The Origin of Wisdom

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble of Your Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. I am tickled to

be with you this evening because I have been sick

with the flu, and thank goodness, I have turned the

corner and I am feeling so much better. But that

thing was wicked. Tonight. I'm going to continue a topic

that I've been talking to you about over the last

three or four weeks, about wisdom, about hearing God's voice

and obeying his voice, and the necessary wisdom that we

need to walk out in our daily lives in this

year of twenty twenty five. But I felt like tonight

I wanted to kind of get at the root of things.

I always like getting down to the nitty gritty and

understanding helping you listeners to understand, you know, important principles

about God's word. That's what I'm supposed to do. So

you've probably have asked yourself where does wisdom come from?

And actually I have titled tonight's message the Origin of wisdom,

But of course we know that wisdom comes from God.

But I found a very unique set of verses in

the Book of Job, and I think that those scriptures

even give us more insight about wisdom, because it's believed

that the Book of Job is the oldest book of

the Bible. So I want to start in Job chapter

twenty eight. Now I am reading out of the Amplified

Classic Edition of the Bible. That's the version I'm reading

out of this evening, and every scripture is coming from

that particular version. And this is Joe chapter twenty eight.

And I'm starting with verse twelve and going through twenty eight.

So let's go. Verse twelve starts, but where shall wisdom

be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man

knows not the price of it, neither is it found

in the land of the living. The deep says, wisdom

is not in me, and the sea says it is

not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither

shall silver be weighed for the price of it. It

cannot be valued in terms of the gold of o

fear in the precious onyx or barrel, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass cannot equal wisdom, nor can it be

exchanged for jewels or vessels of fine gold. No mention

shall be made of coral or of crystal. For the

possession of wisdom is even above rubies or pearls. The

topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it

be valued in pure gold. From Where then does wisdom come?

And where is the place of understanding? It is hidden

from the eyes of all living, and knowledge of it

is withheld from the birds of the heavens Abadawn, the

place of destruction and death. Say, we have only heard

the report of it with our ears. God understands the

way to wisdom, and he knows the place of it.

Wisdom is with God alone, for he looks to the

ends of the earth, and he sees everything under the heavens.

When he gave to the wind weight or pressure, and

allotted the waters by measure, when he made a decree

for the rain and a way for the lightning of

the thunder, then he saw wisdom and declared it. He

established it, yes, and searched it out for his own use,

And he alone possesses it. But to man, he said,

behold the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord. That

is wisdom. And to depart from evil is understanding. So

let me stop there a second, God alone is wisdom.

Those two statements are important. They stand out. Wisdom is

with God alone, and God alone possesses wisdom. But man

for man, wisdom is beholding the reverential and worshipful, worshipful

fear of the Lord. So we'd gaining wisdom by having

this reverence and worship of the Lord and having that

worshipful fear of the Lord walking in that arena, and

then when we depart from evil, we gain understanding. So Lord,

would you please open the spiritual ears of those listening tonight.

Would you cause their heart to be open to your truth?

Would you surround them with your love, faith, hope, and strength?

And Lord, may they walk in the wisdom of God

all the days of their life in Jesus's name. Now,

Proverbs contains the bulk of instruction regarding wisdom. I mean,

you could even say that the Bible is a book

of wisdom. You could say it's the book of widm

from Genesis to Revelation. And as you read God's Word,

you are allowing the light of the Gospel, the wisdom

of God's Word, to penetrate your very soul, your very spirit,

your very being, and it will make a difference. I

want to look at Proverbs chapter one, and as most

of you know, Solomon wrote the Book of Proverbs. But

Proverbs chapter one, verse five is a key verse. Let's

look at this verse again. I'm in the amplified Classic

version of the Bible. It says the wise also will

hear and increase in learning. That's why I pray over

your spiritual ears to hear that you would hear clearly tonight.

The wise also will hear an increase in learning, and

the person of understanding will acquire skill and attain to

sound counsel so that he or she may be able

to steer their course rightly. So you're not going to

be able to steer your life in the right direction

until you can acquire the skill of listening to sound

counsel from God's word. You know, I've counseled people over

the years, and I always tell them right from the

get go, I am not going to counsel you according

to my feelings, my thoughts, or my opinions, because it's worthless.

