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SPIRITUAL WISDOM

Alex2165

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SPIRITUAL WISDOM

Colossians 1.9-10

9. "For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His (Christ's) will in all Spiritual Wisdom and understanding,"

Generally, we have three different wisdoms. The first wisdom is human wisdom, its intelligence located in the soul of mankind and enable a human being to make appropriate, logic, practical, and effective decisions in life and in work his creativity. The words of GOD, "Let Us make humankind in Our image according to Our likeness," (Genesis 1.26) means creating a living physical being in intelligent Image of its Maker that would be able to have a process of thought, logic, and creativity just like GOD has Himself. Literally, it is a wisdom given to humans by their Creator to make a human being intelligent as the Creator Himself.

The second wisdom it is a wisdom of this world. From the very beginning people formed families, groups, organizations, tribes, countries, and kingdom of all sorts, and every each of them has its own rules to govern, regulations and laws, in order to make a certain order in their societies. This is requiring a certain amount of wisdom and intelligence to manage a sizeable group of people, keep it together and live together in safety and prosperity.

This worldly wisdom also produced many different doctrines, traditions, customs, religions, cultures, and science and technologies on their own, all of which based on their own worldly wisdom.

The third Wisdom is the Spiritual Wisdom, and it is not like any other wisdom on Earth. Spiritual Wisdom only comes from the Holy Spirit of GOD and from His Word, it completely different from the any other wisdom on Earth. The Spiritual Wisdom directs and drives people only one way, to GOD, to His Heavenly Spiritual Kingdom, to His Heavenly Spiritual Society in which exist perfect tranquility, order, and balance in everything. This is the ultimate and fundamental Wisdom, the highest one, above all existing wisdoms of the Earth, it is Eternal Wisdom from Eternal GOD.

The theme of wisdom perhaps the one of the most numerous subjects in the Bible which is generally missed by traditional church which is focusing more on the earthly worldly wisdom of prosperity, and not on the aspect of Spiritual Wisdom which is the Wisdom of the Spiritual prosperity and Spiritual Wealth that last forever.

The Spiritual Wisdom like no any other wisdom increases the Knowledge of GOD which is essential for the entrance into GOD'S Kingdom. Whatever you bundle on Earth is also bundle in Heaven.

10. "so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every *good work and increasing in the knowledge of GOD,"

~ Good Works: (Nehemiah 2.18) (Matthew 5.16, 12.12) (Luke 6.35) (John 5.29, 10.32) (Acts 9.36, 10.38) (Romans 2.7.10) (2Corinthians 9.8) (Galatians 6.9-10) (Ephesians 2.10, 6.7-8) (Philippians 1.6) (Colossians 1.10) (2Thessalonians 2.17, 3.7-13) (1Timothy 2.9-10, 5.9-10.25, 6.18) (2Timothy 2.21, 3.16-17) (Titus 1.16, 2.7.14, 3.1.5.8.14) (Hebrews 10.24, 13.16.21) (James 1.22-25, 2.14-26, 3.13, 4.17) (1Peter 2.12, 3.6.11.17)
 

Van

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Colossians 1:9-12 NASB
For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

Excellent thread, asking the question, what is spiritual wisdom. Colossians 1:9 uses the phrase and refers to exhibiting the effects of divine knowledge of the treasures hidden in Christ.

My prior Pastor taught that wisdom was the skill of choosing what is right or most beneficial. For example a wise person strives to stay on the paths of righteousness. Or in other words, striving to follow the leading of our Helper, our "Paraclete" or indwelt Spirit of Christ.

On the other side of the ledger, the wrong side, we have the wisdom from fleshy desires, and the wisdom of the worldly value system, where the rich and powerful and well-born are valued over a little Ukrainian girl riding public transportation still in her workplace uniform.
 
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