Title: The foolishness of relying on people
Contents
Sermon Day-070311 Sunday Noon
Text - Proverbs 3:5
Title: Foolish Relying on People
Yehwa - Wisdom to let go of the past
The Bible testifies not to depend on life.
A life that breathes through the nose is a fragile being with no value to depend on.
Life is a fragile being that cannot extend its life even for a single minute.
Nevertheless, the Israelites trusted people more than God.
Rather than relying on God's power, they depended on the armies of Egypt and Babylon more, and they trusted their knowledge and plans more than longing for God's wisdom.
Also, rather than loving an invisible God, he valued the immediate and visible external conditions of man.
However, this is not just the case with the Israelites.
Our saints today are no different.
So, in this time, we will look at what it is like to put our hope in people instead of God, and we want to use it as an opportunity to make a commitment to become people who completely put our hope in God.
Yehwa - Future Enemy
From 1868 to 1894, he served as Prime Minister of England. Gladstone gave a lecture at a university one day. At that time, the future of Britain was uncertain due to economic deterioration and social chaos. However, Gladstone was optimistic about the future and emphasized hope. After the lecture, a student asked, "Then you are saying that there will be no problems in the future?" Then Gladstone answered slowly. "That's right. The only concern is that God is disappearing from the hearts of people.”
1. Not knowing the Lord's plan
The writer of Proverbs told us to trust in Jehovah with all our heart and not to our own understanding.
So, why are we admonishing you not to rely on your own knowledge?
This is because man never knows God's will and plan with his own knowledge.
A life born in sin always thinks evil and corrupt.
Therefore, the human brain can never know God's holy will and plan.
Therefore, we should not rely on our own knowledge, but long for the spiritual knowledge that comes from the Holy Spirit sent by God.
We must long for the spiritual knowledge that comes from the Holy Spirit.
Then we can discover God's will and plan, and at the same time gain the wisdom to carry out this holy will.
Let us become those who long for the wisdom of heaven.
Example - God's score, student's score
At a seminary, there was a student who didn't study at all and just prayed that he would get a good score in an exam. No matter how much the professor told Tyler to study, he did not leave the prayer room, memorizing the words, 'Everyone who asks receives, and to him who knocks it will be opened' (Luke 11:10).
Finally, it was time for the exam. Unable to know the answer to the question at all, he leisurely left the classroom with only one sentence: 'God knows everything.' The professor in charge wrote on the grading column... 'God knows everything, so 100 points, students don't know everything, so 0 points.'
2. Be proud
Human knowledge is indeed finite. However, we think and rely on this finite knowledge as if it were absolute knowledge and eternal and unchanging knowledge. How arrogant and foolish is this?
Before he repented, the apostle Paul once did. The Apostle Paul was the chief student of Gamaliel, the highest rabbi in Israel at the time. So he was well versed in the Jewish law, and based on it, he thoroughly persecuted the Church of God. Later, Paul repented of his arrogance and declared that he would no longer speak of any knowledge other than the ‘Way of the Cross’ to salvation.
The knowledge of the world makes us proud, but the knowledge that leads to salvation humbles us.
Let us become those who long for the knowledge of God.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, let us not trust in the powers of the world, in human external conditions, or in human knowledge.
I hope you will be the ones who long for the spiritual wisdom of heaven that God gives you and hold firmly only the absolute authority of God.