Thursday, September 6, 2018

Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge


Colossians 2:2-3 “That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

In a short study on the above passage, it was pointed out that the Apostle Paul had just promised the “twice-born” (aka the “born-again”, the “born of the Spirit”, “born from above”) in spiritual transformation that they would be endowed with the “riches of the full assurance of understanding” that would enable them to possess an acknowledgment of the triune Godhead Father, Son and Holy Spirit). The ability to understand and the profound awareness of the Trinity is possible because all “the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” are in Christ—who is in us!

Furthermore, in Colossians 1:9, Paul prays that they “might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” Jesus explained to His apostles that His parables were devices to reveal to them “the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand”. This wisdom and knowledge is the “treasure” of the Lord Jesus, not of the material world, nor is it contained in the intellect of the “natural” mankind in their sin nature. The understanding and acknowledgment that comes through the world’s philosophy, out of the reasoning of the unsaved mind, is “earthly, sensual, devilish”.

James 3:13-15 “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.”


The study concludes that, thankfully, “the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy”. God’s work is “very good.” When the creation of our new man or woman is executed, we are given the “mind of Christ”—not His omniscience but the kind of mind that can now understand spiritual matters. Truly, the redeemed in Christ have been made friends with God. Jesus said, “For all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you”, treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 

Blessed in Christ

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