100:00:00,000 –> 00:00:09,740The cross is God’s way of putting things together. That’s why you can’t just add a belief in200:00:09,740 –> 00:00:15,580Jesus to a life that is fundamentally about getting what you want. The only way to put300:00:15,580 –> 00:00:20,459your life together through the wisdom of God is to give up your agenda of being all400:00:20,459 –> 00:00:28,780that you want to be. Or as Jesus put it, the way to save your life is to lose it.500:00:29,040 –> 00:00:32,560Welcome to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith. I am David Pick. I am glad you could600:00:32,560 –> 00:00:36,980be with us today. Colin, I am pleased we are going to cover that teaching today because700:00:36,980 –> 00:00:42,160I am sure many of us have heard it and thought, what does that mean? How am I supposed to800:00:42,160 –> 00:00:44,900lose my life? Well, it means you are no longer in control900:00:44,900 –> 00:00:49,099of it. That’s perhaps the place to start. We just had Baptism, as you know, in our church1000:00:49,099 –> 00:00:53,980this Sunday. It was wonderful to hear testimonies of people whose lives have been changed. One1100:00:54,119 –> 00:00:59,299One of the women who was baptised just told a very moving story of how she came to a faith1200:00:59,299 –> 00:01:04,379in Jesus Christ early in life but she said, it was all about me being in control of my1300:01:04,379 –> 00:01:09,320life – my marriage, my family, I had it all planned out, and mapped out. Then one1400:01:09,320 –> 00:01:16,580thing after another God brought her through major crises in marriage and in family that1500:01:16,580 –> 00:01:22,000brought her to the place of saying, you know, I am not in control of my life. It has to1600:01:22,180 –> 00:01:28,379be in the hands of Jesus Christ. And she expressed very movingly what that transformation was1700:01:28,379 –> 00:01:34,339really like. And now it’s Christ who is guiding the path of my life and I’m walking1800:01:34,339 –> 00:01:37,919in faith and following Him. Now that’s losing your life. It’s moving from the place of1900:01:37,919 –> 00:01:42,580– I’m running this. I’m the Lord, and by the way I believe in Jesus – to, you2000:01:42,580 –> 00:01:46,540know, He is the Lord. He is the Saviour and I’m putting my trust in Him.2100:01:46,540 –> 00:01:51,860And that is what today’s message is all about. So join us if you can in 1 Corinthians2200:01:51,860 –> 00:01:56,419and chapter 2, as we continue the message, You Are Wise. Here’s Colin.2300:01:56,419 –> 00:02:01,199Now how you going to put your life together? That’s really the issue that’s at stake2400:02:01,199 –> 00:02:05,879today. And I want us to see from the passage of Scripture in 1 Corinthians in chapter2500:02:05,879 –> 00:02:10,8392 that there are very clearly two different ways of doing this. First, you can put your2600:02:10,839 –> 00:02:16,380life together through the wisdom of this age – which is in verse 6 – or second, through2700:02:16,380 –> 00:02:22,000God’s secret wisdom which Paul describes in verse 7. Two ways of putting your life2800:02:22,000 –> 00:02:29,660together – two kinds of wisdom. It’s what wisdom is. Now notice first then, in verse2900:02:29,660 –> 00:02:40,1396, the wisdom of this age. The wisdom of this age is simply a way of putting your life together3000:02:40,139 –> 00:02:48,720with yourself at the centre. That’s how this world thinks. The wisdom of this age is the3100:02:48,720 –> 00:02:52,639way of putting life together that begins with the question, what do I want to get out of3200:02:52,639 –> 00:03:00,960life? What will it take to get it? How do I act and behave and position myself in such3300:03:00,960 –> 00:03:07,740a way to get what I want? So there’s one way of putting life together. It is so common3400:03:07,740 –> 00:03:13,860throughout this world, how do I get what I want? It’s the way of wisdom of this world.3500:03:13,860 –> 00:03:18,979You can’t come to know God that way. You just can’t add God into that, it just doesn’t mix.3600:03:18,979 –> 00:03:25,000There’s no room for Jesus there, you have to crucify Christ if you’re going that way3700:03:25,000 –> 00:03:31,080and it will come to nothing. The other way of putting your life together is what Paul3800:03:31,179 –> 00:03:38,179calls