

NWT - "He said to them: “Because of YOUR little faith. For truly I say to YOU, If YOU have faith the size of a mustard grain, YOU will say to this mountain, ‘Transfer from here to there,’ and it will transfer, and nothing will be impossible for YOU."

If we have faith, that is things hoped for though things not seen (Hebrews 11:1), we can have hope in eternal life, can't we?  Going in to the orgin word of faith "peithō" (from SeachGodsWord.com) we learn it is calming, of course to believe and to persuade!  Our faith can persuade ourself and others to have hope and to believe and to calm each other all the time, weather in time of need or not.  Is this not a wonderful thought of faith?

Love and peace till next time, and keep choosing life.

יהוה

These are what is called Tetragrammaton, the four letters that spell God's name.  These four letter are YHWH or JHVH, tranlating Gods name either Yahweh or Jehovah.  The SearchGodsWord.Org says Jehovah translates the existing one.  If you click on the link under "Word Origin" you get to "to be, to become" and so-forth.

Exodus 6:3 in the bible is the first time God let mankind know his name.   What a wonderful thing, to know Gods name.

In Genesis God created everything "to become" in to existence, the heavens the earth, and mankind.

Till next time love and peace to all.

Why a Christian shouldn't pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

Why a Christian shouldn't pledge allegiance to the United States of America.  This is my most recent  papers turned in to my college class at Ivy Bridge College in ENG-100 70 INTRO TO COLLEGE READING & WRITING.  It is to discuss the publication "Under Whom?" written by the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times that appeared in the September 18, 2005 edition of the paper.

Week 1 Discussion 2 Under Whom?

Under Whom?

I am a baptized Jehovah's Witness so it was clear to me to be a critical thinker as I read the article and the intro of the article. For the title “Under Whom” gives me much more of a different meaning that might be of yours. The words “pledge” and “allegiance” give me problems even before we get to the phrase “under God” and rightfully so to any true christian.

The word “pledge” in definition, you give a promise to do something or give something. The word “allegiance” in definition, you give loyalty of obligation to. Together with the word pledge and the word allegiance you are giving your promise of loyalty of obligation to the nation of the United States of America.

In Matthew 4:8-10 teaches that the devil took Jesus to an unusual high mountain, offered him all the kingdoms if Jesus did an act of worship to him. This versus teaches us that the devil has control of all the nations or kingdoms. We understand this because God can't lie in his own bible showing us that the devil has control of the kingdoms by offering them to Jesus if he did an act of worship to him. You can't give or offer something that you don't own or have authority over. Mark 12:28-34 teaches us to love God first and that is the first and greatest commandment. In Revelation 14:6-12 teaches us of how the nations are fornicating with the devil and will receive the wrath of God. With these three lessons we learn that the devil has authority over the nations, they are fornicating and will receive the wrath of God, and last the greatest commandment is to love God.

Another example is that with our pledge allegiance if asked we are to fight in war against another nation. In the Mosaic Law the first Ten Commandments, thou shall not kill! How can I say I love God first if I knowingly break one of Gods Commandments of Love for the Love of Life to take another life that is being asked of me. God would never put me in that situation to take another life that he created.

Sin is any thing against Gods religious or moral law, these two examples show true christian it is sin to “pledge allegiance”, to kill, greater sin to kill for the United States of America and sin to fight for this nation of the United States of America.

Once again critical thinking, the word “patriot” is a problem too for a true Christians. The definition of “patriot” is one who loves and supports their county. So for Judge Karen Williams who decided that the pledge is a patriotic activity and not a religious one is a contradictory in terms of who a christian loves first. Do I pledge my allegiance to this nation first be for I love God? Or do I love God first recognizing it is sin to pledge my allegiance to the United States of America, remembering that lesson in Revelation 14:6-12.

Now on to the “religious phrase” “under God”. God is not supporting this as we learned in the example with the three bible lesson. God is not even supporting patriotism and its activity, since the nations are under the devils authority. This “religious phrase” “under God” to a true christian nothing more than a false light guide by the devil.

In conclusion “Under Whom?” to a true christian you are announcing who’s side you are on Gods or the devils. I did say this “religious phrase” gives much different meaning to me than you might think!

