But just because someone operates in a word of knowledge, does not mean it's prophecy. I will share more below, but first let's look at the gift of wisdom. Many words of wisdom come to me. As I have developed my ministry I have had senior ministers come to me who have walked a similar path to what I have done. One such minister said, "Darren, you have a great online ministry, but you are missing something. You need to have an email list. Do a weekly teaching of some sort and you will grow your ministry. When I first heard this, I didn't really feel the need to have an email list.
But that word of wisdom burned in my heart and I finally knew I had to do something about it. When I started the mailing list it became fruitful quickly. To date, it has never taken steps back, only forward. Another word of wisdom came to me recently. I was stumped on what I should do in ministry. I heard the Lord say, "Remember the vision from the beginning. I wanted to start on a new vision of becoming a church plant within my region. The Lord said, "There is a timing to things. Wisdom comes, and it is up to us to live within it or not. It will help us to get from A to B in God's fruitfulness.
Many times, I have received a prophetic vision of the future. The Lord will often show me a future state that looks nothing like the place I live currently. Many times in my life He shows me what I will become. I remember many years ago I saw that I would become a minister with some recognition. I saw that I would go into communities and organize revival in those places. Quickly, many would be touched by the power of God and they would begin to do the work of ministry.
I saw hundreds of people involved. When I got this vision, I was a brand-new Believer. I remember seeing myself in that dream and feeling the confidence that I would have when I would be doing this work. I was nothing like that at the time.
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I believe I am only becoming this person now. I had that dream 13 years ago. Prophecy gives us hope for something that we will obtain or become. Prophecy helps us to create a path toward destiny, and if we listen to the Lord we will get to the place that He has in store. When Abraham stepped out and left his father's land to live in tents in Canaan, it was based on a word of prophecy that he received from the Lord.
He was told that his descendants would outnumber the sands on the seashore and the stars in the sky. He had to step into obedience to walk into the place of fulfillment of destiny. He received prophetic vision, but then needed daily supernatural wisdom to step toward God's plan. This took much time. As we move toward our prophecies, we inherit the strength and the character to flow into what God has in store. By the time we get there, we are the person that God described in the beginning. He knows the beginning from the end. He knows what He is doing in your life and it shall come to pass.
Do not stop walking daily in His steps. Let me pray for you today. I ask God to download a vision into your heart of what you are about to become. I ask Him to birth a new day in your life. They do the most stupid things. I think of Timothy Leary, a very brilliant man: But I think of his folly in destroying himself with the use of LSD and leading so many others down that path.
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So you see it is knowledge without wisdom. And knowledge without wisdom can be an extremely dangerous thing. Through knowledge we have been able to create superweapons that have the capacity of destroying mankind. However, if we do not have wisdom, we will destroy mankind with the superweapons. So knowledge without wisdom can be extremely dangerous. I have often said that I marvel at the stupid things brilliant people believe and do once they have rejected the truth of Jesus Christ-because, you see, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
And when a person rejects the Lord, when he rejects the idea of God, then he is prone to do the most ridiculous things. And he is prone to believe the most ridiculous things. Over in India, some of the most educated people in the whole world live almost like animals in filthy and unhealthy conditions in order that they might spend time at the compound of Sai Baba. They want to be near this man and to hear him speak.
And they-these brilliant people-believe that one of the greatest honors is to be able to eat his excrement. Brilliant people do stupid things. I am amazed that when people are given over by God to reprobate minds and are in rebellion against the truth of God, that Satan seems to always reduce them to the worst kind of filth. Have you ever noticed this process?
It is interesting that in the homosexual community, they call it scatting, but it is the same thing that these people who are over worshipping Sai Baba do. Satan seems to reduce people to the filthiest, lowest level and it is shocking. Your mind just cannot conceive of something like this. But this is what Satan reduces brilliant people to, who reject the truth of God. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians since the unbelievers did not want to have the truth of God, He gave them over to a strong delusion because they did not have the love of the truth. So God allowed them to believe a lie rather than the truth.
And of course Paul follows the whole downward progression in Romans 1: And so, it is when a person rejects the truth of Jesus Christ and gives his mind over to the impurities of darkness and Satan. As Satan leads them down the path, he will lead them down to the very bottom. If you do not have the fear of the Lord, you do not have true wisdom. You have not even begun in the path of wisdom. Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore, get wisdom. A lot of people are seeking knowledge.
