BOOK: Exhortations

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Volume 9 ... #22

When A Person Tries To Be Wise

John 12 ... 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom HE raised from the dead. 2 There they made HIM a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with HIM. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped HIS feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4 Then saith one of HIS disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray HIM, 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of MY burying hath she kept this. 8 For the poor always ye have with you; but ME ye have not always.

9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that HE was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom HE had raised from the dead.

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Titus 1 ... 15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny HIM, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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When we try to be "something" or when we try to say something to make others impressed with our wisdom, it is like taking a menstruous cloth and waving it in front of everyone's face.

There is a TV announcer who greatly desires to appear wise.  He even has said on camera that he was trying to think of something wise to say and he got into trouble with what he said.

When we try to be wise in our own eyes we are really fools and show our shame.

If God, by HIS Spirit, brings something to our mind and we speak that word from the Spirit of God we glorify God.

By our own words we are trying to glorify ourselves.

Proverbs 3:7 ... Be not wise in thine own eyes:  fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

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