in verse 7, the secret wisdom of God. Now God’s secret wisdom, the secret wisdom3900:03:38,320 –> 00:03:45,020of God is simply a way of putting your life together with God at the center.4000:03:45,460 –> 00:03:53,300And, of course, that is precisely what Jesus did. The way that Jesus put his life together4100:03:53,300 –> 00:03:58,100on earth was not to say, how can I get everything that I want out of life on this earth, it4200:03:58,300 –> 00:04:04,440was to say, how could I do what the Father has called me to do? How can I serve and be4300:04:04,440 –> 00:04:11,440a blessing and minister to others? Now obviously if you’re asking that question,4400:04:13,199 –> 00:04:20,200you will put your life together on a day-to-day basis in an entirely different way.4500:04:20,200 –> 00:04:27,200There will be all the difference in the world between a father who says in his mind, how4600:04:28,480 –> 00:04:35,480can I get what I want? And a father who says, how can I fulfill God’s purpose as a father?4700:04:39,260 –> 00:04:44,799And how can I be a blessing to those God has placed around me? All the difference in the4800:04:45,420 –> 00:04:52,220world in the way these two men put their lives together. The same for a husband. The same4900:04:52,220 –> 00:04:59,220for a student. The same for an employee. The same in any capacity that God has given you5000:05:01,839 –> 00:05:08,839in this life. Now if you put your life together in this way you will be thinking the same5100:05:09,839 –> 00:05:16,839way as Jesus did. Think about that. Which is why Paul says in verse 16, We have the5200:05:23,320 –> 00:05:29,959mind of Christ. Does not mean we think every thought as Jesus did, but our fundamental5300:05:29,959 –> 00:05:36,519approach to life if we are putting life together on the basis of the wisdom of God, our fundamental5400:05:36,540 –> 00:05:42,440approach to life is the same approach as Jesus took. That’s what it is to be a Christian.5500:05:42,440 –> 00:05:45,920Now what does this actually look like?5600:05:45,920 –> 00:05:52,920First, it is rooted in the cross. Again here I am looking at chapter 1, verses 23 and 24.5700:05:56,000 –> 00:06:01,920We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles but to5800:06:01,920 –> 00:06:08,920those whom God has called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power and the wisdom of God.5900:06:10,059 –> 00:06:17,059The wisdom of God is directly tied here to the cross. The wisdom of Christ to put his6000:06:19,940 –> 00:06:26,940life together as he did was immensely costly. He said, what does the father call me to do?6100:06:27,040 –> 00:06:32,679What does the father call me to do? How can I be blessing to others? He put his life together6200:06:32,679 –> 00:06:39,679that way and it led him to a cross. It cost him everything.6300:06:39,940 –> 00:06:46,940Paul says the cross is the wisdom of God. The cross is God’s way of putting things6400:06:47,500 –> 00:06:51,739together. That’s why you can’t just add a belief in6500:06:51,799 –> 00:06:56,579Jesus to life that’s fundamentally about getting what you want.6600:06:56,579 –> 00:07:02,420The only way to put your life together through the wisdom of God is to give up your agenda6700:07:02,420 –> 00:07:08,019of being all that you want to be. Or as Jesus put it, the way to save your life6800:07:08,019 –> 00:07:15,019is to lose it. That is the wisdom of God.6900:07:15,459 –> 00:07:24,820The way to put your life together is to come to the cross and to give that life out of7000:07:24,820 –> 00:07:32,100your hands into the hands of Christ and say here are these broken pieces I can’t put7100:07:32,100 –> 00:07:35,940them together. I place them into your hands and in giving7200:07:35,940 –> 00:07:44,299you my life, will you put it together. That’s the secret wisdom of God.7300:07:44,299 –> 00:07:49,579I place myself in your hands, you put the pieces together.7400:07:49,579 –> 00:07:56,019That’s where the wisdom of God begins. The foot of the cross.7500:07:56,019 –> 00:08:02,100Second, notice that this way of putting life together it not only begins at the cross but7600:08:02,100 –> 00:08:09,500it is revealed by the Holy Spirit. Chapter 2, verses 9 and 10.7700:08:09,500 –> 00:08:13,739No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared7800:08:13,820 –> 00:08:19,980for those who love him, but God has revealed it to us by his spirit.7900:08:19,980 –> 00:08:25,820Taking up the same in verse 12, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit8000:08:25,820 –> 00:08:32,960who is from God that we may understand what God has freely given us.8100:08:32,960 –> 00:08:38,059No one could guess this, that’s why Paul calls it secret wisdom of God.8200:08:38,059 –> 00:08:42,080You say to someone out there in the world that the way to begin life and to put it together8300:08:42,239 –> 00:08:45,979is to stand at the cross and to give yourself wholly to Jesus Christ, they’ll say8400:08:45,979 –> 00:08:49,919that’s foolishness!8500:08:49,919 –> 00:08:53,859God has made himself known in two ways.8600:08:53,859 –> 00:08:59,159One is very public, he’s sent his Son into the world.8700:08:59,159 –> 00:09:05,260The other is very private, he sends his Spirit into your heart.8800:09:05,260 –> 00:09:09,780What the Holy Spirit does is he opens up, as it were, a window in your heart and in8900:09:09,880 –> 00:09:13,460your mind to understand the truth of God as you never did before.9000:09:13,460 –> 00:09:21,380To put the pieces together, so that knowledge, becomes wisdom.9100:09:21,380 –> 00:09:24,340How else could you come to know God?9200:09:24,340 –> 00:09:27,080How could you come to know the thoughts of God?9300:09:27,080 –> 00:09:35,000Maybe you’ve wondered, does anyone really know your thoughts?9400:09:35,020 –> 00:09:43,119Is there any other person in the world who really knows your deepest thoughts?9500:09:43,119 –> 00:09:54,219The only one who knows your deepest thoughts on this earth, is you, your spirit.9600:09:54,219 –> 00:09:57,080That’s the point that the apostle Paul is making here.9700:09:57,080 –> 00:10:02,479No man knows the thoughts of a man, except his own spirit within him.9800:10:02,479 –> 00:10:08,520And then he says that no one knows the thoughts of God, except God’s spirit within him.9900:10:08,520 –> 00:10:13,580But you see, if your spirit came to me I would know your thoughts.10000:10:13,580 –> 00:10:16,320If my spirit came to you, you would know my thoughts.10100:10:16,320 –> 00:10:22,299If God’s spirit came to you, you would know the thoughts of God.10200:10:22,299 –> 00:10:27,460Now, obviously Paul is not saying that when we have the Holy Spirit we know everything10300:10:27,460 –> 00:10:28,460about God.10400:10:28,500 –> 00:10:34,500This is why he says in verse 15, Who has known the mind of the Lord, who’s been his counsellor.10500:10:34,500 –> 00:10:37,900But we do have the mind of Christ he says.10600:10:37,900 –> 00:10:46,320A window has been opened in my soul by which I begin to think God’s thoughts after him10700:10:46,320 –> 00:10:55,500and put my life together in a way that reflects the thinking of Jesus Christ.10800:10:55,539 –> 00:10:59,859This way of putting life together, this wisdom is destined for our glory.10900:10:59,859 –> 00:11:04,440Chapter 2 and verse 7, God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that had been hidden and that God11000:11:04,440 –> 00:11:07,260destined for our glory before time began.11100:11:07,260 –> 00:11:10,080It’s for our glory!11200:11:10,080 –> 00:11:15,140Put your life together as the world does, it will come to nothing.11300:11:15,140 –> 00:11:22,099Put your life together as Jesus did and you will end where he is.11400:11:23,099 –> 00:11:29,580It’s hard to imagine a bigger question than this, how are you going to put your life together?11500:11:29,580 –> 00:11:33,359You’re going to go into this coming week, you’re going to go into the coming months11600:11:33,359 –> 00:11:43,280and years saying, what can I get out of life that will determine a whole raft of behaviour?11700:11:43,280 –> 00:11:51,280Or are you going to go into these coming days and to say how can I honor God’s calling on11800:11:51,280 –> 00:11:58,280my life? How can I be a blessing to others? Put your life together that way and it will11900:12:00,780 –> 00:12:03,479be entirely different.12000:12:03,479 –> 00:12:10,000You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and the message you are wise.12100:12:10,000 –> 00:12:15,080It’s the final message in our series, Be Yourself, and