You should also seek wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is dangerous. Now this gift of the word of wisdom is not just a reservoir of wisdom that I have so that I can become this guru with a reservoir of wisdom. It is not just a reservoir of wisdom that I can tap into at will. But the word of wisdom is that anointing of the Holy Spirit which is exercised when issues arise and when there are important decisions that must be made. It is that imparting of the word of wisdom that just is so right that it brings divided factions together.
People say, "Oh yes, that is good. Now many times I believe that this gift is exercised without even our knowledge that it is the exercise of the gift of the word of wisdom. I think that many times when an issue comes up we just go ahead and express our opinion-how we feel. But in reality it is a word of wisdom from the Spirit on that particular issue and we are not even aware.
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You see, you do not get some kind of a buzz. Or you do not get some kind of a ringing or hear bells go off. Listen now, words of wisdom are going to flow from my lips.
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It works in a very natural way. And I think many times we make a real mistake in not seeing, or not discerning the supernatural in the natural. I think that so many times we are expecting the supernatural things to only happen in supernatural ways. But so often they happen in such natural ways we do not recognize the supernatural in it. As I look back on my life and how God has led me, I see how He supernaturally led me in very natural ways. Ways in which I had no idea it was God leading me. But as I look back on it now, I can see that the hand of God was on me. When I first began in the ministry, I began as a hopeful evangelist.
And all of my messages were evangelistic even though I was pastoring a church. And all of my messages were topical, evangelistic messages. And always there at the end of the message was the appeal for people to accept the Lord. And of course if there were no sinners there, which was often the case, then I appealed for people to dedicate their lives, or to repent for not bringing sinners to church.
I mean, I went down the list until I hit them somewhere. I thought they had to get down to the altar and repent. And the success of the sermon was always measured by how many people came forward and how hard they cried. And so I was always trying to motivate people to repent for anything. Just come forward and repent. And I had prepared two years of topical sermons and when I would finish my two years in a church, I would request for a change of church. And then I would go to a new church and preach my two years of messages at the new church.
That happened until we landed in Huntington Beach, back when Huntington Beach was just a lazy little beach community of 6, people. It had the lowest tax base in Orange County because all the oil wells that were there provided tax money. The city had the finest library and the finest schools and it was a sleeper of a town.
People did not know about Huntington Beach-how great it was to live there, but I discovered it by living there. And after the two years, when I preached all my sermons and it was time to request a change, the problem was that I did not want a change. I liked living in Huntington Beach. Our daughter had started to go to school and it was such a tremendous school system, that we wanted her to have the advantage of the school system there in Huntington Beach.
And in those days there were not a lot of surfers out in the ocean. The publisher of the newspaper, George Farquardt and the fellow who had the pharmacy in town, Sam Terry, and I used to meet down at the beach and go surfing in the morning. And it was wonderful, because we would be the only three people out surfing in the morning. We would go down and watch the break to see if it was breaking best on the north or the south side and we would go out and have it all to ourselves. And we could be through by ten in the morning and we could go to our various tasks and it was just-it was paradise.
I did not want to leave Huntington Beach. This was nice but I had run out of sermons. And in about the seventh chapter of the book he had outline studies on 1 John. And I started reading those outline studies in 1 John and they were marvelous. I thought, "This is tremendous sermon material. These are great sermon outlines.
My, I can get a sermon from every one of these outlines! And I thought, "Wonderful! I can stay in Huntington Beach another year. We were going to start a study of a book of the Bible. We were going to study 1 John and so we started the study of 1 John. By the end of the year, and of course I used Griffith Thomas heavily, and I also got other commentaries and I was able to stretch the 43 into And I spent a whole year in 1 John. But the amazing thing is that in that year's time the church doubled. And I had baptized more people in that year than I had in any year in my ministry. And yet I was not preaching evangelistic sermons.
I was just teaching the saints the Word of God, and evangelism was happening. And so I still enjoyed living in Huntington Beach and still did not want to move. So I remembered the words of one of my college profs who said that the Book of Romans would revolutionize any church. And I had heard so many people talk about how wonderful Romans was. I had read it, but it really did not do much for me. But I decided if it would cause a revolution, I would teach it. I was not ready for the revolution it caused because it revolutionized me! I discovered the grace of God.
I discovered a new relationship with God. I spent two years in Romans. I still did not want to leave Huntington Beach. And on the little cover it said the most important page in this book is So I turned to page to discover what he figured was the most important page in that little book of great Bible helps.
And I discovered that he proposed that every church have a systematic way of reading the Bible all the way through as a congregation. And ideally the pastor's sermon would come out of the portion that the people had read the previous week.
