Covid-19 Where Does Your Wisdom Come From?

Covid-19

Where Does Your Wisdom Come From?

2020 is a full year with Covid-19 and a presidential election

We have men and women giving us their wisdom

They all speak as if they have the superior wisdom

God’s Spirit resides in the believer

The very Spirit of God fills the mind of the believer

What does that mean?

The Believer 

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

There is only one goal of the Believer to…

Have the mind of Christ

2020 is a time to make sure that we step aside from all the wisdom of man

And set our minds on Christ

What is in your mind and heart?

Where Does Your Wisdom Come From?

2020 is a full year and yet

this year is leaving us empty.

Unlike ever before every day our President,

Governors, medical leaders, and business

leaders are speaking to us about the virus.

It is an election year and the media is in full

gear even though the candidates can’t hold rallies.

As we look for answers…

We have men and women

giving us their wisdom.

Some are coming with eloquence of speech.

Some are coming with deep emotional conviction.

They all speak as if they have the superior wisdom.

I find myself feeling sick of all their

wisdom, even the ones I agree with.

All the wisdom we hear on our TV and

through social media has at least two sides.

As I find myself tired of all the fighting,

 I find 1 Corinthians 2 very refreshing.

Paul says…

 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

The older I get, the more I appreciate humility.

I get tired of being shouted

at as if volume makes it right.

Paul describes his message this way…

My message and my preaching were

not with wise and persuasive words

So what made Paul’s words powerful?

But with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,

so that your faith might not rest on

men's wisdom, but on God's power.

You and I need the power of God.

Power that builds faith and

it comes by the Spirit of God.

I love these words in 1 Corinthians 1:9 & 10…

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard,

no mind has conceived what God has

prepared for those who love him"—

10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things,

even the deep things of God.

There is hope that we can know

the things God has prepared for us.

The Spirit searches all things,

 even the deep things of God.

AND…

We have not received the spirit of the world

but the Spirit who is from God,

that we may understand what God has freely given us.

This is what we speak,

not in words taught us by human wisdom

but in words taught by the Spirit,

expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

You and I are to make

judgments on what we hear.

We are not meant to

believe everything we hear.

Remember this verse…

Prove all things;

hold fast that which is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 KJV

So how do we make those judgments?

 How do we make right judgments?

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things,

but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"

But we have the mind of Christ .

God’s Spirit resides in the believer.

The very Spirit of God fills

the mind of the believer. 

What does that mean?

The Believer…

 

Casting down imaginations,

and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,

and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

There is only one goal of the Believer to…

Have the mind of Christ

2020 is a time to make sure that we

step aside from all the wisdom of man

and set our minds on Christ.

What is in your mind and heart?

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 2 NIV

2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.   2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"—

10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.   14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"

But we have the mind of Christ.