In this study that we have seen there is two sets of attributes that people generally categorize of God. One is His attributes that are incommunicable. Something like His self-sufficiency, or His immutability, His independence, His omniscience. These are things that makes God, God. These are things that clearly says why God is not man and why man cannot be God. But then we have come to a separate section of His attribute, which are communicable where God makes us part of those attributes. We saw of His glory, and we can see of His power. And today we’ll see of His wisdom. And these are, then we could see of love, we could see of mercy, we could see of grace. All that God is He gives it to us.


Foolishness of Man
And so today we look at the wisdom of God. Let me just begin by asking some questions. Imagine if you were to be walking on a street road, and you walk in and see there is, there is a ditch. You have two options to do. You either navigate yourself around the ditch or you fall right into it. What would you do? First or the second. Everybody first. Yes. The second question, you are going to Nineveh, you're supposed to go to Nineveh. And you come to a T junction where one says Nineveh and other says Tarshish. What would you choose ? Come again…Nineveh ? Okay. It's difficult. Well, this is, this is a third quest imagine you're standing before the Chief Justice of India. A person whose words can ruin your life and he can be unquestionable. And you know the kind of way, the way people are around him, how they function around him. You know how he is respected and feared. So here are two options for you, you also fear. You also give Him the reverence he deserves. Or you act rash before Him. What would you do ? Respect.

You see these questions might sound very silly, because the answers were quite simple. But the fact of the matter is if I were to change these scenarios into our spiritual life. We will see how foolish we are. We are walking on a road, we see a ditch, we know that if we fall into it we will hurt ourselves so badly, but we end up falling right into it. You talk about people committing sin. You talk about people unable to overcome their addictions, unable to stop drinking, unable to stop smoking. It's like they're walking on a road they see that if they do this thing it will harm them, it will punish them, there will be a severe consequence. But still, they'll fall right into. If you are walking on a real road, you wouldn't do it. But with sin, it's a different story. It's as if you're completely foolish.

Ask David when He slept with Bathsheba. Did he not know what he was doing ? Did you not know that it was sin ? And then he tried to fool her husband when that didn't work, he tried to even kill him. All along the way that he made himself for king he married her and then had a child. And then when Nathan would say, a parable, he would call upon the name of the Lord and say let that person be punished. You see his audacity. He knows about the Lord. He knows what he has done for years together is wrong. It’s like he knows there's a ditch and he fell right into it. I mean knowledge of sin did not prevent David from committing adultery. You talk of Manasseh, what would he do ? He would take Isaiah the prophet, it’s not written in the Bible, but people believe that he would saw with a hacksaw the prophet Isaiah into when alive. And then it's written in the Bible, he would take His children and pass them through fire and sacrifice them to the gods, the pagan gods. Did he not know what he was doing ?

I mean just guess who his father was. His father was Hezekiah. The most godly king. People know that there's a ditch, people know that you can fall into it. And yet we don't make efforts to navigate around, to circumvent it or to prevent ourselves from committing those sins. You see the Bible clearly says of lot of instructions about the will of God, about, about obeying Him, about what you should be doing. It's like Jonah, always telling you go and preach the gospel. God is telling you this is the road you have to take. If you are on a journey and if you have to go from Borivali to Churchgate. You will know the route, you would not take a different route, but when God tells you to go in and walk in His ways, when God shows you His ways, it becomes a different story.

You see, finally, I was talking about the Chief Justice of India. You can't joke with him. You can't take him lightly. You need to fear Him, just about any judge in the country. And how difficult is it for man to fear God ? God who is so almighty, man so finds it difficult to fear and hold his name in reverence. So much so that it's written at the beginning of wisdom is fear of God. You see, these are just three simple examples to see how foolish we are. That despite our great achievements in 21st century, despite us putting up car in the orbit around the sun. And despite our plans to inhabit Mars. Your fools, despite all our great wisdom, despite how much we can boast and say we are wise, we’re intellectual, we're rationales and we are philosophers, and we are thinkers and every single thing that we can talk about our wisdom; before God we are absolute fools.

You see it all began because foolishness of man is a curse. It is a curse that began in Genesis chapter three. Eve saw a fruit and it is written that she desired to eat it because it would make her wise. And it did not happen. Why ? because the fruit was not called ‘The Wisdom of good and evil’, it was called ‘the knowledge of good and evil’. You see this is our problem. our problem is we understand wisdom to spring out of knowledge. Though it is true it is incomplete. So, you might know good and evil, but that doesn't make you wise. And so, Eve looked at the fruit and desired to make herself wise, desired to make herself like God. That is what Satan would tell and that was Satan's first sin to become like God, and desire to become like God to know good and evil, apart from God. And that ended in absolute foolishness. So, we read in the New Testament where God would say I have made the wisdom of man foolish, and man by his wisdom can never know God.

