DAILY TRUTH - God Chooses The Foolish To Despise The Wise
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God doesn't just choose among the wisest, he also chooses among the foolish. In the case of Gideon, God does so not only to honor and honor those who are foolish, but also to despise those who would esteem themselves as being wise. God does this not just with individuals, but with groups of individuals. And we see this in the example of the disciples.
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Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your
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cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
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And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Matthew Henry further commentating on this portion of our passage Joshua 4 verses 5 through 8 he says
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this this intended monument deserved to be made of stones curiously cut with the finest and most
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exquisite art but these stones out of the bottom of the river were more natural and more apt
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indications of the miracle. Let posterity know by this that Jordan was driven back the waters,
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for these very stones were then fetched out of it. In the institution of signs, God always chose
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that which was most proper and significant rather than that which is pompous. It makes me think of
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First Corinthians chapter one, verse 27, that says,
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God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
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Now in the context of first Corinthians chapter one,
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verse 27, this is referencing individual people
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that God in his sovereignty elected to salvation,
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that he chose by the power of his spirit to regenerate,
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to cause them to become new creatures in Christ Jesus,
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to endow them with the gifts of faith and repentance,
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And so 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27 is saying
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to despise those who would esteem themselves as being wise.
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God doesn't just save those who are intellectual or those who are rich
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But God often chooses to save among those who are foolish,
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those who are of little standing by the perception of society,
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Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith?
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And so in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27, it's referencing individual people.
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And he does so to despise the wise, just as he did with Gideon.
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And as the scripture further testifies, he will share his glory with no man.
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And one of the ways that God garnishes glory for himself and ensures that his glory is not given to another is that he performs great and mighty works in such a miraculous way that no man, no creature could be possibly given the credit.
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So in the case of Gideon, he whittles down this army and then whittles it down even further to a number of just 300 in order to defeat tens of thousands.
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for the wisdom of this world is first and foremost,
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But rather, God chooses those who are viewed
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to show that it was not man, it was not his innate reason,
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but God in his power, in his wisdom, in his glory
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that used even those who are foolish to do incredible things.
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The people said, are these not unlearned fishermen?
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It was not that they had been to the best universities
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And so God chooses the foolish to despise the wise.
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That's what we see in the illustration that I gave from the story of Gideon.
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But beyond that, what Matthew Henry, the late great Puritan, is getting at and commentating on our particular text today, Joshua 4,
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is that God uses this same concept not just in his choice of salvation with individual people,
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but also in his sovereign choice of signs and seals.
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It was not that Israel was called to gather for themselves 12 stones of marble
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and then give them to the most gifted and skilled artist and sculptor in all the land
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now that wasn't fitting for the work that god had performed god is more interested in that which is
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proper than that which is pompous whoa whoa you're gonna want to hear this our next two conferences
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are coming up quick we've got first our fall conference this is november 11th and 12th that's
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a full day saturday and a holdover for the lord's day november 12th uh who's speaking at this
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conference? Well, we've got Jared Longshore and Chris Wiley and yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin.
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What's the title? The title is The Household and the War for the Cosmos. Now, I know you're
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thinking, wait a second, you can't use that title, Joel. That's the title for Chris Wiley's book.
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Well, I can use it because he's going to be there speaking and he gave me his permission. We're
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going to be talking about the household as the basic building block for pushing back the kingdom
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of darkness in this world. We're going to be talking about biblical patriarchy. We're going
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to be talking about marriage and parenting, how to keep your kids, how to shape and form them like
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straight arrows, like sharp arrows that do damage to the kingdom of darkness. Training our children
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in the fear and ammunition of the Lord. A full day on Saturday, November 11th, and then holding
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Jared Longshore over for the Lord's Day, November 12th, to preach at my church, Covenant Bible
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church in central texas you can register at the early bird rate which will not last long but you
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can register at the early bird rate today by going to right response conference.com again that's
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right response conference.com now our second conference is our spring conference this is
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friday saturday and sunday march 1st 2nd and 3rd the title for this conference blueprints for
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chrysidom 2.0 blueprints for chrysidom 2.0 we don't want to revert back to chrysidom 1.0 although
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it would certainly be a whole lot better than the clown world that we're currently living in
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but we recognize despite the phenomenal features of a prior chrysidom there were certain bugs that
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we'd like to see worked out so we're not going back we are pushing forward to chrysidom 2.0 we
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believe that the blueprints are seven doctrines for ruling the world righteously what are these
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seven doctrines well it's reformed confessionalism it's covenant theology it's biblical patriarchy
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it's presuppositionalism and kyperianism and general equity theonomy and hopeful eschatology
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post-millennialism who's going to be teaching us on these doctrines voldemort he who must not be
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named Pastor Douglas Wilson himself. You also got Mr. Brighthearth, Mr. Kingshall, Mr. Haunted
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Cosmos, Pastor Brian Sauve. And we also have Dr. Joseph Boot, and of course, yours truly,
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Pastor Joel Webin. We'll be doing seven primary lectures, as well as two 90-minute panels with
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all the speakers together, and we'll likely add a couple more speakers along the way. Again,
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that's march 1st 2nd and 3rd friday saturday and sunday it's blueprints for chrysidom 2.0
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we've got the early bird rate going right now but it will run out quickly so go to
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right response conference.com right response conference.com to register today can i be frank
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with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you guys you're financially
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