Great day thinking about the topic of wisdom from Proverbs and from 1 Corinthians. Two simple points from the morning sermon. First, if you choose to be a fool, you will suffer and die. Second, if you choose to be wise, you will prosper and live. Proverbs is not about the exceptions to the rule. We see that in other books like Job and even the Psalms. But in Proverbs, we see God's divine order fleshed out for us. We learn the importance of fearing God, which is the beginning of wisdom.
Hidden in the words of Proverbs is the wisdom of the Cross. We are all foolish but need to be wise. How can we become wise? Jesus. Jesus alone feared the Lord through perfect obedience. Now He is our wisdom (1 Cor. 1:30). That changes everything.
D. A. Carson, writing on the Cross, reminds us not to lose sight of God's perfect wisdom:
I fear that the cross, without every being disowned, is constantly in danger of being dismissed from the central place it must enjoy, by relatively peripheral insights that take on far too much weight. Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry.
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