But where shall wisdom be found,
and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof,
neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith,
It is not in me, and the sea saith, It is not with me. It
cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the
price thereof. It cannot be valued with the
gold of Ophir with the precious onyx or the sapphire. The gold
in the crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall
not be for fine jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made
of coral or of pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not
equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. Whence
then cometh wisdom? Where is the place of understanding,
seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
from the fowls of the air? Destruction and death say we
have heard the thing thereof with our ears. God understandeth
the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof." Job asked the question. He'd
been speaking a parable. He started his parable in Job
twenty-six. And then it says in verse 29,
verse 1, Job continued his parable. 27 and 1, Job continued his parable. And he puts forth this parable.
And he's asking, where in the world is wisdom to be found?
Verse, where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of
understanding? Where are you going to find wisdom?
He's been showing, he says in verse 1 here of chapter 28, there's
a vein for silver and a place for gold, where iron is taken
out of the earth and the brass is molten out of the stone. He says down in verse 6, As for
the earth, out of it cometh bread, and under it was turned up, as
it were, with fire. The stones of it are in the place
thereof, and hath dust of gold. He's been showing that there's
a place where gold and silver and precious stones can be found
in this earth. You can dig around the earth
and dig rubies and gold and silver and precious stones. And Octavius
said, anyhow, that shows that by searching and digging, they
can overturn it. He said in verse 9 and 10, he
put forth his hand upon the rock, he overturneth the mountains
by the roots, he cutteth out rivers among the rocks, and his
eyes seeth every precious thing. He can turn over the dirt, turn
over the ground, turn over mountains and dig them up and find gold
and silver and diamonds and all the precious things and bring
these precious jewels, Jew treasures, right out to the line. But all
of these things, but he comes down to ask this one thing. Ask
this one thing. We know where we can find gold,
we know where we can find silver, we know where we can find rubies,
we know where we can find all this fine gold, stone and brass. We know we can get iron, rubies,
diamonds. We can find all these things.
But none of these, none of these things can meet the need of the
human heart. So we ask the question, a very great question, in verse
12, but where shall wisdom be found? You can find gold, but
where do you find wisdom? You can find silver, but where
do you find wisdom? You can make iron and brass,
but where do you find wisdom? You go out here and dig in the
earth and dig up enough of it and you'll find, you can make
yourself well. But where will you find wisdom?
Can you dig wisdom out of the earth? Will a lot of gold make
you wise? That's what Job is asking. And
lots of people have had all these treasures of the earth and yet
are found to be fools. You remember the story of that
rich man? In Luke 12 he says, You know, I have much goods.
Oh, I've got so many goods now that I don't know what I'm going
to do with all of them. I've accumulated so much. He said,
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll just tear down my barns
and build big ones and I'll fill them up. And I've got enough
to do with the rest of my life. He said, take your ease, eat
and be merry. And then God said, you fool.
You're a fool. Tonight your soul is required.
Then who's are these things going to be? He had all the things
that Job says that you know we can find. We can find it on this
earth. But one thing he lacked, he didn't
have any sense, he didn't have any wisdom. God called him a
fool. But wisdom, wisdom is priceless. It's all that Solomon asked for.
Look over with me in 2 Chronicles chapter 1. Go back to your left
and you go back about three books and you'll be in Chronicles.
Go back to Esther, Nehemiah, Ezra, and then back to 2 Chronicles. In chapter 1, in verse 10, look
what it says here, talking about wisdom. It's all that Solomon
asked for. It's all that Solomon asked for.
He just wanted wisdom. And Job asked the question, where's
wisdom? Where's wisdom? It's priceless. He said here in verse 10, He's
praying before the Lord now and he's fixing the rule over God's
people, taking the throne after his father David. Give me now
wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this
people. For who can judge this thy people
that is so great? I want to know how to carry myself
in when I go out among these people. So that I won't dishonor
you, I won't act a fool before you, and I certainly won't act
a fool before your people. And God said to Solomon, because
this was in thine heart, that thou hast not asked riches. You
didn't ask for wealth, you didn't ask for honor, you didn't ask
for the life of your enemies. Kill them that are my enemies,
neither yet hast thou asked for a long life. But you ask wisdom
and knowledge for yourself, that thou mayest have judged my people,
over whom I have made thee king. Wisdom and knowledge is granted
unto thee, and because of that I will also give you riches and
wealth and honor, such as none of the kings that have been before
thee and that shall ever be after thee." He asked for one thing,
wisdom. Give me wisdom. And beloved, back over here in
our text, wisdom is the chief thing. With all of our giving,
God helped us to get wisdom. He said again that in verse 12,
where is wisdom shall be found, where is the place of understanding.
