Good Doctrine – Part 1

Proverbs 4:2-4 For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law. For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 

‘Good doctrine, forsake you not my law.’ Referring to the teachings Salomon received from his father, David who followed God’s laws, instructions and commands.

‘I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.’ Salomon acknowledges Dawid and Bathsheba as his parents from whom he has learned God’s doctrines.

‘He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments.’ Dawid taught me, Solomon, in the ways of the Lord (Psalms 19 and 119) and what we are commanded by Him.

‘Live’ – That is, to have eternal life. The Greek word aionios means everlasting, unknown time, time out of mind, eternity. The same word is translated as “eternal” in John 3:15. The life itself is eternal. Man’s possession of it does not change its nature or existence. It is eternal whether man ever gets it or not. It is still eternal whether man loses it or not. It is like an eternal diamond or anything else eternal. It always remains eternal, and is only in Jesus Christ. Eternal life in Jesus Christ is the great truth of which the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the water, and the blood bear testimony (1Jn. 5:11-12). Eternal life is only in Jesus. All who are in Him have this eternal life and all out of Him do not have it.

We get eternal life now and keep it forever if we meet Scriptural conditions, but it does not become an unforfeitable eternal possession until we enter into it (Matt. 7:13; 18:8-9; 19:17; Rom. 6:22); receive it (Rom. 6:23; Jas. 1:12; 1Pet. 1:13; Rev. 2:10); reap it (Gal. 6:7-8); and inherit it in the world to come (Matt. 19:27-29; Mark 10:28-30; Luke 18:28-30), and at the end of this life (Rom. 6:22).