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Wisdom (Jay)

Pastor Joe · May 17, 2026

And you'll notice something else in your Bible here that this is not written in archives. This is in the original text. The Wrath is a literal period of time. It's not the Wrath and Curbulation that you suffer in this world, which I don't believe in else much for anything at all by frankly. The Wrath to come and then of course, and over here, and there's another verse over…

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And you'll notice something else in your Bible here that this is not written in archives. This is in the original text. The Wrath is a literal period of time. It's not the Wrath and Curbulation that you suffer in this world, which I don't believe in else much for anything at all by frankly. The Wrath to come and then of course, and over here, and there's another verse over here in chapter 5, I'll believe over here. Let's see here. What's that? The day of the Lord. No, that's in first testimony chapter two. In first testimony chapter five, verse nine. Here, verse nine. For God had not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation and so forth. So who died for us? Well, we wake up to sleep. We should live together with him, comfort yourself together, and that if I want another setter, etc. We are not pointed on to wrath or the wrath. And also in the Roman chapter 8 verse 1, the Bible says, there is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. No condemnation. And if you remember, Romans chapter 8 verse 1. Now of course a lot of people are going to say, well I don't know anything to do with the wrath. Really? The seven year wrath is God's condemnation on this world for rejecting the cross and the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it's all about. God's judgment, God's wrath. And then, of course, the final wrath will be the white throne judgment. But the seven-year fibrillation is God's wrath upon this world for rejecting God, denying, adjusting, denying everything. Go back over to Second Seth論 as if you will in verse 8, the mystery of inequity. He will be taken out of the way. Well, who is it? It's gotta be Holy Spirit. Then look in the next verse. And then shall that wicked one be revealed. And then after somebody's taken out of the way, who else can it be? But the Holy Spirit. Second thus, Longest Chapter 2. Verse 8, yes. And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him who is coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. What does that mean? They rejected the truth, they rejected salvation. rath is going to be poured out up on them without any doubt. And the Holy Spirit will be removed, in my opinion, there's no doubt about it. Okay, got all that? Well, I don't agree with that. I don't either, but if you remember, I don't know if this is on Sunday or Wednesday night, but when God withholds His Holy Spirit, I mean, really withholding, and the Lord Jesus Christ is one the whole Saul things together. When he does that, 2 Peter 3, then the world will literally explode and burn with fire. He will not destroy the world. He will not do that. It will be burned because fire is purification. And I think the world, if it wasn't for the Lord Jesus Christ, who upholds all things by the word of His power, I'm sure the Holy Spirit's involved, these part of the Trinity, but the Bible specifically said the Lord Jesus Christ upholds all things by the word of His power. And if He just withheld the word of His power, this world would explode. There's no doubt in my mind. All you have to do is look at the elements that the earth is made up of. Just look at them. The water. How many times we talk about that? The salt in the water. Sodium. You get salt water. Pure sodium salt, which is what salt is, pure sodium when I mix with salt it explodes. I'm sure you guys had science class I never learned that in science class, but I didn't learn it somewhere Sodium will not mix with water pure sodium I think try a little experiment someday if you can find some pure sodium just a little square chunk of pure sodium Take some water You could get it, but you guys couldn't get it because you had to be, but if you could get pure sodium and put it in, put it in a container of water, it'll begin to bubble and then it'll burn, explode. It will. And but it won't do that because God has solved that to mix sodium and other elements together of nitrogen, oxygen. Oxygen. a fuel tank when you take a settling purchase, what do you do when you mix the oxygen with the gas. If you don't mix the oxygen with it, it won't do much of anything, will it? Nothing. You take the gas and mix oxygen with it, it gets quickly darn hot, then you can cut metal with it. And if God separates a, it makes oxygen, pure oxygen, mix with other elements of wealth Explode. Hydrogen. What's water made out of? Hydrogen in oxygen, right? Hydrogen will explode. Remember the dirigible? What was it called? The Hindenburg? Yeah. Pure hydrogen, exploded and burned. Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. H2O. Shouldn't be water at all. But God created it and all he has to do is separate those elements and withhold his power the water will burn everything will burn Yep, that's for darn sure he will show them he absolutely will Consider the sun. I mean, it's been burning out in outer space for who knows how many years without oxygen. Yeah, a billion years then. Without oxygen? Yeah, there's years when everything began to evolve. Without oxygen, think about it. No oxygen. Try to build a fire without oxygen. Small work. You take something that's real hot, put it in a container, put a lid on it, it'll go out. stop burning. And down in the center of the earth, you've got all this boiling molten lava. Wouldn't you think it would just logically stop burning eventually? Dislogically? In the center of the earth? No fuel, no air, no oxygen, yet, and yet all of that molten lava never explodes all the oil in the center of the earth, all the natural gas in the center of the earth, All these things in the center of the earth will not explode, they should, and yet when God has a volcano, He rubbed over here, it never interferes with all that stuff that man is drilling for, never. Never comes up in your well, never comes up through an oil well, it's amazing, and you have man rejects God, and imagine all the ailments in the earth, the hydrogen, the oxygen, to suffer all these things that are explodable when God withholds His word and all that stuff in the center of the earth becomes mixed with all that exposing explosive material, what an awful, awful, hot explosion, that's going to be, it's going to be amazing, that's what the amazing, you can't get suffer if you're a software, huh? Legally you can't, yeah. Legally you can't. One of the main reasons you can is because some Waco would use it to make a bomb, but if you could, and you know, I still think that man could make a hydrogen car very simply you do too, I'm sure. It should be simple. All you have to do is separate the oxygen and the hydrogen from water. It should be very simple. I can't do it, but it should be simple. Yeah, something or other. I don't know how it works, but I'm sure you guys, some of you guys are smart and I am. I mean, you can probably figure it out. I don't know how it works. Oh, I know it should be possible. I do know that. It should be possible. Can you imagine being at your hands on pure sodium? You could make a car run on that, or you can't. No, you have to do is have a tank of water. It's a government rule. No, you would do it. Well, no, they won't. But you could. And then they'll charge you for all kinds of water. Yeah. Yeah. Either way, you have to do that. Yeah. Yeah, you're right about that. I'm surprised they haven't started taxing us for the air we breathe. I'll put a video on your waterhole when you saw your car. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That's what you're right. I'll tell you another thing I thought about often, many, many times. God said that the man is confined to this earth and the boundaries thereof. He said, that's what he said. Yeah, you can live on this earth. You can walk, talk, breathe, but you can't live in outer space. And yet the only thing that keeps this air, this, this earth, if you stop thinking about it, it's like a big balloon ready to explode in outer space, but it doesn't. And they say that the only thing that holds it back is the ozone layer. I've seen strange to me how a gas, a minute gas, just a few miles thick, can keep the air concentrated on our earth, the way it does. I just don't buy it. Yeah, when you think that a rocket or some, all the many things that we've seen in outer the space, put that hole in there, that that air would just go, you would think, wouldn't you? You'd drive on in outer space with a space suit on, puncture it. Try it. Wouldn't you think that all those things that go through the old zone there, and that air would just come right out behind it? Just seem logical to me. Try blowing up a balloon, poking it with an eagle. It's the same theory, same thing. Whatever, let's move on. I got a question. Okay. Is there going to be a second rapture then after the kingdom? No. I'm sorry to hear. No. Yeah, well, you can't be hurt by it. You can't be hurt by it. I'll tell you how I view that. If you go back in every Daniel chapter 12, verse 1 and 2, when he talks about the resurrection, at the end of the kingdom there's going to be a resurrection of the Great White Throne, there's going to be a Great White Throne judgment, I believe that those who are getting into books are those who are alive, along with everybody else, will receive their glorified body at the end of the thousand-year reign, it's that simple. That's the only way they'll survive. Everyone who has saved throughout the kingdom will receive their brand new glorified body. The Bible doesn't really tell us that specifically, but that's the only logical explanation for it. Yeah, he'll be loose for a season. I don't know how long it'll be, but it says the season. Probably one taking very long to get everybody gathered up to rebel against Christ the very last few days probably wouldn't take very long. I don't know. But all it says is he'll be loose for a season. It's all said. However long that is, I don't have any idea. But like Like event said, concerning those who are alive during the kingdom when the earth is burned with fire, have been at that particular time, but if you read the Bible according to just before that event takes place, the great white throne judgment takes place. And then after that, I believe all those who are saved out of the kingdom, everybody else has received their glorified bodies, but those in the kingdom will have to receive their glorified bodies at that time, because a lot of people will be physically alive in the kingdom. It does. Revelation