You see this was the original sin at Genesis three, we became fools. When all the while we could have become wise, desiring to be wise was not a bad thing. Just think about it, God says that He has founded this earth upon with wisdom, He has founded this earth with wisdom, everything anything around you see, you can see God's wisdom. So, if at all, Adam and Eve wanted to become wise, they could have become wise, they just needed to look at the creation of God. If they wanted to become wise, they were spending daily time with God and communion with God. They had to just know God to become wise. So, there were enough reasons to become wise but still they rejected that just for a fruit. And it is said that the fruit was looking good. If they really wanted something good, they just had to look around, even beyond their own self because every single thing that God had made was good, and they themselves were very good. And at the end of the day if they simply wanted wisdom. They just chose the wrong tree.

You see in Proverbs Solomon says that the Tree of Life is wisdom, and at the right hand of wisdom is long days. And if they would have just eaten the right tree, they would have everything. And that tree God did not prohibit from eating, just to be clear. So, they wanted the knowledge of Good and Evil, they wanted to know good and evil. And let's also be clear that it is not that they were asking for knowledge that they did not know but they wanted to define good and evil. So that is the indictment that Isaiah would say about the people that these people have made good as evil and evil as good they have made light as darkness and darkness as light, they have made bitter a sweet and sweet as bitter.

We have redefined good and evil, because we have rejected the knowledge of God, that God was everyday giving in the garden. For the knowledge of God, we wanted the knowledge of good and evil. So, what did God do? God played along. You want knowledge, take it. At Sinai there were ten commandments, six hundred more commandments, all about what's good and evil. And just to be sure, it just made us worst. The knowledge of evil did not make us any better. Finally, you see glimpses of wisdom in the Bible, glimpses of wisdom.


Spirit of Wisdom
In Genesis 41 we read of Pharaoh. We read of Pharaoh who is troubled and who has a dream and cannot understand and cannot interpret the dream and so he calls what is written there he calls the wise men of Egypt. You see it's again a tiff between the wisdom of God and the wisdom of man. So, Pharaoh resorting to the wise men of Egypt, people who are intellectuals, people who have studied the finest of all education available there. You know the kind of graduates and doctors and people coming out of universities, people serving before the king daily, who are advising him and counselling, the typical wise men of this world.

Pharoh calls them and says to explain the dream; they cannot. Finally, who turns up ? A man from a prison, an Israelite. A Gentile who has never gone to school. Never had any education, never had any sort of any knowledge or intellectualism or whatever. When he came out of the prison he was on prison clothes. He had to be shaved and he had to be given a new cloth just to appear before Pharoh. And at the end of the day Pharoh says about this person, Joseph; you can read it maybe. Genesis 41:38 38And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?” 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.

I want you to notice the connection that Pharaoh was not just saying Joseph you are wise. He says in verse 39 God has shown you all these things. For the first time it is recognized in the Bible that wisdom comes from God. So, Joseph was compared to all the wise men of the world and says that God has shown you all these things. That is why there is none so discreet and none so wise. You see this is what our life is. You can go around the city, you can go around your life, you can progress in your career, you can study as much as you want, you can gain as much as knowledge you want, you can upgrade yourself with as much as skills you want, you need to keep yourself you need to keep up, and you need to keep yourself relevant, you need to study more. Everything is needed, just like the wise men of Egypt. But at the end of the day - does your wisdom come from God ?

You can again realize how it is written of a spirit in Joseph. As if God's Spirit was given to Joseph. And that was his wisdom. That brings us to all the verses we read from the start, every single verse we read in Exodus, talking of Bezalel and Oholiab. How the Spirit of God was given to them, how the Spirit of God made them wise, and how this wisdom comes from above, that God gives the spirit and made them wise. You talk about the wilderness, you talk about, you don't have any new sources, then you won't have any knowledge there to build what God is telling you. And this people Bezalel and Oholiab are just like us. Where did they go to school ? Where did they have any formal education ? where they were ever trained in academics ? Nothing. In what way were they wise ? On their own self nothing but God is saying that they were cunning in their work, and God gives them wisdom. And again it's written the Spirit of wisdom. That brings us to the trinity of God.

We first looked at the Holy Spirit and we found out that the Holy Spirit of God is a spirit of wisdom. We read about Christ that the Spirit of wisdom rested upon Christ. We can read this in Isaiah 11:2. 2And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.


