CAN A person be highly educated and yet
behave stupidly? Some men and women boast of being lettered, informed, exposed
and enlightened. They brag that they live by common sense. And they claim they
are people of reason and logic. But many do not realise that an educated person
can be a knowing fool. Yes, a person can have a wealth of knowledge and yet
lack wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, an English
preacher, was right when he said, “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To
know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater
fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know
how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
Wisdom is the application of knowledge.
Thus it is expected that knowledgeable men and women learn to make wise
judgments. Unfortunately, however, many worshippers of the ‘god’ of science do
not learn. They read, critically listen, observe, experiment and analyse but
never learn. To learn is not just to know but to change or transform.
Is it rational for a critical thinker to
waste his resources on a project which will take him nowhere? An educated
person’s hatred, mockery and criticisms against Jesus Christ in this age of
abundant knowledge are pure acts of stupidity and senselessness. A person who
speaks and writes to incite people to hate and reject Jesus Christ lacks sense.
And a person who works to make Christ Jesus unpopular fights a useless
battle.
Have such persons not read and understood
the plain writings on the wall? An attack on Christians is an attack on Jesus.
And an attack on Jesus Christ is a futile kick on the goad. Man’s hateful
campaign against Jesus Christ is like sand’s campaign against water. Obviously,
the sand will always lose. Christ Jesus knows no failure. He never loses a
battle. Christ’s attackers ought to know that Jesus is indestructible! But how
can they know since their minds are darkened.
Someone may wonder how Jesus is attacked.
Now, blasphemous publications that Jesus Christ is a myth, an imaginary being
and non-existent constitute an attack on Him. And such publications are completely
stupid and senseless. Attackers ought to know that they are wasting their
precious resources fighting a battle they do not have the capacity to
win.
Governments, kingdoms, organisations and
individuals may connive and fight against the Lord and His Church, but they
will not succeed. For Jesus had said, “… I will build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).
Herod, Pharisees and the teachers of the
Law could not stop Jesus Christ from accomplishing His earthly assignment over
2000 years ago. Even death could not keep Him in the grave. The priests,
Sadducees, elders and rulers in Jerusalem could not prevent the apostles from
bearing witness about Jesus Christ. And today, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Kim Jong-Un,
Boko Haram and Satan himself cannot annihilate Christ and His Church.
There is no doubt that most of the
apostles were martyred, but that did not discourage the soldiers of Christ to
march on to make Christ known to the unsaved world. Indeed, the rapid and
vigorous preaching of the gospel amidst intense persecutions including
imprisonments and deaths is just incredible. There is an unseen power working
with the ministers of the gospel to save people who belong to the Lord. These
are the souls who God foreknew and called even before the world began.
Moreover, knowledgeable Christians are
informed that the world will always hate and persecute them for their faith and
relationship with Jesus who was Himself hated greatly. Jesus prophesied: “… Indeed,
the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to
God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor
me” (John 16: 2- 3). Clearly, the world hates Christ without a
cause.
However, Christ Jesus is in control of
every situation true Christians go through. Sometimes, it may appear to the
enemies of Christ that they are succeeding or winning, but the reality is that
they are losing. They are uneducated about the fact that God makes sovereign
choices. He allows the door of salvation to be closed in a continent, country,
city, town or village and get it opened in another.
Today, it may look as if Christ Jesus has
been defeated in Europe, America and some parts of Asia, but He is not. The
widespread rejection of Jesus Christ in these places is just an indication that
the door of salvation has partially been closed to them. However, the Lord is
working with His genuine ministers to save souls in Africa and other areas
where the door of salvation is opened.
In Acts 16:6-7, we read about how the apostles were forbidden to preach the gospel in some cities in Asia. The Spirit of Jesus has power to make sovereign choices. He inspires and directs His true ministers where the testimony about His birth, death, burial and resurrection should be preached for the salvation of souls from the controlling power of sin. He opens and closes the door of salvation without the approval of anyone.
By James Quansah
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