tells us that when Satan was sent there, the beast and false prophet are. And they have been there for a thousand years when he says that. So, naturally, if they are there for a thousand years, then it is an eternal, well, it's called the eternal damnation and the Lord calls it everlasting fire. He says, depart from me, he cursed him to everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. So if it's everlasting, it's everlasting. Well, he says, well, sure the fire is, but what about the people? Well, They are too. It's that simple. Otherwise, why bother? I'm sure they just want to know if they… Yeah, probably not. That is the final resurrection. That is the final resurrection. But I don't consider the resurrection. The reason I say that, I think they'll receive a body just like Elijah did instantaneously. It just instantaneously. I don't even think that they will die as we consider dying. sort of like the rapture. The Christians that are alive will not die. You'll lose your physical body, but you won't die per se. It'll be such an instant that even if you do die, you won't even know what happened. And so I think it won't be like a physical death. It'll just be instantaneous. If you're alive, you did. And whatever. But that's a doctrine that probably would be a good study. But I haven't found any verses that I have studied that tells us exactly what happens to those that take into the kingdom. It just does natural to assume that if they're saved, they're saved. And so they have eternal life. And the only eternal life is to leave this physical body. First Corinthians chapter 15, you have to die to get something new. So you have to leave this physical body to get your new one. So it's only logical that at the end of the kingdom, that that's exactly what will happen. Did you have something? What's that? I really don't think any of you have a child here. I really don't. You know what people I think will die during the Kingdom are sinners. And we could go to Isaiah and probably improve that. But that's my opinion. A sinner will be a hundred years old. A sinner, a child will be a hundred years old. So if he's a sinner he'll be like a child but in other words he'll be a hundred years old but according to the Millennial time he'll just be a child. You see? And I think people will live throughout the thousand years. I don't think the Christian will die. I honestly don't believe he will. But they'll have long life. And doesn't he just seem logical? If you have a perfect atmosphere, the Lord Jesus Christ is ruling on this earth. Everything's perfect. Just like it was back in the Garden of Eden. Everything's perfect. You won't have sinus problems. I don't believe you have all those problems. But Northeast Ohio, everybody has Arthur Wrightis, you know who Arthur is? Arthur Hurts, Arthur Wrightis. Everybody has it, Northeast Ohio. They dug up some Indians, and they found out that almost everyone that was buried, the Indians they've dug out in the greats, had Arthur Wrightis. I don't think you'll have to worry about that, when the Lord Jesus Christ reigns on this earth. The Lionel laid out on the Lamb, it'll be absolutely perfect. be a perfect atmosphere. You won't have to go to the doctor, they'll be out of business, I believe. The politicians think God, they'll all be out of business. Lawyers, they'll be out of business. My goodness for that. And probably most preachers will be out of business. Okay, let's go on, if you will. We just discussed some of this. Explained pre, mid and post-cribulation, and which do you believe in? How much time do you want I'm going to save you, OK? About 15 minutes? Oh, I'll tell you what we'll do then. If you plan for an hour, then you can come in next week and take the whole hour, OK? And I want everybody to be here if it all possible, OK? Because we need to support. We need to support Jay. So we won't let you do it this evening if it's going to take that long. Unless you want to begin it tonight, take it up again next week. It's entirely up to you. You're in charge. I don't even know what you're going to talk about, I don't want to know until you start. It's entirely up to you if you think you're going to need that much time if not, we'll just give you next week. Okay, I'll tell you what we'll do. So cover this mid-posed tribulation thing here in a few minutes, and then you're on, okay? All right. You want to begin what you'll have about 15 minutes of the hour, and then you can build up to what you're going to do next week. You're going to be able to do that? Okay. All right. All right. Explain pretty mid-posed tribulation very simply if you can. Yeah, it does. That's what it does. You're talking about the raptors, yes. You believe in the priests, there's no reason to talk about those who are the men and priests. There is. No, there is. The people think that they're going to suffer, they're going to spend their lives. Should we suffer? It's great. I have to make point before the creation that we're going to be fractured. Yeah. That's very simply this. Pre-tribulation means the church will be taken before the tribulation. Pre-tribulation are those who think that the church is going to suffer. Pre-tribulation means the church will be taken before the tribulation. thinks that the church will go into the middle of the tribulation and then be your after. Or part of the church will go into the middle of our preachers honestly say that. There's no proof of