Jesus: Wonderful Counselor
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If ever there was a day when believers needed the wisdom and guidance of God, it is today.
Jesus warned us:
4 Jesus answered, “At that time deception will run rampant. So beware that you are not fooled!
The Apostle Paul said:
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.
This is a day of deception.
What did our speaker remind us this morning?
It’s all about Jesus.
It’s not what so-called experts have to say: what does Jesus say?
If we have any wisdom whatsoever, we don’t turn to what falsely labled “science” or what politicians or career bureaucrats.
We turn to Jesus.
He is the answer and He has the answer to every question we will EVER have.
Unfortunately, too many people, even followers of Jesus are led by worldly wisdom.
13 Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
God help us not to follow earthly, demonic wisdom.
God said in:
22 “For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”
We need that wisdom from above:
We need the wisdom of the Wonderful Counselor.
Tonight as we pray in the Name of Jesus, let us pray for wisdom.
A few weeks ago, we celebrated the fulfilment of:
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Wonderful speaks of Messiah’s miraculous nature. In all but one OT use the Hebrew word speaks of wonders performed or spoken by God.
The Wonderful Counselor will give us supernatural wisdom from above.
Because Jesus is also the fulfilment of:
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.
This same Counselor communicated to the prophets a clear, concise account of future events, which we call prophecy.
He commissioned Isaiah to issue a challenge to human counselors to forecast the future or to foreordain things to come. the prophet returned with the report that he failed to find a single one who could do it (Isaiah 41:22, 23, 28).
22 Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming; 23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
28 “But when I look, there is no one, And there is no counselor among them Who, if I ask, can give an answer.
In contrast with this impotence stands the divine omnipotence,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’; 11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.
Christ is the only Counselor who has communicated to man a complete record of the ages from the commencement to the consummation.
Isaiah was also told to announce the names of collaborators, if there were any, with whom Christ took counsel in order to ask for advice and aid in His administration...
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or as His counselor has informed Him? 14 With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding?
but Isaiah could not submit one solitary name.
If we are incapable of producing or changing a single decree in His divine purpose, or of constructing or correcting one solitary sentence of His revealed will;
if we are incompetent to create and control either planet or comet or determine its orbit,
why not acknowledge and adore Him as the wonderful Counselor, and wholly yield our lives to His will, which we may prove to be good, acceptable and perfect?
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? 35 Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
Romans 12:2 (NASB95) [instead] … be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
No one else possesses a greater and fuller claim or better title than Christ to counsel His redeemed people.
He is altogether entitled to do so because He is the all-wise Creator
and also because He submitted to a cruel cross in order to redeem and reconcile.
He is abundantly entitled to counsel us because He is the only One who conquered death and the Devil and defeated the powers of darkness.
He is admirably entitled to counsel us because as Heir of all things He alone bears the qualifications to confer heirship;
He alone maintains our right to inherit an incorruptible estate by His continually making intercession for us.
He is assuredly entitled to counsel us because of His care under all conditions;
He has secured the cancellation of our sins and comforts us in times of sorrow.
24 With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me to glory.
So, tonight, with all our other prayers, let’s pray to Jesus, the Wonderful Counselor, for His wisdom in a day of deception and His wisdom for the decisions we need to make in the near and distant future.