And God gave Solomon wisdom...And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Go into any large secular bookstore and you will find, generally, New Age literature far outnumbers the Christian. Largely filled with eastern oriental mysticism, it is the “in-thing,” among our younger generation of Christian elitists. These “doctrines of devils,” have influenced both the pulpit and pew. The “spiritual,” being mixed with the “SPIRITUAL.”
You can spot these spiritual showoffs by the cliches they use. They tack God’s name to their little diddies, hoping to legitimize them. Its basic teaching is that man himself is a god and has the potential of pulling himself up by his own boot-straps. The only thing wrong with this teaching is that fallen, depraved man doesn’t have any straps on his boots!
Solomon chose to put God’s interests and pleasure above his own, God gave him a wisdom that surpassed all the philosophers, mystics, and worldly wise around him. His was a wisdom superior to all the peoples to the east of him: Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Egypt, who were renowned for their wisdom, knowledge, arts, and science.
I have noticed in my long life and ministry, God’s gem of wisdom does not generally come in a rare setting of gold or silver. More times than not, you will find it glistening from tarnished material.
“ Now there was found in it (the city) a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.”
(Ecc.(9)
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