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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:

The Apostle Paul said:

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.

God help us not to follow earthly, demonic wisdom.

God said in:

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:

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:

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).

In contrast with this impotence stands the divine omnipotence,

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...

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?

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.

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.