The origin of the old cliché “a little bird told me” is
Ecclesiastes 10:20:
[20] Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not
the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and
that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
On the sixth day, after God made
Adam, He said, ‘C’mon, I want to teach you something.'
“Adam shows up and there’s a tiger
and an elephant; there’s a mosquito. Adam doesn’t know where
they came from; he just showed up himself! He doesn’t even know where he came
from. God creates these animals and the fowls to start to educate Adam.
“Here Adam is brand-new and looking 33
years old. I mean, he’s only a day old. Whew. People say, ‘You look a lot older
than your age.’ Adam’s a blank! He doesn’t know what’s going on.
“God walks in the cool of the day
with Adam every day, teaching him. He puts the animals there to see if Adam’s
catching on to what his job is.
“Now, if you didn’t have any other
job assignment than to ‘go subdue the earth’ at the moment . . . You can’t be
fruitful and multiply, it takes time, but you can start subduing. If the Lord
says, ‘Looky here what I did!’, what would Adam do? Well, he’d start trying to
subdue it and that means naming them.
“He examines each one, identifies
their particular wisdom and understanding--what exactly they were they created
for; what’s their function--and gives names to them and names define a person.
He’s extracting out of the creation purpose and identifying them.
“Notice God didn’t name them; He wanted to see WHAT Adam would name
them. He didn’t need Adam to name the animals but He put them in front of Adam
to SEE what Adam would name them.
“By the way, intellectual pursuit
was given. He didn’t say, ‘Let the animals name themselves.’ Fido ain’t a
human. He gave to MAN the responsibility that supersedes the capacity of the
animals. An intellectual and perceptual discipline and function was given to
man. He gave man the responsibility to look at creation and figure out what it
was about.
“So what’s God looking for in
creation? He’s looking for man to extract the wisdom and understanding and
knowledge God put into it. That was having dominion. Dominion in the earth is
not simply telling people what to do. We think about it like, ‘I’m going to
reign; I’m going to tell you what to do.’
*****
“Exodus 31 starts out, 1]
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
[3] And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
[4] To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
[5] And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
[2] See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
[3] And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
[4] To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
[5] And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
“Workmanship is an activity that the
wisdom, understanding and knowledge allows you to accomplish. Notice this guy
has been given wisdom, understanding and knowledge to be able to work in such a
way as to devise cunning works.
“He literally had the capacity to
take gold and silver material and extract out of them purposes. Brass is an alloy. You take copper
and tin, copper and zinc; one makes brass and the other makes bronze. You have
to figure out there’s copper and there’s tin.
“Somebody had to sit down and figure
out to smelt them together to become a heat catalyst to form something new that
was better than either one by themselves. That’s devising cunning works.
“You look at creation, you saw how
God put that thing together so that it could be worked to accomplish a purpose
that hadn’t been faced before. If you’re fruitful and you multiply and
replenish the earth, you’re going to face some problems nobody had to face.
"You say, ‘Where’s the owner’s
manual for this problem?!’ You go back there and it’s not in the index. ‘What
am I going to do?’ He says, ‘I’ve given you wisdom, understanding and knowledge
to figure out how to do my will in there because that information’s available.’
*****
“Colossians 1:9 says, ‘For this
cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to
desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding.’
“You know what God’s purpose
with the Body of Christ is? It’s that man is going to take wisdom,
understanding and knowledge out of His creation and harness it and subdue it
and develop it so that it manifests the wisdom God put in His creation. You and
I are going to do the same thing UP there.
“You know what our reigning in the
heavens is going to be? It’s not going to be telling those angels to go do that
and those other angels go do that: ‘You do this because I said so.’
*****
“In Mark 10, when two of Jesus
Christ’s disciples come and say, ‘We want to sit on each side of you in the
kingdom,’ He responds, ‘You guys don’t understand; you’re thinking like a bunch
of elitist Gentiles. You think government is just telling people what to do.
Government is to administer my heaven. It’s to administer my business.
“ ‘It’s to take the wisdom,
understanding and knowledge that I have and go out there and figure out how to
apply it to ever-increasingly new situations so you don’t need to run to the
index every time; you’ve got some discernment to be able to deal with it based
upon understanding my will, and hence you can manifest my thinking, my mind, my
life.’
“Whoa! Do you grasp why wisdom,
understanding and knowledge is really the gut issue in all of it? Ephesians 2:7
says, ‘That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.’ ”
*****
Quote to consider: "Relationship is a process of self-revelation, and, without knowing oneself, the ways of one's own mind and heart, merely to establish an outward order, a system, a cunning formula, has very little meaning. What is important is to understand oneself in relationship with another. Then relationship becomes not a process of isolation but a movement in which you discover your own motives, your own thoughts, your own pursuits; and that very discovery is the beginning of liberation, the beginning of transformation."
Paul writes in Romans 12, [1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
[2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
[3] For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
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