Love and peace to all.

Compassion!

Mic 7:19 "He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."


From the Dictionary.com - 

com·pas·sion

   /kəmˈpæʃən/  Show Spelled

–noun

1.

a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who isstricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire toalleviate the suffering.

What a wonderful promise.  You see it is not always about right and wrong, good or bad, for we are born imperfect and we can not fulfill the letter of the law!  It is the spirit of the law that will save our life, our brothers life our sisters life, and all of mans life.  Compassion brings understanding, understanding brings empathy and forgiveness.


This compassion will do away with sin and once again renew our relationship with Jehovah as it was with Adam and Eve before sin.


Have love and compassion for one another as imitators of Jesus who imitated his farther Jehovah and  renew yourself now with Jehovah and with all.  Not just in truth but with all for we all have the same hope of our relationship with Jehovah, for this is the love that he will recognize us by!


Amen!

More on Child Like Heart

This thought that I have may take some time to discuss.  It is more on the Child Like Heart Post, I feel that it is important because of my Criticism Post.  An other class work of mine from Ivy Bridge is on praise so that is how i will start my thought on More on a Child Like Heart thought.

Timko Mathiasen Week 4 Unit 4 Discussion 2 Praise

Praise

This topic I see also goes back to Amy Chua as well. Have you noticed in all the media giving with Amy Chua, she was cut off, only for the media to exploit their point they wanted to show. Is the media showing her as a monster, never giving love or praise to her children?

I feel sometimes as a country, nation, people we question too many things. Then, were are our values of praise¹ that is to say the expression of approval, commendation and merit since in short this is what we are talking about with our children, not praise to a deity or god. It takes practice being a parent and an employer. We are going to make mistakes in missing that mark, or point in time when we should show the proper affection or emotion to a child's works or an associates works. These works can be a art craft, a sport game and a school or work project. Practice in being a parent or employer includes praise, we do not stay the same, we change, yes their are parts of us that is a constant but we change, so must our practice in being a parenting or an employer. Interesting revelation in writing this, the laws says you need a license to practice medicine, I hope one never needs a license to practice being a parent, since it is a life long job, a skill one needs to polish everyday.

The question of praise of out "comes" and "effort" is frivolous, not have scene. Each action is not frivolous, our parenting or our child's actions. To explain further, each decision is made based on a child's' or an associates needs and not to be a stereo typed decision or classified act, since praise is an act toward our children and associates.

In short praise has it spot, but not a classified or a stereo typed act based on a word “outcome” or “effort”. This includes how a person practices being a parents or in how we practice being coworkers or how bosses practices being our employer. I have a badge at work “In training”, someone said I am no longer in training and my reply was I am in training for life, there is always something to improve or new to learn. Praise God, give praise like approval, commendation and merit for effort². Effort does include achievements, this is the classified “outcome”, effort does include exertion and attempts, this is the classified “effort” of hard work.

1 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/praise

1. Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration.

2. The extolling or exaltation of a deity, ruler, or hero.

3. Archaic A reason for praise; merit.

tr.v. praised, prais·ing, prais·es

1. To express warm approbation of, commendation for, or admiration for.

2. To extol or exalt; worship.

2 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/effort

1. The use of physical or mental energy to do something; exertion.

2. A difficult exertion of the strength or will: It was an effort to get up.

3. A usually earnest attempt: Make an effort to arrive promptly.

4. Something done or produced through exertion; an achievement: a play that was his finest effort.

5. Physics Force applied against inertia.

My thought is to bring the bible and through the dictionary to bring together what I call the human skill that we as people need clarification on, not from an employers point of view alone or the the bibles point of view alone or anyone persons point of view but every one's.  So stay tuned for More on Child Like Heart!

