Wisdom – Revesby Presbyterian Church https://revesbypc.org.au Revesby Presbyterian Church Sun, 24 Oct 2021 21:46:20 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://revesbypc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/RPC-Logo-2025-Square-200x200.png Wisdom – Revesby Presbyterian Church https://revesbypc.org.au 32 32 Use Knowledge Lovingly (1 Cor. 8:7-13) https://revesbypc.org.au/2021/08/22/use-knowledge-lovingly-1-cor-87-13/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 23:00:00 +0000 https://revesbypc.org.au/?p=7938

 

We are often tempted to a ‘One slogan fits all’ approach to life, even the Christian life. The biblical approach is much fuller – Galatians 5:13.

  1. We are our brother’s keeper.
    • 8:7. Kenneth Bailey met a fellow in South Sudan who had come from worshipping the red snake as
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Paul has been wrestling with the Corinthians who have become divided over human teachers and wisdom.

  1. A right view of the Church.
    • 3:16-17. Ten times in 1 Corinthians Paul says: ‘Do you not know?’ In other words, he expects us to know this. The Holy Spirit indwells the individual
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Human wisdom does not explain the way of salvation – 1:18; whom God calls to Himself – 1:27; nor whom God uses to make known the gospel – 2:4-5. When Timothy McVeigh was executed on 11 June 2001 as the Oklahoma City bomber who took 168 lives, he quoted …

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Isaac Watts:
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God;
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

The cross seems foolish and weak, but it is God’s means to save; it is true wisdom and …

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