Sermon Notes

The Seven Blessings of Wisdom

Sunday – 26th February 2023

Overview

1. Introduction

2. The Wisdom of God releases Power

3. Wisdom of God releases the Power of Creation

4. Wisdom of God makes us like Jesus

5. Wisdom of God Elevates us.

6. Wisdom of God releases friendly council

7. Wisdom of God helps us to recognize the schemes of the Devil.

8. Wisdom of God brings the fear of the Lord in us

9. Concluding Prayer

Introduction – The Seven Blessings of Wisdom

This message was preached by Pr. Anish Mano Stephen

This is the fourth part of a series of messages on the “Wisdom of God”

We have been meditating on the Wisdom of God since the beginning of this month. The Wisdom that we find in the Word of God is not Wisdom from God but it is Wisdom of God. We are New Covenant believers and the Lord Jesus Christ; the Wisdom himself lives inside us. Godly Wisdom helps us to understand who God is, who God is in us, and Who we are to God. We can grow in Godly Wisdom when we develop an intimate relationship with God. We also saw how the Wisdom of God is related to Worship. The wisdom of God coupled with understanding brings blessings into our life.

Our key verse was from the book of James;

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 1:5

Last Sunday we realized how Godly wisdom that is inside of us will increase our Faith in God, which will release supernatural miracles, and display the Glory of God through our life. So, when the wisdom of God is manifesting, there will be changes in our physical life, in our homes, in our offices, in our thinking patterns, the way that we speak, and the way that we behave, and altogether there will be definite changes in us.

Blessing 1 – Wisdom of God releases Power

For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

I Corinthians 1:22-24

Here, Paul is talking about two categories of people, on one side there are Jews who want signs. They want signs of blessings and healings to prove that there is God. On the other side, there are Greeks, who do not want any sign, they want all the scholarly wisdom, so whatever is affecting them, they make a god out of it from their own wisdom and worship it.

But Paul here comes up with a higher revelation and he says, for people who believe in Jesus Christ, when you get godly wisdom, it is just not some wisdom like the Greek people or like the Jewish people, wanting to prove everything by signs and wonders, but when you really receive the Wisdom of God, you will understand that the Holy Spirit is active and the Holy Spirit will prove the power of God and the Wisdom of God in our lives. That is why Paul says, we do not preach anything except Christ and Him crucified. Because at the cross the greatest wisdom of God was revealed and the greatest Power of God was manifested. The Wisdom of God also releases Power to examine every physical situation that comes against our life and will help us to abound in our faith and release miracles. The wisdom of God works contrary to the wisdom of man. So, we should have the power of the Holy Spirit which brings into execution the wisdom of the Almighty God.

There is power in the cross of Jesus. Wisdom reveals the power of Lord Jesus Christ from the cross. So, the first blessing of wisdom is releasing the power of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says on the cross, there has been a divine exchange on the cross, and sin's power was defeated once and for all. In the book of Isaiah 53:5, the Bible says Jesus was crushed because of our sins. Romans 3:25 says, Jesus was crucified so that he could release righteousness onto us for all the sins that were previously committed. In Hebrews 9: 28, Jesus suffered on the cross to bring salvation. That is where we need the revelation of the power of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. When there is a temptation, yielding us to sin immediately, we should first think, Jesus Christ has delivered me from every power of sin, and his righteousness is in me, his Holy Spirit is in me, his power is in me, his wisdom is in me, and that realization will release the power into us to overcome the temptation.

But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption

I Corinthians 1:30

On the cross, Paul is telling us, three things were released, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. God has released His righteousness onto us. we become righteous, we get sanctified and we get redeemed by the blood of Jesus. We become righteous because Jesus Christ substituted for all our sins on the Cross, and by His death, we got erased of all our accusations. We got sanctified after we received our salvation, and the Holy Spirit came into our life. He first sanctifies us. He makes us a clean vessel. He will take all the dirt, all the sin, all the bad past, all the bad memories from our life. He will sanctify us and then he will occupy the place so that we can be the body of the Holy Spirit. On the cross of Calvary according to the wisdom of God, we who were once sinners, for us the holy Jesus paid the last drop of the blood and redeemed all of us. And made us his own, He bought us paying the price of His own blood.

