Proverbs 4
We are walking in today: Whose Wisdom?
Witness wise throughout the Bible: H2451 chakam-- to be wise; to be or become wise, act wisely; to make wise, teach wisdom, instruct
Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.
The Torah testifies...............
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, H2449 that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
The writings bear witness...........................
Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise H2449 the simple.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: H2449 but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).
Wisdom protects us from the dangers of knowledge. Potential is dormant ability. (The word dormant literally means “that which is, but it is just lying there below its full strength, unused.”) It is also reserved power, untapped strength, and unused success. Potential is everything that a thing is, that has not yet been seen or manifested. Everything in life begins as potential. All things have the potential to fulfill themselves, because The Most High created everything with potential. There is no fulfillment in life without understanding the reason for being. If we want to know the real potential of something, we first have to know what that thing was created to do. So if you have a seed in your hand, a kernel of corn or a pea, you will never get the seed’s complete fulfillment until you know that there is a plant inside that seed. It is only as we look beyond the seed to the plant that we understand its true potential. The same is true of our relationship with The Most High. The Most High created each man with a great wealth of potential. Too often, however, we look only at what we presently have. We look at our last dollar and say, “All I have is one dollar.” But The Most High says, “No. That is not all you have. If you only knew the potential of that dollar.” And we reply, “But The Most High you don’t understand. There’s a one next to that ‘$’ thing.” Again The Most High says, “No. If you could just take this dollar and put it into a certain condition, it would multiply.” The potential of everything is related to its purpose for being. Before we can understand the potential of a thing or person, we first must know the conditions under which it was meant to exist. Thus the most important thing for you and me, as human beings, is to try and find out for the rest of our lives what is the purpose for everything in life. That is our main goal. Unless we ask ourselves, “What is the purpose for everything in life?” we will die without having experienced the potential of everything. We will miss the wisdom of The Most High in creation. The apostle Paul, in the first chapter of First Corinthians, describes the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of The Most High. Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not The Most High made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since the wisdom of The Most High the world through its wisdom did not know Him, The Most High was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach HaMashiach crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles… (1 Corinthians 1:20-22). When somebody tells you they are wise, don’t get carried away. Although they may have wisdom, it might not be the right kind of wisdom.
THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD
Did you know that satan still has wisdom? Ezekiel 28:17 tells us that satan’s wisdom became corrupted. The Most High could not take back what He had given, so satan is still wise. But his wisdom is corrupt. Before the fall, lucifer’s responsibility in heaven was to be the music and worship leader. He was designed with the potential not only to lead in music and worship, but also to produce it. Lucifer’s body was made with pipes in it so that every time he lifted a wing, a sound came out—music. He never taught an orchestra because the orchestra arrived when he did. As soon as he started fanning his wings, the angels started singing. This guy was a beautiful angel. He had the potential to lead all heaven, that other world out there, into worship and music. But that wisdom became corrupted. It was not taken from him, it just got corrupted. The Most High is the Creator, but satan is the perverter. The Most High creates everything; satan creates nothing. But everything The Most High creates, satan perverts. That’s why music is such an important part of our world today. The guy who is running the spirit of the world is a cheap musician. The amounts of money the devil uses to support the music ministry of the world is amazing. Michael Jackson alone made $220 million in one year. Whitney Houston made $84 million—in just one year. And the Church can’t raise even one million. Although that may sound strange, it is possible because the cheap musician who fell is the one who is backing the music industry. He is manipulating that stuff. He knows just what to do. But The Most High still has the final word, and I like what He has done. The Most High has put music into the Church and into us. He now calls for praise from man. But the point is, satan’s potential is related to his purpose.
WHAT IS WISDOM?