if you’ve missed any of the series up12200:12:15,080 –> 00:12:19,419till now or if you want to go back and listen again, you can always do that by coming online12300:12:19,460 –> 00:12:26,179to our website Openthebible.org.uk or finding us as a podcast and those are on all main12400:12:26,179 –> 00:12:33,179podcast sites. Simply search for Open the Bible UK and or follow the link from our website.12500:12:33,340 –> 00:12:38,099Back to the message now. We’re in 1 Corinthians chapter 2. Here’s Colin.12600:12:38,099 –> 00:12:42,859I want in these last moments just to come back to our title one more time.12700:12:42,859 –> 00:12:49,760You are wise, though you still make mistakes and the fundamental thing that we’re saying12800:12:49,760 –> 00:12:54,900through this series is that at the very heart of the gospel, because you’re a new creation,12900:12:54,900 –> 00:13:01,900the Christian life is all about being who you are. You are wise, though you still make13000:13:03,799 –> 00:13:10,080mistakes. That pattern of course reflects the whole series that we live in this tension.13100:13:10,080 –> 00:13:15,760You are clean, though you still sin. You are free, though you still struggle. You are holy,13200:13:15,760 –> 00:13:20,679though you still live in the world. You are wise, though you still make mistakes. That’s13300:13:20,679 –> 00:13:27,679the tension of the Christian life, understanding who I am in the continuing difficulties of13400:13:30,059 –> 00:13:33,900life in this world. I want just to make two brief comments in13500:13:33,900 –> 00:13:40,900regards to the two parts of this title. The first is this, you still make mistakes. We13600:13:42,539 –> 00:13:49,539all make mistakes. It’s very important to remember this, because some people have drawn13700:13:49,739 –> 00:13:56,479the wrong conclusion from the Bible’s statement that we have the mind of Christ. You see that13800:13:56,479 –> 00:14:02,359in verse 16, we have the mind of Christ? There are some people who’ve taken that, ripped13900:14:02,440 –> 00:14:08,340it out of its context, and drawn the conclusion that they are therefore always right. They14000:14:08,340 –> 00:14:12,799have the idea that they somehow have a hot-line to heaven, that everything that they think14100:14:12,799 –> 00:14:16,979is God’s thoughts and everything they feel is a reflection of God’s heart, and that therefore14200:14:16,979 –> 00:14:23,799they are infallible in their decisions, and that they never do anything wrong. Well, to14300:14:23,799 –> 00:14:30,239anyone who reads 1 Corinthians chapter 2 in that way, I would say please read the rest14400:14:30,260 –> 00:14:36,979of the letter, because if you read the rest of the letter you will find a vast number14500:14:36,979 –> 00:14:43,979of incredible mistakes that were made by those who Paul says has the mind of Christ. Christians14600:14:44,760 –> 00:14:51,760make all kinds of mistakes, we all do. Mistakes as husbands, mistakes as fathers, mistakes14700:14:51,820 –> 00:14:57,039as pastors, mistakes as workers, mistakes as students, mistakes as friends, mistakes14800:14:57,039 –> 00:15:04,039as economists, mistakes as politicians, all kinds of mistakes. You say, well, how can14900:15:04,799 –> 00:15:09,799you make a mistake if you’re in Christ? Some of us struggle with this. We made a decisions15000:15:09,799 –> 00:15:15,820that we now see was very foolish, how could God have allowed that to happen, we say. Think15100:15:15,820 –> 00:15:22,820through the series with me just very briefly like this. God does not free us in such a15200:15:22,820 –> 00:15:29,820way that we no longer struggle. He frees us so that we can engage in the struggle. God15300:15:33,979 –> 00:15:40,979does not purify us in such a way that we no longer sin, He purifies us in such a way that15400:15:41,039 –> 00:15:48,039we can learn to hate sin and want to be free from it. God does not make us holy in such15500:15:48,479 –> 00:15:53,599a way that we do not live in the world, He makes us holy in such a way that we can shine15600:15:53,599 –> 00:16:00,599in the world. And God does not make us wise in such a way that we never make a mistake,15700:16:00,880 –> 00:16:06,840He makes us wise in such a way that we can see our mistakes and learn from them and