He asked again in verse 20, where is the incumbent wisdom, where
is the place of understanding. What's wisdom's nature? Well,
I know this, it's not something we put on like we put on a coat.
It's not something like we put on like putting on a shirt. Wisdom
is character. It's the quality of being wise.
It's a condition of the heart. It has to do with our relationship
to God. That's what it has to do with.
It's a condition of the heart, and it has to do with our relationship
with God. Down in verse 28, it begins with
the fearing the Lord. And under man, he says, behold,
the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. That is wisdom. It begins with fear in the Lord.
You know what Paul said about people? He says, there's no fear
of God before their eyes. How many people do you know that
there's no fear of God before their eyes? They'll say anything
about God, anything about Christ, anything about religion, make
them all come. But he says here, it begins,
the fear of the Lord, it begins, wisdom begins with the fear of
the Lord. And this wisdom, I know this much, this wisdom increases.
As our knowledge of God increases, look with me in Psalm 90. Look
in Psalm 90. This is something that, oh God,
please teach us to say this. That's why it says, let not the
wise men glory in his wisdom. Let not the mighty men glory
in his might. Let not the rich men glory in
his wisdom. But if a man's going to glory,
let him glory in he knows me. He knows me, that he understands
me, that he bows to me, that he acknowledges me and worships
me. And thus, you look what he said
here in verse 12 of Psalm 90. So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Number our days. Every day that goes over us,
we know that God gave it to us. It's God that gives us our life,
our being, our very existence. He holds the breath of our souls
in His hands. He's told us He's got a house
appointed for all the living. And so, beloved, every day of
this world, we number our days. And one of these days, we're
going to get to the last number. And what are we going to do?
We're going to apply our hearts to wisdom. To do what? To know
God. to seek God, to desire God, a
relationship with God, to not be deceived, to know that we
know Christ, that we've not been turned away ever from knowing
Him and wanting Him and desiring Him. Oh, God, make us to number
our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom. It's easy to find the wisdom of this world. It's
easy to find that. They say, oh, get all you can,
get all you get, and then sit on the cab. And that's foolishness
with God. Education, education, education,
and they all educate this bunch of people to be a bunch of fools.
They get a sheepskin and they think that makes them smart,
makes them wise. That's all they're interested
in is what they can get out of the world. God says that's foolishness. And it's easy to find the wisdom
of religion of this world. Oh my, it's foolish. It's foolish
to tell men and women that Jesus Christ is doing all He can to
save them. It's foolish to tell men that
their faith stands in some kind of a gimmick that somebody talked
them into, some kind of a talking them into something. And beloved,
our faith stands not in the wisdom of men, but it stands in the
very power of God. I'll show you the wisdom of this
world and the religion of wisdom. Look in Matthew 22. Here's the
best that man's got to offer. When he talks with the Lord Jesus
Christ, see the difference in their wisdom and in the wisdom
of Christ. Now, wisdom isn't something we can put on. It's
character. It's the quality of being alive.
Condition of the heart has to do with our relationship to God.
God sent on the man the fear of the Lord. That, that is wisdom. Look what he said here in Matthew
22 and verse 15. As three different groups come
to question our Lord Jesus, then went the Pharisees and took counsel
how they might entangle him in his talk. That set out to try
to make Christ to look like a fool. That's what they started out
to do, James, to make Christ look foolish, that he's not very
smart, he's not very wise. And so they sent unto him their
disciples with the Herodians. That's a political saying. Master, we know that you're true,
and that this is the way of God in truth. Neither cares thou
for any man, for thou regard'st not the person of men. Now that's
a, you know, Proverbs says this. He says, a flatterer spreadeth
a net for your feet. Man starts flattering you a whole
lot, he's getting ready to catch your feet and flip you, give
you a flip. That's what they're doing. They
said, tell us therefore, is it lawful to get tribute to pay
taxes to Caesar or not? Jesus perceived their wickedness,
said unto them, why tempt me? Show me some money. And they
showed him some money and brought him a penny. He says, now look
at that. Whose image is superscriptions
on that penny? They said, Caesar's. He said,
well, then you give to Caesar what's his, and give unto God
what's his. You can't give to God anything
from Caesar. You can't give him the works
of your hands. God's own. God, you can't have
an image of God. God is a spirit, and he's worshipped
in spirit and truth. And they marveled at those things.