I will counsel you according to God's word. Don't get

mad at me, because I'm only going to share what

God's Word says to you. So we want to gain

the wisdom of God. We want to walk as a

person of understanding and acquire the skill and attain to

sound counsel. Because we want to steer our life, the

course of our life, the path of our life. We

want to steer it correctly in the right direction. Amen.

Now this is a key when it comes to walking

in the wisdom of God. We have to walk in humility.

And you know, it's it's knowing that we're just we're

nothing but a vapor. I mean, we're gonna we're gonna disappear,

and anything that we know or discern is because of

His mercy toward us. Without humility, we cannot and will

not be able to walk in wisdom. You cannot walk

in God's wisdom unless you humble yourself. If you are arrogant,

you think you know it all. Actually if you if

you do, you're you're in the flesh. I mean you're

just totally in the flesh. But to walk in a

place of great wisdom and understanding, you have to be

humble person. You have to humble yourself and realize you

don't know anything. Don't ever think you know everything or

you are some you know theological wizard. I mean, seriously,

I don't care how smart you are. And there are

a lot of smart theologians, a lot of smart Christians.

But when you think, if you have those kind of thoughts,

then you can never walk in the wisdom of God.

You know, I just was reminded of George Washington Carver,

the man. You know what he did. He took that peanut,

he shut the door to his lap and he said, Lord,

I don't know anything about this peanut, but I believe

you can show me all that I need to know.

In other words, I'm relying on your wisdom. God, I'm

relying on you to show me me. You created that peanut,

and only you know what that peanut's capable of. So

you see, inhumility, George Washington Carver was able to do

exceedingly abundantly right. And so it's the same with us now.

James Chapter three is the New Testament definition of wisdom,

divine wisdom. So let's turn to James Chapter three and

James James. I love the Book of James. It's actually

like a little it's like a little mini book of wisdom.

I mean, almost every scripture is just like a little

do drop of wisdom or a golden nugget of wisdom.

Now he says, here, you see, we looked at the

Old Testament. We looked at what Joe wrote about wisdom.

Now we're going to look at what James writes about wisdom.

This is chapter three. We're going to start with verse thirteen.

It says, who is there among you who is wise

and intelligent? Then let him, by his noble living, show

forth his good works with the unobtrusive humility, which is

the proper attribute of true wisdom. What did I just

get done talking to you about? But if you have

bitter jealousy, envy, contention, rivalry, selfish ambition in your hearts,

do not pride yoursel selves on it, and thus be

in defiance and false to the truth. This superficial wisdom

is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, animal,

even devilish, demonic. For wherever there is jealousy, envy, and contention,

rivalry and selfish ambition, there will also be confusion, unrest, disharmony, rebellion,

and all sorts of evil and vile practices. I don't

know what version of the Bible you're reading out of

But if I were you, I would highlight these scriptures

because when you get into a situation where you're having

contention with another individual, or you have jealousy going on

in your heart, envy in your heart, selfish ambition in

your heart, this is what's gonna come. This is what's

gonna come about. See, there's gonna be confusion, there's gonna

be disharmony, there's gonna be as these these vile spirits

are gonna start operating. And that is wisdom, not from above.

It's demonic, it's central, it's flesh, it's carnal, it's evil,

Verse seventeen. But the wisdom from above is first of

all pure, it's undefiled. Then it is peace loving, it's courteous,

it's considering, it's gentle, it is willing to yield to reason.

It's full of compassion and good fruits. It is wholehearted

and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned, free from doubts, wavering and insincerity.

So it's very easy to distinguish what a person's walking

in if they're walking in any of the the other

things I mentioned, jealousy, contentions, you know, contention is arguing.

You know, if you're arguing with your spouse, drop it

and repent. Stop now, don't go any further in that argument,

because that is devilish. It's it's it's carnal, and it's

you're going to end up with all kind of evil spirits.

I mean, there's gonna be all kind of backlash from that.

But your conversation, your behavior should be peace loving and courteous, considerate, gentle,

willing to yield, full of compassion and good fruits. Okay,

it is extremely important that we grasp the crucial decisive

days we are in. You gotta get your head out

of the sand. This is not we're not playing games here.

The devil is on the loose. He is proud telling

about seeking whom he may devour, and he will easily

devour you. If you begin to walk in contentions and

jealousies and arguments and rebellion, I mean, you're gonna there's

gonna be a lot of backlash. You're not gonna like it,

because what you sow you reap. When you sew to

the flesh, you reap corruption. The Bible says, when you

sew to the to life, or when you sew to

the spirit, you reap peace. You reap life, So it's

your choice. How do you want to live your life.

