Clever or Wise What is true wisdom

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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• Proverbs 910
• The fear of the Lord is
• the beginning of wisdom,
• and knowledge of the Holy One
• is understanding.
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• MARK 1228-34
• 28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard
  them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them
  a good answer, he asked him, Of all the
  commandments, which is the most important?
• 29 The most important one, answered Jesus, is
  this 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord
  is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your
  heart and with all your soul and with all your
  mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second
  is this 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' There
  is no commandment greater than these.
  
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• MARK 1228-34
• 32 Well said, teacher, the man replied. You are
  right in saying that God is one and there is no
  other but him.
• 33 To love him with all your heart, with all your
  understanding and with all your strength, and to
  love your neighbour as yourself is more important
  than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
• 34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he
  said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of
  God. And from then on no-one dared ask him any
  more questions.
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• Intellect is not wisdom
• When Jesus saw that the teacher of the law
  had answered wisely, he said to him, You are not
  far from the kingdom of God.
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• MARK 1013-16
• 13 People were bringing little children to Jesus
  to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked
  them.
• 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said
  to them, Let the little children come to me, and
  do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God
  belongs to such as these.
• 15 I tell you the truth, anyone who will not
  receive the kingdom of God like a little child
  will never enter it.
• 16 And he took the children in his arms, put his
  hands on them and blessed them.
  
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• Wisdom is based on faith
• I tell you the truth, anyone who will not
  receive the kingdom of God like a little child
  will never enter it.
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• Theyre clever
• Only one person can make them wise.
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• 1 CORINTHIANS 120-25
• 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar?
  Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God
  made foolish the wisdom of the world?
• 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world
  through its wisdom did not know him, God was
  pleased through the foolishness of what was
  preached to save those who believe.
• 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look
  for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified a
  stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to
  Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called,
  both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and
  the wisdom of God.
• 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's
  wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than
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Clever or Wise?What is true wisdom?

• JESUS is the Wisdom of God
• Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
  God.
• For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's
  wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than
  man's strength.
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Wisdom for LifePROVERBS 35-8

• Trust in the Lord with all your heart
• And lean not on your own understanding
• In all your ways acknowledge him,
• and he will make your paths straight.
• Do not be wise in your own eyes
• Fear the Lord and shun evil.
• This will bring health to your body
• And nourishment to your bones.
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