DO NOT REASON GOD’S WORD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2023.

SUBJECT: DO NOT REASON GOD’S WORD!

Memory verse: “Casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thoughts into captivity to the obedience of Christ;” (Second Corinthians 10 vs 5.)

READ: First Corinthians 1 vs 18 - 25:

1:18: For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1:19: For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

1:20: Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1:21: For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1:22: For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

1:23: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness;

1:24: But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

1:25: Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

INTIMATION:

To reap the inherent benefits in the word of God, you must discourage any form of reasoning or arguing on God’s word as it appears to human reasoning or conception. God said, “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 higher than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55 vs 8 - 9.) God’s knowledge and wisdom are far greater than any human’s. We are foolish to interpret or argue God’s word using our sensual or human knowledge.

In accordance with our memory verse and the passage we read today, we must 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. 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.

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 it is in doing so that we reap immensely from the inherent power in the word of God. When we submit to the Lord with total devotion, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to capture every thought and yield it to Christ. 

When exposed to ideas or opportunities that might lead to wrong desires, you have a choice. You can recognize the danger and turn away, or you allow unhealthy thoughts to take you captive. You capture your fantasies and desires when you honestly admit them to the Lord and ask Him to redirect your thinking. Ask God to give you the spirit of discernment to keep your thoughts focused on His truth.

God said in the Scripture, “Therefore, behold, I will do a marvelous work among the people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.” (Isaiah 29 vs 14.) 

Now, consider the Scripture in Romans 4 vs 19 - 21, "And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform."

Abraham looked at his body and saw it exactly as it was, impotent, a worn out thing. He looked at Sarah, another broken vessel. Yet looking unto the promise of God, he waxed strong. He counted that God could make good what He had promised.  Abraham moved into God's class. He counted the things that were not as though they were, and they became. He counted his body to be as good as it was at the age of thirty five years. He considered Sarah to be as young, and capable of bearing children. He counted the thing that was not as though it was, and it became.

Reason would have conquered him had he yielded to it. Reason said "Tradition shows that no man has ever had youth renewed, that no woman past ninety years of age has ever had a child.” Yet this man believed against all the evidence of human reasoning or sense knowledge, and counted that God was able to make good what He had promised.

The Good News of Jesus Christ still sounds foolish to many. He will save us from eternal death and give us everlasting life if we trust Him as Savior and Lord. This sounds so simple that many people won’t accept it. They try other ways to obtain eternal life (being good, being wise, etc.). Jesus offers His kingdom to those who have faith, not to those who do all kinds of good deeds in trying to earn salvation. This looks foolish to the world, but Christ is the mighty power of God, the only way we can be saved. Knowing Christ personally is the greatest wisdom anyone can have. The “foolish” people who simply accept Christ’s offer are actually the wisest of all, because they alone will live eternally with God.

Prayer: Abba Father, forever Your Word is settled in heaven. Endue me with the spirit of complete devotion to You and Your Word that there will not be room for any reasoning in it, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!