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Chuck Crismier: He was the wisest man who ever lived. At least he's reputed to be the wisest man who ever lived. His name is Solomon. He was the son of David, the son of David's union with Bathsheba, and he was given wisdom from God.

In fact, he was given wisdom from God like no other man that we know of in the scriptures except Jesus Himself. But what happened to all the wisdom? He loved many foreign women, and God had told him not to multiply to himself wives.

He loved foreign women from the nations whom the Lord had said you shall not intermarry with them. In fact, he married 700 wives, had 300 concubines. Many were idol worshippers, and they turned away his heart from God. Yet God had appeared personally to Solomon twice.

He's the man who built the temple and built altars to pagan gods. How did his wisdom turn to foolishness? Is wisdom worthless? If not, what is the key to wisdom? Today on Viewpoint, we want to talk about this matter of wisdom.

The key to wisdom: he was the wisest man but the dumbest husband, you might say, because can you imagine if you think it's hard to be married to one woman, my friend, just think what it was like for Solomon. 700 wives, 300 concubines. His own marriages, his own household, was a veritable city.

But he abandoned the wisdom, the very wisdom that God had given to him. He had a reputation for being a man of wisdom. He was wisdom personified, virtually. He wrote the book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom and understanding, applied knowledge. And yet he abandoned the key to wisdom, the very key that he once possessed.

Welcome to Viewpoint. I'm Chuck Crismier, and today we take a look at this issue, this matter of wisdom. In the first half of the program here, we look specifically at the matter of wisdom with clarity. The Hebrew word for wisdom is chokhmah, and the Bible tells us it should be acquired at all costs. At all costs, and with wisdom to get understanding. But exactly what is it? What is this wisdom? How do you get it? What's the key to wisdom, and how do you hang on to it?

And of course, in the New Testament, we find the Greek there, and sophia is the Greek word for wisdom. A lot of ladies have the name Sophia. It's a beautiful name. And not all ladies that have the name Sophia have wisdom. Some of them create a false kind of wisdom, sexual wisdom. In other words, being able to use their name for sexual purposes. Others actually live their names for their namesake, wisdom.

But what is the key to wisdom? That's what we want to focus on here on the program today, and I'm glad that you've joined us. This conversation is always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. Now, the word wisdom appears over 200 times in the Old Testament, and over 50 times just in the book of Proverbs alone, written by Solomon.

And Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs. No wonder many languages refer to that book as the Wisdom of Solomon. The Wisdom of Solomon. But was he a wise man? He may have been a wise man, but he wasn't a wise guy, that's for sure. In the Bible, as we've noted, the word chokhmah is the Hebrew word, sophia in Greek. The practical application of godly knowledge. The skill of godly living. And wisdom centers on the fear of the Lord.

The fear of the Lord is the key. In Job chapter 28, verse 28 and Proverbs 9:10, it explicitly states that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. That's the key. Why is it then that the fear of the Lord has been virtually lost in American society over the past 40, 50 years?

You know that I have personally talked about this here on this program many, many times over the past 8 to 10 years. I've asked many a pastor here on this program, how is it that the phrase "a God-fearing man" that used to be one of the most common phrases in America to identify a man whose word was his bond, who could be trusted, who was God-fearing, how is it that that phrase has virtually been lost in American society?

And so I ask the pastors, can you remember any time in the past 30 years, that would be over a generation, that you have heard somebody use the phrase "a God-fearing man"? And I don't think any single pastor was able to tell me that they had heard or remembered anybody using that phrase. Why? What ever happened? Is it a revelation that we have abandoned the key to wisdom?

Is that perhaps what lies at the foundation of the dynamics that have developed in our country that have reverted to the decline of morality, the decline of true trust in God, taking Him at His word, believing God based upon trusting Him and yielding, submitting to His word, His will, and His ways? Maybe that's our problem. And as the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians, he said the wisdom of this world is foolishness, foolishness with God, and yet we call such people wise.