that whatsoever because Christ is the whole church all at one time and if you're saved the Holy Spirit and you, when the Holy Spirit leaves, you go, it's that simple. And that post-credit means the whole church will go through the entire tribulation. Well if that's true then why bother writing the rapture down in the church 20 in the Bible, but yeah, that's a good point that's a good point Yeah, as Matt Jones always said it's a rapture not a rupture Yeah, yeah, that's what he always said. Okay, Jay, I'm gonna give you the floor then. You're on. And this. Yeah. And then the other thing is they like to say, for the sculpture, they kind of mix the two sections. Mm-hmm. They do. It's false doctrine, but that's how they do it. Okay. Okay, Jay. I'm gonna take my coffee, because you can't have it. I like to have everybody who doesn't think you're ready to do it, but I'd really like to have you speak about it. You want me to try and just sit this in? Do whatever you want. Maybe I'll try that. No, you're going to make it nervous. Good practice for me, because I tend to be wordy anyways. I'm sure I can. That's what I mean. Maybe I can get it down and that'll be good practice. Well, I chose wisdom to speak on, and as you said about being humble, it's not because I think that I'm wise or anything, I just have a fondness for that and the Bible. But hopefully if I do this right, it's going to show that it's not really about wisdom a single thing anyway. I'm trying to point out that wisdom of the Bible is Christ and salvation. It's knowledge of all kinds of things. People think of when they hear wisdom. So I figured the first way to start is I'm just going to show I'll take you to the Hebrew word for wisdom. If you got a strong concurrence with the one that's used most is the reference number 2450 and it deals with wise-hearted, which seems to be going in hand with when it's when spoken, that's talked a lot as well. It says intelligent and skill or art. So that can have to do with just knowledge, but knowledge outside of God really doesn't amount to much at anything anyway, it's pretty much void, so we'll get back to that, but it also has a few other different routes that it came from, that the first one was cuck-com, that's 2450, and that's the one that the word wisdom has taken for 2451 that is cuck-maw, and it's wise and curious, we'll get to this too, but it is a type of to put in parentheses that it's in a good sense, that's what they want you to put focus on. But also, the Hebrew of 995 or Benet is discernment, separating things mentally and distinguishing, understanding it could be cunning as with the skill earlier. Dilligence, eloquence, could be feelings, instruction, knowing, perceiving, being prudent, and we'll focus on that for a second later too, regarding our teaching. And also, the Hebrew of 79, 19, saw call, and that means circumspect, they're considering all things before acting. And they also put with the things that I think more may be results of the wisdom, the cross-bur, success, and they have a behaving one self-wise. So, they have a few different concepts with it, but basically all the same types of things. And so I thought, probably the best thing to do, I remember Spodian a little on hermeneutics, but one thing to do when you're examining a word is to go to the first mention, and that that's probably going to be where you're going to stay consistent, and that's what you should base it on. So the first mention of the word wise, which, as I said, the 2450 use the word harder. It speaks of wise-hearted. It's the Exodus 2830, really no reason to go there other than just, if you are right, that down it is the first time it's used in a Bible. And it's pretty curious, too, that not only, just for the only, for the simple fact that it's dealing with spiritual things, It's talking about the people making a garment for the priestly office. And so it's got interesting enough that when wisdom's first use it deals with the priest or the, or the, not only religious, but the spiritual aspect of it. But if you read the skill field now and I thought this was really, this was what really made it neat was that, that's the type of the priesthood, the high priest and the priest or Christ and the believers of the Churches, so it couldn't really be more directed towards us than that. And to speak to them, they were wise and hard. And if you look at the word heart, that's Hebrew 3820. It's La Bay. And it has to do with feelings and intellect and will, But it says that it's the center of anything, figuratively, when hard as you just figure it out, there's the center of anything. So it's not about people who have wisdom at the center. And if it's a type of the believers, center for the believers, that's the whole central thing. And so speak to them. And to speak, then you're going to want them to hear. And hearing is part of the definition for the word understanding. Hebrew 85, Shama. It's to hear intelligently. Not just to hear it, but to internalize it or to know it. Yeah, so I would go up to Proverbs 10, 8, just something that I threw in there was, says the wise and heart will receive commandment. And also, since we're at Proverbs, 812 says, I wisdom dwell with prudence. And two things about that. First of all, I believe the Proverbs 8 is speaking, it's Christ speaking in the form of wisdom, personified as wisdom. And so, although we'll show later, there are in other ways that Christ is the