WEBVTT 00:00:01.339 --> 00:00:04.540 Well, I would like to say to you that tonight 00:00:04.540 --> 00:00:07.080 is going to be one of those moments that if you 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.419 miss, you will hear about the regular week or 00:00:09.419 --> 00:00:13.339 next week, and I wish I had gone. It has been 00:00:13.339 --> 00:00:17.820 very, very special. And especially for those 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:23.000 old timers amongst us, like myself, who enjoy 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:27.859 the music that came out of the 1940s, 50s, 60s 00:00:27.859 --> 00:00:34.280 era. Tonight will be indeed familiar. LBD Services. 00:01:07.029 --> 00:01:09.430 You'll have an opportunity like some of the rest 00:01:09.430 --> 00:01:12.349 of us in our contemporary courses. You'll have 00:01:12.349 --> 00:01:15.090 an opportunity to learn some real music tonight 00:01:15.090 --> 00:01:20.989 at 6 o 'clock. So we'll see you then. I'm going 00:01:20.989 --> 00:01:24.189 to open our Bibles together now to the book of 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:28.530 1 Corinthians as we continue studying about God's 00:01:28.530 --> 00:01:33.790 wisdom. Today, understanding God's wisdom is 00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:38.489 planned for redemption. After inviting his leaders 00:01:38.489 --> 00:01:42.329 of his ministry, among them several years in 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:47.269 the past, how he all had done his part in God's 00:01:47.269 --> 00:01:50.750 work of establishing the Church in the midst, 00:01:51.329 --> 00:01:54.069 Paul now proceeds to tell them more about the 00:01:54.069 --> 00:02:00.150 amazing divine wisdom that had saved them. This 00:02:00.150 --> 00:02:04.129 wisdom would be cured to the divisiveness that 00:02:04.129 --> 00:02:08.389 was very real to them. reflected in the fine 00:02:08.389 --> 00:02:12.430 drama this morning. If they would heed God's 00:02:12.430 --> 00:02:16.150 wisdom, the divisiveness would end. The fractures 00:02:16.150 --> 00:02:19.729 in their fellowship would heal. But first they 00:02:19.729 --> 00:02:24.069 would have to change their way of thinking and 00:02:24.069 --> 00:02:27.710 their way of living. Unity would be restored 00:02:27.710 --> 00:02:31.530 when they put aside their human -centered way 00:02:31.530 --> 00:03:05.759 of looking at life and return to God's It's a 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:11.520 simple message. It's Christ. He says, yes, it 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.379 is foolishness with respect to its humble recipients. 00:03:17.780 --> 00:03:22.120 Chapter 1, verses 16 to 31. For its recipients 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.460 are not the high and the mighty, but the lowly 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:30.460 and the noblest. He says, yes, I agree it's foolishness 00:03:30.460 --> 00:03:41.030 with respect to its weak deliverer. It's all 00:03:41.030 --> 00:03:43.969 right if you want to call it foolishness. I agree 00:03:43.969 --> 00:03:46.330 with you, it's foolishness in both respects. 00:03:48.229 --> 00:03:52.810 But now we've turned a corner. In fact, however, 00:03:55.449 --> 00:03:57.629 what I have said to you, what I have preached 00:03:57.629 --> 00:04:19.439 to you is... Now that we're not of this age, 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:22.620 nor the rulers of this age, who are passing away, 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:28.399 but we speak God's wisdom in a history, the hidden 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.000 wisdom which God predestined before the ages 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.740 to our glory, the wisdom which none of the rulers 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:39.279 of this age has understood, or they have understood 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.459 if they would not have crucified the Lord of 00:04:42.459 --> 00:04:46.639 Glory. But just as this lessons things which... 00:04:46.939 --> 00:04:50.500 I have not seen and here has not heard, and which 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:53.779 have not been, and into the heart of man. All 00:04:53.779 --> 00:04:56.899 that God has prepared for those who look in. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.480 For to us God revealed them, who are the spirit. 