Beware of the Wisdom of Men — Carter Conlon

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The Wisdom of God Rather Than Human Ability

I'm going to speak a message that I've given the title, Beware of the Wisdom of Men. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, I believe this is very timely. I've been studying this most of the week, this week, and could really preach on it for a very, very long time.

Not that I want you to worry about that. But there's so much in the words of Paul. I'm trusting the Holy Spirit to allow me to bring it through simply to you. Now, Father, I stand before you as Paul did.

God, I stand trembling. I stand aware of my own weakness. But God, it's not about me. It's about you. You are the quickening power of God. Holy Spirit, you're the one who comes and quickens those that are weak and gives us strength.

I ask you to quicken my natural body and my mind. I ask you to quicken my heart and my spirit. And I ask, oh God, that I may simply stand as a voice for you, an oracle of God. Father, I thank you, God, that today you are going to see your kingdom advance.

Father, not by any demonstration of human ability, but by an inward working of the Holy Spirit. God, thank you that your word has preeminence in this house. And you will accomplish what you have sent it to do.

I believe it, God, we trust it. You've never failed us in Times Square Church. You've never failed any Christian anywhere who has sought you with an honest heart. Jesus, thank you for speaking to us today in your mighty name.

Christ Crucified as the Center of the Gospel

1 Corinthians 2, beginning at verse 1. Paul says, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with the excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. It's an incredible thing, because later on you see in the words of Paul, he said that people who heard him said his speech was contemptible.

His bodily presence was really nondescript. There was nothing about Paul that would cause people to look and say, Wow, this man is a wonderful apostle of God. There was nothing about him. As a matter of fact, you can honestly say he was a carbon copy of his master.

Because if you go to Isaiah 53, Isaiah said, There is nothing about you, Jesus, that men should desire you. You've revealed yourself as a root out of dry ground, as it is. There's no form, there's no comeliness.

You took upon yourself a rather ordinary physical body. But the power of God, obviously, was resident in the Son of God. Paul said, I didn't come to you with excellency of speech. I didn't come to you with excellency of wisdom.

And I declared to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know or be familiar, rather, with anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Now, Paul was saying, I didn't want to know anything.

I didn't want any other knowledge coming through me but the knowledge of the cross. And what was accomplished on the cross, what was bought through the cross, what is ours through the cross, Paul was in essence saying, This is the very essence of my life.

It has all been freely obtained by that which was purchased by Jesus Christ on the cross, on Calvary. And Paul says, I don't want to know anything but Christ and Him crucified. Because this is the source of life.

He said, I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Departing From the Faith and Imitating God's Voice

Now, Paul warns in the book of 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 1, Paul says, In the latter times, some shall depart. Actually, if you look through the scriptures, the inference is probably more that many shall depart from the faith.

Many will depart from a knowledge of or confidence in certain divine truths. There will be a vast moving away from truth, even in the professing church of Jesus Christ. You can read it in any commentary, you study it in the scriptures.

The last days, yes, there's going to be a victorious, sword-wielding remnant bride. There always has been, there always will be. But I'm talking now the masses who call themselves by the name of Christ.

There will be a mass moving away from divine truth. And the scripture says that they will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Almost tragic to think of the church or the professing church moving in this direction.

The word spirit that Paul uses is a pneuma in the Greek, and it means breath, wind. Or in other words, it's something that imitates the breath of God. So Paul is saying there is going to be a vast imitation of the breath of God.

That voice of God, there's going to be imitations. And many, many people are going to depart from true faith in Jesus Christ and are going to give heed. They're going to give an ear to these imitations of God's voice.

Genesis 2, 7 tells us that God created Adam out of the dust of the earth and God breathed into his nostrils and he became a living soul. The word that's used for breath in the scriptures is often translated, at least twice translated in the King James Version as spirit.

It's often used in combination with the word ruach, which means air put in motion by divine breath. You could say it's the word of God. Whether God spoke into Adam or whether God breathed into Adam, it's virtually one and the same.

Adam was just a lifeless form until God's breath breathed into him. And it's by God's breath that he became a living soul. Beloved, nothing has changed. God has not changed His ways. He is still speaking.

He speaks through His word to the church today. The Holy Spirit comes and quickens the word of God. And God, even today, if your heart is open to truth, God breathes into your soul. The word of God that is preached finds a resting place.

It's like the dove that Noah let out of the ark in the first instance, flew to and fro and could find no resting place and came back into the ark again. And it's a type in a sense, I suppose, of quite often that we're in seasons in our lives where God sends the word, but there's no resting place in our heart for it.