wisdom, I think he's right there declaring it. I wisdom is calling himself that. But he says it dwells with prudence, and that means discretion. And so I thought those might be the important points for what I want to use for the next step here. The person most associated with wisdom is Solomon. If they get anybody asked about wisdom, even on the leave, it's probably familiar with that. In fact, we know that in the old times, they were. They said that they came from all there or the year that's how wise he was. But if you look at the way that it happened, If you go to the first Kings 3, that's probably going to give you the full account. I'll paraphrase it here, but if you'd like to go there. Starting with verse 5, it's that God said, after what I shall give thee, let's examine that in Hebrew. It really doesn't make much of a difference. Because it inquires what I shall add in to thee. And so that's just going to be the tree to the wisdom comes from the comes from God. It was still out there. God filled people with wisdom. He filled them with the spirit of wisdom. It was in several different ways. But right here we're going to see it came from God, Solomon asked for it. He asked for understanding heart to discern between good and bad. And that That request is in verse 10, verse 9 is where he asked for the understanding heart, because Israel was such a, the sort of the greatest words was more than the saying of the seed, could be numbers, something, and I think there was so large, you know, and he said he used up a child, he didn't, he needed that, he needed help. And that pleased the Lord says of verse 10, that was a honorable request and it was so much so that in verse 30 there will be none like there was none like the before and the neither shall after there arise one like you. It would make him be wisest ever as far as Mango, Solomon was there. And with this, verse 13, it came also rich as an honor that was given to him as a gift because he didn't ask for them. I think it's important. It's noteworthy, I think, that if you have wisdom in God and you do the things that he says, there's a good chance those might just be to resolve it anyway, but here they may not, though, necessarily, but God gave them to him. And then we're going to come back to this. But verse 13, it was a gift, it was given. Verse 14 says, but if thou will walk in my ways to keep my statue in my commandments, I'll lengthen thy days. To me, the reason is not only would I want to bring up solemnly because of wisdom, but I think this is important because to me, this sounds like maybe a shadow of salvation and service. first he asked, and it was given free, then if you will do more, then I'll lengthen your days. Physically, I believe, I mean, the first part was lengthen those days, eternally, I guess, but I think that they kind of shed the salvation and the service, and riches and honor, just look at the wording. What's heaven? What's heaven gonna be? I mean, it's riches for the fullest. We're re-warred. We're in the kingdom, you know. And honor, we have no sin attached to our name. It's cleaned away. Eternal life in heaven, no sin and it's a gift. I think that represents salvation. If you will, and then he likes the latest service, and it's earned. The first is a gift, second looks earned. Could get it, might not, doesn't need to. The first one is still there. But we'll move ahead. The verse 28, then, another thing that resulted here was that all Israel heard of it. And they saw it. There was a woman, the two women arguing about who's maybe maybe, are you familiar with this book? Okay, well, and then he made the judgment, so he said, well, we'll just cut it half, give each of your half of it. And so on the protest of that, he said, well, you must be a real mother. There was a, you know, go ahead. Who's gonna say that, right? So now it was made manifest to all of Israel, and which was what needed to happen, if you did. It was gonna have a result he was after. Not only did he have the government, he needed to win the government. He often used them to be in the subject of them and respect them, but chapter 4, verse 29 and 30, another thing we see is once again, God gave Solomon the wisdom and understanding. It came from God. Yet God gave Solomon the wisdom and understanding, exceeding much in the heart, even as the saying that he's on a seashore and Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East Century and all the wisdom of Egypt, all of it, all of it is ever in the world. You know, as he said, he would do that anyway, but he was pointing it out. He says in 32, 34, he had 3,000 Proverbs, he had 5,000 and five songs. He spoke about trees. He spoke about beasts. He spoke about fouls, it's a talk of creep and things, dishes, everything you could think of, he was just talking about it. Everybody wanted to hear it. That's how great it was. It says, all the kings of all the earth came to hear it. It's sad around all this, it's like story-to-one time. It's going to get enough of it. We don't even go here, but if you were to skip ahead to chapter 10, we think, you know, it says the Queen of Shiva came And she heard about it. She had decided she's going to prove him wrong. She had a question into the point of showing he wasn't as wise as people thought. It says that she had no more spirit left in her by the time he was done with it. And she realized she hadn't even heard the half of it. But if you go chapter 5, verse 