grow15800:16:06,840 –> 00:16:13,840through them. So when in the Christian life you are faced with sin, repent and restore15900:16:18,359 –> 00:16:24,900them in as much as you are able to put right what you broke down, do it. When you are faced16000:16:24,900 –> 00:16:31,900with a struggle, fight and overcome, this is what God has called you to do. When you16100:16:33,280 –> 00:16:39,719find yourself in the darkness of this world, serve and shine, that is why you are in the16200:16:39,719 –> 00:16:46,719darkness. When you find that you have made mistakes that cause you bitter regret, learn16300:16:48,919 –> 00:16:55,919and grow. God treats us as sons, and that means that He places us on the field of battle,16400:17:00,799 –> 00:17:07,800that He commissions us in the world, that He trusts us with making decisions. Not like16500:17:08,319 –> 00:17:13,520the father with the small child that puts a kind of hedge round so tightly, but like16600:17:13,560 –> 00:17:20,199the father with the mature son, who gives scope, and allows the ability of learning16700:17:20,199 –> 00:17:27,199and growing, because that’s the way in which you become all that you can be. You still16800:17:27,640 –> 00:17:34,560make mistakes, but you are wise. You are wise.16900:17:34,560 –> 00:17:41,560I want us to grasp this in these very last moments, because this is really it seems to17000:17:42,199 –> 00:17:46,680me the secret of confident living.17100:17:46,680 –> 00:17:52,800Some of us feel so uncertain about life. How am I going to put my life together? Listen,17200:17:52,800 –> 00:17:59,800the Lord is your Shepherd. The spirit of God lives in you. You have received light from17300:18:02,719 –> 00:18:09,280above that many people in this world haven’t begun to grasp. You are in a tremendous position17400:18:09,319 –> 00:18:15,680to live, because you are in Christ, and there is a confidence that comes from that. There17500:18:15,680 –> 00:18:20,640is something that God gives to you and wants you to enjoy.17600:18:20,640 –> 00:18:26,640Let me give you the high school student’s favorite scripture verse, my favorite verse17700:18:26,640 –> 00:18:33,640from high school. Psalm 119, verse 99. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate17800:18:34,640 –> 00:18:41,640on your statues. I love that, that’s a great verse, but please be very sensitive about17900:18:43,479 –> 00:18:50,479how you use it in class. I had a math teacher at high school by the name of Mr. Dagenhardt,18000:18:52,739 –> 00:18:57,000it was delightful name, of course, we all called him Dago for short. Though frankly18100:18:57,359 –> 00:19:04,359most of the students called him Death Breath. I leave that to your imagination as to why18200:19:04,819 –> 00:19:10,000this was, but it was regularly you know, who have you got for Math this year? Oh, we’ve18300:19:10,000 –> 00:19:17,000got Death Breath! Well I tell you, Death Breath was an absolute genius at math, he really18400:19:18,640 –> 00:19:25,040was. He should have been in some university, not at high school, but he was desperately18500:19:25,040 –> 00:19:31,819antagonistic towards Christians. I actually liked him, he helped me a great deal, he raised18600:19:31,819 –> 00:19:37,319my performance in math very significantly. I’ll never forget the day, he knew what I18700:19:37,319 –> 00:19:41,199wanted to do in life and he asked me in front of the whole class, you know nothing’s changed,18800:19:41,199 –> 00:19:48,199what do you want to do with your life, Smith? He said. I want to be a pastor, sir. I said.18900:19:48,359 –> 00:19:55,359Absolute waste of a perfectly good brain. That’s what he said. Absolute waste of a perfectly19000:20:02,619 –> 00:20:09,619good brain. I owe a lot to Daigle, some years later I went back to my old high school, met19100:20:10,579 –> 00:20:17,579him, we got chatting, and he told me that he had a sister who had spent her life as19200:20:18,199 –> 00:20:25,199a missionary in China. He had made the opposite choice and he had put his life together as19300:20:29,520 –> 00:20:36,520one who claimed the title of an atheist who had absolutely no place for God. I’ve often19400:20:38,859 –> 00:20:45,859thought about Daigle and what good might’ve been done if he had given his brilliant brain19500:20:46,520 –> 