The English definition of yada is boring or empty talk. In the Hebrew Bible the word means “to know.” To know by observing and reflecting and to know by experiencing.
Let’s examine yada yada yada from the standpoint of learning by observing and learning by experience. I can tell you, “Ice cream is delicious.” You can observe the smile on my face as I taste the delight. I can smile and say, “This is really good.” So, by observance you can “know” that ice cream is good. However, if you learn by experience that ice cream is good you “know” that indeed ice cream is good. Yada yada yada.
About 1040 times you will find this word in the Bible. Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Noah “knew” the water was gone because the olive tree had leaves. He observed and thought about what he saw. Joseph tested the honesty of his brothers by experience.
Genesis 42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: The children of the Israelites in the wilderness did not know right from wrong.
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. The children of the unbelieving Jewish men who voted to not obey God and conquer the Promised Land would go in after 40 years, but the unbelieving fighting age men would die in the desert. If you are old enough to comprehend these words you “know” that you have sinned.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Only those washed in the blood of Jesus can say my heart is clean.
1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Yada. Yada. Yada. Do you KNOW, KNOW, KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt that you are going to Heaven? That is the most important thing you can know.
Please repent and trust Jesus today.
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