Criticism

I am taking on-line classes at Ivy Bridge College for Computers in Information Technology and one of our recent discussions moved me to share with you.  Yes it is about Criticism.  Always read and teach your children the bible, keep doing so to save everyones life.  It questions about if we as people are too soft, need constant reassurance and if criticism is to hard in the work environment.  The foundation of our study is from a book written by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. and the title of the book is "Mindset, the new Psychology of Success", it is a good read, and I do hate to read, but it does have my attention.  I am at chapter 6 now, just finished chapter 5 today to hand in this paper.  Any way:

Timko Mathiasen Week 4 Unit 4 Discussion 1 Criticism

Criticism

I have many thought of Criticism, some that are normal to mans thinking and pleasing to the ego of the course and then there is the one who read the bible. I bring this in because we are talking about how a person feels and God created us with his quality. To ignore where our in born quality to dehumanize a man or woman, that we have no emotions at all. Moving forward to the question I will try my best to answer the question of Criticism with out preaching.

I personally find the work atmosphere at every single job I have worked since I start my first job all dehumanizing. Criticism and constant reassurance exist because we think we all should be robots in the work atmosphere. This goes back to Amy Chua, in shielding her children is not cause of week children rather giving them time to explore their human qualities that world will soon take away from them at school, work, and general contact at the store. The world will gnaw at us all soon enough, so why rush it! It is the parents job to build the communication and social skills of our child, not the worlds. The balance of criticism and reassurance is yielded by the lack of these unbuilt skills of communication and socialization replaced by rebellious contact in the world. That we released our kid in to early in to the world, with out proper eduction and monitoring of their activities while the grow up. We only heard about bomb is other countries, then our government buildings, then our colleges, and now our own high schools are not safe because we don't properly educate our children on the skills of communication and socialization, keep in mind these skill do dialog on behavior that is to say internal and external stimuli, our feelings, our thought process, our reaction to, in the circumstances. Everything, even in the work force we need to educate ourselves in technology skills, and what I call human skills. To me human skill include the communication, the socialization, and the feelings, because our current socialization skill are not expressed and educated properly for some people to realize it does include stimuli and this stimuli does include our feelings. Are we too soft, no. Is criticism too harsh, yes.

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." - Washington Irving

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” - Confucius

In conclusion please keep rearing your children with the mental regulation of Jehovah God!  As Confucius brings out we must get our hearts right, and this is by putting Jehovah God in to our lives with every breath we take, for he gave us our breath of life.

Michial Jackson "I want to live forever"

It is not up to us to judge or to presume any thing that happens to a brother, that is up to Jehovah God.

We all ask for forgiveness, and just because we ask an other brother will Jehovah forgive me doesn't mean he did any thing wrong, only love for our farther.

Genisis 1:1

Have you ever thought of the bible Gen 1:1, in the beginning?  Well, I have so I decided to pick it apart, maybe this requies a blog post!  Any way, the beginning is first, God, this is interesting, because it refers to God as a god and other deity also and the true God.  Created is to create, shape and form, heaven is gods adobe and that being said were was Gods adobe before this?,  And last the earth and notice it also includes sheol!

So what is my point?  The beginning is for us not God, he is the alfa omega, God is the true God, to create, to shape, to form, both the heavens and earth, God created his home and our home together, what a beautiful thought!  This earth includes sheol and the ground, notice it also includes the opposite of heaven, so see how both the heavens and earth was created together, when God put devision between the two adobe, his adobe and ours was created too!

KJV from SearchGodsWord.org - In the beginning God created * (8804) the heaven and the earth.

In the beginning

re'shiyth - ray-sheeth'

first, beginning, best, chief

1. beginning
2. first
3. chief
4. choice part

God

'elohiym - el-o-heem'

1. (plural)

1. rulers, judges
2. divine ones
3. angels
4. gods

2. (plural intensive - singular meaning)

1. god, goddess
2. godlike one
3. works or special possessions of God
4. the (true) God
5. God

created

bara' - baw-raw'

1. to create, shape, form

1. (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject)
   1. of heaven and earth
   2. of individual man
   3. of new conditions and circumstances
   4. of transformations
2. (Niphal) to be created
   1. of heaven and earth
   2. of birth
   3. of something new
   4. of miracles
3. (Piel)
   1. to cut down
   2. to cut out

2. to be fat

1. (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

the heaven

shamayim - shaw-mah'-yim

heaven, heavens, sky

1. visible heavens, sky
   1. as abode of the stars
   2. as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc
2. Heaven (as the abode of God)

and the earth.