Wisdom of Christ
Let's move on. Holy Spirit is wise fine. That's good. How about the Son of God ? How about the wisdom of Christ ? What is written about the wisdom of Christ? We read in Colossians chapter two and verse three, that in Christ is hidden all wisdom and knowledge, the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I also understand that, knowing the wisdom of Christ is incomplete if we cannot read Proverbs chapter eight. So shall we go to proverbs chapter eight. Proverbs 8:17 it’s written about wisdom but we're going to read it in terms of Christ.
Proverbs 8:17
17I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.18 Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,21 granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.22 “The Lord possessedme at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.24When there were no depths was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.25 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,26 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,28 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,30then(AY)I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.32 “And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.33 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,36 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

This is Solomon's version of wisdom. But the simple reading of this you can understand that wisdom cannot fit a description like this, the wisdom that we understand to be an app, objective, and abstract quality and attitude cannot fill the kind of description given here. And I'm wondering that perhaps in the whole of the Old Testament, nobody like Solomon has described the glory of Christ the way it is described here. Nobody has described the glory of Christ that was present even before the world began. As it is written before the depths, or before the mountains and before the dusk of the world, before anything was created, I was with God, and I rejoice daily in his presence, always before him.

You see why Solomon, why out of all the prophets Solomon. Because Solomon when he was young, he asked for the wisdom of God. And just like most of us we have no clue of the things we ask of God, but God exactly knows what it is. So Solomon asked for the wisdom of God, and God revealed unto this person, the wisdom, His own who was in His bosom. The wisdom was daily rejoicing in His presence, and God revealed unto Solomon the wisdom of Christ, the glory of Christ, even before earth was formed.

Let's read one more passage that talks about the wisdom as Christ from Job chapter 28. And again, you will read this as wisdom but keep in mind, Christ, because in Corinthians is written that Christ has become unto us the wisdom of God. Again, there are some aspects in this that you cannot apply to the wisdom, you know, as intelligence or intellectual. You can't apply knowledge or understanding or discretion or perception to the way it is written here. For example, in verse 12. Job 28:12 12But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Job is literally saying wisdom cannot be found in this earth. 14The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. This is not wisdom. Come on, all these things; gold, silver, Ophir, Onyx, topaz, and it's a perfect description of the price listeners of Christ that nothing can equal wisdom of God being Christ.

Verse 20.20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.


Knowledge and Wisdom
This brings us to one more concept about wisdom. Wisdom is closely related to evil, to the knowledge of evil. The philosophy of the world will tell you that you know good, you know evil that will make you wise, but the philosophy or what the Bible says is that in Romans 16:19 It says but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. It is not encouraging us to have the knowledge of evil. In fact, it is written here that wisdom is the fear of God, and to depart from evil, to stay as far as possible from evil, that is understanding. So, wisdom is not gained by gaining knowledge of good, as well as evil, but the Bible clearly says that we need to gain the knowledge of good, we need to desire things that are good, we need to seek after the knowledge of God, and clearly saying over here that we need to be innocent in what is evil.

So, if in the Garden of Eden when Eve ate the fruit. Suddenly the knowledge of evil made her realize that she is naked. Until and unless that food was not eaten; nakedness was not evil. But the moment that knowledge came, she realized that it is a shame and the moment that knowledge came of evil and good, she realized that she cannot come to God. You see, if she had not eaten the food then she would have realized that the fellowship with God is a good thing. But the moment she ate the fruit what was good became evil. What was evil will become good. It was clearly written that you should not eat of the food, and she said the food was good. What was good became evil. What was evil became good. You see the knowledge of evil doesn't make anybody good.

Paul says that when the law came, sin was revived, and I died. Law, the knowledge of good and evil, makes things worse. And what does the wisdom of God do ? The wisdom of God encourages you to stay away from evil. It encourages you to keep yourself as far as possible from the experience and the exposure and the surroundings and the context, or just the knowledge of evil. It encourages you to be innocent in evil. Not to look after evil. Not to just even gain the knowledge of evil. Rather gain the knowledge of God, rather gain that which is good.

You can continue if you'd like to read more verses its written in 1 Corinthians 10:6 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted and 1 Peter 2:11 again it is written,11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:1-2 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: and one hand put away all these things and on the other hand like new born babes yearn or crave for the knowledge of God. So, this is what wisdom of God does, it keeps us away from the knowledge of evil and brings us to the knowledge of God.


Only Wise God
Finally, let's look at. We looked at the spirit being wise, we looked at the Son being called the wisdom of God, how about the father ? We again read in Romans chapter 16. This is Paul’s conclusion to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. To the only wise God through Jesus Christ be glory forever. Again, Jude would also end the episode the same way - To the only God our Saviour, be glory, majesty, power and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before ages now and forevermore.