So the word has to come back as it is. It was sent for a purpose. And the Bible says God's word does accomplish its purpose. It can either soften us or harden us. If there's a purpose that will be accomplished or perhaps prepare us for another day.

But eventually that same bird was released and found a lodging place. And today I'm believing that God's word in many of your hearts is finding that lodging place because there is no other safety. There is no other source of life or strength.

Lazarus and the Power of Christ's Command

It's the breath of God that makes us alive in Christ. It doesn't come any other way. It's what God speaks, finding a lodging place in our hearts and we live. Think about the story of Lazarus, for example, a man absolutely dead, a type of you and I that when we were dead in our trespasses and sins or dead or gripped in the power of death or the power of sin.

There was no three steps to getting out of the grave that was presented. Jesus just said, roll away the stone, take away the unbelief for the hardness of heart. And he just simply called and his voice raised a man out of the grave who was four days dead.

It's an amazing thing. Nothing has changed, beloved. You have to understand that's not just a specific miracle for a certain time in the past. That is a type of how God works. You can be dead and captivated by some besetting sin today, or perhaps you're just absolutely dead in your sin in entirety today.

But if you will open your heart, that's why the writer of Hebrews cried out to the Jewish church and said today, if you can hear his voice, don't harden your hearts. If you can hear his voice, he's always calling you to himself, always calling you to freedom, always calling you out of pain, always calling you into a new life in Christ Jesus.

That's the voice of God. There's no other reason the word of God is preached. He calls you a people unto himself. You and I. He calls us in our weakness. He calls us in our trembling. He calls us in our lack that he might be our absolute source of supply if we will just trust him and believe in what he says by faith.

I've often shared it that Lazarus had a choice to make in his death. He heard, obviously, the voice of Christ calling him. He had a choice to look around and see the tomb and see this encasement of death around him and look at the clothes that had bound him and even think about his own smell.

His own sister said he's got to stink by now. He's been four days in the grave and there are so many circumstances to prevent him from moving forward. But he heard something much greater, giving much more hope, much more alive than any of his circumstances.

He heard a voice calling him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Not an ambiguous voice, a very clear voice. Lazarus, come forth. The same voice that called to Peter in the storm when Peter looked out and said, Lord, if it's you, bid me come.

And Jesus said, come. Gave Lazarus the power over death and gave Peter the power over the elements. And that's exactly what God's voice does for you and I. When God calls us, he gives us power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.

He gives us power over our old nature that we can no longer be captivated by any of the powers and principalities of evil that once dominated our minds and dominated our thinking. He makes us new creations in Christ, raises us up where we begin to understand that we now sit with Christ at the right hand of all power and all authority.

Hallelujah. Paul said to the Athenian philosophers in the book of Acts, chapter 17, verse 28. He said in Christ or in him, we live, we move, we have our being. It's all in Christ. We're not bringing to you clever devices.

We're not telling you how to live a more virtuous life. Paul say, no, it's not about that. These are the philosophers standing around their own altar praising the unknown God. And Paul said, you're worshiping a God in ignorance, but I come to declare him to you.

And there's something about him that you don't understand. He comes and he gives us life and we live and we move and we have our being in him. Amazing when you begin to consider everything that God was speaking through Paul to those people.

Warnings Against False Teaching and Human Wisdom

Paul says to Timothy, preach the word, be instant in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.

But after their own lust, they shall heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned to fables. Incredible when you think of it. Paul is saying that there's a time coming into the world when a people who are led by their lust.

And if you know, if you look it up in the original text, it means the under unsurrendered desires of the corrupted, soulless condition of man. People who don't want to really be led by God anymore. Really, the inferences they want to fit God into their everyday desires.

They want to take Jesus Christ and, yes, do gravitate to his salvation and they want him as savior, but they really don't want him as Lord. They say, well, Christ, I want you because you are going to give me peace and you're going to make me healthy and you're going to keep me happy.

You're going to give me a sense of being while I pursue my objectives in life. And I'm going to ask you to bless my objectives. I'm going to ask you to let me, in effect, lead you. And you become my good luck charm, Jesus, along the journey.

And you're going to fight against my enemies and you're going to bless me and keep me and make me healthy and happy. And you're going to give me a destiny and a wonderful self-image and all of these things.

So really, you'd have to be a fool, in a sense, not to invite that kind of a Christ along on the journey. And folks, you'd have to be a fool to invite that kind of a Christ along. Because that is not the real Jesus.

