Wisdom

= skillful living = knowledge / intelligence / education

Wisdom Aaron Sorkin via Sam Seaborn “Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything… Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce; they should be making six figure salaries.”

Wisdom is a Great Tool… 1.Helps us avoid pain (2:13-14) 2.Helps us build wealth (2:26) Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Wisdom is a Great Tool… 1.Helps us avoid pain (2:13-14) 2.Helps us build wealth (2:26) 3.Helps us stay alive (7:12)

Wisdom is a Great Tool… 1.Helps us avoid pain (2:13-14) 2.Helps us build wealth (2:26) 3.Helps us stay alive (7:12)

Wisdom is a Lousy god… 1.Limited (7:23-24) Ecclesiastes 1:13–15 I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with… What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Wisdom is a Lousy god… 1.Limited (7:23-24) 2.Corruptible (2:8-9) Deuteronomy 17:17 [The king] shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Wisdom is a Lousy god… 1.Limited (7:23-24) 2.Corruptible (2:8-9) 3.Cannot eliminate pain (1:18) 4.Cannot overcome death (2:14-16)

Wisdom is a Lousy god… 1.Limited (7:23-24) 2.Corruptible (2:8-9) 3.Cannot eliminate pain (1:18) 4.Cannot overcome death (2:14-16)

How do we GROW wisdom without WORSHIPPING wisdom? TRUST and OBEY the One beyond the sun

Trust the One Beyond the Sun 1 Corinthians 1:20–25 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? 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…

Trust the One Beyond the Sun 1 Corinthians 1:20–25 …For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Obey the One Beyond the Sun James 3:13 Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.

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