In First Corinthians, Paul scoffs: “Where are you, those who think you are wise? Is not your wisdom just so much foolishness?” Attacking the supposed wisdom of the world, the apostle declares that it is foolishness. The Most High, in His wisdom, has made the wisdom of the world to be just so much folly (1 Corinthians 1:20). The Most High considers foolishness any wisdom that does not fulfill its original purpose. So if you are wise and you can really figure things out, but you use it to steal, The Most High says, “You are foolish.” If you are a very skillful musician, but you use it to create lewdness and sensuality, and to cause people to go into perversion, then The Most High calls that foolishness. If you know that the power you have to believe was given to you by The Most High, but you prefer to believe there is no The Most High, The Most High calls you a fool. For when you use the belief The Most High has given to you to say you don’t believe in Him, your wisdom becomes foolishness. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God, The Most High.” He takes the ability The Most High gave him to believe and uses that belief power to not believe in The Most High. The Most High says, “That’s foolishness!” The Most High considers foolishness any wisdom that does not fulfill its original purpose. Although The Most High calls the wisdom of the world foolishness, it is still wisdom. It’s a perverted wisdom used by the chief of perverters to blind us to its very foolishness. For who could believe The Most High would use a crucifixion to bring salvation to the world. That is not the way we expect Him to work. We look for miraculous signs and unusual insights to indicate the presence and working of The Most High. What wisdom would choose a poor carpenter to bring the greatest gift the world has ever known? Surely not the wisdom of the world, which looks to the wealthy and the well-educated. But for those who believe in Yeshua HaMashiach, The Most High’s apparent foolishness is revealed as true wisdom. The wisest of human thoughts appears puny beside this foolishness of The Most High, and the greatest of man’s strengths pales beside HaMashiach’s weakness. What is a stumbling block or pure foolishness for those who don’t believe in HaMashiach stands, for the Mashiach, as a towering source of truth, strength and hope. That is wisdom.
YOUR SECRET WISDOM
The Most High has given you a secret wisdom that He placed in you before you were born. He planted within you a potential something—a wisdom to know who you are and what you were created to be and do. That potential something was in The Most High, but He allowed it to leak into you when He pulled you out of Himself. It’s a hidden understanding that follows neither the wisdom of our society nor the insights of our leaders. Unlike the wisdom of the world, which is worthless, The Most High’s secret wisdom about you is a priceless jewel. Many people die without unveiling their wealth of wisdom. They die in total foolishness, without experiencing the life that dwells within. What a pity! They have missed The Most High’s secret wisdom. (Secret here does not mean “to be withheld from.” It rather has the meaning of “to have never known existed.” There is a difference. The Most High is not holding back from the world. He is not withholding from us our true potential. It’s just that we have never known that it is within us.) They have missed the wisdom The Most High designed before the beginning of time for the honor of man. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of The Most High’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that The Most High destined for our glory before time began (1 Corinthians 2:6-7). This wisdom is like a secret that was supposed to be known before we were created. It’s a wisdom from The Most High that He is keeping for us. It was in The Most High and now it dwells in us. In other words, you were born with wisdom that literally came out of The Most High. You have the ability to line up with The Most High. You are in the The Most High class. You were born with wisdom that literally came out of The Most High. I know you may find that hard to accept—perhaps you think I am a mad man. But the truth is you’ll be shocked when you understand who you really are. You don’t know what you have inside that you are selling so cheaply. You have The Most High’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that you should be using to discover the earth. None of the rulers of this world understand it, nor have they ever understood it. If only we could understand who we are (and I guess I include citizens, because we used to be there, and we need to find out where we used to be). We keep thinking that the life we left behind is better than the life toward which we are headed. We are constantly dipping into the ways and wisdom of the world to try and solve our present situations. But the world does not know the wisdom and potential The Most High has already destined for us. They don’t understand it, because if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord Yeshua! “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what The Most High has prepared for those who love Him”—but The Most High has revealed it to us by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). Your eyes can’t see, your ears can’t hear, neither can your mind imagine what The Most High intends for His children. It’s totally beyond what you can understand. If you could see through your eyes what you were created to be, you’d change your life. If you could hear through your ears or perceive through your mind—but the Scriptures say you can’t. Your situation sounds hopeless: No eyes have seen it…no ears have heard it…no mind has conceived it. Your eyes and ears and mind cannot help you understand what The Most High prepared for you before you were born. If they could, you’d shape up!
THE DEEP THINGS OF The Most High
“But The Most High has revealed it to us by His Spirit.” But indicates a change. But inserts hope in the midst of hopelessness. Most people do not know what The Most High intends for their lives. They have not seen their secret wisdom, nor have they heard about it. They have never even thought about the stuff because there are certain things we cannot understand unless the Holy Spirit reveals them to us. They are so deep within our potential that we need help to drag them out. The Most High had those deep things within Him before He made us; He put them into us at birth. But we don’t know they exist because sin has clogged up the entry way. It is as if The Most High struck a well and put wealth in it—a wealth of oil. Wealth is under there in your bosom. There is wealth in your personality—wealth in your being. But it has been clogged up and capped off by sin. When you were born, the cap over your potential was firmly in place. Outside The Most High’s grace you will never know what is buried beneath that cap. Billions of dollars of wealth are buried within you, but you are not aware of it. You’re walking along cool, but you don’t know who you are. You don’t understand that what you see is merely the shadow of your potential. That’s why the Bible says, “nor has it entered the hearts of man the things The Most High has under the cap for him.” Oh, man!
