Personal Ministry to a Christian Faith

Personal Ministry of Steve Kellar

1 Corinthians 1:30

“Who of God is made unto us wisdom.”
— 1 Corinthians 1:30

Man’s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to
look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too
little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the
Grecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with
revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high
education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and
to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the
early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all
sorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine
things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are
now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good
reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord’s, be
assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may
receive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another
profound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat, that will these
be to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided, can find
out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in
Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and
knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with
systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of,
must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple
reality which makes the ploughboy’s eye flash with joy, and gladens the
pious pauper’s heart-“Jesus Christ came into the world to save
sinners.” Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when he is
believingly received, but apart from him the mind of the regenerate
discovers no rest. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge.” “A good understanding have all they that do his
commandments.”

On this day…

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