12, another thing we see resulted in is peace. result of him having wisdom or anybody having wisdom. He brews 79, 65 and a strong concurrence of Shalom. I mean it's happy, the wellness, that's as a result of having wisdom. But you know we could go on and talk about Salam in all these different things. The main point was that I believe he's also a type biology for Christians. In the good sense, we showed salvation and service, those are positive results. But also, if you look in the cleasiest, you'll see several times that he went after Spinaly and Mandant, that's how much he wanted to start going to crave the wisdom. Dan and I talked about this short time. I noticed that if you look up lies in there, it says in a good sense. So, sorry, they get to bother my student, bad sense of You know, you might not think, I can live them as bad. I had a little different idea when I first started them. I'll tell you what he said. That means to try and explain things which can't be explained. And I think that's probably what happened to Solomon. He wanted to, he couldn't, he didn't, even in all his wisdom. There was no need for him to know that. So what did he do? He tried to experience it then. So I'm going to learn about one way or the other. And what happened was he lost his relationship with God. He used to, I think, a son of Solomon. He was describing like a man, and he's running around the street. And if you see my beloved, where's my beloved? He lost his relationship. And even his father, David, as he said something to the effects of restores the joy of my salvation. It didn't lose his salvation, he lost his joy. And even in all his wisdom, I believe, really on the part of the person, where the saved Christians, you're forgiven for everything, forever. It's never how accountable to the point of, you can never lose your salvation, ever. If you're forgiven, you should be able to continue in your relationship, but yet we don't let ourselves, we won't get over ourselves. I think that's what this happened to him. I think that's important to point out the Christians, All Christians understand this, but the so-called Christians, they'll try to tell you that that's not the case. You can't sin and be a Christian, but here, you can be a Christian. In fact, if someone is the wise of the severer, what could you expect from us? From his own book, probably, as we saw, he had 3,000 Proverbs. He says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy that is understanding. Well, the Lord, and the Holy that's talking about God, and the fear is a reverential trust with a hatred of evil. It's not being afraid of God. I know there could be a reason to feel that, but that's not what he's talking about, but that's of all the things he talked about. He saw, you know, he's talking about the kings about everything under the sun that there was. He points it out through, here is wisdom, the Lord, he's telling you. So wisdom, I think, vividly, can be divided probably into maybe more than this, but I went with three kind of main categories. There's just your general knowledge, like everybody thinks of. When there's knowledge in a mocking sense, when they call the wisdom of the world, it doesn't really acknowledge the wisdom at all, so it's kind of a mocking usage of it. And then there's Christ. That's what I really want to get to. I had these other things just to build up there and make a few points. But Christ, what could be wiser than getting free salvation? What could be wiser than having your son paid for you instead of burning in hell for I mean, you could do anything you want to think you were being wise if you go to hell, you were really pretty dumb. I'll tell you the truth. Yep. And also service. We're allowed to have that once we're saved. So that's really wise for you to do that, because not only does it, it's a good for you. We saw it lengthen as your days. They could bring you prosperity, bring you happiness. It also helps somebody else not go to help. So they hear, says, how could they believe in what they hear, how could they hear, unless there's a priestess? It's up to us to tell them. How is somebody who doesn't know it, going to tell them. So there's another great thing about services that you're helping somebody else escape that. And if you've escaped that, you're probably realize how scary it really is when you're looking back on it. Some people I talked to, they got saved by that. People told them about how it scared them so much I guess. I got saved because I heard it and it made sense to me and I thought it was so great. I couldn't, whether or not believe it. Then I realized I should tell and now I'm afraid for people. I don't think it was originally that way for me. But that's what glorifies God. His other Lord, you know, and I'm sure I went in to get glory. He gets a third eagle or fives in all ways to eagle or fives because he saved them. He gets that credit eagle or fives them because he got one of those lost sheep back to the love. He glorifies them. He glorifies them because he gets to reward you. He's happy to do that. But even back to Solomon, Christ himself used Solomon as an example. He used it, I believe, to identify with Israel for one thing. Everybody in Israel was familiar with him, so to speak in that context was something that they could all identify with, but also he did it to declare that he was God, I believe. I think that was part of it. He knew that they knew that God said there