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Ephesians 4:17 – 25 (NIV)
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Eph 2: 1-3 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins² in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—³ among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

6/5/11 “Wisdom and Revelation” Sermon message recording by Steve Gaustad
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Wisdom and revelation were two gifts that Paul prayed the Lord would give us, Ephesians 2:17. These gifts are essential for a life of Godliness. They don’t come from this world and you won’t find them within yourself. Their not about intelligence or higher education as we know it. Their gifts of “higher” education, their heaven born and heaven given to those who sincerely ask for them.

James 1:5 says “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” Without wisdom and revelation we pray without praying, we sing without singing and we worship without worshiping. We’re spiritually deprived, like fish out of water. We’re dull our souls are starved.

We should ask ourselves are we living in and by divine wisdom and revelation? I wonder, I think a lot of us are in spiritual trouble. We’re being artificially kept alive by religious habits, doing what we think is right. Are we walking by human wisdom or divine revelation? Revelation tells us what to do or were to go, wisdom tells us how to get the full harvest from the revelation.

Wisdom and revelation were two gifts that Paul prayed the Lord would give us, Ephesians 2:17. These gifts are essential for a life of Godliness. They don’t come from this world and you won’t find them within yourself. Their not about intelligence or higher education as we know it. Their gifts of “higher” education, their heaven born and heaven given to those who sincerely ask for them.

James 1:5 says “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” Without wisdom and revelation we pray without praying, we sing without singing and we worship without worshiping. We’re spiritually deprived, like fish out of water. We’re dull our souls are starved.

We should ask ourselves are we living in and by divine wisdom and revelation? I wonder, I think a lot of us are in spiritual trouble. We’re being artificially kept alive by religious habits, doing what we think is right. Are we walking by human wisdom or divine revelation? Revelation tells us what to do or were to go, wisdom tells us how to get the full harvest from the revelation.

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