Do We Value God's Wisdom Or Our Own?

Do We Value God's Wisdom or Our Own?

1 Corinthians 3:16-23 (18-21)

2 Corinthians 11:16

First Corinthians 3:16-23 is the third allegory Paul uses to clarify the connection between spiritual development (growth), works, and God's judgment of our endeavors. An accentuation here is on the prevalence of God's wisdom in comparison to the frail knowledge on man. Once more, Paul's primary concern here is that we should zero in on devotion to Christ and His will, as opposed to being partitioned or divided over our loyalty to various human instructors.

In verse eighteen:

Paul summarizes what he is teaching, foolishness and wisdom, from prior in his letter (1 Corinthians 1:18 - 2:16). He encourages the readers not to beguile themselves. As such, he is requesting that the Corinthian Christians check their suppositions about what is valid and what is bogus. In particular, Paul cautions of the risk of needing to be insightful, or wise, or astute by the guidelines of the world. As he showed before, the world’s wisdom is restricted to what exactly can be seen with human faculties and what can be worked out dependent on those perceptions. Individuals have no admittance to spiritual truths. They reject faith in Christ as absurdity and disregard His passing on the cross as the payment for the sins of man.

All things considered, even for the people who trust in Christ, it is enticing to need to be thought of as wise by those in society, particularly the individuals who are positions of social standing. We are attracted to demonstrate that we concur with their comprehension of the world, so they will respect us. Paul cautions that we should become fools according to the world, as per the wisdom of the world of this time and location.

The only way to true wisdom is to accept the wisdom of God, and that comes simply by disclosure, or revelation, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit. God's wisdom prompts unexpected comparisons to our human insight, dependent on our halfway comprehension of that which is understandable. This is not referring to ignorance (Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:18-23), yet an eagerness to follow God's truth despite what the world thinks of as ridiculous. Clergymen, ministers, preachers, teachers, and Christian leaders should be prepared to be seen as foolish as indicated by the world's principles if they desire to lead others towards the genuine wisdom of God.

Isaiah 5:21, Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

In verse nineteen:

Paul encourages his audience to become foolish as per the world’s wisdom to gain true spiritual wisdom as indicated by God's wisdom. He composes that you cannot clutch both worldly wisdom and Godly wisdom simultaneously. Human wisdom and God's wisdom repudiate one another. God knows the world’s wisdom to be foolish.

The issue here is not that people are unequipped for knowing any wisdom by any means. God places reason and proof in our lives and anticipates that we should utilize them (Psalm 19:1; Colossians 2:8). The issue with common human insight is the self-inflicted deception Paul referenced earlier. People who are considered wise according to the world, trust themselves to be wiser than others. This includes their self-important dismissal of faith in Christ and His passing on the cross for human sin. Nonbelievers can be researchers, scholars, intelligent people, speakers, and educators (Romans 1:18-23).

God could not care less. Paul cites from Job 5:13 to show that God captures the individuals who think themselves to be wise in their shrewdness. He knows all their apparently insightful thoughts and lessons will not assist them to escape from the eventual vis-à-vis meeting with Him.

Galatians 6:3, For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

In verse twenty:

One cannot clutch onto human wisdom and God's wisdom simultaneously, or in equivalent measure. They are against one another. Human insight can reach so far, and before long arrives at its cutoff points (Isaiah 55:8-9). When that cutoff is reached, dependence just on our own astuteness prompts dismissing faith in Christ and His death on the cross for our transgression. Without the disclosure of God's truth through the Holy Spirit, an imperfect person just cannot understand it (1 Corinthians 2:14). Thus, non-believers consider it to be foolish (1 Corinthians 1:18).

Along these lines, each man-focused thought about those wise in human terms is squandered (Colossians 2:8). Wicked suppositions depend on some unacceptable premises since they have removed God's wisdom and faith in Christ as a probability.

Paul cites from Psalm 94:11 to summarize it. The Lord knows the musings of those shrewd in human wisdom are worthless (Romans 1:18-23). All their reasoning leads them away from the truth rather than closer to it. Without obtaining the disclosure of the spiritual truths of God from the Holy Spirit, human wisdom continues to be of no value.