Shaped By God’s Wisdom | Messy Church, Part 3

Shaped By God’s Wisdom | Messy Church, Part 3

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of theSpirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power ofGod.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Knowledge | Wisdom

Knowledge is what you know,

Wisdom is what you do with what you know

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad!

Knowledge is knowing it’s illogical to worry.

Wisdom is not telling your wife, “Calm down. Don’t worry.”

Knowledge is knowing how to do something.

Wisdom is questioning whether it’s appropriate to do.

Knowledge is what you know.

Wisdom is what you do with what you know.

Having the wrong knowledge can lead to a life void of godly wisdom.

Jesus, first and foremost, is the knowledge we need in this life.

1 Corinthians 2:2

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”

Worldly wisdom is limited by…

Our life’s span (v.6)

Our senses (v.9)

Our own personal experience/knowledge (v.11)

God’s wisdom is NOT limited…

Eternal (v.7)

Purposeful (v.7,9)

Limitless (v.12)

How do we tap into the wisdom of God?

1. Through prayer

2. Through Scripture

3. Through other believers

What does it look like to live a life that is shaped by God’s wisdom?

A life shaped by God’s wisdom means a life…

Dependent on God and others

Humble

Selfless

Generous

Loving