John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom). For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension and interpretation." Hebrews 11:3 (Amplified) says,
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed (fashioned, put in order) and equipped for their intended purpose. When it comes to the things of God, only faith can give you understanding.
God's Word IS WISDOM. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pure and holy, and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from Eternal penalty for sin."
The above scripture is Wisdom. By faith we understand. Without having faith in this Wisdom, we only read the words by religious understanding, leaving us to believe they don't apply to our lives here on earth. Wisdom is the Word, Jesus Christ. He's not only our Wisdom, but He has been made our Wisdom. Wisdom has come and we've received this Wisdom in Him, so why do we continue struggling with the Truth of Righteousness, Redemption and Consecration? It's because we lack understanding, and haven't applied faith in this Wisdom.
I remember when our family residence got a telephone, which hung on the kitchen wall. This phone had a crank that we turned, in order to activate it. Then, we spoke into a tube placed on the front of the phone and we listened through another tube that we placed up to our ear. An operator would then ask you "who would you like to talk to" and then would put your intended party on the line. Now, we carry cell phones in our pockets and these carry more information than our libraries used to have. The wisdom of the phones from my childhood was a great start, but now we understand sound waves and technologies never thought of previously. Now, that we've gotten understanding, phones are no longer a mystery.
Air planes would have been flying thousands of years ago, if mankind had understood the Laws of Physics the way we now do. The wisdom was there, but the understanding was not. It was only a hundred years ago, we drove horses and buggies and had kerosene lights. Nothing in this earth has changed, the laws governing the earth are the same, but we now understand and can apply them. God placed the wisdom of the earth for our use, but we didn't understand those laws.
God's Word is the same Wisdom for these Last days, that was there in the beginning. God hasn't changed His Plan or His Wisdom, but He has given us understanding, in order that we can use that Wisdom. In these Last days, God is revealing understanding of His Word, that has always been Wisdom. Things that were always been in His Word from the beginning, are now being taught to God's family with understanding. Many things are being seen for the first time, by understanding. They've always been there, but now by faith, we have understanding.
Many are finding it difficult to understand the Very Wisdom, Who is Jesus. Like those in Jesus' time, many prefer to cling to tradition, rather than accept the understanding of Wisdom and Revelation. Some refuse to accept what Wisdom has enlightened to the Church, in these days. What we call "new," has always been in God's Word, but we didn't understand how to apply it in our lives. The Father never intended for us to remain ignorant of His Word or His Grace. We though, haven't understood how to apply what He gave us. Wisdom has provided Righteousness, but we will only have the assurance to come boldly and without fear into God's Presence, if we understand this Righteousness. Wisdom has provided our new birth and given us access into all the Blessings Jesus provided for us, but only understanding will give you the assurance that they are yours now.
God's Word hasn't changed today. God wants us to have what He Promised, but we don't understand how to receive them. We continue on the old way and then we blame God when it doesn't work, instead of getting understanding. If the way we've been things hasn't worked for hundreds of years, then it won't work for another hundred years.
We still struggle with the Truth that we've been totally forgiven, because we don't understand this Truth and we walk like nothing has changed in our lives. We believe the Redemption Jesus provided is for "when we die and go to Heaven," because we lack the understanding that there's no Curse in Heaven for which we need to be redeemed from. Hebrews 11:3 tells us that, "By faith, we understand." We can look far into the universes today, using the Hubble Telescope. Wisdom placed the universe there, but many still don't understand that God made it and have no faith that He made the universe. Scientists can tell us about sun spots, black holes and solar storms, but many don't have the understanding of how they came to be. This is a Spiritual Wisdom that is far beyond man's comprehension and intellect, but we refuse to acknowledge the One Who made it. Scientists see that the earth is dying, but fail to understand why this is so. Man keeps trying to make it live, by human intellect and then can't understand why these things don't work.
There are many things that go wrong in our Christian lives, that we blame God for. We don't understand the Spiritual Wisdom to change them and continue on in darkness, instead of walking in the Light, as He is in the Light. Proverbs 3:19 (Amplified) says "The Lord by skillful and Godly Wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding He has established the Heavens." Genesis 1 tells us that God did this, by His Word, but we still don't understand why we need to speak only God's Word, in our lives. We fail to understand the power of our words. The untrained spirit thinks that words are only a means of communicating, and not creative power in our lives. We really don't understand Mark 4, where Jesus tells us that "the words we hear and speak, are seeds," even though it's the Wisdom of God.
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