Wisdom and Sovereignty

2 Timothy 3:6-9    
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

The ungodly who appear religious but deny Christ war against the gospel and the truth of God by infiltrating God church and people.  These deceive and lead people astray who are not firmly grounded in The scriptures, appealing to the innate lusts of our fallen nature.  These also keep heaping up knowledge, yet never understand the truth because they do not have God’s Spirit in them (1 Corinthians 2:10-14 and Romans 8:9) to reveal the truth.  These instead fight against the truth they are unable to grasp with their corrupt fallen minds, not acceptable to God without faith given to exercise to godliness.  The example of Jannes and Jambres from Jewish traditions of the two Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses (Ex. 7:11) is used as an example of those who oppose God and fail.  Since God is sovereign as Lord and Ruler of all things, He will stop those opposed to His will and people.  The foolishness of the godless will surface through their folly in resisting the Lord, and all will work for good as He preserves His saints; the gates of Hell will not nor cannot prevail against His church.  Yet we are still to be wise and avoid those who lead us towards sin with temptations that appeal to our old man within.  We are led by the Spirit of God to be wise and to put these desires and sin to death in His power.