THE HOLY SPIRIT CONNECTION
In His mercy, The Most High has placed within each of us the answer to this dilemma. After the resurrection of Yeshua HaMashiach, The Most High sent the gift of the Holy Spirit. That same Spirit, which we receive at our new birth, provides the connection between our spirits and The Most High’s secret wisdom. Your capped potential is like a new battery. You came into the world full of the ability to run the whole thing. But you’re just sitting there. Your stored power isn’t being used. Like a battery that needs acidic water inside it before it can really fulfill its purpose, you need something to unleash the potential locked inside you. The Holy Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life. Without the filling of the Holy Spirit, you can never function to your fullest potential. The Holy Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life. Have you ever wondered why we have to be born of the Spirit? Why does the Holy Spirit come and connect with our spirits? Think for a moment about your spirit. The deepest knowledge about ourselves comes to us through our spirits—we can’t know anything deeper than our spirits reveal. No one knows more about you than you know about yourself, for who can understand a man better than his own spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11)? If you just got saved, your spirit doesn’t know anything about you. Before your new birth in HaMashiach, you were spiritually dead. Your spirit has been paralyzed for 15, 20, or 30 years (however long it took you to walk in His order and directions). You have been dumb and ignorant about who you really are, because you can’t truly know yourself until you become spiritually alive. If you are not a citizen, you don’t even know who you are. Only the spirit of a man knows the real thoughts of what a man is supposed to be, and we are born spiritually dead. We will never know who we are supposed to be until we accept Yeshua as our Savior and receive The Most High’s gift of His Spirit. If then, your spirit doesn’t know any more about you than what it has learned since you got redeemed, look at how little it knows. Just look at you. Do you know where you would be if you had not been redeemed? Now don’t get me wrong. You aren’t perfect yet. Don’t get carried away. You know there is still much that needs to be worked on—many things that need to be refined. But do you know what happens? The more we know about who we are, the more our attitude toward ourselves changes. Isn’t that something? The minute we realize who we are we say, “Wait a minute now. I’m the King’s kid,” and we begin to put on kingly clothes. We think, “I’m a child of The Most High now,” so we start changing our language. We think, “Gosh, man. I’m a prosperous person,” and we start expecting things to happen in our lives. As our knowledge about who we are grows, our lives change. All this is possible because the Holy Spirit goes to the cap on the well of the wealth of our potential and pries it off. He comes into our lives and goes straight for the things that are clogging us up and dragging us down. Through the power of The Most High, He pulls off that cap and starts to drill. The Holy Spirit comes into our lives and goes straight for the things that are clogging us up and dragging us down. King Solomon described this process like a bucket drawing water out of a deep well. The Holy Spirit is the bucket that allows us to understand the wisdom and intentions of our hearts (Proverbs 18:4). The Most High has prepared so many deep things about who we are. Our eyes can’t see them, nor can our minds conceive them, yet The Most High is revealing them to us through His Spirit. The Most High wants us to realize here on this planet who we are. That is His purpose in creating us. We need the Holy Spirit because eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, nor has it entered the minds of men who man really is. Only the Holy Spirit searches “the deep things of The Most High.” Some of you have received the revelation of what it cost The Most High to love you. Others of you have not. Some of you are ready to walk into a deeper level of knowledge; others are not. The Most High beckons you to take another step into a deeper, more relevant knowledge of your potential in HaMashiach—though you may have been a citizen for years. You need to take this step because you still don’t know who you are. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal this truth to you. Your eyes cannot perceive your true potential…your ears cannot hear it… neither can your mind perceive it unless the Holy Spirit gives it to the eyes and the ears and the mind. Until He does, you continue to walk around limiting your potential. The Spirit searches all things. It’s His job to search out the deep things of The Most High and interpret them so we can understand them. Now, listen. The Most High is deep by Himself! Trying to figure out The Most High, Himself is deep enough; but The Most High says, “Nope! I have some deep things.” Our efforts to understand The Most High could take a million years or more. How can we possibly understand The Most High’s deep things—the great mysteries He has to share with us? Can we imagine that the source of the deep things of The Most High might be connected to us? Can we go inside The Most High to those things that are deep within Him? Yes, we can! The Most High has given us His Spirit so we can understand all the things He oozed into us. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from The Most High, that we may understand what The Most High has freely given us (1 Corinthians 2:12). That’s mind blowing! I’m hooked on those little things that are leaking out in me—those revelations. I’m glad the Holy Spirit can go deep to show me those things about you and me that The Most High knows and wants to share. There are things about you, concerning who you can be, that you haven’t discovered yet—holy things that only the Holy Ghost can explain. The Most High reveals His deep things to you through the Holy Spirit because He knows you would not believe them if they were simply told to you through your mind. Your mind cannot possibly comprehend all that The Most High has prepared for you to be. Forget what others have told you about who you can be. That’s a joke. Don’t even consider it. That is not all you can be, because the deepest things you can know about yourself are not in your mind or your emotions or even in your body. They are in your spirit. The deepest things you can know about yourself are what you get from your spirit. That’s why The Most High gives you the Holy Spirit. The Spirit goes deep inside you to capture the wealth of your potential. He pulls deep from within you the answers to your spirit’s cries, showing you who you are and why He created you. You will never be fulfilled until you understand why The Most High made you. You will only walk around confused, thinking, “There’s gotta be more. There’s gotta be more.” Many people get bored coming to church. They get tired of singing and tired of praying. Even fasting doesn’t meet the hunger of their hearts. Why? Because there’s more than coming to church…there’s more than singing…there’s more than praying. When you hunger for the deep things of The Most High, a hunger that The Most High Himself puts within you, you will not be satisfied until the Holy Spirit reveals The Most High’s secret wisdom to you. Your spirit yearns for the deep things of The Most High that He has within Him about you. There is a deep in you crying out to the deep things in The Most High. You will never be satisfied, even after you are redeemed, because there is something inside you that continually calls out for more. And the thing you are calling for is locked up in The Most High—the wisdom of The Most High concerning you. You will never be fulfilled until you get filled with what The Most High has that is supposed to be in you. That’s why you have to come to The Most High. You’ll never be fulfilled without The Most High, because you are looking for what The Most High has. You’ll never be fulfilled without The Most High, because you are looking for what The Most High has. For this reason, The Most High gives you the Holy Spirit. The only way to get out of The Most High and into you the deep things The Most High knows about you is through His Spirit communing with yours. The Holy Spirit searches the deep things of The Most High—the deep things about you that you lack. The Most High prepared and predestined those things for you before you were created. He had them in Himself and gave them to you at birth. But you don’t know those things exist, because sin has capped the well and blocked the way. Only The Most High, through the Holy Spirit, can reveal them again.
Do you want to know how cute you can be? Check The Most High out. Do you want to know how smart you are? Go back to The Most High. Your potential is buried in The Most High. We think going to the moon is great—we should see what The Most High had planned that we didn’t follow. Our eyes will never see the stuff The Most High prepared for us, nor will our ears hear it. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us the deep things of The Most High that tell us who we are. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, you can re-establish your relationship with The Most High. The Holy Spirit, connected with your spirit, unravels the knots that have bound your thoughts, removes the streaks that have blurred your vision and clears the debris that has hidden your potential. Working like a sculptor, He brings out the beauty hidden deep within your being, because that is the real you. Open your life to Yeshua HaMashiach. Allow The Most High to reveal His secret wisdom concerning you. See with your eyes and hear with your ears things you have never seen or heard before. Conceive with your mind thoughts that never before have occurred to you. Cooperate with the Holy Spirit as He sucks out of The Most High and into you the depths of the riches that The Most High prepared for you. Live the rest of your life building an atmosphere where it is possible for the Holy Spirit to use you as He takes His bucket of hope, dips it deep into the wells of your potential and pulls it to the top of your senses. Drink deeply, growing in the knowledge of who you really are in The Most High. That’s my dream.
PRINCIPLES
1. The potential of everything is related to its purpose for being.
2. The wisdom of the world is a foolish, corrupt wisdom.
3. For those who believe, Yeshua HaMashiach is both the power and the wisdom of The Most High.
4. The Most High has given you a wisdom that He placed in you before you were born.
5. You are in The Most High’s class.
6. You will never know who you are supposed to be until you accept Yeshua as your Savior and receive the gift of The Most High’s Spirit.
understanding people.