'erets - eh'-rets

land, earth

1. earth
   1. whole earth (as opposed to a part)
   2. earth (as opposed to heaven)
   3. earth (inhabitants)
2. land
   1. country, territory
   2. district, region
   3. tribal territory
   4. piece of ground
   5. land of Canaan, Israel
   6. inhabitants of land
   7. Sheol, land without return, (under) world
   8. city (-state)
3. ground, surface of the earth
   1. ground
   2. soil
4. (in phrases)
   1. people of the land
   2. space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
   3. level or plain country
   4. land of the living
   5. end(s) of the earth
5. (almost wholly late in usage)
   1. lands, countries 1e
6. often in contrast to Canaan

Grow Up? Better Love?

How do we grow up? With maturity? With wisdom? With love?


1 Corinthians 2:6-16 teaches that we talk about wisdom, things not from the spirit of the world but from the spirit that teaches, the Holy Spirit!


In the Christian Greek Scriptures the words te′lei·os, te·lei·o′tes, and te·lei·o′o are used conveying such ideas as bringing to completeness or full measure (Lu 8:14; 2Co 12:9; Jas 1:4), being full grown, adult, or mature (1Co 14:20; Heb 5:14), having attained the appropriate or appointed end, purpose, or goal.


The basic terms signifying wisdom is the Hebrew word chokh·mah′ and the Greek word so·phi′a, with their related forms. The Hebrew word tu·shi·yah′, which may be rendered “effectual working” or “practical wisdom,” and the Greek word phro′ni·mos and phro′ne·sis (from phren, the “mind”), relating to “sensibleness,” “discretion,” or “practical wisdom.”  At some point we realize the just more than the born difference of good and bad, but have Jehovah's Gods mental regulation too.  We can make better decisions knowing we are pleasing God with his blessings.


NWT of the JW Ephesians 4:2-16
" 2 with complete lowliness of mind and mildness, with long-suffering, putting up with one another in love, 3 earnestly endeavoring to observe the oneness of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace. 4 One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called;5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.

7 Now to each one of us undeserved kindness was given according to how the Christ measured out the free gift. 8 Wherefore he says: “When he ascended on high he carried away captives; he gave gifts [in] men.” 9 Now the expression “he ascended,” what does it mean but that he also descended into the lower regions, that is, the earth? 10 The very one that descended is also the one that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might give fullness to all things.

11 And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelizers, some as shepherds and teachers, 12 with a view to the readjustment of the holy ones, for ministerial work, for the building up of the body of the Christ, 13 until we all attain to the oneness in the faith and in the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the Christ; 14in order that we should no longer be babes, tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error. 15 But speaking the truth, let us by love grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ. 16 From him all the body, by being harmoniously joined together and being made to cooperate through every joint that gives what is needed, according to the functioning of each respective member in due measure, makes for the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love."

SearchGodsWord.org KJV Ephesians 4:2-16"

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing (5740) one another in love; 3 Endeavouring (5723) to keep (5721) the unity of theSpirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as yeare called (5681) in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, onebaptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, andin you all. 7 But unto every one of us is given (5681) grace according to themeasure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith (5719), When heascended (5631) up on high, he led captivity (5656) captive, and gave (5656)gifts unto men. 9  (Now that he ascended (5627), what is it (5748) but thathe also descended (5627) first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He thatdescended (5631) is (5748) the same also that ascended up (5631) far aboveall heavens, that he might fill (5661) all things.) 11 And he gave (5656)some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of theministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come (5661)in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto aperfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:14 That we henceforth be (5753) no more children, tossed to and fro(5740), and carried about with (5746) every wind of doctrine, by the sleightof men, and cunning craftiness *, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;15 But speaking the truth (5723) in love, may grow up (5661) into himin all things, which is (5748) the head, even Christ: 16 From whom thewhole body fitly joined together (5746) and compacted (5746) by that whichevery joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure ofevery part *, maketh (5731) increase of the body unto the edifying of itselfin love."

In short we are born with some understanding of good and bad, but with life experience we learn more, make better decisions, but we do that with Gods understanding of the world, because Gods Holy Spirit is the one teaching us.  The spirit of the world, doesn't teach us, nor can it help us to grow up.  So lets build our love up, for this is growing up!