19 Nov 2025
Season 2: Episode 2 - Knowledge and Wisdom
Welcome back! This is Episode 2 of our second season of Midnight Jesus, where we share with you the same type of late-night Jesus talks that have been a big part of our journeys. This episode centers around Knowledge and Wisdom. For many folks, it has been impressed from a young age the importance of pursuing knowledge in a Christian walk. While we agree with that sentiment, we felt led to share a deeper look into what this really means. Come, learn with us.
Show Notes
Additional Information/Explanation
To add some additional insight into the notion of revelation… Revelation, in this context, can be defined as God sharing a divine truth or insight into his will with those who follow him. We stress a lot in this episode the necessity not to seek the next of these, but instead, to seek communion with the Lord. It is in moments like these that you open your heart and mind to what insight God may have for you. This is not limited to large-scale revelations; rather, it includes those smaller realizations about self, calling, and surroundings. It is easy to become so distracted by your expectation of God’s blessing of insight into one situation that you miss the wisdom he is offering in another. Instead, be open, honest, and ready for whatever God may offer.
Isaiah offered correction to Maliek at one point in this episode of the timeline of events based upon their telling across the gospels. For two guys who love the scriptures and every nuanced truth discoverable within them, this type of generally unnecessary correction is common. We scrutinize the details, not in an attempt to overly emphasize them, but to celebrate the beautiful complexity of the historical accounts offered in the Bible. Our gospels are a prime example of this: four accounts of one man’s life, work, and triumph; four men from different backgrounds, four men with different proximity to Christ; different details offered; different focuses held. Now that’s a stunning notion of the beauty of scripture.
Isaiah mentions, at one point, a connection to Proverbs 8:36, “but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.” (CSB) In this verse, the speaker is a personified wisdom expressing the idea that to hate them is to love death. This is an amazing insight, especially in light of one of the points we made in this episode. If the greatest wisdom is love, and to hate wisdom is to love death, and the ultimate source of love is God, and the greatest act of love was Christ’s sacrifice… I digress. You see the cyclicality of things. Seeking wisdom, the love and presence of God, is in direct opposition to death. After all, it was the love and presence of our God that stripped death of its power.
Scriptures Mentioned
John 5:39-41
Matthew 12:2-4
Luke 6:6-11
Philippians 1:9
Proverbs 8:36
Proverbs 9:10
Proverbs 1:1-7
Matthew 18:3-4
Luke 6:45
Romans 12:2
Psalm 119
Psalm 1
Psalm 46:10
John 17:3
Blessing
May you find yourself inspired to pursue the abundance of knowledge offered to us. May you find yourself ever-curious and ever-wondering of what you may discover. However, may that pursuit be in the name of knowing God better, for the purpose of seeking his will for your life. May you base yourself in love and uncover the wisdom that exists in it, and may that be the foundation for your pursuit of that knowledge. Go in peace, love then learn.