So how would you define wisdom? Really, I'm asking a rhetorical question, I know, but wherever you are, how would you define wisdom? Is it somebody who has a lot of knowledge about the Bible? There was a man who had memorized virtually the entire Bible. To my knowledge, he was not a Christian believer, but he had memorized the entire Bible. Was he wise because he had memorized the entire Bible?

Probably not, because if he had been, he would have understood the fear of the Lord, and that would have led him to submit to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but it didn't. You see, just knowledge of the Bible or knowledge about God does not give wisdom. God isn't interested that we know about Him. The devil knows more about God than most Christians do because he actually trembles at the name of Jesus. Really, it's true.

So knowledge about God is not what we're after. It's the knowledge of God. The God kind of wisdom. That's what we're after, and we want to talk about it in the next 15 minutes or so. I hope you'll stay tuned before we're confronted with Ray Comfort in the second half of the program from California.

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Chuck Crismier: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding. With all of your wisdom, get understanding. That's what we're supposed to have as professing followers of Jesus Christ: both wisdom and understanding. And if the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then to shun evil is understanding. In other words, the practical application of knowledge.

You see, knowledge can make somebody prideful. Knowledge about the Bible can make somebody prideful. You could get on a quiz show concerning the Bible, and you could win over many other people, maybe over most theologians, because of your knowledge about God, and still not be wise. Did you know that? Because the wisdom that God is after is not knowledge. It's application of the information.

So here on this program, we're more interested in wisdom and application because without the application, knowledge and information can be corrupting. They can form pride, they can yield to all kinds of things that we really don't want. Our goal is not information. Our goal is transformation, and that's where wisdom leads. Wisdom always leads to application and transformation.

And that's why here on this program, you'll notice that while we might provide a vast amount of information, people will say, "How can you possibly gather all this information together?" We do it for one reason, and that is for application because that's where the wisdom lies. The wisdom lies in applying the understanding, the underlying foundation of the fear of the Lord to all of the information that comes our way.

So just to repeat things that we've talked about many times here on the program: the fear of the Lord is the very beginning of wisdom. So apparently Solomon, David's son, had the fear of the Lord. In fact, so much did he have the fear of the Lord that God actually appeared to him in the dedication of the first temple. David, his father, was not allowed to build the temple because he had been too much involved in wars and so on.

So after Solomon had built the temple and Solomon was now ruling and reigning, David gave Solomon these words. It comes in 1 Kings chapter 2. "Now the days of David drew near that he should die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 'I go the way of all the earth. Be strong therefore and prove yourself a man. Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.'"

Well, not only was Solomon deemed to be the wisest man, he was also then deemed to be the most prosperous man. He prospered in all his ways until prosperity began to become his goal. And he began to live according to his prosperity rather than according to the wisdom that God had given to him. This is the reason perhaps why the Bible says that prosperity turns men's hearts ultimately away from God, but adversity turns men's hearts toward God.

That's what it says. So how in the world can you turn from being the wisest man ever to becoming the dumbest husband ever? Solomon. His heart turned away from the Lord because he married hundreds of foreign women who brought their idols, contaminated his mind, his heart, his family, his household with idols and false gods. And then he began to build altars and high places for their gods because if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. So that's what they wanted. So he brought in illegal immigrants into God's holy presence. That's what he did. He brought in illegal immigrants, married them, and brought them in, and they contaminated and destroyed the heart of Israel.

Can you imagine having such a thing happen? How could that possibly happen? Do you know by any chance of anybody that that's happened to? Well, let me give you a little illustration. In the past year and a half in the broader Dallas, Texas area, Dallas called the buckle of the Bible Belt, massive ministries in Dallas, Texas. I believe it's 14 leaders, large churches and ministries, national, international ministries have fallen from grace like Solomon because of what they did abandoning wisdom.

They once walked with the Lord in the light of His word, but something happened and they abandoned wisdom, just like Solomon did. Imagine the effect of walking away from wisdom. It doesn't just affect the person that walks away. It affects everybody else around them. It affects their children, it affects their grandchildren, it affects everybody. It affects whole congregations, it affects cities, it affects nations. In fact, it affects the whole world walking away from wisdom. So is wisdom worthless then? No, it's not wisdom that's worthless. It's our lack of respect for it that makes us virtual spiritual idiots.