The Torah testifies...............
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, H2449 that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
The writings bear witness...........................
Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise H2449 the simple.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: H2449 but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).
Wisdom protects us from the dangers of knowledge. Potential is dormant ability. (The word dormant literally means “that which is, but it is just lying there below its full strength, unused.”) It is also reserved power, untapped strength, and unused success. Potential is everything that a thing is, that has not yet been seen or manifested. Everything in life begins as potential. All things have the potential to fulfill themselves, because The Most High created everything with potential. There is no fulfillment in life without understanding the reason for being. If we want to know the real potential of something, we first have to know what that thing was created to do. So if you have a seed in your hand, a kernel of corn or a pea, you will never get the seed’s complete fulfillment until you know that there is a plant inside that seed. It is only as we look beyond the seed to the plant that we understand its true potential. The same is true of our relationship with The Most High. The Most High created each man with a great wealth of potential. Too often, however, we look only at what we presently have. We look at our last dollar and say, “All I have is one dollar.” But The Most High says, “No. That is not all you have. If you only knew the potential of that dollar.” And we reply, “But The Most High you don’t understand. There’s a one next to that ‘$’ thing.” Again The Most High says, “No. If you could just take this dollar and put it into a certain condition, it would multiply.” The potential of everything is related to its purpose for being. Before we can understand the potential of a thing or person, we first must know the conditions under which it was meant to exist. Thus the most important thing for you and me, as human beings, is to try and find out for the rest of our lives what is the purpose for everything in life. That is our main goal. Unless we ask ourselves, “What is the purpose for everything in life?” we will die without having experienced the potential of everything. We will miss the wisdom of The Most High in creation. The apostle Paul, in the first chapter of First Corinthians, describes the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of The Most High. Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not The Most High made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since the wisdom of The Most High the world through its wisdom did not know Him, The Most High was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach HaMashiach crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles… (1 Corinthians 1:20-22). When somebody tells you they are wise, don’t get carried away. Although they may have wisdom, it might not be the right kind of wisdom.
THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD
Did you know that satan still has wisdom? Ezekiel 28:17 tells us that satan’s wisdom became corrupted. The Most High could not take back what He had given, so satan is still wise. But his wisdom is corrupt. Before the fall, lucifer’s responsibility in heaven was to be the music and worship leader. He was designed with the potential not only to lead in music and worship, but also to produce it. Lucifer’s body was made with pipes in it so that every time he lifted a wing, a sound came out—music. He never taught an orchestra because the orchestra arrived when he did. As soon as he started fanning his wings, the angels started singing. This guy was a beautiful angel. He had the potential to lead all heaven, that other world out there, into worship and music. But that wisdom became corrupted. It was not taken from him, it just got corrupted. The Most High is the Creator, but satan is the perverter. The Most High creates everything; satan creates nothing. But everything The Most High creates, satan perverts. That’s why music is such an important part of our world today. The guy who is running the spirit of the world is a cheap musician. The amounts of money the devil uses to support the music ministry of the world is amazing. Michael Jackson alone made $220 million in one year. Whitney Houston made $84 million—in just one year. And the Church can’t raise even one million. Although that may sound strange, it is possible because the cheap musician who fell is the one who is backing the music industry. He is manipulating that stuff. He knows just what to do. But The Most High still has the final word, and I like what He has done. The Most High has put music into the Church and into us. He now calls for praise from man. But the point is, satan’s potential is related to his purpose.
WHAT IS WISDOM?