will be no one wiser than Solomon. No man will be wiser than Solomon ever. There won't have been one before him. There won't be one again. Then Trice comes in the middle of the Jews and he says, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Well, how could he, yeah, how could he be a greater in Solomon if he was just a man? That would make God a liar. Instead, he's a guy. That's what he was telling them. They knew it. He knew they'd know it. They knew it. He got his point. So I said, didn't have to say, hey, I'm God. Let's figure it out. You can see that in Luke 1131, if you want to write that down. Also Matthew 1242, they say the same thing. We'll go to one of them. Go to Luke, they're both basically the same. But yes, Luke 1131 and Matthew 1242. He says, the Queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with the man of this generation and condemned them. For she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. This looped in Matthew, also Matthew 1119, 18 and 19, it's a different subject but tries to use the word wisdom. And I kind of liked the way he did it so I wanted to just point that out. He says, for John came neither eating or drinking, and they say he has a devil. The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, behold, a man gluttonous and a wine river and a friend of publicans and sinners, but with them is justified of her children. Probably you could take that and build a lot of different things out of this. So what I wanted to point out is that if you're wise and you understand salvation is free and it's apart from works, then you'll see that none of that, well, you can't really apply it to him anyway because he was a God, but if that was one of us, you know, these people are sitting around claiming to be holy and they're looking for a reason to judge for them. And here you know, if you're saved by grace and you're comforted by the grace, then none of that stuff will even matter anyway. First Corinthians, these are probably the more important things about wisdom and the Bible. I'm going to show that it refers to Christ. Chapter one, we'll hit the map. We go over just a few minutes. Not too much longer, okay? We don't like to keep anybody over. I can finish it. I think if we go for four minutes. Okay. I'll give you four minutes. All right. Or I could just give you the verses. Well, we'll go to 1st Corinthians 1. Now I have another one, actually, like that. 1st Corinthians 1, we'll just point out a few things. We'll put verse 18, for the preaching and the cross to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are stated is the power of God. Verse 24, but unto them which are called, both do you agree Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. And verse 30, but unto them are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God has made unto us wisdom and righteousness and thank of patience and redemption. According, as it is written in the and he had a gore, he had a gore in the Lord. So there's just a few verses to say that it is speaking of Christ, why Christ is important in salvation. And if you wanted to reach first Corinthians chapter two, that is to read the whole chapter, you gotta go through a lot of this. Just show it, Christ is the wisdom, but he's also the requirement for getting any other wisdom. And once you get Christ, it was the wisdom, now you can get the spirit. Now get the spirit, if you're safe, Now you can get other wisdom to go this. He says John 14, 26, as the Holy Ghost teaches all things, and he'll bring all of them to remembrance. They come from the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. Verse 3, it's 2. You go to chapter 2, it shows that, or verse 2, it pulses, I don't know what to come here to say, and I don't know anything, but Christ crucified. That's the one thing you want to get across. Verse 4, he demonstrated spirit and power. Five, the faith is to be in the power of God, not the wisdom of men. Seven and eight with verse six, the wisdom is of God, verse nine. It's for those that love Him. Ten or twelve, it's revealed by the Spirit. Thirteen, the scripture is from the Holy Ghost. Fourteen says that the unsaved can't even understand it even if they wanted to. 15 this verse will could judge all things in 16 because we had the mind of price First Timothy 316 I'll show you that the all the scripture is from the Holy Spirit and like it says here John 1426 show that the Holy Ghost teaches it was all so I guess And I think you've been a little longer. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to So that's a very good study on wisdom. I appreciate that. He did real good on proud of you. What he was saying was actually absolutely true. Solomon wrote Proverbs while he was in a spiritual condition. Then he backslid, and then when he came back to God, he wrote Ecclesiastes of revealing his maximum condition. And it's a good point you made that. I thought that was real good. Congratulations, Jay. Let's have word of prayer and we'll close it if you will. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word, and we do thank you for the wisdom, but the Holy Spirit gives through the Lord Jesus Christ, the Christian, if he really wants to, can know all things about everything just because God gives him the wisdom, the new so. We just thank you for it. We thank you for the wisdom of Christ in Christ name. Amen. Okay, very good.
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