00:05:03.019 --> 00:05:05.420 Who the spirit searcheth all things, even the 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:09.279 depths of God. For who among men knoweth the 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.740 thoughts of a man, except the spirit of the man 00:05:12.740 --> 00:05:16.439 which is in him. Even so the thoughts of... of 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:21.199 God no one knows except the Spirit of God, which 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:25.300 things we also seek, not words taught by human 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:29.339 wisdom, but those taught by the Spirit. Combining 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:34.620 spiritual thought with spiritual words, but a 00:05:34.620 --> 00:05:38.019 natural man does not accept the things of the 00:05:38.019 --> 00:05:40.720 Spirit of God, for that's what we should see. 00:05:41.699 --> 00:05:44.379 And he cannot understand them because they are 00:05:44.379 --> 00:06:15.100 spiritually It is a higher wisdom than them. 00:06:17.769 --> 00:06:22.069 What is being discovered by man in the usual 00:06:22.069 --> 00:06:29.410 way? The answer to that is technically no. God's 00:06:29.410 --> 00:06:34.670 wisdom comes to that in a unique way. A way that 00:06:34.670 --> 00:06:41.050 rational, philanthropic men, a way that scientific 00:06:41.050 --> 00:06:50.129 modern men go with. My basic point today is that 00:06:50.129 --> 00:06:56.550 God's wisdom cannot be discovered. God's wisdom 00:06:56.550 --> 00:07:01.870 can only be weaved. Both those office pieces 00:07:01.870 --> 00:07:05.370 close to the photographs we looked at. This proves 00:07:05.370 --> 00:07:07.709 that I have been stated to you as hard for man 00:07:07.709 --> 00:07:11.750 to handle. Because man likes to think in his 00:07:11.750 --> 00:07:16.310 own ego that he can discover wisdom. That he 00:07:16.310 --> 00:07:21.990 can... that they can understand God. But what 00:07:21.990 --> 00:07:24.509 this text says to us today is that God's wisdom 00:07:24.509 --> 00:07:30.649 cannot be discovered by man at all. That God's 00:07:30.649 --> 00:07:36.129 wisdom can only be received. John verses 6 through 00:07:36.129 --> 00:07:39.050 8, we're going to look at the how Paul spelled 00:07:39.050 --> 00:07:42.649 out the facing to a fight, saying the explanation 00:07:42.649 --> 00:07:46.790 of God's wisdom. He tells us here even more. 00:07:46.699 --> 00:07:49.519 or about Dr. Winston that he said in the past. 00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:53.600 He tells us in the first place that it is distinctive. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.000 Dr. Winston is distinctive if origin is not in 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:03.439 this page or from the rulers of this page. By 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.000 this page, do I need to get another microphone? 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:15.600 I will take it. Pardon me. Okay, all right. He 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.930 tells us that... is a distinctive wisdom that 00:08:19.930 --> 00:08:25.629 origin is not found in this age or from the rulers 00:08:25.629 --> 00:08:29.129 of this age. By this age, Paul seems to mean 00:08:29.129 --> 00:08:34.389 here the entire period of human form. Not merely 00:08:34.389 --> 00:08:36.970 this age of grace, as he sometimes says to the 00:08:36.970 --> 00:08:39.370 devil, Paul is talking here about this entire 00:08:39.370 --> 00:08:42.389 age. From the beginning, one day, I had a spell 00:08:42.389 --> 00:08:49.919 in this day and it's a - of the world in this 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:54.399 age cannot claim God's wisdom, they cannot even 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.179 grasp upon their own these rulers that he says 00:08:58.179 --> 00:09:04.179 in fact are themselves coming to nothing. We 00:09:04.179 --> 00:09:10.379 find our ending in futility. This wisdom of God 00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:14.860 is apparent to those who are matured, sir Paul. 00:09:15.899 --> 00:09:18.610 And we often hear that word Lord, we think of 00:09:18.610 --> 00:09:22.850 a full -grown Christian, one who has grown up 00:09:22.850 --> 00:09:25.029 spiritually, but Paul thinks he is here to do 00:09:25.029 --> 00:09:28.649 it in a different sense. The one who turned out 00:09:28.649 --> 00:09:33.529 to be full and complete, it also means one who 00:09:33.529 --> 00:09:36.690 is fully initiated. That is another way that 00:09:36.690 --> 00:09:40.450 was used in that day. But so dear Paul seems 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:42.789 to mean that God's worth is apparent to those 00:09:42.789 --> 00:09:46.750 who are the tour and that they are truly saved. 00:09:49.710 --> 00:09:52.690 who are genuinely Christians, they seem to be 00:09:52.690 --> 00:09:56.549 the same ones that he talks about in verse 9. 00:09:57.269 --> 00:10:02.730 Those who love God. It is a distinctive wisdom. 00:10:02.990 --> 00:10:05.370 It is not from this age that God comes to the 00:10:05.370 --> 00:10:08.529 woman of this age. It comes from God. But only 00:10:08.529 --> 00:10:12.470 a certain people can perceive God's wisdom. Those 00:10:12.470 --> 00:10:16.110 who are mature. That is, those who love God, 00:10:16.190 --> 00:10:21.600 those who are the... Secondly, he says this mystery, 00:10:22.100 --> 00:10:25.860 this wisdom of the mystery. He doesn't say it's 00:10:25.860 --> 00:10:28.960 mysterious, that it's hard to understand all 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.879 of our parts of the physical planets to comprehend. 