Now watch the sentence at verse 23. The same day came Sadducees. And there's no resurrection.
They believed there wasn't a resurrection. Master Moses said, if a man die
having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise
up seed unto his brother. Well, He had seven brethren,
and the first wife, he married her, had no children. He had
married a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, all the way, married
seven brothers. And they said, boy, we got him
now. So therefore, in the resurrection, who in the world is she going
to be married to? She married seven down here. Who is she going
to be married to there? What did our Lord say down in
verse 29? See, they come to entangle him in his talk. They thought,
boy, we come up with these riddles. We come up with this wisdom.
We come up with these great questions that he cannot possibly answer.
And look what he says. He said the first thing, you
do err. First thing you err in, you don't know the Scriptures.
And you don't know the power of God. For in the resurrection
they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels
of God in heaven." Now listen to how he answers this, but as
touching the resurrection of the dead. Have you not read,
if you had read your Bible, he said, look what God said. He said, I'm the God of Abraham.
I'm the God of Jacob, the God of Isaac. God is not a God of
the dead, but of the living. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are
already in glory is what he's saying. And then look at the
last one. Here's another one they ask him.
And then in verse 33 it says, And the multitude heard this,
and were astonished at his doctrine. And oh my! And when the Pharisees
had heard that, they had put the Sadducees to silence. They got together again. They
said, We're going to try this one more time. We're going to
try this one more time. We're going to try to untangle
this man, and we're going to use our great wisdom and our
great intellect and our great power, and we're going to trip
this fella up just as sure as anything. Then one of them, which
was a lawyer, and a lawyer is not a lawyer like you and I think
of a lawyer. A lawyer is somebody who knows the jobs and the titles
of all of God's law. That's what he does. That's all
he gives his life to. To looking in the Old Testament.
What's this job? What's that title? What's that
drive on me? What do you mean by this? That's what he was doing.
And they asked him a question, tempting him, saying, Master,
which is the great commandment in the law? Our Lord said, Yes, you shall
love the Lord thy God with all your heart, your soul, your mind.
That's the first and great commandment. And the second is, Like unto
this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On that true commandment,
saying, All the Lord, all the prophets, and all beloved in
this sight, this is what our Lord says to them then, while
the Pharisees were gathered together, He said, I'm going to ask you
a question now. You all tried to tempt me and entangle me,
I'm going to ask you a question. What think ye of Christ? Whose
son is he? Well, they said unto him, why,
he's the son of David. When he comes, he's going to
have the throne of David. He's going to reign in glory.
He's going to reign in power. He's going to reign everlastingly. He's going to come and sit on
the throne and sit on it forever. And then he saith unto them,
How then doth David? If he's the son of David, how
then doth David in spirit? And in his spirit call him Lord.
How does David call his own son Lord? Saying the Lord said unto
my Lord. Jehovah said unto my Lord. Sit
on my right hand till I make thine enemies your footstool.
If David then called him his Lord, how is he his son? And nobody ever asked him another
word from that day. Didn't ask him anymore. That's
the best the world could do. And that's religion. God said,
look how foolish it is. Look how foolish. Now, let's
look back over in our text. Wisdom. It begins with fear in
God. And, oh, look what he says. Now,
this wisdom is unearthly. Verse 12 again. Where shall wisdom
be found? Where is the place of understanding?
Where is this wisdom, this knowledge of God to be found? Where are
we going to find it? Where are we going to find this
knowledge of God that changes a man's character, that changes
a man's nature, that satisfies a man's soul, that will bring
glory to God, that wants a man in his heart and in his soul
to bring glory to God? Well, I know one place it's not.
He says there in verse 13, he says, it's not found in the land
of the living. It's not found, and what he means
is it's not found in human beings. It cannot be found among men. You go out and search all among
men, and you can't find it. It's not found in the barren
waste and wilderness of humanity. Do you know how many wise men there
are in this world that people go to? People go to India and
China and pay big, big money to sit down and listen to somebody
to tell them the secrets of life. And look what he says. So it's
not found in the land of the living. Verse 14, the depths
say it's not in me. The sea says it's not with me.
