Pastor John,
This is really something. Satan was full of wisdom and yet pride made him a fool. It made me seek out what God says about wisdom. There are 217 verses on wisdom. It struck me that in Jam 3:17 it describes wisdom from above being full of mercy. Satan did not have that. Many of the 217 verses speak of seeking God for wisdom and it made me pray to have nothing in my heart that cancels out God’s mercy in letting me see and know any heavenly thing. It really leaves me praying for a pure heart. What good is wisdom without a pure heart? It made me think of Solomon too. God is teaching us so much and I want a pure heart to put it in.
This has been wonderful to eat on. We will most likely not be able to come Wed because Jerry is still sick but our hearts will be there sitting at your feet and eating this up! Miss you all!
Everything Ruined (excerpts from The Father and Son: Remembrances, 19)
- Satan’s prosecution of transgressors and all his other efforts to maintain God’s favor had been done with all his heart, but his heart was perverse.
- What fool ever thinks that he has been treated fairly when he reaps what he has sown?
- The resurrection and ascension of Jesus ruined everything, from Satan’s point of view, and when he was cast out, Satan was neither afraid or ashamed, but furious.
- If righteous judgment ever seems right to a fool, it is only when it is applied to someone else.
- Rather than humbling themselves and crying out to God for mercy, proud fools like Satan respond to God’s righteous judgment by pitying themselves as victims of it.
Righteous judgment is never wrong, for it comes from God’s kind of life.
Eze. 28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness.
1Co. 1:21 For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe.
1Co. 2:6¶ Yet, we do speak wisdom among those who are perfect, but not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world who are being brought to nothing.
1Co. 2:7 Rather, we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,
1Co. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness.”
Col. 1:28 whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom so that we might present to God every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
Jam. 3:15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
Jam. 3:17 But the wisdom from above is, first of all, pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
Job. 12:16 With Him are strength and sound wisdom; to Him belong the deceiver and the deceived.
Job. 13:5 If only you would shut up, and let that be your wisdom!
Isa. 47:10 You were bold in your wickedness, and you thought, “There is no one who sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge turned you from me, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is none besides me.”
Elizabeth D.
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