{"id":4138,"date":"2009-03-05T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=30"},"modified":"2009-03-05T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:29:13","slug":"1-corinthians-130-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/05\/1-corinthians-130-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 1:30"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who of God is made unto us wisdom.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; 1 Corinthians 1:30<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man&#8217;s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the<br \/>\nLord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to<br \/>\nlook upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too<br \/>\nlittle reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the<br \/>\nGrecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with<br \/>\nrevelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high<br \/>\neducation is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and<br \/>\nto invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the<br \/>\nearly Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all<br \/>\nsorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine<br \/>\nthings which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are<br \/>\nnow so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good<br \/>\nreader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord&#8217;s, be<br \/>\nassured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may<br \/>\nreceive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another<br \/>\nprofound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat, that will these<br \/>\nbe to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided, can find<br \/>\nout is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in<br \/>\nChrist Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and<br \/>\nknowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with<br \/>\nsystems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of,<br \/>\nmust fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple<br \/>\nreality which makes the ploughboy&#8217;s eye flash with joy, and gladens the<br \/>\npious pauper&#8217;s heart-&#8220;Jesus Christ came into the world to save<br \/>\nsinners.&#8221; Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when he is<br \/>\nbelievingly received, but apart from him the mind of the regenerate<br \/>\ndiscovers no rest. &#8220;The fear of the Lord is the beginning of<br \/>\nknowledge.&#8221; &#8220;A good understanding have all they that do his<br \/>\ncommandments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who of God is made unto us wisdom.&#8221; &#8212; 1 Corinthians 1:30 Man&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}