Job would say that God is wise in heart, mighty in strength, who has defied him without harm. Isaiah would say he also is wise. Job again would say in Job 12 - with him is wisdom and might, in Him belongs counsel and understanding. Daniel, after he received the vision about Nebuchadnezzar’s statue said that the name of the God Be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belongs to Him. You see all of this shows how God in completeness is wise, and He is wise.


How to Gain Wisdom?
Let's look at some more aspects about wisdom as to how is, how can we gain this wisdom as I said this wisdom is communicable. Why should we desire, we have seen, how can we gain wisdom ?

Fear God
For example, first let's look at Jeremiah 5:21.21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

The first part of verse 22 - Do you not fear me ? That's God’s question to this people. Do you not fear me ? I am the one who commanded that the ways should not passed through. I'm the one that stops the waves with fine grains of sand. And such a one; Do you not fear me ? And so, in verse 21 He would say O foolish people, how not fearing God is the beginning of all foolishness. Just like fearing God is the beginning of wisdom.

Know the Word of God
Secondly, we read from Psalm 51. Psalm 51. This is David's Psalm after he committed the adultery. So, we’re reading Psalm 51:6 -6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Just wanted to notice in this was there are two parts. He says inward part and hidden part. You decide truth in the inward part and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom. First statement is active, that is David’s action. God, you desire truth in the inward part. Which means it becomes my responsibility, that in my inward part, God's truth resides. This inward part is definitely talking about the mind where you can store God's truth, where you can read God's truth, you can understand and memorize and do it. And so, God is desiring truth in the inward part not on the outside in the inward part, our hearts, our mind should be filled with God's truth, the word of God.

When that happens, there is a passive that God plays, God plays the role, He says that God will make me to know wisdom in the hidden part. What is this hidden part ? inward is something that is in your mind. You can store God's word into it, but hidden part is what David realized is beyond his own control. It's mysterious. Even he couldn't explain why he committed a sin like this. Even he couldn't explain how we went to the stretch of adultery and then murder and lies and deception and scheming and everything, he couldn't explain, he just he just found himself beyond control, and he saw in himself a hidden part that is filled with foolishness. And so, he says, God, if I, in my inward part, I desire your truth, you and only you can make me to know wisdom in my hidden part. That is beyond my control. That is hid from me, that is mysterious to me. He’s most probably referring to our flesh that we cannot control.

Our flesh becomes our master. You see this is again one more difference between the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. You look at all what man has done; you look at all the instances of wisdom of man. Has the wisdom of man ever benefited your inward path? Has it ever benefited your hidden part ? The wisdom of man serves only your flesh. The wisdom of man serves only your body. You talk about the phones you use, all inventions of man. Whether we go into mars or not; everything put together, all of it will serve only your body. That is the wisdom of God, the wisdom of man is not it's not beyond your body and your soul is what you are.

As C.S. Lewis would say, “you are not a body. You are a soul with a body.” And so this body will one day drop dead and the soul goes to God. So, what has the wisdom of man benefited your soul ? That's when God has to work. Only God's wisdom can be given to us, and God's wisdom benefits our soul. see James would say that the wisdom of man is earthly, it is unspiritual, and it is demonic. And then, James would say, the wisdom that's from above is pure and peaceable. And so this is the kind of wisdom we require otherwise we are fools. How do we gain this wisdom ? First we saw the need to fear God, it would be foolish to not fear a God like who He is. Second, we need to store the truth of God in the inward part. Wisdom is beyond us. We cannot gain wisdom by us. Only God gives wisdom as Daniel would say, Only God gives wisdom. Now over her only God can make me to know wisdom in that hidden part that is beyond my control. Beyond all self control techniques that I can't use; only God can make me to know wisdom in the hidden part, and I can save myself from sin. You see one is to fear God. Secondly, it is to know the Word of God. Most importantly, it has to do the word. Because again its written that God gives wisdom those who do His commandments.


Pray for the Wisdom
Last and finally, you can fear God, you can know the Word of God, because the word of God is the knowledge, the basis from which His wisdom comes. You need to do the Word of God because God gives wisdom to those who do it. The fourth point is that you can pray for it. Because would say that he who lacks wisdom let him ask of God and God gives liberally without restraining Himself. This is how God desires that His wisdom be found in us. In Conclusion can we just read a couple of passages from

1 Corinthians 1:18
18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Shall we also read 1 Corinthians 2:1-7
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:5That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. May God’s name be glorified.