“wisdom of the world!”

1 Corinthians 1:18-21                   (ESV)

“18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of GOD.

19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 

20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not GOD made foolish the “wisdom of the world?”

21 For since, in the wisdom of GOD, the world did not know GOD through wisdom, it pleased GOD through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.”

It has been reported that a television show host was quoted as saying that people who “hear from JESUS” may need psychological assistance.  This should excite all of us who hear from, and listen to, GOD IN HEAVEN.    

GOD speaks in several different ways.  The most common way HE speaks is through HIS WORD.  JESUS said in Matthew 10:32-33 “So everyone who acknowledges ME before men, I also will acknowledge before MY FATHER WHO is in heaven, but whoever denies ME before men, I also will deny before MY FATHER WHO is in heaven.”  There are some who choose NOT to believe in GOD, and the things of GOD.  As a matter of fact, JESUS also said in Matthew 7:14 “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, AND THOSE WHO FIND IT ARE FEW!!!”  

Being able to HEAR from GOD doesn’t make us better than anyone else, it only means HE has “chosen” us to open our EYES and EARS to the things of Heaven. Since they cannot SEE or HEAR Spiritual things, they think it is “folly”, since it doesn’t “make sense” to them!   

Revelation 1:7 says “Behold, HE is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see HIM, even those who pierced HIM, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of HIM. Even so. Amen.”  On that day, the “wisdom of the world” will be “folly” to everyone!  It certainly won’t “make sense” that our CREATOR would sacrifice HIMSELF just to keep a FEW of us from going to HELL!  But FAITH has nothing to do with making sense.  Making sense belongs to the “wisdom of the world”!!!