The Treasure Map to Secret Wisdom
Are you in search of that which is secret?
Secret ...
... Knowledge ...... Power ...... Treasures ...... Immortality ...
Wisdom beyond human capabilities?
It is in a book, hidden from most people.
Even from the most intelligent people, it is hidden.
It has been available to some,
and hidden from others for a long, long time.
I am, for no merit of my own,
counted among those who have chosen to seek, find, and share this secret with others.
I can try to show it to you,
but I cannot guarantee you will be able to see it and understand it.
My ardent hope is that you will. Here are some clues:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." (1)
"No, we speak of God's secret wisdom among the mature, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit." (2)
"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ." (3)
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight." (4)
"So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God." (5)
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." (6)
The map is in a book.The key is Jesus Christ.The treasure is eternal life.
He who is born once will die twice, but he who is born twice will die once to this world and live forever.
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(1) 1 Corinthians 1:19
(2) 1 Corinthians 2:7-10
(3) 1 Corinthians 2:14-16
(4) 1 Corinthians 3:16-19
(5) 1 Corinthians 4:1
(6) 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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