Spiritual talk #325
The first gift of the Holy Spirit is wisdom (fore-wisdom). More precisely, the wisdom that comes from above, about which the Apostle speaks: "The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." /James. 3:17/ The opposite of this wisdom is carnal wisdom, about which the Apostle says: "in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world." /2 Cor. 1:12/ Borrowing testimony from the Old Testament / Is. 29:14/, the same Apostle speaks against this carnal and worldly wisdom in another of his epistles: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" /1 Cor. 1:19-20/
