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First Lesson
Wisdom 7:22-8:1
22 For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me:
for in her is an understanding spirit, holy, one only, manifold,
subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt,
loving the thing that is good, quick, which cannot be letted,
ready to do good,
23 Kind to man, stedfast, sure, free from care, having all power,
overseeing all things, and going through all understanding, pure,
and most subtil, spirits.
24 For wisdom is more moving than any motion- she passeth and
goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.
25 For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence
flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled
thing fall into her.
26 For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted
mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
27 And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in
herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering
into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.
28 For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the
order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before
it.
30 For
after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.
1 Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly
doth she order all things.
1st Lesson Questions -
Why is it, that vice shall not prevail against wisdom? (V. 30) Is that always true? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency
of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words
of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that
come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they
known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit
of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God.
12 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.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.
14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But
he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged
of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
him? But we have the mind of Christ.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What has God prepared for me, who loves Him? (V. 9) Compare verse 9 with Isaiah 64:4. Most of the time, which am I - a natural (V. 14) or spiritual (V. 15) person. RESOLVE.