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.080 But he means it's a mystery of a specific sense, 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.840 that is that it was concealed. It was hidden 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:43.500 without any reveal and exposed to men. It was 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:47.019 ordained by God before the creation, before the 00:10:47.019 --> 00:10:52.139 ages, and there's no afterthought at all. This 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:57.679 wisdom is God's intent to glorify man, that is 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.779 to lift up all of man, to present all of man 00:11:01.779 --> 00:11:07.899 to himself. Every being and complete and glorified 00:11:07.899 --> 00:11:12.679 in this time is a mystery. The third way that 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.580 he explains God's wisdom is by saying that it 00:11:15.580 --> 00:11:19.779 is truly the gospel. It is the message that God 00:11:19.779 --> 00:11:26.190 sent his the Lord of Glory to show God's love 00:11:26.190 --> 00:11:29.830 for us and to bring to us the knowledge of God. 00:11:31.090 --> 00:11:36.769 But it's also the story that man rejected God's 00:11:36.769 --> 00:11:41.110 Son. God's Son was not what they expected or 00:11:41.110 --> 00:11:45.610 wanted in the Messiah. Man did not understand 00:11:45.610 --> 00:11:49.169 the Son because his heart was hard and vice - 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:57.399 And so he crucified the Lord of Glory. But that 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:01.279 very crucifixion, that rejection by man of the 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:07.019 Son was the means by which God showed his wisdom. 00:12:09.299 --> 00:12:12.799 When man rejected the Son, he played life into 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:17.379 the sovereign purpose of God. For it is through 00:12:17.379 --> 00:12:25.260 the rejection of man that the Lord of Glory and 00:12:25.260 --> 00:12:29.620 accomplish man's redemption. And that, friends, 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:37.279 that is the heart of the wisdom of God. That 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.440 is the plan, that is the purpose of God. And 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.220 he might reveal himself to us, and even though 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:48.179 we would reject that revelation, through that 00:12:48.179 --> 00:12:59.610 very rejection, Paul here explains God's wisdom. 00:13:03.269 --> 00:13:05.350 Because I'm going to talk about the revelation 00:13:05.350 --> 00:13:11.809 of God's wisdom in verses 9 to 13. We do not 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:14.809 comprehend God's revelation by natural means. 00:13:15.169 --> 00:13:19.029 Man is not able to acquire an understanding of 00:13:19.029 --> 00:13:28.590 God or if it's against his plan. that all paraphrases 00:13:28.590 --> 00:13:33.929 in verse 9 are some thoughts from the Old Testament, 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:42.330 probably Isaiah 64 -4 and Isaiah 65 -17. He doesn't 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:45.970 quote these verses verbatim, he seems to analyze 00:13:45.970 --> 00:13:49.289 their meaning here. But what he is saying is 00:13:49.289 --> 00:13:55.009 this, that God's wisdom cannot be seen with the 00:13:55.009 --> 00:14:00.559 eye. It cannot be heard with the ears. It cannot 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.759 be wheezed with the mind or the heart of man. 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:08.059 I know about you, but I've heard you say this 00:14:08.059 --> 00:14:10.320 quote many, many times in reference to heaven. 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:15.860 Have you? I have not seen, heard, or heard, or 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:18.360 heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:18.460 --> 00:14:18.980 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:19.360 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:19.360 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:19.360 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.379 --> 00:14:19.399 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:19.399 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:20.820 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:22.659 or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, or heard, 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.200 or heard, or heard, And I will be able to talk 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.039 about that. But all I'm saying is man can't see, 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.980 man can't hear, man can't discover, he himself 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:38.279 doesn't exist. Man is primarily in this empiricism 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:43.860 and rationalism that comes with his discoveries. