50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves. And the only reason I can pass such wisdom on to my children is because God has graciously made it all available in the Bible.
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What is Total Depravity?
No sinner is ever going to be willing to come to God until the power of God comes upon that sinner. Why? Because there’s nothing in the sinner to make him willing. There’s nothing in the sinner, even under the best of the preacher’s efforts. It’s only when the power of God makes him willing that he becomes willing. This is what we mean by “total depravity,” the utter inability of the sinner to be willing on his own. No sinner left to himself is able to. No sinner left to himself is willing to understand, willing to repent, willing to believe, willing to choose God, Christ, and salvation. Corruption is far too profound and too spiritually systemic. We can’t choose that. We can’t seek it. The sinner only becomes willing in the day of divine power. God must display His sovereign power by summoning us and giving us the will to believe. He must make us willing. Listen to Romans 3:10: “There is none righteous—no, not one. There’s none who understands; there’s none who seeks God.” That’s pretty complete, isn’t it? But it gets worse. “All have turned aside; together they’ve become useless. There is none who does good. There is not even one. Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving; the poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their paths, and the path of peace, have they not known, and there is no fear of God before their eyes.” I would say that’s a pretty sad condition. That’s a broad way to say the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Nobody seeks God. Why? Because nobody on their own is willing. Ephesians 2:1 says, “You were dead in your trespasses and sins.” That means dead people don’t respond. “You formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit working in the sons of disobedience. You lived in the lust of your flesh, indulging in the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just like everybody else.” That’s you. It’s hopeless. First Corinthians 2:14 says, “The natural man understands not the things of God. They’re foolishness to him.” Second Corinthians 4:3-4: “If our gospel is hidden, it’s hidden to them that believe not; and they believe not because the God of this world has blinded their minds, lest the light of the glory of the gospel should shine unto them.” This is what we mean by “total depravity,” the utter inability of the sinner to be willing to choose God on his own. The sinner’s will is never to choose God. Nothing is stopping him, but his mind doesn’t regard submission to God and the gospel as desirable, so unless God changes the way we think, our mind will always tell us to rebel against God and the gospel. Which is precisely what we do. The sinner will always resist until the saving call of grace comes out of heaven. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-296) - The Doctrine of God's Effectual Call – 90-296
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April 24, 2026
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