Oh, I guess I'm preempting our friend Ray Comfort who's going to be coming on with us in about 10 minutes from the West Coast concerning his book, Idiotic Things People in the Bible Did. Yeah, Ray Comfort's a very interesting fellow, and I'm not sure whether he will comfort us or how it will go, but he's a humorous guy, and you might want to stay tuned for the second half of the program today with his book, Idiotic Things People Did in the Bible. But for now, we're laying the foundation because chapter nine of his book is about Solomon. What he did, why it was idiotic, and then he gives us the scoop of what happened in his life, very simply.

So let me ask you a question. If Solomon had the key of wisdom, which was the fear of the Lord, he wrote about it right there in the book of Proverbs. David wrote about it in the Psalms. David, Solomon's father, wrote about it. He said, "Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Teach me to number my days that I might incline my heart unto wisdom and knowledge." Solomon cried out, "Give me wisdom and knowledge that I might lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of Yours?" And he sits before God in the inauguration, the dedication of the first temple, and the Shekhinah glory of God takes over in that place. And Solomon falls on his face before God and prays out one of the most amazing prayers. Oh, that we had people, presidents in this country, who had that kind of reverence for God.

But that reverence didn't last. Why? What is it that makes it so hard for us to hang on to wisdom and to press on for wisdom? The Bible says that we should seek wisdom more than anything else, and with all of our wisdom gain understanding. It helps us to discern and distinguish between godly and worldly paths. In fact, in the book of Proverbs, wisdom is actually personified as a woman guiding people toward righteousness. It is so essential in our lives, wisdom.

So let me ask you a question. Do you lack wisdom? Have you ever felt like you lacked wisdom? I would suspect that most of us, if we were really honest, would say yes, there are many times when I feel like I lack wisdom. So what do you do when you feel like you lack wisdom? Jesus' brother James said, "If you lack wisdom, you should ask of God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you." Now, you may not fully understand at the moment when that wisdom is given because wisdom requires application. It requires understanding and application to be able to discern, to understand, to apply, to live out life from God's viewpoint. When I disagree with God's viewpoint, I have automatically ceased to walk in wisdom.

Because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. How would you know if you fear the Lord? By agreeing with His word. That's how we know if we fear the Lord. That's the key to wisdom. It's not the key to knowledge, it's the key to wisdom. You can have all kinds of information, you can have all kinds of knowledge out there, but it's not wisdom. Get wisdom and get understanding. Proverbs 4:5. Do not forsake wisdom. She will protect you, love you, and will watch over you. And how much better it is to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver. Silver and gold is being promoted a great deal now, precious metals and so on. There's nothing wrong with the precious metals themselves, but there's something far more precious than precious metals, and that's wisdom, godly wisdom.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What is that? The fear of the Lord. I want to make available to you my book, The Secret of the Lord. The Secret of the Lord will help you more deeply understand how to grasp the key of wisdom. The key to wisdom and hold on to it as more precious than anything else because without it, there's no hope of salvation. Not really. Without the fear of the Lord, you will feel no need for salvation because you won't believe you're a sinner. You won't believe you need it. You won't believe what God says about sin and how it's unconscionable in His sight, that He can't allow sin and corruption in His sight. And therefore, if we're going to be prepared, we have to walk in the secret of the Lord. The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and to them only will He reveal and manifest His covenant. Psalm 25:14.