Blessing 2 – The wisdom of God releases the Power of Creation

O Lord, what an amazing variety of all you have created! Wild and wonderful is this world you have made, while wisdom was there at your side. This world is full of so many creatures, yet each belongs to you!

Psalms 104:24 (TPT)

The wisdom of God releases the power of creation in our life. It is a very big blessing that the Lord is giving you. The power of creation operates when there is something to be created in our life. When we speak it out according to the wisdom of God, the creation will happen in our life. It could be an organ missing from our body. It could be a job opening for us. But if we speak the creation, we can create new opportunities for ourselves. We can change our destiny according to the plan and will of the Almighty God when we speak out words of creation in Jesus' mighty name. The wisdom of God is always the will of God. If we have recognized and understood the will of God, when we speak, it will come forth.

Blessing 3 - The wisdom of God makes us like Jesus.

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

1 John 4:17

The wisdom of God will make us like Jesus Christ. We will be able to adorn ourselves with the character of Jesus Christ. Our personal life, our academic lives, our friends, our marriage, our social life, everywhere we will be able to testify and portray Jesus if we have the Wisdom of God. The Wisdom of God releases Jesus Christ into us. Our character, our attitude towards approaching every situation, our behavior, and everything will preach the Holiness and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Blessing 4 – The Wisdom of God Elevates us.

By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice. By me the princes’ rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.

Proverbs 8:15

Wisdom takes us into an elevation in our life where we will become the source of wisdom to other people who are working along with us. If we have the wisdom of God, we will be surprised to see God placing us in a role of a king, a role of justice, into a leadership role for the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. People will come to us for godly counsel and we shall be a solution to the problems of the people of the world.

Blessing 5 – The wisdom of God releases friendly council.

When His lamp shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness; Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;

Job 29:3-4

The wisdom of God releases a friendly council. He is a friendly God. God called Abraham His friend; He spoke to Moses as a friend. When Jesus came into this world, he called Lazarus ‘My friend’ when Jesus was in this world, he called his disciples ‘My friends’. When heavenly wisdom is in our life, we will win over every scheme of darkness in our life. If the devil is trying to pull us down, defeat our house, or try to steal kill and destroy, the devil will not be victorious because the friendly council of the Almighty God is there in our life.

Blessing 6 – The Wisdom of God helps us to recognize the schemes of the devil.

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Revelations 13:18

When godly wisdom comes upon us, we will easily recognize the schemes of the devil in our life. The moment there is a scheme of the enemy coming out against us, we will be able to recognize it. In the time of Daniel, there was a scheme to cut down the prophecies of God upon the Israelites, and there was a small scheme against Daniel also, to eat the king’s food and to bow down before King Nebuchadnezzar, but because Daniel had the revelation in the wisdom of God and he understood the schemes of the enemy, and he was not defeated.

Blessing 7 – Wisdom of God brings the Fear of God in us.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge

Proverbs 1:7

Wisdom brings the fear of the Almighty God in us. It is not fear, but reverence towards the Almighty God. Reverence is worship with love. We are standing because of love and reverence toward God. It is the wisdom of God that brings us to the true worshippers of God, not worshipping with our lips but with renewed hearts that the Holy Spirit God transforms inside us. We do not fear and worship Him, but we love and worship him

Concluding Prayer

Dear Holy Spirit, thank you for the blessings of the wisdom of God. Help us not to believe in the lies of medical science, or in the facts of the things of the world, but to believe in Elohim, the Creator Almighty God, so that no more can the devil cheat us, and that we would be able to use our mouth to create things, create our weddings, create our families, create our job, create our healings. Jesus, release wisdom and the blessings of wisdom upon my life.

In Jesus’ Name

Amen.