What Wisdom Really Is

8 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken teaching defining wisdom as the application of truth and distinguishing stages leading to it: ignorance (absence of truth), knowledge (accumulation of truth), and understanding (assimilation of truth). The speaker emphasizes a biblical framing, distinguishing Logos (what the Word says) from rhema (what God is saying), and notes many Christians may 'know' the Bible without truly understanding it.

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You can accumulate a truth and not understand it, not assimilate it. You can collect a truth and not comprehend it. So just because you know something doesn't mean you understand it. And there here's one of the biggest problems most people have when it comes to the Bible.
A lot of Christians, a lot of preachers, a lot of churchgoers, they know the Bible, but they don't understand it. They know what it says and have no idea what it's saying. The Bible calls the biblical knowledge. That's the Logos, what the Word says. But rhema is what God is saying and what he has already said. And so understanding is another prerequisite of truth. So the three prerequisites of truth are ignorance, the absence of truth, knowledge, the accumulation of truth, understanding, the assimilation of truth, and then you can now have wisdom. What's wisdom? The application of truth.