Oh, my, you're talking about the depths of the earth. It's
not there. It's not in the depths of the sea. It's not among the
land of the living. And what he's saying, no one
or any creative thing can give this priceless gift, this wisdom. Dig and you can't find it. Go
all over the sea and you can't find it. Sail the seven seas,
you can't find it. And multitudes of valuable things
have been brought out of the land, out of the depths of the
seas. But wisdom that makes a man wise unto salvation through Christ
has never been found in any created being. Paul told Timothy that
thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise. From a child you've known those
Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation,
which is in Jesus Christ. He said from a little boy. That's
why I've always... Teach your children. Teach your
children. Every opportunity you get, teach
your children. Say something to them about God.
Say something to them about Christ. Say something to them about the
Scripture. Say something to them about God's glory in the heavens
and glory on the earth. Say something to them about God.
Because they didn't use the Scripture. It's the Scripture that makes
us wise unto salvation. And that's why he says, wise
unto salvation. Men from one generation to another
have sought it in this world and yet have never found it.
It's unearthly. He said, what it is, it's not
in the sea, it's not in the depth, it's not in the land of the living.
It's not with me. Men write books and call themselves
philosophers. I read a thing yesterday, in
the Age of Reason, Voltaire, I think it was Voltaire wrote
the Age of Reasoning. Or was it Huxley, what today's
your reasoning, then Voltaire coming along and says, God is
dead? And that the Bible was a lie?
And every philosopher's come along, and the thing he's trying
to do is come up with a way of living in this world without
God. That's the whole reason for philosophy. To teach men
how to have some happiness without God. And there's a generation
now, there's people that spend money. They spend money the last
three or four years. It's an atheist organization. And they buy billboards, they
put it on buses all over the world, and they say, you can
be good without God. Faithful people say, you can
be good Without God. You don't need God in order to
be good. You don't need God to make you wise. You don't need
God to make you gracious. You don't need God to change
your heart. You don't need God to change
your will. You don't need God to change
your affections. You don't need God to give you
a new mind, a new heart, a new will. You don't need God for
anything. You just be good. And then they go out and get
drunk and fuss and fight and marry and give it in marriage.
And taking drugs like there ain't no tomorrow. And then they talk
about being good. And then look how precious it
is. Not only is it unearthly, it's such precious. Look what
he says in verse 13. Where shall wisdom be found,
where is the place of understanding? Men knoweth not the price thereof. Who knows the price of it? Huh? Men knoweth not the price. What's the price of it? What
do you pay for it? How do you get it? What would you pay to
have wisdom? Who would dare to put a value
on the Lord Jesus Christ in whom all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge are in? All the treasures of God's wisdom
is in His Son. All the treasures of God's knowledge
is in His Son. And then he says down in verse
15, it can't be bought. Not only can you not price it,
men don't know the price of it. It can't be gotten with gold.
Neither silver shall be weighed for the price of it. The wealth
of this world can't buy the wisdom of God. What an insult to God's
wisdom to even think that trying to buy His Son and the salvation
that's in Him and the God's wisdom that's only seen in Him. To think
you can buy it. Have you remember when Simon
Magus, he saw Simon Peter Laying hands on people and they were
receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues. And old
Simon Magus reached in his pocket and he said, how much will it
take? Do I have to give you to have that gift? What will it
cost me to have the gift? I can lay hands on people and
they do what you just did. You know what Simon Peter said
to him? Your money perish with you. If you thought the gift
of God could be bought with money, your money perish with you. And
all of our righteousness are as a filthy rag. What did we
pay to have this wisdom? What silver and gold came by
it? And then he says in verse 17, it can't be equaled. The
gold and crystal cannot equal it. Oh my, if you don't let go, it
ain't equal to wisdom. Look at all that fine crystal.
