Get Wisdom #36

  Prov.4:7(Amp) 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)."

   1Cor.1:30(Amp) tells us that "God has made unto us, Wisdom in Christ Jesus." If we've received Jesus as our Lord, then we have received Wisdom. All the Wisdom we'll ever need is in the unity with our Lord, but we must make the effort to have understanding, discernment, interpretation and comprehension. Some wonder, "Why do so many bad things happen to good people?" They're most likely told, "It must be God's will for you." One of the easiest ways for Christians to become sick or die prematurely, is that we don't understand the power of Communion. Jesus told the scribes in Matt.15:6(Amp), ""Through your own traditions, you have made the Word of God of no effect."

  Paul told the Church in 1Cor.11:27-30(Amp), "Whoever eats the bread or drinks the Cup of the Lord in a way that is unworthy (of Him), will be guilty of profaning and sinning against the Body and the Blood of the Lord. Let a man thoroughly examine himself, and only when he has done so, should he eat of the Bread and drink of the Cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discriminating and recognizing with due appreciation that it is Christ's Body, eats and drinks a sentence, a verdict of judgement upon himself. That careless and unworthy participation is the reason many of you are weak and sickly, and quite enough of you have entered into the sleep of death."

  It's not God's will anyone should be sick and die, nor does He put sickness upon us, but if we partake in Communion with unforgiveness or malice or unconfessed sins, then many might do so. Paul writes in 1Cor.5:7-8(Amp), "Purge, clean out the old leaven that you may be fresh, new dough, still uncontaminated as you are, For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity, nobility and honor and sincerity and unadulterated Truth."

  How many of God's children do we think have taken Communion with unforgiveness, malice or anger in our hearts, instead of purity, honor, sincerity and unadulterated Truth in their hearts? Many believe that God's will is for them to be sick, even before taking Communion, but nothing could be farther from the Truth and Wisdom. Paul says that if we partake without repentance, then we are profaning the Lord's Body and His Blood, and bringing a judgment against ourselves. This means that we're responsible to judge ourselves, to receive healing and life, when receiving Communion. When we receive Communion in Wisdom, then it brings our deliverance, healing and protection. 

  Paul says that when we don't examine ourselves before taking Communion, then we are sickly, weak and many have died. Communion is the time of cleansing by the Blood. 1John1:7(Amp) says, "But if we really are living and walking in the Light (Wisdom) as He Himself is in the Light, we have true unbroken fellowship with one another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanses and removes us from all sin and guilt (keeps us cleansed from all sin in all its forms and manifestations)."

  This produces healing, peace, fellowship and the Blessing Promised to us in Christ Jesus. We need discernment, comprehension, understanding and self-examination.