People of God, it is truly an unfortunate reality today that the Church has become silent on a host of issues. We have certainly addressed this trend before in my sermon on “Marriage and the Public Gospel,” but it needs to be re-iterated that the Church is a spiritual and political institution. Spiritual, in that it is Spirit-led, and political, in that it is led by a King, Jesus Christ. The Church is not the headquarters for partisan politics, it is the headquarters of political dominion. The Church is not from the left or from the right, she is from above, and she speaks with heavenly authority. She uses the prophetic voice of feeble men to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.[1]
The role of the Church is to bring comfort to those who need, and to declare boldly those actions that God despises.
This is another reason Proverbs is so crucial for the Christian. It provides wisdom as the genesis/source of discernment and success. As Proverbs 3 summarizes, wisdom provides us with favor before God and man. Continue reading “Sermon: Kingly Wisdom, Part III, Proverbs 6:16-19”