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. Seek and learn God's wisdom everyday.
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Terrorists in the Church
As I look at the evangelical church, I see parts of the city of God smoldering in destruction from the bombs of Satan’s spiritual terrorists that have been planted here and there to blow people to bits and to blow the terrorists themselves into eternal hell as long as their targets in the church are destroyed. Having considered all of this, I find that every time I see an image of a terrorist, it serves as a metaphor for what's happening within the church. And frankly, the terrorists who are hidden in the church are far more dangerous than the terrorists who are hidden in the neighborhoods of America and other places in the world. Because those terrorists can only kill the body, but the terrorists in the church destroy the truth and leave a rubble of lives that damns men’s souls. If it is important for us to fight the war on terror politically, socially, and culturally, it is far more important for us to fight the war on terrorists spiritually. And yet, we’re living in a time when Evangelicalism is very soft, very unconcerned, and almost indifferent to what is going on in the church. Those of us who are true believers have been called by Jude, in that third verse, to earnestly contend for the faith, to get our focus on fighting the battle to protect the church from the deceivers who attack the truth. Jude 1:4 says, “They have crept in unnoticed,” a classic terrorist tactic. We don’t know who they are at first. But they’re right there, and because they’re undiscovered, they’re mingling with us in the church, and they’re fearless. It’s not obvious to most who they are, nor does it seem to be of much concern to most who they are. And because they don’t mind blowing themselves up with their own lies, blowing themselves into eternal hell, they are deadly dangerous. They themselves, according to verse 13, are headed for black darkness. They themselves, according to verse 7, are headed for the punishment of eternal fire. It doesn’t seem to bother them. Thus, we are addressing the issue of terrorism within the church. And when I say church, I mean the broadest sense of Christianity, Christendom. Jude is writing about false apostate teachers. Apostasy, meaning to defect, to depart, to abandon. Apostasy refers to the act of departing from one's faith, gaining knowledge about the faith, understanding the true gospel, possibly even professing to believe in the true gospel, and then abandoning it. It is the most terrible of evils for which the hottest hell is reserved. Exposing yourself to the gospel truth and rejecting it places you in the most severe place of eternal torment. Now, apostasy or departing from the truth of God, departing from the gospel, departing from what God has said, and what God requires is not new. It began with Satan’s defection. Repent and believe! GTY.org (65-7) - How to Identify Terrorists in the Church – 65-7
Today's Wisdom
December 22, 2024
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