50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves. And the only reason I can pass any of this wisdom on to my children is because God has graciously made it all available in the Bible.
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The Bible says that we are all in Adam. That means, since Adam sinned and we all come from Adam, we not only inherited sin, but we also inherited death. That’s the first thing that you must understand. That’s original sin. And if you don’t understand original sin, you cannot explain the human dilemma. You can’t explain that not only did this affect man’s moral life and therefore every area of relationship, but it also affected the physical universe. Romans 8 says the whole creation groans under this curse. The reason there is disintegration, death, and all of that in the entire universe goes right back to Genesis chapter 3. Evolutionists, including psychological and sociological evolutionists, face a significant dilemma: if humanity is becoming increasingly capable and noble and evolving positively to the point of being fundamentally good, why is society not improving? Why is man morally worse? Well, evolutionary psychologists say there must be something wrong with man’s environment. And it all boils down to: “I’m not bad, but you’re bad, and you make me bad.” So, in this evolutionary process, some of us are going up, and others, I guess, are going down. That’s a fairly selective approach. Listen, psychologists reject sin because they want to exalt man, and they want to eliminate God. So, because they reject sin, they have no explanation for why man is the way he is. They misdiagnose him totally, so they really offer no help. And what does society do? Society comes up with harsher penalties such as the three-strike law: three felonies in a row and you go to jail, and they throw away the key. We bring back the death penalty. But nothing can end the reign of terror or corruption. You can’t do it with counseling or psychotherapy. You can’t do it with Prozac. You can’t do it, because the issue is sin. The issue is we’ve all inherited a corrupted nature. But there’s just no interest in the public forum in talking about sin today. Sin is an absolutely archaic idea. Sinful nature? To say that people are corrupt at birth? To say that they inherited a wicked nature from their parents because they were all genetically, as it were, born in Adam? To say they were all there and sinned in Adam in his loins, and everything that came out of that cursed man and that cursed woman bears that curse? That’s unacceptable! To say that people are all born with an evil bent, that they are all born with a desire to violate the law of God and to dethrone God and replace Him with themselves? To say they are incapable of doing anything good, that they are rotten to the very core, that everything about them, everything they think, everything they say, and everything they do is only evil continually? And to say their heart is deceitful and desperately wicked; frankly, folks, that is just not acceptable in today’s public forum. So, our culture has declared war on sin and, consequently declared war on guilt. The very idea of guilt today is also considered medieval, obsolete, and certainly unhealthful. You don’t want to feel bad about anything, right? However, this poses a significant problem: it prevents sinners from the only remedy: repentance. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-233) - What Is Sin? – 90-233
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May 7, 2026
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