00:20:53,520into the hands of Jesus Christ. So much knowledge, so little wisdom. Christian friend, you may19600:20:57,359 –> 00:21:04,359make a thousand mistakes in your life but following the path of Jesus Christ, you have19700:21:07,060 –> 00:21:14,060more wisdom than people who could multiply by factors of a hundred your intelligence19800:21:16,839 –> 00:21:21,400and are living in a way putting their lives together in a way that will ultimately come19900:21:21,400 –> 00:21:28,400to nothing. So live with confidence in Jesus Christ. The Lord is your shepherd, He’s with20000:21:30,560 –> 00:21:35,939you, He’s leading you. You’re not adrift on the sea of chance. You may make all kinds20100:21:35,939 –> 00:21:41,520of mistakes but your life is in His hand. You’re not going to be right in every decision20200:21:41,780 –> 00:21:48,540you make but God has given you light and you have chosen the path that leads to life.20300:21:48,540 –> 00:21:52,640In a world where there are thousands and millions of men and women who are stumbling through20400:21:52,640 –> 00:21:59,479their days without any grasp on the purpose of the life given you know who you are. And20500:21:59,479 –> 00:22:06,260you know to whom you belong. You know why you’re here. You know where you’re going.20600:22:06,260 –> 00:22:14,680You have wisdom as God has given it to you in Jesus Christ. And even though you sin and20700:22:14,680 –> 00:22:21,119struggle and live in this world and make many mistakes you are clean. You are free. You20800:22:21,119 –> 00:22:27,719are holy. You are wise. You’ve discovered what life is all about. You are a new person20900:22:27,719 –> 00:22:35,540in Jesus Christ, so Be Who You Are.21000:22:35,540 –> 00:22:40,739Pastor Colin Smith on Open the Bible, wrapping up our message, You Are Wise, the final message21100:22:40,739 –> 00:22:46,020in our series, Be Yourself. Don’t forget if you missed one of the series, or want to go21200:22:46,020 –> 00:22:53,380back and listen to some or all of them again, they’re all available on our website, www.openthebible.org.uk21300:22:53,380 –> 00:22:58,739And also on all main podcast sites, if that’s a better way for you to keep up with pastor21400:22:58,739 –> 00:23:04,300Colin’s teaching, you can find those by searching for Open The Bible UK. Or by following a link21500:23:04,300 –> 00:23:11,280from our website, website address again www.openthebible.org.uk21600:23:11,280 –> 00:23:16,219Also on our website you’ll find our bible study course, Fly Through the Bible. 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And if that s22500:23:57,060 –> 00:24:01,079something you haven t done before, but you ve been considering doing it, can I encourage22600:24:01,079 –> 00:24:07,180you this month to set up a new direct debit of £5 per month or more, or a one off gift22700:24:07,180 –> 00:24:12,579of 50 pounds or more. And in return we d love to say thank you by sending you a copy of22800:24:12,579 –> 00:24:16,859a classic book. It s Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan.22900:24:17,160 –> 00:24:21,420Colin, many people will have heard of this book but not actually read it.23000:24:21,420 –> 00:24:26,900Ah if you ve never read it, you are in for a treat. Really every Christian home should23100:24:26,900 –> 00:24:34,459have a copy of this book. It is a delight to read, and it is full of the richest, deepest23200:24:34,459 –> 00:24:41,420insight into the real experiences of a Christian s life. It s a treasure, and I m delighted23300:24:41,420 –> 00:24:45,260that we re able to offer it to all who are listening to the programme this month.23400:24:45,859 –> 00:24:50,579So, that will be our gift to you if you are able to set up a new direct debit to the work23500:24:50,579 –> 00:24:57,800of Open The Bible for £5 per month or more, or a one-off gift of £50 or more. Full terms23600:24:57,800 –> 00:25:04,640and conditions are on our website, that s at openthebible.org.uk and you can give online.23700:25:04,640 –> 00:25:09,839For Open The Bible and Pastor Colin Smyth, I m David Pick and I hope you ll join us again23800:25:09,839 –> 00:25:11,640next time on Open The Bible.23900:25:15,260 –> 00:25:22,660Where did the message of Christianity come from? Find out next time on Open The Bible.