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  'AND TO BE DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE.'
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: The sermon highlights the dangers of worldly wisdom and the
importance of seeking God's will.

Topics: "Divine Wisdom", "Temptation"
Scripture References: Matthew 4:3, 1 Corinthians 1:20, James 3:15

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that humanity's spiritual nature is designed to
know and enjoy God, yet it often seeks wisdom in the world instead. This
pursuit leads to a reliance on worldly reasoning, which becomes an
obstacle to experiencing God's love and fosters pride. He illustrates
this struggle through the temptations faced by Jesus, highlighting the
dangers of self-sufficiency, materialism, and pride. Ultimately, Murray
calls for a return to seeking divine wisdom rather than worldly
knowledge.

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'And to be desired to make one wise.' Man has a spirit capable of
knowing and enjoying God. That spiritual nature was turned to the world
to seek in it and its wisdom the knowledge of good and evil. And so the
wisdom of this world, with its boasted reasoning about God and good, has
become the great enemy of the love of God, and the chief source of that
pride of life in which men content themselves without God.

In our Lord's temptations we have exactly the same three tendencies
illustrated. First came the satisfying of the bodily hunger by his own
power without waiting for God's will.

Then there was the lust-of-the eyes temptation in the kingdoms of the
world shown to him.

And then the appeal to the pride of life in the call to prove himself
the son of God.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 29).

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