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And I realized, "Hey, I have the whole Bible. I can spend the rest of my life here! Now that is the way God naturally did a supernatural work in my own life and in my own ministry-leading me into expositional Bible studies. From topical, evangelistic messages to just going through the Bible. I was going through a book in the Bible and becoming a teacher rather than a preacher.
And it seemed so natural. He took my natural love for the beach, my natural love for surfing, and He used it to guide me in His path to become a Bible expositor. God works His supernatural work in our lives in very natural ways. And these gifts of the Spirit, such as word of wisdom, so often happen so naturally that we are not even aware that that gift is being exercised at that moment. And many times it is not until later, when we have more information that we suddenly discover that we were speaking words of wisdom that were beyond us.
I did not have all the facts and yet the wisdom was right on. Now the gift of the Spirit in words of wisdom or in wisdom itself is not a gift that is unique to the New Testament. It is something that is found throughout the Old Testament. Daniel was known for the wisdom that God had given to him. It was testified of Daniel, "There is a man in the kingdom in whom is the wisdom of the holy gods" Daniel 5: The first mention of wisdom in the Bible is associated with the Spirit of God.
And many times in looking at a subject, it is interesting to look at what they call the "first mention. What were the surrounding events and the context in which it was mentioned? And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. Now God is talking to Moses, as He is ready to build the tabernacle. And God speaks of having filled men with the spirit of wisdom.
And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship. God gifted Moses in wisdom, knowledge, understanding, the capacity to make things, to develop, and to put things together. And He hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship. Again this is the same as Exodus And Joshua [who was the successor of Moses] the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: Now here Joshua was filled with wisdom through the laying on of the hands of Moses.
Even as in the New Testament, the gifts of the Spirit were often imparted by the laying on of hands and prayer and many times prophecy. Stir up the gift that is in you that was given unto you by the laying on of hands of the elders. So the gifts of the Spirit were imparted in the Old Testament through the laying on of hands. As Moses laid his hands on Joshua and God gave to him the spirit of wisdom, he was full of the spirit of wisdom. For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
In the prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, that righteous branch that shall arise out of the stem of Jesse, Isaiah And 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. Now how was this word of wisdom manifested in the life of Christ?
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I think probably the most classic manifestation of this gift of the word of wisdom is when the Pharisees were seeking to trap Him and turn the people against Him. And they were sitting around trying to figure out ways by which they could catch Him in His speech. They were always asking leading questions by which they were hoping to trap Him and to turn the people against Him. But Jesus was always wise enough to give answers so that they could not really pin any charges against Him.
But they finally came up with what they thought was a Catch situation. They will all shun Him. If He says 'No,' then we can report Him to the Roman government because He is leading a tax revolt and He will be charged by Rome for the crime. So they came to Jesus and they said, "We know you are a straight shooter. You always tell the truth. You are not a respecter of persons. I mean, if it is true, it is true. We want to know, is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar?
And give to God what things are God's. It is just the gift of the word of wisdom.
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In Solomon the word of wisdom was manifested when there were two women who came to him both claiming that a baby was theirs. And so here they were arguing with each other and the one was saying, "You are lying. It is my baby. She is the true mother. She was not willing to sacrifice the baby to settle the argument. In the New Testament in Acts 15 , certain Judaizers had gone to the Gentile church in Antioch and had created a ruckus. They were trying to tell the Gentile believers that unless they converted to Judaism, unless they accepted and followed the law of Moses and were circumcised, they could not be saved.
And so Paul and Barnabas went to these fellows who were creating division there in Antioch and they came back to Jerusalem and the first church council was called in order to determine what relationship the Gentile believers should have to the Mosaic law. Peter gave his testimony of how God led him to the Gentiles and how they received the Holy Spirit. Paul and Barnabas testified of their ministry among the Gentiles and the marvelous miracles that God had wrought among the Gentiles.
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And finally James spoke up and he said,. Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely Judas surnamed Barsabus, and Silas, chief men among the brethren. These were men who came with a message from the church. But you see the solution that James gave was the word of wisdom and the result was this division was cured. And everyone was satisfied with the way that James proposed the solution to a divisive issue. Earlier in Acts 6 a dispute arose concerning the welfare program of the church. The Jewish widows who were living by the Greek or Hellenistic culture, felt that their widows were not getting the same kind of treatment as those other widows who were living by the Hebrew culture.
And they came to the apostles and they complained, "There is not a fairness in the distribution of the church's welfare program. There is a favoritism that is being shown. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, the whole church.