So get a copy of the book, The Secret of the Lord. It's a hardbound book, $23 hardbound book, yours for, I believe it's $18 on our website. Whatever it is on the website, that's yours. It's a good deal no matter what it is on the website, saveus.org. Call us 1-800-SAVE-USA. Write to us at Save America Ministries, P.O. Box 70879, Richmond, Virginia 23255, writing a check add $6 for postage and handling. Again, the book, The Secret of the Lord. It's a beautiful book, just a beautiful book. And it's the kind of book that you can leave on your nightstand by your bed, you can read it in short increments. It's written in such a way that busy people who don't necessarily like to read can sit down and very easily assimilate the wisdom of the Lord through the fear of the Lord and understanding why it's so critically important, realizing that every single promise of God, including salvation itself, is predicated on the fear of the Lord. Maybe you didn't know that, but it's true, and you'll find that out as you read the book, The Secret of the Lord. And again, it's built on Psalm 25:14: "The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him," not with other people, not with those who believe about Him. Those who fear Him. In other words, who are willing to do His will, like Jesus. Like Jesus did His will. In other words, the Bible says Jesus had to learn the fear of the Lord very quickly. Did you know that? It's right there in the book of Hebrews. We'll be right back after this to talk with our friend, hopefully Ray Comfort, who's joining us as we speak. Ray will be with us shortly.

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Chuck Crismier: Have you ever done anything that was idiotic? As you look back on it and you realize, "Man, how in the world could I ever have done that? Or how in the world could I ever have said that?" Well, believe it or not, our guest today, in spite of all of the dumb things that he's done and said, he's written a book called Idiotic Things People Did in the Bible. His name is Ray Comfort, and he's come here today to give you some comfort because of the idiotic things maybe you have said or done because so many in the Bible have done the same or similar things. Which means there might be a little bit of hope left for you and for me. Ray Comfort joining us from Southern California. That's a dumb thing to be living there, Ray. Welcome to the program.

Ray Comfort: I think you're right. What we do is we spread rumors about a rotten governor that we have to keep people away from the weather. We want it to ourselves.

Chuck Crismier: Well, having spent 30 years myself there, I know what that's about. Although when it rains, it pours in California.

Ray Comfort: Yes, the song says. And we're pleased to see the rain. There's supposed to be some coming up next week, so we're looking forward to it. You know, it's so crazy. We go for months without any rain, and when it comes, we go outside and look at it. My dog comes out and looks at it. Kids are explained by their parents what it is that's falling from the sky, this wet stuff.

Chuck Crismier: Well, that's what the children of Israel did. They saw this white stuff falling from the sky, and it ended up on the ground, and they said, "We don't even know what to call this." So they called it manna.

Ray Comfort: Yep, that's why you've got to mind your mannas.

Chuck Crismier: Hey, listen, you've been involved in Christian ministry for a very long time, more in the area of what is commonly called evangelism, which is an -ism in its own right. It's not the wholeness of the gospel, is it?

Ray Comfort: No, it's not the wholeness of the gospel. It's what we should be doing. You know, as a ministry, we're very careful not to use the word evangelism when it comes to promoting anything. If we're doing a conference, we won't use that word because people will stay away because they're understandably intimidated by it. Charles Spurgeon called it something that's irksome, and it really is. It's annoying. You don't want to be involved in it. I admire people that go door-to-door, but I don't like going door-to-door and talking about the things of God. Because when I was a brand new Christian, I knocked on a door. I was about two weeks old, and I was aware Jehovah's Witnesses had stolen our thunder. So I said to the lady in a sincere tone, "Hello, I'm not a Jehovah's Witness." And she said, "Well, I am."

Chuck Crismier: So much for wisdom in doing evangelism, huh?

Ray Comfort: Yeah, so I'm a little hesitant with door-to-door.

Chuck Crismier: Well, you weren't hesitant at all when you issued the million-dollar bills that you spread around the country and had the Secret Service come in and collect over 8,000 of them, right?

Ray Comfort: Yeah, that's right. They didn't get it. You know, I said a 162-word gospel presentation on the back is a clue that it's not government-issued. "In God We Trust" on the front, but a 162-word gospel presentation is the clue that it's not a government issue. And so they lost the track.

Chuck Crismier: Well, one woman tried to cash in on it, though.

Ray Comfort: Yeah, and another guy did, too. Some people are a bit crazy.

Chuck Crismier: Well, I have a question for you, Ray. If that was perceived on a piece of paper as something worthy of cashing in on, why is it so many Christians don't cash in on the Word of God?