We must take a strong stand for truth and justice.

I've made that clear for quite a long time. Now.

I want to conclude tonight in Proverbs. I'm going to

go back to Proverbs, but you know, make a point,

make a point to Mark James three, verses thirteen through seventeen.

And this is what I would encourage you to if

you have a problem with your tongue, I would meditate

on these scriptures. I would even meditate bef you know,

the whole book James chapter three, because he's talking about

the tongue. You know, verse six, he says the tongue

is a fire, and so that's why he's talking about

the tongue. And then he goes into this, it just

doesn't work. You can't have a NaSTA d tongue belittle

your spouse or your children or whatever, you know, whatever.

You can't go there because you're going to eat the

fruit of it, and it is it's not good. So

I want to conclude tonight in the Book of Proverbs

and will go to chapter two, and I want to

start with verse one and go through twenty two. So

This is Solomon writing in the Book of Proverbs, chapter two,

My son, if you will receive my words and treasure

up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive. Here

we go again. This is similar wording, making your ear

attentive to skillful and godly wisdom, and inclining and directing

your heart and mind to understanding, applying all your powers

to the quest for it. Yes, if you cry out

for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you

seek wisdom as for silver, and search for skillful and

godly wisdom as for hidden treasures, then then you will understand.

Here's the key. Then you will understand the reverent and

worshipful fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of

our omniscient God. For the Lord gives skillful and godly wisdom,

and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He hides

away sound and godly wisdom and store. Where's is it

for the righteous those who are upright and in right

standing with him. He is a shield to those who

walk uprightly and in integrity, that he may guard the

paths of justice. Yes, he preserves the way of his saints.

Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fair dealing in

every area and relation. Yes, you will understand every good path,

for skillful and godly wisdom shall enter your heart, and

knowledge shall be pleasant to you, to deliver you from

the way of evil and evil men, for men who

speak perverse things and are liars, men who forsake the

paths of righteousnes of uprightness, to walk in the ways

of darkness, who rejoice to do evil and delight in

the perverseness of evil, who are crooked in their ways,

wayward and devious in their paths. Discretion shall watch over you.

Understanding shall keep you, to deliver you from the alien

woman from the outsider with her flattering words, who forsakes

the husband and the guide of her youth, and forgets

the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down

to death, and her past to the spirits of the dead.

None who go to her return again, neither do they

attain or regain the pass of life. So may you

walk in the way of good men, and keep to

the paths of the consistently righteous, the upright, in right

standing with God. For the upright shall dwell in the land,

and the men of integrity, blameless and complete in God's sight.

Shall remain in it, but the wicked shall be cut

off from the earth, and the treacher treacherous shall be

rooted out of it. This just came to my mind.

I was just thinking of some fellas I know that

are born again, and so they like to go out

and hang with their old buddies at a bar. And

I'm telling you that is absolutely, absolutely the wrong thing

to be doing, because what you're doing is you're opening

up your spirit and you're opening up your heart to

men who walk in the ways of darkness, who walk

crooked in their ways, devious in their past, and so

you know, and sometimes they rejoice to do evil, and

sometimes they delight in the perverseness of evil. And so

you expose your spirit man to this corruption, and then

you wonder why you have problems. Well, first of all,

it's not wisdom. Stay out of the bars, stay away

from ungodly men. The same with women. You know, if

you're born again, gal, you don't belong in a bar,

and you don't belong hanging around ungodly women. And these

people today, I mean, they use such foul language. It's

just like, why would you want to subject your spirit,

your fragile ears to those ugly words. Why why would

you want to go there? And so you know, when

it says the Lord wants to guard the pass of justice,

he wants to preserve the way of his saints, he's

trying to preserve your way. But you have a will

and you can go and do what you want to do.

That's true. I'm just encouraging you don't do it. And

when you go to bars, hey, there's women in there

that want to take advantage of men. So you don't know,

you might, you might be weak in that area and

then boom, before you know it, this woman's, you know,

trying to talk you into something you wish you didn't do.

So I'm telling you that you must make your ears

attentive to godly wisdom. Guys, gals, come on, you must.

This is not, you know, the time to be lazy.

The devil is walking about like a roaring line. He's

walking about to take you down. So you've got to

begin to read scripture as I say all the time,

and walk in learn to walk in God's wisdom. Amen. Well,

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