ANSWERS TO QUESTION 1.
How did Paul and Daniel use their education for God’s glory?
(a) “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect” (1 Cor. 1:17).
(b) “As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all wisdom and dreams” (Dan. 1:17)
(c) “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: yet in, the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue” (1 Cor. 14:18-19)
“The king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel .... and in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm” (Dan. 1:19-20).
Paul, who was taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers (Acts 22:3), after he was converted, preached, and taught publicly, and from house to house. (Acts 20:7,20). For him to live was Christ. (Phil. 1:21). He did not boast of his knowledge, but counted all things loss for Christ. (Phil. 3:7-8).
Daniel, who was skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science (Dan. 1:4), gave God the praise by owning that wisdom and might come from Him. (Dan. 2:20,23).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 2.
How does James tell a wise man to act?
(a) “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meatiness of wisdom” (James 3:13).
(b) A wise man would be “swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath” (James 1:19).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 3.
What was Timothy told to avoid?
(a) “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Tim. 6:20).
(b)”Flee youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. (2 Tim. 2:22-23).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 4.
What is the wisdom from above?
(a) The wisdom from above is the wisdom given us when we feel our own weakness and dependance, and we ask God’s guidance and direction. “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).
(b)It was what Solomon asked of the Lord (1 Kings 3:7-12). “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (James 3:17).
(c) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments” (Psa. 111:10).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 5.
Give five scriptures showing that all are under condemnation.
John 3:18. John 3:36. Romans 5:1. Romans 5:18. Galatians 3:10.