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.559 But what he says here is that science and philosophy 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:55.289 cannot discover God. Observation. and logic will 00:14:55.289 --> 00:15:00.049 never lead man to God's wisdom. Man cannot discover 00:15:00.049 --> 00:15:07.509 God. Science and philosophy are irrelevant when 00:15:07.509 --> 00:15:11.690 it comes to the wisdom of God. They're also unnecessary. 00:15:14.049 --> 00:15:16.470 They're unnecessary because God is already taking 00:15:16.470 --> 00:15:19.769 initiative to give us His wisdom. We don't have 00:15:19.769 --> 00:15:23.529 to go out and search for it. The knowledge of 00:15:23.529 --> 00:15:26.990 God comes by only one means, and that is by revelation. 00:15:27.210 --> 00:15:30.610 That's what verse 10 says. We cannot discover 00:15:30.610 --> 00:15:34.570 God's wisdom, but God has revealed his thoughts, 00:15:34.889 --> 00:15:38.769 his wisdom to us, he says, through the Spirit. 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:43.710 Not the ones God has revealed to nobody, to the 00:15:43.710 --> 00:15:51.009 poor, to those who love God. So this wisdom was 00:15:51.009 --> 00:15:54.309 given directly to the apostles of God. it on 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:59.330 to us in the writing of Scripture. What I'm saying 00:15:59.330 --> 00:16:02.269 here is that the proof -of -fiction of Jesus 00:16:02.269 --> 00:16:07.590 Christ lasted up to a few hours. We can't go 00:16:07.590 --> 00:16:10.789 see that demonstration of God's wisdom today. 00:16:11.049 --> 00:16:14.090 It happened at a point in history, and then it 00:16:14.090 --> 00:16:18.330 was done, how it worked for the continent. But 00:16:18.330 --> 00:16:24.389 the message of Christ's proof Through the lifted 00:16:24.389 --> 00:16:29.129 revelation of God's Word, the Apostle said that 00:16:29.129 --> 00:16:35.629 God has revealed His wisdom to us by His Spirit. 00:16:37.870 --> 00:16:40.769 What he is saying here is that the Holy Spirit 00:16:40.769 --> 00:16:45.210 is the agent who carried out this revelation 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:55.529 of God's wisdom. In verse 11, he says, I don't 00:16:55.529 --> 00:17:00.269 know what you're thinking about right now. But 00:17:00.269 --> 00:17:03.509 when you're in danger, when you're tracking along, 00:17:04.250 --> 00:17:05.970 when you're thinking about where you're going 00:17:05.970 --> 00:17:10.430 to have to do this afternoon, I can't tell that. 00:17:12.430 --> 00:17:15.349 Because only you know what you're thinking at 00:17:15.349 --> 00:17:24.190 this point. That's the only... And so the thoughts 00:17:24.190 --> 00:17:27.890 of God, no one knows except the spirit of God. 00:17:30.710 --> 00:17:36.170 I can observe you. I can listen to your silence. 00:17:38.130 --> 00:17:40.650 I can try to figure out in my mind what you're 00:17:40.650 --> 00:17:47.150 thinking. But I can't. Only you can tell me that. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:23.019 God has revealed His plan. And that's why I'm 00:18:23.019 --> 00:18:28.039 so focused on Christ crucified. The work of the 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:33.019 Holy Spirit is involved in the lighting of God's 00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:39.059 thoughts. You can't hear these things that God 00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:59.079 has revealed. We speak God's thoughts, not the 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:04.579 words of human wisdom. No, not that. But those 00:19:04.579 --> 00:19:08.680 that are taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.220 thoughts and spiritual words, what the saying 00:19:11.220 --> 00:19:45.970 is, that the Holy Spirit is guiding you. of the 00:19:45.970 --> 00:19:49.769 other writers of this rigid record that God's 00:19:49.769 --> 00:19:54.250 written. So that all one way roads with their 00:19:54.250 --> 00:20:00.109 own personality, out of their own cultural situations, 00:20:01.529 --> 00:20:07.210 and using their own vocabulary, the Holy Spirit 00:20:07.210 --> 00:20:10.349 is helping them so that as they do that they're 00:20:10.349 --> 00:20:14.670 really writing down the thoughts of God in their 00:20:14.670 --> 00:20:19.180 own... in the words that He helps to form and 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:25.140 to shape in them and within ourselves. He has 00:20:25.140 --> 00:20:28.319 explained to us here how God's wisdom comes to 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:33.259 us. We can't, though, observe Christ's crucifixion. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.940 It is the heart of God's wisdom. Can happen? 