Ray Comfort: Well, there are so many people that name the name of Christ, but they don't have the things that accompany salvation. We forget that Jesus said the church is made up of true and false converts. You've got tares among the wheat, foolish virgins among the wise, bad fish among the good, goats among the sheep. They're going to get sorted out on the day of judgment. So when we say the body of Christ is in a mess, it's not. It just looks like a mess from the outside because we don't see the heart. But God sees those that love Him and those that obey Him. So the church is pure and spotless in God's eyes because we're trusting in the righteousness of Christ. It's a good thing to remember, otherwise we'll become discouraged when we hear things like 24% of pastors look at pornography and 86% have had an affair or desired to. You think, "What is going on?" Well, nothing's going on. It's just as the church is. It's hidden within the world.

Chuck Crismier: All right. So in other words, huge numbers, maybe the majority of those who are professing the name of Christ aren't living according to the wisdom of Christ and the ways of Christ but according to the ways of the world. And therefore, they line up with the idiotic things you're talking about that people did in the Bible.

Ray Comfort: Well, good transition. That is so true. You know, some people say, "When I get to heaven, I'm going to fall at the feet of Jesus and worship Him." Well, I want to do something before I do that. I'm going to walk up to Adam and smack him in the mouth because every bit of suffering we have comes because of that transgression. And so the Bible is filled from Genesis to Revelation of people that did dumb things, and they're there to learn, to teach us, and to be our instructions to us not to follow in their foolish footsteps.

Chuck Crismier: Well, here's one of the things that we seem not to get, and that is that dumb things do not come without consequences.

Ray Comfort: Boy, that is so true. And you see that with Esau. Esau is a kind of type of an atheist. They don't think very deeply. He rejected his birthright because he wanted some stew. He wanted to satisfy his temporal appetite, and he didn't think of the consequences. And that's what people are like when it comes to sin. There's an aroma that attracts them. They commit adultery with the lady next door thinking this will be sweet, and what do they get? They get consequences of a destroyed marriage or two destroyed marriages and kids who are scarred for life. And so sin has consequences both in this life and in the next.

So if we look at Esau, we can learn a lesson from that. We look at Judas, who was covetous and stole from the collection bag, it says in John chapter 12. That was the root cause. That's why he betrayed Jesus because he loved his sin. Or Demas, having loved this present world. The Bible says if you love this world, you're an enemy of God. You're like Lot's wife, who looked back. Don't even look back at the sinful world. Look to Jesus and realize what we've been given in Him: everlasting life. I mean, where would we go when Jesus has the words of everlasting life? So realizing what we have in Christ is a key not to looking back. The Bible says in scripture, whoever looks back is not fit for the kingdom, Jesus said in Luke 9:62.

Chuck Crismier: Well, apparently Lot's wife didn't understand that.

Ray Comfort: No, she certainly didn't, and she longed for Sodom, which was where her heart was.

Chuck Crismier: Well, but her husband had pitched his tent toward Sodom. That's what the Bible says. Abraham's nephew pitched his tent toward Sodom. And it sounds to me, as I have done this ministry now for over 30 years, that a huge number of professing Christians have pitched their tents toward Sodom. In fact, apparently at least 14 of the major Christian leaders in the country there in the realm of Dallas, Texas have done that themselves and were cast out of their ministries just in the last year and a half.

Ray Comfort: Goodness me. Wow. Yeah, there really needs to be a purifying in the church. There's a story many years ago of a prayer meeting in Russia, and in came some Russian guards. They got their guns, they pointed at the people and said, "If you're not prepared to die for your faith, get out of here." And half the professed Christians left. And once the doors were closed, the soldiers put their guns down and said, "We're Christians who want to clean out the sheep from the goats or the goats from the sheep before we'd risk fellowship." And that's what the Church of America needs. A little Russian guard clean-out would purify the church.

Chuck Crismier: Sounds like what you're talking about is a little persecution.