That is another Christ. Jesus comes not only to be Savior, but he is Lord of our lives. He has the right to our lives. He has the right to take the reins of our heart. We say, Lord, come and sit on the throne of my heart.

That means there are new desires planted. There's a new direction. There are new causes that the Lord begins to reveal in through each one of our hearts. He says, the people are led by their lusts. And many of them will turn away from the truth.

And the truth means a clear reality which is unveiled as opposed to a mere appearance that doesn't have any reality to it. They'll be turned from the truth and turned to fables. Now, this is important to understand this.

Because the word for fables in the Greek is muthos. And here's what it means. They're going to be turned to myths. There is nothing necessarily false in a myth. A myth can contain good logic and reasoning.

However, it is that which is fabricated by the mind which is set over against the real and the actually true. And so, there's going to be a great deal of human reasoning. This is really what Paul is saying.

That is going to rise in the pulpit and take the place of the word of God. There will be people standing and preaching thoughts about God, but not God's thoughts in a sense about himself. People saying, I think and I feel.

We went through a generation, really, 10, 15 years ago. I remember the charismatic Pentecostal churches went through this great succession of conferences. I called them the I think and I feel prophets.

Who read a half a line of scripture and then spend the next hour saying, well, I think and I feel about God. I think God said this. It may not be in the word of God. But they dare anybody to challenge their authority to say God said this to me, even if it's contrary to the word of God.

So, they end up preaching thoughts about God. But in the end, it ends up being completely different than what God says about himself. And they are turned to good principles. And the end result is the church moving into human effort to try to be godly.

Twelve steps to this and seven steps to that and 14 steps to fulfilling your destiny and all these things that we have to do. And it's really not anything that God says about himself. God says, I just simply breathe into you and you live.

I do the miraculous. I take you in your weakness and you just simply hear what I say. You believe it in your heart. And by the power of the Holy Ghost, it begins to become a reality in you. You are raised up to glorify me all throughout the earth.

In the last days, people with unyielded hearts to God will be turned from truth to human wisdom and logic. In 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verses 3 and 4, Paul says it this way. He said, I fear. In verse 3, he says, I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety.

So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit which you have not received, or another gospel which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

And Paul's saying, I fear that you should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. All folks, the devil will always try to bring a multiplicity of words, especially into the church of Jesus Christ, to corrupt God's people from the simplicity of faith.

The simplicity of just saying, God said it and I believe it. And that settles it for me. God's calling, I'm going. He will give me the power that I need to do what he's called me to do. So simple. God says, I will breathe into you.

You receive it. I'll make it a reality. And we will walk together and you will be my servant, fulfilling my purposes on this earth. And Paul says, if you begin to bear with these other messengers, you're going to end up opening your heart to those who bring another gospel to you.

Again, in 2nd Corinthians 11, verse 13, he talks about messengers that appear so sincere. He says, for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. All folks, they can be sincere. They can cry tears. They can tell you how much they care about you and how much they love you.

But nevertheless, they are animated by Satan. Because they are ministering out of the deception of their own unyielding hearts. They themselves don't want to go in the pathway that Christ has called them to go in.

They are grasping and grappling for position and prominence and money and reputation. And the very grasping of their hearts takes them out of the life of Christ. They become opposite to what Christ is and who he is.

And Paul says in 2 Timothy 3, 13, they are ministers who are constantly being deceived and deceiving others. I saw one time a tape of a very well-known supposed evangelist on television. And spouting all kinds of foolishness and then stopping and saying, just a minute now, Holy Spirit, what is it you're saying to me?

And then comes back with more being deceived and deceiving. Being deceived and deceiving. I have little doubt that this man is probably hearing a voice. But it is not the voice of God. The words that come out of his mouth do not lead you to Christ.

They do not lead you to the cross. They do not lead you to a surrendered life. They do not lead you to repentance. They do not lead you to yieldedness to the will of God for your life. So they're being deceived and they're deceiving.

Oh folks, it takes no discernment anymore to see these things. It's become so absolutely blatant that it's tragic that even some of God's years ago, some of his choicest servants are being led down these pathways of deception because there's no longer any discernment in their hearts.

False Shepherds, Prosperity, and Spiritual Captivity

2 Corinthians again, chapter 11, verse 19. Paul says he's impassioned when he says it. He said, you suffer fools gladly, seeing that yourselves are wise. Now Paul is speaking to the Corinthian church and he said, you've allowed fools to come and preach to you.

I'm speaking now to everyone who's refused to turn off the televangelist, many of them. And all of these tapes and radio programs, and most of them are idiocy in the name of Christ. He said, you suffer fools gladly because you've become so wise to the Corinthian church.