00:20:45.869 --> 00:20:49.950 because we have as a witness for our fear more 00:20:49.950 --> 00:20:54.670 fully explained to us than we have in the writing 00:20:54.670 --> 00:21:03.470 of the Word of God, the wisdom of God. Then he 00:21:03.470 --> 00:21:05.750 talks about the apprehension of God's wisdom 00:21:05.750 --> 00:21:10.089 in verses 14 to 16. He tells us that there are 00:21:10.089 --> 00:21:15.170 two kinds of men, the natural man and the spiritual 00:21:15.170 --> 00:21:46.369 man. He says there is a kind of man who has only 00:21:46.369 --> 00:21:52.519 death, so much. With life on the Polish level, 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:57.400 this is not a low term that describes man after 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:03.660 most regenerative works. But it's a term that 00:22:03.660 --> 00:22:09.339 would refer to man as educated, as cultured, 00:22:09.619 --> 00:22:17.259 as civilized, as moral, but without God. That's 00:22:17.259 --> 00:22:20.869 the kind of man Paul has to be. is an utterly 00:22:20.869 --> 00:22:28.789 generic man at his best, a natural man. He says 00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:32.650 that this kind of man who lives on the natural 00:22:32.650 --> 00:22:37.089 plane does not welcome the things of God. He 00:22:37.089 --> 00:22:40.170 can't read the Bible, he can't study the Bible, 00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:45.609 but he does not see its meaning. For him, the 00:22:45.609 --> 00:22:51.140 Bible is great literature and nothing more. And 00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:53.380 he comes to that conclusion because of his poor 00:22:53.380 --> 00:22:58.039 judgment. His reason, which he depended upon, 00:22:58.380 --> 00:23:02.380 does not perceive that the Bible is supernatural. 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.819 With respect to redemption, the Bible is foolishness. 00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:11.119 There's no appreciation for what it says beyond 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:25.319 the natural - because the things of the spirit 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:30.099 of God must be discerned or framed by the spirit 00:23:30.099 --> 00:24:08.619 of man. to help him understand archaeology's 00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:14.599 ability to think. He's studying this for those 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:31.000 kinds of values. The spiritual man is one who 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:35.359 is regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and therefore 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:42.220 the spirit in him is alive. That core of his 00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:47.680 being that relates to God has come to life because 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:53.740 he is trusted in the Savior. And because he is 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:57.740 spiritually alive, he is able to obtain all things, 00:24:58.059 --> 00:25:03.779 he is able to When he reads the Bible, the Spirit 00:25:03.779 --> 00:25:08.599 takes that word and instructs him in the knowledge 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:31.750 and the wisdom of God. and just as it has taught 00:25:31.750 --> 00:25:35.710 you to abide in it. But John, I think you have 00:25:35.710 --> 00:25:41.309 an anointing. That one anointing seems to be 00:25:41.309 --> 00:25:45.490 a word you use before the Holy Spirit. And he 00:25:45.490 --> 00:25:48.109 says you have this anointing of God, and that 00:25:48.109 --> 00:25:51.710 anointing, that spirit which is used before the 00:25:51.710 --> 00:25:59.460 Holy Spirit. Something else about this? He baffles 00:25:59.460 --> 00:26:03.019 the natural men, who cannot appraise the things 00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:07.160 of God or the people of God. Regarding natural 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.539 men, not in the course of life, they try to appraise 00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:13.099 believers, of course, but they're always wrong. 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:18.640 They may accurately evaluate our faults, shortcomings, 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.960 and our weapons, that are inconsistent with our 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:26.220 faith, but they cannot accurately evaluate our 00:26:26.220 --> 00:27:14.819 faith. you to evaluate and understand the natural 00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:20.880 man he does. He has the mind of Christ. He can 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.619 act again in his spiritual wisdom. The truth 00:27:24.619 --> 00:27:28.900 of redemption may not be seen in the real place. 