{"id":4313,"date":"2023-07-30T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2023-07-30T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T19:19:56","slug":"sermon-7-30-2023-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 7\/30\/2023: &#8220;Wisdom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ross-230730-Wisdom.mp3\">Wisdom<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Solomon began well. Or did he? Let\u2019s look at the context:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The story of how Solomon succeeded David on the throne of Israel is fraught with intrigue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solomon asked for wisdom, after he married a non-Hebrew, in violation of God\u2019s word.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God, being gracious, gave him what he asked for. Note: God gave Solomon what <em>he<\/em> wanted: the ability to discern good and evil for himself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This should remind us of a similar story in Gen 3: Eve thought that eating the forbidden fruit would give her the ability to discern good and evil for herself<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So God made Solomon the wisest person in the world. No one has had wisdom like Solomon.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But what kind of wisdom did Solomon have? He had worldly wisdom, and he used that wisdom to expand his kingdom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Worldly wisdom is real wisdom. He expanded the kingdom, which was what God wanted at that time. Worldly wisdom works in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today the world stands on the brink of the establishment of what I will call \u201csuper wisdom:\u201d AI, Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-admin\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a striking similarity between Solomon\u2019s wisdom and AI. Both are thought to be the greatest wisdom\/knowledge in the world, the greatest knowledge of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}