Ray Comfort: Yeah, and that's what happened with Saul of Tarsus. He created havoc within the church. And it said, "And those that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word," which is what they were supposed to do. I thank God that the disciples didn't stay in the upper room and carpet it out, put a little notice out the front, "7:00 tonight, all welcome." No, they went open-air and they said, "We cannot but speak that which we've seen and heard. God's granted everlasting life, salvation from death, and we've been entrusted with the message to take to this dying world who are sitting in the shadow of death." And there's no greater news this world could ever hope to hear other than Jesus Christ has abolished death.

Chuck Crismier: Well, God must have had a sense of humor to drag somebody up from the Deep South of down there under the seas, way down there south of Australia, to bring him up here to tell us the truth.

Ray Comfort: Well, you know, God's into shepherd boys. New Zealand has something like 50 million sheep and only 5 million people, although they're not sure of the exact amount because the guy that counts them keeps falling asleep. But God's got a propensity.

Chuck Crismier: So apparently you found Southern California to be a welcome home from New Zealand, and we welcome you aboard even today. And it's a delight to have you back on the program here, Ray. Now, you wrote this book, Idiotic Things People Did in the Bible. You tend to do a lot of idiotic kinds of things, or at least you're trying to get people's attention, right?

Ray Comfort: Yeah, no, I'm a klutz. If there's milk 20 feet from me, I'm going to spill the milk. I just can't help it. I've cut myself twice in the last couple of days with a knife for cutting bread. You think, "Crazy, don't do it twice." You know, a pastor sent me a text, he says, "How you doing?" And I wrote back and just said something like, "Getting old and ugly." And then I reread his text, he says, "How are you and your wife doing?" And I thought, "You don't say that about your wife." So I'm always doing dumb things. So I identify with this book, Idiotic Things People Did in the Bible, and we can learn from these mistakes, especially like King David walking the palace roof looking around, coveted his neighbor's wife, took her, and committed adultery.

Chuck Crismier: Well, that's not much different than 70% of Christian men who admit they're watching pornography every day.

Ray Comfort: That's right. Yep, there's a lack of fear of God.

Chuck Crismier: And 30% of Christian pastors.

Ray Comfort: 30%. Wow.

Chuck Crismier: 30-plus percent of Christian pastors admit to being involved in pornography. 34% of Christian women admit to participating in their forms of pornography. We've got a bunch of voyeuristic Christians that will come down on David for seeing Bathsheba across the way, but they're bringing her right into their living room.

Ray Comfort: Well, Jesus said whoever looks upon a woman to lust for her has committed adultery already with her in his heart. And we've got such an attraction, we're like moths to a flame. I'm 76, and I've still got the same desire to lust as I had when I was 16. Nothing has changed. Still a burning flame.

Chuck Crismier: In other words, your testosterone level is still cranking up.

Ray Comfort: Don't talk to me about it. When I go to witness, when I go each Saturday morning, have done for many years with my camera crew to film for our YouTube channel at Huntington Beach, I go early in the morning. I mean like 9:30 because when I go at noon when it's hot in summer, the girls forget to put their clothes on. They're wearing those itsy bitsy teeny weeny polka dot bikinis. So I go early in the morning because I know my eyes are really hard to control and I have to say, "Lord, please help me because I'm so weak in this area. Let the fear of God lead me." And that's what each of us need because that's the only thing that's going to keep us from sin, is having a right understanding of God.

And what I like to say to people, and I wouldn't advise people do this, but you know, if you cut the sun in half, go to the middle atom, cut that in half, turn it over, you'll see that God has seen that beforehand because He made that. And the eye of the Lord is in every place. So it's good to get a right understanding of God's greatness.

Chuck Crismier: All right. Your book, Idiotic Things People Did in the Bible, friends, it's fascinating. You might want to get a copy of it. $14 put it in your hands. It's on our website, saveus.org. Call us 1-800-SAVE-USA. Write to us at Save America Ministries, $6 in postage and handling. Fascinating book, really a fascinating book. You might want to get a copy just to use it in situations that you encounter with other people to maybe pave the way for them coming to embrace Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. God bless and be a blessing.

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