Friday, February 17, 2017
1 Corinthians 2:12-13 …Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
GOD'S HIDDEN WISDOM--THE GOSPEL (5)
Since the Holy Spirit has opened our hearts and minds to the secret, hidden wisdom of God, to heavenly and spiritual things, we have a different spirit from the world.
The spirit of the world says man is god or science is god. That spirit is capsulized in "isms" like secularism, humanism, relativism, postmodernism--all of which are intolerant of the Bible's absolute truth.
One conservative critic has written: "We can only mourn the degree and rapidity with which postmodern philosophical notions have invaded and corrupted ... the visible church that once used to share with us a commitment to God's objective truth as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. How sad it is to think that many will be directed to seek comfort in 'personal journeys of discovery,' and in 'visions and still small voices' rather than in God's revelation of Himself in the objective means of grace!"
In these philosophically dangerous days, may God help us by His Spirit to keep our and our children's lives grounded on the hidden Wisdom revealed in His Word--the heart of which is the gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
As the apostle writes, "These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
O Word of God Incarnate, O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky--
We praise You for the radiance That from the hallowed page,
A lantern to our footsteps, Shines on from age to age.
(Lutheran Service Book, 523:1)
