His Thoughts
ZADOK PUBLICATIONS - Dr. C. R. OLIVER
May 1, 2013
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May 1, 2013 His Thoughts "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'
Introduction:Isaiah 55:8 Several weeks ago, I awoke to God's voice speaking to my spirit and saying, "Come up here and think my kind of thoughts. My thoughts are higher than the ones that occupy your mind." I immediately wanted to respond to this, but found myself culling first one thought, then another, as they seemed to not "fit" into what I surmised to be His thoughts. My anxiety began to rise at the frustration of realizing just how mundane and earthly were my assignations. It was then the "still small voice" declared, "This invitation is not to be a daunting task, but an adventure to higher ground." As time progressed, my whole world began to change as I sought volitionally to "think His kind of thoughts." How "mind boggling" was my first reaction when I began to realize the difference between His interests and concerns and mine. He never considers a matter as too difficult, or time consuming or having the possibility of failing. Never once do "circumstances" altar action or purpose. He speaks what He desires and it is accomplished. My first guidance lesson, by the Spirit, was Deuteronomy 29:29 ff. Here, it became plain that God had given His children capacity for such pursuits. Join this passage to those in Chapter 30."The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. With God's offer comes the power and capacity to fulfill it. We reach into those unknown regions with confidence, for we will find if we ask, seek and knock. Our frailty is lost in His provision. Covering us is a Divine interaction. Although it exceeds our descriptive powers, it, nonetheless, exists to help reach beyond ourselves into His realm. Even the Scriptures support us and carry us to elevations far beyond what we have deemed "deep thinking.""For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. We, who are charged to speak the Oracles of God, should envision ourselves with the capacity of the mind of Christ in order to speak forth that which will not return void and send such at our command. Instead of considerations of difficulty or failure, there comes a type of prophetic conveyance accomplishing what is spoken. If we are of His kingdom, we must speak the language of it.My word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 12 You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed. Once one's thoughts stretch and expand, there is a desire for more. David's Psalms are full of pursuits after the mind of God. Having been reared in the atmosphere of such desire, Solomon's answer to God's inquiry came in the form of his request for "more" wisdom and knowledge. God gave it to him.Psalms 25:4-5 Oh, how there is a longing to hear the God-kind of wisdom and knowledge, whether from a political platform or from a pulpit's elevation. If somewhere we could hear just one word, crystal clear from "the heart of heaven," it would be like drinking from a living fountain-as it should be. (Words come out of our thoughts and our thoughts have been too beggarly.) Consider now our "capacity" gift from God, versus the use of that facility.1 Kings 4:29-34 Jesus, who lives within us, once rose to declare: It was Paul who wrote:Matthew 12:42 Paul's treatise to the Corinthians is full of truth about the wisdom of God and how we can and should rise to a level of knowledge and wisdom beyond the conjecturing of an unredeemed world. There is such a thing as a "wisdom of the age" which flows through society and seeks to saturate and corrupt those who adhere to it. There is also a "Godly wisdom" which the anti-Christ cannot ascertain, because it is a mystery.1 Corinthians 2:13-16 Prior to this verse, Paul established the root of Godly wisdom as Christ, the personification of God's wisdom and knowledge. (Wisdom is the ability to apply to the proper time, place and person the knowledge received in revelation.) Early in his text, Paul says God will destroy the (earthly) wisdom of the wise. Destroy means not just to kill, it is to annihilate it to the point of extinction.1 Corinthians 2:6-9 The time has come for this generation to realize that leadership and world powers will run out of their solutions. Their thinking will hit a dead end and their logic will fail and have no place to turn, for their rationale has no other future than oblivion. This was when the sons of God will be made manifest, for they will shine in a darkened world! They alone possess the wisdom to guide a generation which has been filled with facts, but has little wisdom.1 Corinthians 1:19-23 Solomon wrote the following passage about three thousand years ago: Paul echoed in Romans:Proverbs 2:6-8 National disgrace is openly displayed when politicians and pulpiteers spout their warped thinking. Anti-God and Anti-populous, their diatribe reveals what the ancients well described.Romans 11:33-36 Society becomes saturated with warped thinking and compromised truths, until its whole thought pattern is corrupted. Here is where we reside today. Scripture pictures it best in Ezekiel's portrayal of Tyre and why God destroyed them. We see the modern culture following the identical path. Our society is in its death throes. Hit after hit, both from national government, financial markets and terrorists attacks have caused a "bob and weave" reaction. There is no clear understanding of a path to guard the freedoms fought for by past generations. A corrupted wisdom is a sure path to destruction.Isaiah 47:10 No one understood the power of wisdom in a degenerative situation better than Daniel. So appreciative of God's revelation to him, he entered a praise and worship moment and penned some of the richest words in the Bible.Ezekiel 28:17-19 In Stephen's sermon, he cited Joseph's use of the gift wisdom of God, which would balance out his own gift of wisdom before the rulers."Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, Relying, in faith , Stephen stood on the promise of "not worrying about what one will say before kings and magistrates. " His oration is still a masterful work of art, as well as, a carefully planned judgment upon those to whom it was directed.Acts 7:9-11 The Lord of Hosts will not withhold His thoughts and ways from His people. He gives abundantly to those who ask. Notice below the gifts brought by the Spirit for edification of His people.And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. Notice these are "special" gifts and are enumerated differently. However, no saint is exempt from entering freely into the grace throne room and seeking them. There is also no such thing as a "weak baptism" in the Spirit. One does not receive 8/9ths of the gifts.1 Corinthians 12:8 As the Spirit of the Lord rested upon Jesus, so do the three elements of the Spirit highlighted below. This is a prophetic word given about Jesus. In whom Jesus resides, should be evidence of these elements. (In these verses it is plain there are elements of wisdom that have been ignored by the church at large.) Those who are filled with the Spirit ought also to attain to the fullness of the stature of Christ. We, too, should exhibit the three strong Spirit attributes spoken about Jesus. The "Christ in us" does not function apart from them. (The shallowness of Sunday mornings would be drowned in the power of these attributes.)Isaiah 11:1-5 Through the strength of such anointing, nothing should be usual or mundane. Review the last two verses of Isaiah 11:4, for in them is what our world needs most-from us! These verses are really the culmination of verses 1-3.1 Corinthians 1:23-25 Innately in man is a desire for wisdom. This desire was the tool used by satan in the temptation and fall of God's first humans. This is also the wisdom dispensed by universities and found in experience, but it is not the "Sophia" of the New Testament nor is it "wisdom" spoken of in the Old Testament. Wisdom flowing from the heart of God is part and parcel of the "spirit of Discernment," for such wisdom is companion to the mandate to "Clarify and Declare." It sees through the muddle of the issues; it confronts and defines them to their root and then declares the thinking of God upon them and calls for them to obey.Genesis 3:6 Paul had a deep understanding of his gift of wisdom and power. He refused to fall into the trap of relying on his doctorate in Theology from Gamaliel University. He knew the consequences of following a corrupted ideology and that it leads to corrupted conclusions.Wisdom: OT:2451 chokmah (khok-maw'); from OT:2449; wisdom (in a good sense): KJV - skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.1 Corinthians 2:4-5 If the church continues in its current faulty theology, it too will conclude that a call for the death of the saints will be doing God a favor. It did in Paul's day, and many other times, in church history as was chronicled in Fox's Book of Martyrs. Selah!Acts 22:2-4 The Lord said, "Come Up and think like Me!" 2 Corinthians 10:5 Until Next month, Dr. Cosby R. Oliver, PhD. |
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