It's not equal to wisdom. And this change of his shall
not be for fine gold. Nothing can take his place, no
substitute for it. He says, no widget shall be made
of coral. Don't even bring in coral or
pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of
Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with
pure gold. He said, what's the price of
it? It's priceless. You can't buy it. No matter what
you got, you cannot buy this thing. You cannot buy this wisdom
that he's talking about. And I'll tell you what, if God
in His sovereign mercy gave you the wisdom of God, and you've
seen the wisdom of God in Jesus Christ, and you have the fear
of God in your heart, and you're seeking God, making that your
lifelong pursuit, to make it your lifelong pursuit to seek
after God, for your children to seek after God, for your family
to seek after. In fact, if your lifelong pursuit
is to seek after wisdom, you wouldn't part with it for 10,000
worlds like this or any other thing, would you? What would
you give to give up what you know about God? The wisdom that
God's given you concerning salvation. The wisdom that God's given you
in Christ of how God can be just and justify you. What would you
give? What would you take in order
to give that up? If we built this building full
of gold, would you sell what you know about Christ, the wisdom
that God's given you, and the fear of God He's put in you for
all of that? If they gave you the finest pearls
ever been found from the depths of the sea, and hung them around
your neck and said, here, this is what I'll give you for that
wisdom. Would you take the pearls or keep your wisdom? I'm going
to keep my wisdom. Nothing, I tell you, nothing
will ever stand in Christ's head if you ever see the wisdom of
God. And then look what he says in verse 22. Death and destruction say we've
heard the fame thereof with our ears. Oh, the power of God's
wisdom can't be doubted. He said, we've heard the fame
thereof with our ears. Who has death and destruction? They'll say, we heard of wisdom,
but death didn't happen. Destruction didn't happen. And
because of death and destruction, people didn't have wisdom. That's
why they died, and that's why they were destroyed. Even the
enemies of wisdom testified to its fame. Death and destruction
said, Wisdom can't come here. Wisdom ain't here. The very enemies
of it. No wonder Paul said, Oh, death, where's your sting?
Oh, grave, where's your victory? Ah, death and destruction's not
waiting on us. And then look what he says then. Where in the world can wisdom
come from? Where shall wisdom be found?
Where's the place of understanding? In verse twenty, whence then
cometh wisdom? Where's the place of understanding?
Where does it come from? Who knows it? How does one get
it? Well, look what he says in verse twenty-three. God understands
the way, and He knows the place where it's at. He knows the way,
and He knows the place. Well, how are you going to get
it? Know Him that gives it? You know, He understands the
place. Look over here in Job, I mean, excuse me, Psalm 85,
I'll show you the way. It says, you know, the Lord,
God understands the way thereof. You know why He understands the
way? Because He made the way. Psalm 85. You know, that's why He says,
you know, God, Christ sent us not to baptize, but to preach
the gospel. Not with wisdom of men's words. Not with enticing wisdom of men's
words, but just in plain, simple language. And so we preach Christ crucified
under the Jews. They stumble over that. You mean
to tell me that virgin born, that boy born over there in Bethlehem
from that poor woman and that poor man, that's born there in
that manger, you mean to tell me that that, you're saying that's
going to be my Savior? You mean to tell me that one
that came riding into Jerusalem on a colt, the foal of an ant,
that's the King of Israel? That's how the King is going
to come into Jerusalem? You mean to tell me the King
of Israel is going to come in that way? You mean to tell me
that this one who claimed to be God that we mailed on a tree
outside Jerusalem, you mean to tell me that man dying there
in weakness is going to be my Savior, that that's the Messiah?
That that's the way He's going to come into this world, and
that's the way He's going to save us? No, no, no, no, no,
no. When my Messiah comes, He's going
to come in pomp, and He's going to come in power, and He's going
to come in glory, and He's going to put down all of His enemies,
and He's going to set His throne in Jerusalem, and we're all going
to reign over the whole world, all of us Jews are. They stumble
over Him. And then under the Greeks they
said, oh my, that's the foolishest thing I ever heard, that one
man, one man could die for another man's sins? One man could bear
the wrath of God for another man? That one man's righteousness
could be given to another's man, and that man could make that
other man stand in the righteousness of God before God and acceptable
for time and eternity? That don't even make sense! And then just to say you believe
that and wreck your whole soul in eternity on that? That there
was a man named Jesus of Nazareth? Low education? Born in Bethlehem,
raised in Nazareth? Poor as a church mouse and yet
you're placing all your eggs in one basket in that man and
there he is hanging in weakness? Hangin' there naked? They mocked him, couldn't save
himself, and yet you say that there's that person that God
put him there? That God wounded him, God bruised
him, God laid on him the iniquity of us all? And that when God
done that, that He actually punished him like He would punish me?