He said, for you suffer if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face. Paul is impassioned because the Corinthian church was allowing false teachers that opposed his apostleship and the word of God to come in and to begin, as Paul saw it, to devour a portion as it is of the Corinthian church.

And Paul was impassioned. He said, in your own wisdom, you are giving place to fools who are preaching the gospel as they see it to you. He says, verse 20 says, you are opening your heart and allowing them to take you into their captivity.

Peter says in 2 Peter 2, 19, while promising liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption. Folks, it's not happenstance that all these ministers and ministries in the last 10 years are just falling like dominoes.

Folks, that's what they have been doing. It's been behind the scenes. It's been going on for a long time. They stand and they are in captivity. They promised liberty, but they are not free in Christ. They're not yielded to the purposes of God.

They have an agenda to preach the gospel. And you can be sure it always ends in your wallet. You can be sure. Set your watch by it. It will go to your wallet. I don't care how sincere it is or where it starts.

It will go to your wallet when alive because that's what's in their hearts. It's all about money. It's all about reputation. It's all about being lifted up and being exalted. And Paul cries out to the church and says, in your own wisdom, you've been warned, Paul said, but you've made the choice not to turn it off.

And you're allowing these fools to come into your home and preach the gospel to you. And they're taking you into their captivity. You begin to believe their lies. You begin to believe that if you give them $1 ,000 that God owes you $100 ,000 in return.

It's a lie. And you begin to believe it. They take away your strength like a roaring lion coming into your house with smooth words, but devouring that which is the true life of Christ. They take of you.

Paul says again in verse 20, if a man take of you, Isaiah said it the best in Isaiah 56, 11. Speaking of the shepherds that were bringing Israel into captivity, he said, they're all greedy dogs which can never have enough.

They're shepherds that cannot understand. They all look everyone to their own way, everyone from for his gain and from his own quarter. In other words, everyone has an agenda. His ministry is the only ministry that can win the world.

His ministry is the one that God is raising up. He is God's man or woman of the hour. He looks only for his own gain. He is following his own devices. They cannot understand and they can never have enough.

It's never enough. Oh, folks, when are we going to turn it off? When is the church going to wake up and turn it off and bankrupt these false shepherds, bankrupt every last one of them? And Paul says, and they smite you on the face.

In other words, they just like when Christ did before Pilate, they they they they attempt to take away your confidence. Christ was standing there with confidence in his father and the devil did everything in his power to wipe that confidence off his face.

The refocusing, the turning to other philosophies is to take away your confidence in God. First Corinthians chapter four, if you go there with me, please. Now, if I raising my voice today, I'm not upset with anybody.

I am in passion for the church of Jesus Christ. I think it's a tragedy what's happening today. First Corinthians chapter four, verse eight. Now, Paul exposes some of the theology that is coming their way.

He says, now you are full. Now you are rich and you have reigned as kings without us. I think about this for a moment. Paul says, here's the theology. You're full and rich. Does it sound a little bit like glad to see you have need of nothing?

And you're now reigning as kings. And Paul says, I wish you would have waited for us because we don't seem to be in the same place that you are. And I went to God, Paul says, you did reign that I might also reign with you.

I wish to God you really were reigning, that I might join you. Because he said, I think that God has set forth us the apostles last as it were appointed to death. We're made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised. Even to this present hour, we hunger and thirst and are naked and buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.

We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we're blessed. Being persecuted, we suffer. Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world and are as the offscouring of all things unto this day.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons, I warn you, Paul said. I warn you, for though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel.

Wherefore, I beseech you, be followers of me. For this cause, I send unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways, which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

Now, some are puffed up as though I would not come to you. Paul said, but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will. And I will not know the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Not in word. Not in empty talk. Not in talk about reigning. Not in talk about being full. Not in talk about destiny. The kingdom of God is not in talk, it's in power. That's the inherent. That's the word in the Greek is dunamis.

That means the inherent or enabling power of God. Paul says, here's the evidence I'm looking for. It's not the talk of talkers. It's the power of God in the true church of Jesus Christ. This is the evidence I'm looking for.

It's the man or woman who can stand and say, this is what I used to be. But by the power of God and the promises of God, this is what I am today. This is what God is speaking into my heart. And I am trusting him for the power to enable me to go and do what he has called me to do.

Paul said, this is the kingdom of God. It's not just a bunch of empty talk. It's the power. It's the enabling power. First Corinthians chapter 2. Again, Paul says, verse 1, I brethren, when I came to you, I came not with excellency of speech.