00:27:29.579 --> 00:27:32.140 These things that are revealed in the inspired 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:36.980 Word of God in which the Spirit of God has taken 00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:39.700 the box of God and written this down for us. 00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:13.980 think about their condition. In the record of 00:28:13.980 --> 00:28:17.220 the assessment, we don't have a search that is 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:24.180 more trouble, that has more problems, that is 00:28:24.180 --> 00:28:28.019 more divided than sexism, than the Caribbean 00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:47.710 captain. Why is that? Because having to their 00:28:47.710 --> 00:28:53.549 culture again, and began to seek out human wisdom 00:28:53.549 --> 00:29:00.390 and human experience. They were trying to mix 00:29:00.390 --> 00:29:07.089 God's wisdom with man's wisdom. What Paul is 00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:12.450 telling us here is that they must disregard their 00:29:12.450 --> 00:29:30.880 human - What they needed to do was to reach the 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:36.000 max. Every area of their lives, to Jesus Christ, 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:39.559 could have been crucified. That's what Paul is 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:44.720 taking for. He says, look at your lives. Look 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.740 at your church. He was not respecting the will 00:29:48.740 --> 00:30:07.859 of the God. I don't think you have to society 00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:16.000 yourself over Peter and Paul and Thomas. Just 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:24.180 look at yourself. This is your God. And you need 00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:27.220 to get your life connected again to God's wisdom. 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.000 You need to bring every area of your life to 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:44.240 God's wisdom. The lightning, the light, destroys 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:49.619 the dark work. The dark work from the truth to 00:30:49.619 --> 00:31:38.869 the light. Are you allowing God's wisdom to control 00:31:38.869 --> 00:31:45.170 your actions and reactions? Are you allowing 00:31:45.170 --> 00:32:04.779 God's wisdom to control your relations? Down 00:32:04.779 --> 00:32:07.339 the road, you will begin to see how it is to 00:32:07.339 --> 00:32:12.900 see you alive. And how your life is coming apart 00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:16.900 to show you successfully. If you don't trust 00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:19.700 God's wisdom, turn to me as a person who's dead. 00:32:35.660 --> 00:32:38.240 If you don't trust God for the living and rather 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:40.599 turn the man away from any of your relationships, 00:32:41.259 --> 00:32:43.039 you're going to find your relationships coming 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.740 apart. You're going to find your marriage beginning 00:32:45.740 --> 00:32:48.259 to disintegrate. You're going to find your children 00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:51.660 and yourself so odd. You're going to find yourself 00:32:51.660 --> 00:32:55.019 pulling away from other Christians. You're going 00:32:55.019 --> 00:32:58.700 to find yourself judging other Christians, making 00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:08.829 yourself better. And so the freedom call would 00:33:08.829 --> 00:33:13.869 make to us today, too, is that we reconnect our 00:33:13.869 --> 00:33:18.369 lives to God's will. So we don't look at somebody 00:33:18.369 --> 00:33:21.289 else and say, oh, let's see how God's power of 00:33:21.289 --> 00:33:24.809 humanism affects us. And we look inside first 00:33:24.809 --> 00:33:31.509 and say, oh, God, show me where I have grained. 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:54.259 He says the wisdom of Islam is pure, and peaceable, 00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:57.480 and gentle, and reasonable, full of rest and 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.660 goodness, unwavering, and without a problem. 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:36.079 Is there good food? Is there stability? Is there 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:41.980 the absence of hypocrisy? By those things, characterize 00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:45.599 your life generally, then you are always after 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.079 a little piece of the pie. So on the other hand, 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:55.639 is this disorder? And this jealousy? And this 00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:25.550 selfish ambition? It won't work.