THE BACKGROUND OF TRUE FAITH!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 16, 2021.

SUBJECT: THE BACKGROUND OF TRUE FAITH!

Memory verse: "That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God." (First Corinthians 2 vs 5.)

READ: Second Corinthians 10 vs 3 -5:

10:3: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 

10:4: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 

10:5: casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

INTIMATION:

True faith is not based upon reason nor upon things that men can see unless the thing they see is the Word of God. In accordance with our memory verse, our faith should not be based on wisdom (sense knowledge) of men but on God's ability. In the next two verses (6 & 7), Paul explained that fact further, saying,  "However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory."

We cast down reasonings (arguments or imaginations), for men have deified reasonings. The great reasoners of the world and the great philosophers of the world have gained the ascendancy over the human mind. And that is human’s greatest undoing in working with God and walking in His ways. Philosophy has never given anything of any value to the body of Christ—the Church. What we call our Christian philosophers are often men who denied the miraculous and the supernatural, always wanting to explain it away through sense knowledge activities and reasonings.

But unfortunately, the ways of God are beyond finding out; it’s beyond man’s reasoning ability; “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgements and His ways past finding out!” (Romans 21 vs 33.) It’s foolishness to start reasoning on God’s ways—His thinking and planning. His knowledge and wisdom are far greater than any human’s. 

God declares in Isaiah 55 vs 8 - 9, saying, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways...For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Therefore, we are to cast down imaginations or reasonings, everything that sense knowledge has exalted against the Word of God, and we are to bring into captivity our thinking so we will think God's thoughts instead of man's thoughts. So we will be inspired by the Word of God rather than by the word of men. And only in so doing that our faith life is solidly built in accordance with God’s ordinance.

Faith deals with facts. The Word of God has no speculations, no theories, just declarations of fact. When we come to recognize that spiritual things are as real as physical things, then we will be able to understand the background of the faith life. 

Prayer: Abba Father, forever You are God, and Your ways are supreme! Your ways are inexplicable—beyond our reasonings. O Lord, my absolute trust and confidence are in You. May I never imagine or reason anything that will dent my faith in You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!