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Documents about different biblical subjects2-1-1 Worlds Wisdom vs Gods Wisdom
December 24th, 20101 Corinthians 1:18-20
- Everyone wants to know “How can I really live?”
- This passage spells out two fundamental ways to answer this question. The world’s wisdom or God’s wisdom.
- How does man in his wisdom view God’s wisdom (the cross)?
- How does God view man’s wisdom? Can we have it both ways?
- If you think I am a fool and I think you are a fool, what will our relationship be like?
- Establish the wide gulf in the two ways of viewing and living life.
- Why does Paul say “Do not deceive yourselves?”
- There is something about the world’s wisdom that is deceiving.
- It is easy to convince ourselves that what we want to believe, what is comfortable, what is familiar, is right.
- What kind of man was Peter? Was he religious?
- He certainly gets a right answer here.
- According to Jesus, where does this answer come from?
- What does “Peter rebuked him” mean?
- Peter thought he was seeing things God’s way, but in reality he was still on the side of the world’s wisdom.
- We can know the right answers and still be living according to the wisdom of the world. What was Jesus’ response?
- Where does the world’s wisdom really come from? From Satan. No wonder it is the opposite of God’s wisdom.
- If you asked a person who is street smart or the person on Wall Street or just a person who watches a lot of TV, what is at the heart of the world’s wisdom about how to live?
- “Look out for number one.”
- “Get what you want.”
- “Get the power, the pleasure, the control you want.”
- “Get the money.”
- “Protect yourself.”
- “Guard your rights.”
- “Maintain your independence.”
- “Look out for number one.”
- And so what is at the center of man’s wisdom? Self! (See 2 Timothy 3:2)
Matthew 16:24-26
- What is Jesus’ message? How is it the opposite of the world’s message?
- Deny self– “disown” (Matthew 26:34). We renounce our old self, our old approach to life.
- Take up the cross (instrument of death). Die to ourselves.
- Follow Jesus. Make his life our model. Jesus life is a demonstration of his message.
- Deny self– “disown” (Matthew 26:34). We renounce our old self, our old approach to life.
- What does Jesus say will be the bottom line for those who “save their own lives”? For those who foolishly lose their lives for him?
- What is everything on the left side (world’s wisdom) called? Sin.
- What is everything on the right side (God’s wisdom) called? Love.
- How have you lived according the world’s wisdom?
- Have you ever made a decision to renounce it?
- Which side was Peter still on (though he was religious)?
- Which side are you on?
