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*The Wise and the Foolish*
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1 Corinthians 3:18-23
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Introduction: Sometimes we are not as smart as we think we are.
Has it ever happened to you?
You thought you were doing the right thing only to find out that you were doing the exact opposite of what needed to be done.
A recent problem with the snow blower.
Other times things don’t make sense even when they are the right thing to do! Like leaning into a rock or accelerating with front wheel drive when sliding!
Paul speaks about the wise and the foolish.
Because things are not always as they seem we better take a look!
Prayer
*1.
**The wise*
a.
They are not really wise.
They have been deceived by themselves into thinking that they possess true wisdom.
b.
Their wisdom is flawed.
It is the wisdom of this age or the wisdom of the world.
c.
The wisdom of this world is utterly foolishness, moronic and stupid before the omniscient God.
The world wisdom is a joke and will one day be exposed for what it is.
d.
What does the world’s wisdom look like?
i.
That wealth is the way to happiness
ii.
Your happiness should be the goal of your life.
Anything that makes you happy should be pursued and anything that impedes your happiness should be eliminated.
If the person you married doesn’t make you happy then try someone else until you locate your true “soul mate”.
iii.
Happiness will come with prestige, popularity, promotion, and position.
iv.
There is no absolute truth.
You get to decide what is right and wrong based upon your own desires and experience.
Tolerance is taunted as a social necessity because no one has the right to decide what is right or wrong for someone else.
v.
These are just a sampling of the world’s view.
e.
What does the world think about you as a Christian?
They think we are:
i.
Weak – we need to believe in someone bigger than ourselves because we are incompetent by ourselves.
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Stupid - For a lot of reasons.
Because we go to church, serve, give, etc.
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Gullible – that we would believe in someone we have never seen but only heard about from an old book.
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Unloving – We are willing to identify sin as sin and that is misconstrued as a lack of love or even hate.
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Out-dated – The principles and values that we adhere to are seen as yester years not being applicable to today.
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Undeserving – The late Christopher Reaves said that Christians should not be able to vote on the issue of stem cell research because of the bias that life begins at conception.
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Ever wonder if God sits around and laughs about all the foolish things that man comes up with in his supposed wisdom?
One day God will deal with man’s stupidity.
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God will catch them, or grab them in their “cleverness”
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God will expose reasoning of the world as useless.
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