And that He was able to bear my punishment that I would have
had to bear throughout all hell? He was able to bear it in six
hours on the cross because of who He was? You mean to tell
me that God punished Him in your stead and all your sins are gone? And that He, because that man
had died of that weakness, had a righteousness and you trust
that righteousness to be yours? Yes, sir! That's what I'm telling
you. That don't even make sense. That's why it's called the wisdom
of God. Huh? Oh, look what it says in Psalm
85, verse 10. Mercy and truth are met together. How can mercy and truth meet
together? Truth says that a man's lost. Truth says a man's a sinner.
Truth says that God must punish the The wicked cannot clear the
guilty, but mercy comes along and meets truth. And here comes
peace. Righteousness and peace, here
they come. And they kiss each other. Where'd this take place
at? At the cross. Truth said, punish
him. Mercy said, we shall save them
that he's punished for. Righteousness comes down. It says, I demand that my be
fulfilled, I demand perfection, and peace comes along and kisses
righteousness. And where's it at? And truth
shall spring up out of the earth. Where truth springs, and that
cross shall come up out of that ground. That truth, as He hung
there on that cross, that's where truth was at. Oh, God has said,
what is truth? What is truth? And there it is,
hanging there, truth, naked, powerful, God-honoring, God-glorifying,
soul-saving, true! Righteousness and peace kissing
one another there, mercy and truth meeting together there
on that blessed cross! And righteousness looked down
from heaven and said, I'm satisfied. Oh, bless His holy name. Oh,
the way is through Christ on the cross. The place, God knows
the place there. The place is Calvary. The place
is the cross. And only God could understand
the way. Only God could understand the
place. Only God could understand the
way to satisfy His holy nature, express His mercy, and save a
sinful soul in making them whole all at the same time. And oh,
look back over here, Job 28. Oh, I love this Gospel. I love this
Gospel. I need this Gospel. Huh? I need it. Look what he says
here. He said in verse 23, God understands
the way. He knows the place. He understands
the way. And the place was cross, Calvary. The person was Christ. Look what
he says down here in verse Then did he see it, let's put
him there, then did he see him and declare him, he prepared
him, yea, and he searched him out. Oh my, this great wisdom, this
great salvation, this place for faith upon the way of wisdom
and knowledge and understanding that. And then he says, he prepared
it, yea, he searched it. And then when he done that, he,
unto man, he said, Behold, behold, you want to know where wisdom
is to be found, where the place of it's at? It's in the fear
of the Lord. It's the fear of the Lord. Wherever
you find the wisdom of God and the fear of the Lord, you'll
find salvation. You'll find peace. You'll find
righteousness. You'll find holiness. You'll
find the man seeking God. And then he says, and depart
from evil is understanding. Oh my, when you receive this
wisdom of God, you'll depart from evil. You'll understand
something about God's holiness. You'll understand something of
the depth of the suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ and the
consequences of sin. And you'll say, I don't want
nothing else to do with that again. I don't want nothing to do with that again.
I want to get as far away from evil as I can. I was evil, my
thoughts was evil. My motives was evil. My nature
was evil. My words were evil. Everything
about me was evil. But I see Him now. I see Him. I see wisdom. And oh God, I'm as far away as
evil as I can. I don't want to be evil anymore.
I want to wait for Him. I don't want to think evil. I
don't want to feel evil. I don't want to do evil. Don't feel evil. Don't want to depart from it.
And one of these days, we will depart from it forever. Huh? Oh, where's this wisdom come
from? I'll close with looking at 1 Corinthians 1.30. I'll close with that. Look what
he said in 1 Corinthians 1.30. Oh my, James said it this way,
he says, If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. He giveth
to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. In all thy gain get wisdom,
for wisdom is the principal thing. He said in 1 Corinthians 1.30,
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus. God put us in Christ Jesus. He
put us in there in the covenant of grace. He put us in there
in our calling. He put us in their own purpose,
in the new birth. But of Him are you in Christ
Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom." Oh, that's where this wisdom
comes from. God made Christ unto us wisdom. Righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. And the reason being that according
as it is written, He that glorieth, let Him glory in the Lord. Where
is wisdom? Where is the place of understanding? There is sense in God's right
hand. I see it, don't you? I see it.