In First Corinthians, Paul scoffs: “Where are you, those who think you are wise? Is not your wisdom just so much foolishness?” Attacking the supposed wisdom of the world, the apostle declares that it is foolishness. The Most High, in His wisdom, has made the wisdom of the world to be just so much folly (1 Corinthians 1:20). The Most High considers foolishness any wisdom that does not fulfill its original purpose. So if you are wise and you can really figure things out, but you use it to steal, The Most High says, “You are foolish.” If you are a very skillful musician, but you use it to create lewdness and sensuality, and to cause people to go into perversion, then The Most High calls that foolishness. If you know that the power you have to believe was given to you by The Most High, but you prefer to believe there is no The Most High, The Most High calls you a fool. For when you use the belief The Most High has given to you to say you don’t believe in Him, your wisdom becomes foolishness. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God, The Most High.” He takes the ability The Most High gave him to believe and uses that belief power to not believe in The Most High. The Most High says, “That’s foolishness!” The Most High considers foolishness any wisdom that does not fulfill its original purpose. Although The Most High calls the wisdom of the world foolishness, it is still wisdom. It’s a perverted wisdom used by the chief of perverters to blind us to its very foolishness. For who could believe The Most High would use a crucifixion to bring salvation to the world. That is not the way we expect Him to work. We look for miraculous signs and unusual insights to indicate the presence and working of The Most High. What wisdom would choose a poor carpenter to bring the greatest gift the world has ever known? Surely not the wisdom of the world, which looks to the wealthy and the well-educated. But for those who believe in Yeshua HaMashiach, The Most High’s apparent foolishness is revealed as true wisdom. The wisest of human thoughts appears puny beside this foolishness of The Most High, and the greatest of man’s strengths pales beside HaMashiach’s weakness. What is a stumbling block or pure foolishness for those who don’t believe in HaMashiach stands, for the Mashiach, as a towering source of truth, strength and hope. That is wisdom.
YOUR SECRET WISDOM
The Most High has given you a secret wisdom that He placed in you before you were born. He planted within you a potential something—a wisdom to know who you are and what you were created to be and do. That potential something was in The Most High, but He allowed it to leak into you when He pulled you out of Himself. It’s a hidden understanding that follows neither the wisdom of our society nor the insights of our leaders. Unlike the wisdom of the world, which is worthless, The Most High’s secret wisdom about you is a priceless jewel. Many people die without unveiling their wealth of wisdom. They die in total foolishness, without experiencing the life that dwells within. What a pity! They have missed The Most High’s secret wisdom. (Secret here does not mean “to be withheld from.” It rather has the meaning of “to have never known existed.” There is a difference. The Most High is not holding back from the world. He is not withholding from us our true potential. It’s just that we have never known that it is within us.) They have missed the wisdom The Most High designed before the beginning of time for the honor of man. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of The Most High’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that The Most High destined for our glory before time began (1 Corinthians 2:6-7). This wisdom is like a secret that was supposed to be known before we were created. It’s a wisdom from The Most High that He is keeping for us. It was in The Most High and now it dwells in us. In other words, you were born with wisdom that literally came out of The Most High. You have the ability to line up with The Most High. You are in the The Most High class. You were born with wisdom that literally came out of The Most High. I know you may find that hard to accept—perhaps you think I am a mad man. But the truth is you’ll be shocked when you understand who you really are. You don’t know what you have inside that you are selling so cheaply. You have The Most High’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that you should be using to discover the earth. None of the rulers of this world understand it, nor have they ever understood it. If only we could understand who we are (and I guess I include citizens, because we used to be there, and we need to find out where we used to be). We keep thinking that the life we left behind is better than the life toward which we are headed. We are constantly dipping into the ways and wisdom of the world to try and solve our present situations. But the world does not know the wisdom and potential The Most High has already destined for us. They don’t understand it, because if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord Yeshua! “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what The Most High has prepared for those who love Him”—but The Most High has revealed it to us by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). Your eyes can’t see, your ears can’t hear, neither can your mind imagine what The Most High intends for His children. It’s totally beyond what you can understand. If you could see through your eyes what you were created to be, you’d change your life. If you could hear through your ears or perceive through your mind—but the Scriptures say you can’t. Your situation sounds hopeless: No eyes have seen it…no ears have heard it…no mind has conceived it. Your eyes and ears and mind cannot help you understand what The Most High prepared for you before you were born. If they could, you’d shape up!
THE DEEP THINGS OF The Most High
“But The Most High has revealed it to us by His Spirit.” But indicates a change. But inserts hope in the midst of hopelessness. Most people do not know what The Most High intends for their lives. They have not seen their secret wisdom, nor have they heard about it. They have never even thought about the stuff because there are certain things we cannot understand unless the Holy Spirit reveals them to us. They are so deep within our potential that we need help to drag them out. The Most High had those deep things within Him before He made us; He put them into us at birth. But we don’t know they exist because sin has clogged up the entry way. It is as if The Most High struck a well and put wealth in it—a wealth of oil. Wealth is under there in your bosom. There is wealth in your personality—wealth in your being. But it has been clogged up and capped off by sin. When you were born, the cap over your potential was firmly in place. Outside The Most High’s grace you will never know what is buried beneath that cap. Billions of dollars of wealth are buried within you, but you are not aware of it. You’re walking along cool, but you don’t know who you are. You don’t understand that what you see is merely the shadow of your potential. That’s why the Bible says, “nor has it entered the hearts of man the things The Most High has under the cap for him.” Oh, man!
