Mark B. Thogmartin - July 19, 2015
God's Judgment In Time and Space
Solomon, in Proverbs chapter 8, makes it clear that God is the sovereign creator of the heavens and the earth. As God went about His creative work, Wisdom (the pre-incarnate Christ) was beside Him, like a master workman, delighting in the children of man for whom the creation was designed. Solomon admonishes readers to find life by finding wisdom, warning that whoever fails to find wisdom "injures himself." Those who hate wisdom "love death." The apostle Paul, in the first chapter of Romans, gives a clear, sequential description of the consequences people and cultures suffer as they ignore wisdom and the God who authored it in the beginning. The way to avoid God's judgment is to be found "in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteous and sanctification and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30).