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 Biblical Doctrine of Sin
Genesis chapter 3 is crucial to understanding that all humanity has a vile, rebellious, corrupt nature. The thought-life is corrupt, the emotions are corrupt, the will is corrupt, and the behavior is corrupt. Society describes everything wrong with mankind as some kind of an illness. That's just the way the world chooses to avoid the issue of original sin. Even Judaism denies the existence of original sin. They understand the message of Christianity, but they want to deny original sin so that they can deny that men are in a condition that requires Jesus Christ to be their Savior. They say that everybody makes his own choice, and if you have to make a bad choice, just tell God you're sorry and make more good choices than bad choices, and your good choices will outweigh your bad choices, and you'll get into heaven. But they're wrong. Scripture clearly indicates where evil began. And it's the New Testament that is most definitive about the issue of original sin. A key verse is Romans 5:12. It says that when Adam sinned, everybody sinned in Adam. And when Adam received the penalty of death, we were all then sentenced to die. Christian Scientists tell us that sin is an illusion. It's not. The liberals tell us that sin is merely finiteness; to be human is to err. And the dualistic philosophers tell us that sin is the flesh as opposed to the spirit, which is pure. Now, those are all wrong. Let me give you a definition of sin. Sin is any personal lack of conformity to the moral character of God or the law of God. Sin, then, is a disposition of the heart; it's a bent. It thinks evil, it speaks evil, it acts evil, and it omits good. Those are the four ways in which you sin: you sin by thinking evil, speaking evil, acting evil, or omitting good. You sin when you do, when you say, when you think, or when you don't do what God commands you to. Therefore, we commit sin through both commission and omission. Again, sin is any violation of the moral character or law of God. Summing it up, 1 John 3:4 says, "Sin is the transgression of the law." Another way to translate that: everyone doing sin is doing lawlessness. In other words, it's ignoring God's law; it's violating God's law. That's sin. Any violation of God's law is sin. Lawlessness is synonymous with sin. It's living as if there was no law of God, calling your own shots. Sin is when you do something that goes against real trust and faith in God; that's sin. It's when you know to do right and don't do it, that's sin. It's when you know something pleases God, something that God has commanded, and you don't do it; that's sin. All unrighteousness is sin. All sin is lawlessness. All of these concepts refer to the same issue: sin is any violation of God's moral character or His law. To put it another way, sin is going beyond the bounds that God has established. Now that gives us a substantial understanding of sin. It's to know that sin is any breach of God's law. And Christians who understand the Bible are the only ones who know exactly why the world is the way it is. Why? Because we understand the biblical doctrine of sin. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-233) – What Is Sin?
Today's Wisdom
Day: 960
June 30, 2026
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