THE HOLY SPIRIT CONNECTION
In His mercy, The Most High has placed within each of us the answer to this dilemma. After the resurrection of Yeshua HaMashiach, The Most High sent the gift of the Holy Spirit. That same Spirit, which we receive at our new birth, provides the connection between our spirits and The Most High’s secret wisdom. Your capped potential is like a new battery. You came into the world full of the ability to run the whole thing. But you’re just sitting there. Your stored power isn’t being used. Like a battery that needs acidic water inside it before it can really fulfill its purpose, you need something to unleash the potential locked inside you. The Holy Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life. Without the filling of the Holy Spirit, you can never function to your fullest potential. The Holy Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life. Have you ever wondered why we have to be born of the Spirit? Why does the Holy Spirit come and connect with our spirits? Think for a moment about your spirit. The deepest knowledge about ourselves comes to us through our spirits—we can’t know anything deeper than our spirits reveal. No one knows more about you than you know about yourself, for who can understand a man better than his own spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11)? If you just got saved, your spirit doesn’t know anything about you. Before your new birth in HaMashiach, you were spiritually dead. Your spirit has been paralyzed for 15, 20, or 30 years (however long it took you to walk in His order and directions). You have been dumb and ignorant about who you really are, because you can’t truly know yourself until you become spiritually alive. If you are not a citizen, you don’t even know who you are. Only the spirit of a man knows the real thoughts of what a man is supposed to be, and we are born spiritually dead. We will never know who we are supposed to be until we accept Yeshua as our Savior and receive The Most High’s gift of His Spirit. If then, your spirit doesn’t know any more about you than what it has learned since you got redeemed, look at how little it knows. Just look at you. Do you know where you would be if you had not been redeemed? Now don’t get me wrong. You aren’t perfect yet. Don’t get carried away. You know there is still much that needs to be worked on—many things that need to be refined. But do you know what happens? The more we know about who we are, the more our attitude toward ourselves changes. Isn’t that something? The minute we realize who we are we say, “Wait a minute now. I’m the King’s kid,” and we begin to put on kingly clothes. We think, “I’m a child of The Most High now,” so we start changing our language. We think, “Gosh, man. I’m a prosperous person,” and we start expecting things to happen in our lives. As our knowledge about who we are grows, our lives change. All this is possible because the Holy Spirit goes to the cap on the well of the wealth of our potential and pries it off. He comes into our lives and goes straight for the things that are clogging us up and dragging us down. Through the power of The Most High, He pulls off that cap and starts to drill. The Holy Spirit comes into our lives and goes straight for the things that are clogging us up and dragging us down. King Solomon described this process like a bucket drawing water out of a deep well. The Holy Spirit is the bucket that allows us to understand the wisdom and intentions of our hearts (Proverbs 18:4). The Most High has prepared so many deep things about who we are. Our eyes can’t see them, nor can our minds conceive them, yet The Most High is revealing them to us through His Spirit. The Most High wants us to realize here on this planet who we are. That is His purpose in creating us. We need the Holy Spirit because eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, nor has it entered the minds of men who man really is. Only the Holy Spirit searches “the deep things of The Most High.” Some of you have received the revelation of what it cost The Most High to love you. Others of you have not. Some of you are ready to walk into a deeper level of knowledge; others are not. The Most High beckons you to take another step into a deeper, more relevant knowledge of your potential in HaMashiach—though you may have been a citizen for years. You need to take this step because you still don’t know who you are. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal this truth to you. Your eyes cannot perceive your true potential…your ears cannot hear it… neither can your mind perceive it unless the Holy Spirit gives it to the eyes and the ears and the mind. Until He does, you continue to walk around limiting your potential. The Spirit searches all things. It’s His job to search out the deep things of The Most High and interpret them so we can understand them. Now, listen. The Most High is deep by Himself! Trying to figure out The Most High, Himself is deep enough; but The Most High says, “Nope! I have some deep things.” Our efforts to understand The Most High could take a million years or more. How can we possibly understand The Most High’s deep things—the great mysteries He has to share with us? Can we imagine that the source of the deep things of The Most High might be connected to us? Can we go inside The Most High to those things that are deep within Him? Yes, we can! The Most High has given us His Spirit so we can understand all the things He oozed into us. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from The Most High, that we may understand what The Most High has freely given us (1 Corinthians 2:12). That’s mind blowing! I’m hooked on those little things that are leaking out in me—those revelations. I’m glad the Holy Spirit can go deep to show me those things about you and me that The Most High knows and wants to share. There are things about you, concerning who you can be, that you haven’t discovered yet—holy things that only the Holy Ghost can explain. The Most High reveals His deep things to you through the Holy Spirit because He knows you would not believe them if they were simply told to you through your mind. Your mind cannot possibly comprehend all that The Most High has prepared for you to be. Forget what others have told you about who you can be. That’s a joke. Don’t even consider it. That is not all you can be, because the deepest things you can know about yourself are not in your mind or your emotions or even in your body. They are in your spirit. The deepest things you can know about yourself are what you get from your spirit. That’s why The Most High gives you the Holy Spirit. The Spirit goes deep inside you to capture the wealth of your potential. He pulls deep from within you the answers to your spirit’s cries, showing you who you are and why He created you. You will never be fulfilled until you understand why The Most High made you. You will only walk around confused, thinking, “There’s gotta be more. There’s gotta be more.” Many people get bored coming to church. They get tired of singing and tired of praying. Even fasting doesn’t meet the hunger of their hearts. Why? Because there’s more than coming to church…there’s more than singing…there’s more than praying. When you hunger for the deep things of The Most High, a hunger that The Most High Himself puts within you, you will not be satisfied until the Holy Spirit reveals The Most High’s secret wisdom to you. Your spirit yearns for the deep things of The Most High that He has within Him about you. There is a deep in you crying out to the deep things in The Most High. You will never be satisfied, even after you are redeemed, because there is something inside you that continually calls out for more. And the thing you are calling for is locked up in The Most High—the wisdom of The Most High concerning you. You will never be fulfilled until you get filled with what The Most High has that is supposed to be in you. That’s why you have to come to The Most High. You’ll never be fulfilled without The Most High, because you are looking for what The Most High has. You’ll never be fulfilled without The Most High, because you are looking for what The Most High has. For this reason, The Most High gives you the Holy Spirit. The only way to get out of The Most High and into you the deep things The Most High knows about you is through His Spirit communing with yours. The Holy Spirit searches the deep things of The Most High—the deep things about you that you lack. The Most High prepared and predestined those things for you before you were created. He had them in Himself and gave them to you at birth. But you don’t know those things exist, because sin has capped the well and blocked the way. Only The Most High, through the Holy Spirit, can reveal them again.
Do you want to know how cute you can be? Check The Most High out. Do you want to know how smart you are? Go back to The Most High. Your potential is buried in The Most High. We think going to the moon is great—we should see what The Most High had planned that we didn’t follow. Our eyes will never see the stuff The Most High prepared for us, nor will our ears hear it. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us the deep things of The Most High that tell us who we are. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, you can re-establish your relationship with The Most High. The Holy Spirit, connected with your spirit, unravels the knots that have bound your thoughts, removes the streaks that have blurred your vision and clears the debris that has hidden your potential. Working like a sculptor, He brings out the beauty hidden deep within your being, because that is the real you. Open your life to Yeshua HaMashiach. Allow The Most High to reveal His secret wisdom concerning you. See with your eyes and hear with your ears things you have never seen or heard before. Conceive with your mind thoughts that never before have occurred to you. Cooperate with the Holy Spirit as He sucks out of The Most High and into you the depths of the riches that The Most High prepared for you. Live the rest of your life building an atmosphere where it is possible for the Holy Spirit to use you as He takes His bucket of hope, dips it deep into the wells of your potential and pulls it to the top of your senses. Drink deeply, growing in the knowledge of who you really are in The Most High. That’s my dream.
PRINCIPLES
1. The potential of everything is related to its purpose for being.
2. The wisdom of the world is a foolish, corrupt wisdom.
3. For those who believe, Yeshua HaMashiach is both the power and the wisdom of The Most High.
4. The Most High has given you a wisdom that He placed in you before you were born.
5. You are in The Most High’s class.
6. You will never know who you are supposed to be until you accept Yeshua as your Savior and receive the gift of The Most High’s Spirit.
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