Or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. In other words, Paul saying, I didn't come to you with anything that drew to myself. But yet I was openly showing you the testimony of God. Verse 2, he says, I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Paul says, my theology was not of man, but of Christ and what he accomplished for us on the cross. I warn you, not only Times Square Church, but everyone who hears my voice on tape and radio, wherever else this message is going to go.

If you are sitting under a gospel that does not talk about the cross of Jesus Christ. If you're sitting under a gospel that does not call you to turn away from sin and turn to righteousness. If you're not sitting under a gospel that talks about Christ's blood being all sufficient to pay the price for your sin.

His word being your absolute guide. His spirit being the power that makes his word a reality. If you're not sitting in a place where you're hearing about God's right through Christ to have lordship of your life.

And to do whatever he wants with you. You're not sitting under the gospel of Jesus Christ. Verse 3 says, I came to you. I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling. My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and a power.

Paul said, there's nothing about my outward appearance or presentation that was attractive to you. Yet you were deeply moved upon to believe and embrace the testimony that flowed to you through me. Paul said it was a demonstration of the spirit and a power.

I was so weak, I was so frail, I was trembling. You knew it, you saw it. Yes, there was an inherent power flowing through my life that convinced you of the reality of Jesus Christ. In my weakness, Paul said, you saw that God's revelation of himself in Christ is sufficient.

As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6 .14, God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his own power. Paul said, you saw something in me. You saw something in me and it was not the preaching of man's wisdom.

I didn't come to you exalting myself. I didn't come to you with wonderful speech, but there was something of life flowing through me that you had to reckon with. And you were brought to the understanding that this is God.

This is the kingdom of God. This is the power of God. Paul says, you saw Christ in me. This is really the issue. You saw Christ and you were convinced of the reality of God. But Paul goes on in verse 6.

He says, but yet we do speak wisdom. It's not that we are unwise. You know, some people glory in the statement that we are fools for Christ's sake and they stay fools the rest of their life. No, we do speak wisdom.

There is an incredible wisdom given to the true Christian. The true preacher, teacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The true follower of Christ. There's an incredible wisdom. Paul says, we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world or of the princes of this world that comes to nothing.

In other words, the wisdom of the world is going to end at Armageddon. It's going to bring the world to the brink of destruction. We don't speak this wisdom that is bringing the world to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God.

Verse 7, chapter 2, 1 Corinthians. In a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Paul said there was something that came from the heart and mouth of God even before the creation of the world.

This is that there's a mystery and God gave it to us for our benefit. That he might be glorified in us for our edification as it is. Which none of the princes of this world knew. In other words, nobody.

Pilate didn't know it. Caiaphas didn't know it. The religious leaders didn't know it. Nobody knew it. Walking in their own wisdom. Everybody trying to figure out how to get through. Pilate trying to figure out how to govern an ungovernable people.

Caiaphas trying to figure out how to preserve his place and the religious system. Everyone else trying to figure out how to throw off the bondage of the Romans. And he said there was no wisdom in it. Because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

There's no wisdom in man. There's no wisdom in the natural man's thinking or trying to, in a sense, procure his own spiritual end. But as it is written, verse 9, I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for them that love him.

But, verse 10, God has revealed them to us by his spirit. For the spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him?

Even so, the things of God knows no man but the spirit of God. And Paul says, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

There is the end of it all. Paul says we speak wisdom, but this wisdom comes from the Holy Ghost. As the Holy Ghost illuminates the scriptures to us and makes it known within our inward man, we become aware, here's wisdom, we become aware by the spirit of the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Hallelujah. The Christian life is an exciting life. It should be the most exciting life in the universe. I wouldn't want to trade it off for the foolishness of man's thinking. I wouldn't want to trade it for four steps to anything.

Folks, it's the Holy Ghost who comes and says to your heart, here's what God is speaking to you. Here's what God is going to do. This is the kingdom of God. God is going to raise you up. God is going to give you love.

God is going to send you to the mission field. God is going to do something in your life. The Lord says, I know my thoughts through Jeremiah, that I think towards you. Thoughts of good and not of evil to bring you to an expected end.

God said, I have a purpose for your life. And it was designed before you were even conceived in your mother's womb. I have thoughts that I'm thinking about you. But nobody but the Holy Spirit knows that.

Nobody's aware of it but the spirit of God. And he begins to make your heart aware of what he is thinking. And you begin to flow in the supernatural. The devil will do everything to take the word of God out of your heart.