Worldly Wisdom

I Corinthians 2:14-16 “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.  The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”

Consider the following excerpt from John Wesley.  It fits in so well with today’s world.

The men and women of learning are so well versed in controversies and reasoning that it is a small thing with them to prove that their way is right because it is broad.  They will show you that one who follows a multitude cannot do evil – only the one who will not follow them; that your way must be wrong because it is narrow and because so few people find it.  They will further demonstrate that evil is good and good is evil – that the way of holiness is the way of destruction, and the way of the world is the only way to heaven.

Yet we must contend not only with these wise ones in the broad way.  There are also many important, noble, and powerful men and women in the way that leads to destruction.  These do not apply to your understanding but to your fears.  This method seldom fails even where argument profits nothing.  For everyone has the capacity to fear whether they can reason or not.

So that everyone who has not a firm trust in God, a sure reliance both on His power and love, does naturally fear to give offense to those who have the power of the world in their hands.  It is no wonder then, if the example of these powerful people is a law to all who do not know God.

Surely even in John Wesley’s era there were those who would seek to lead Christians and non-Christians astray, but we can always rely on the Word of God as our measuring stick of truth.  Think about the verse from the Apostle Paul above, “The spiritual man makes judgments about all things.”  Test everything against the Truth using spiritual discernment.

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