Trap

The wisdom of God is demonstrated through the power of the cross - His redemption plan, produced out of His great love, is a plan in which Christ had to die, that shows that we can die with Christ and live again in Him. 1st Corinthians 1 states:
19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

We have to be careful not to fall into an "us vs. them" mentality, rather, it's a matters of "us in Him." And, in Him, as we're told in Scripture, there is great wisdom that is available.  If we seek to live according to the patterns of the Word of God in the power of the Spirit, we can make good decisions and have good reactions to the challenges we encounter.  God enables to be people of conviction, of good conscience, and enormous credibility because we rely on the source of true wisdom.

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The wisdom of God triumphs over and confounds the wisdom of this world.  During Holy Week, in Luke chapter 20, which you could call the "trap chapter" or even "trapter," you see the world's feeble 
wisdom on display and how Jesus dealt with it. The chapter starts out this way:
1 Now it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him 
2 and spoke to Him, saying, "Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?" 
3 But He answered and said to them, "I also will ask you one thing, and answer Me: 
4 The baptism of John--was it from heaven or from men?" 
5 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 
6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." 
7 So they answered that they did not know where it was from. 
8 And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

Jesus answered their questions with a question that short-circuited the reasoning of those who opposed Him, and I would contend that they knew the answer already; after all, He had been teaching on that authority and His relationship with the Father all along - He was plain with regard to who He was.  The series of challenges continued with taunts regarding governmental authority and the authenticity of the resurrection.

Notice the skill by which Jesus responded and remember that when we are challenged, we have the ability to respond by the Holy Spirit.

There's a baker in Colorado who has been facing challenges of his own.  Jack Phillips, who received a favorable U.S. Supreme Court ruling several years ago was back in court recently.  He had declined to provide a cake for a gay wedding ceremony, which is why he ended up before the Supreme Court, which cited the religious hostility of the Colorado civil rights commission, but legal experts have observed the ruling really didn't deal with whether or not Jack's actions were legally correct - issues surrounding free speech and religious freedom.  As a National Review article by David Harsanyi states:

While the 7–2 Supreme Court decision was a personal victory for Phillips, it did little to preserve religious liberty or free expression. Even today, a customer can walk into a business, with the force of government behind them, and demand a business owner create a product with overt political and religious messages that do not comport with that business owner’s sincerely held convictions.

Jack Phillips was on trial recently in a case from 2017 in which an attorney requested a cake to celebrate a gender transition.  Phillips is quoted on FoxNews.com as saying:

"This case started the day the Supreme Court decided they were going to hear our case. It was a very busy, very crazy day at the shop," Phillips explained. "In the middle of all of this chaos, we got a phone call from an attorney in Denver asking us to create a cake pink on the inside with blue icing on the outside."

The article continues: 

Phillips told Fox News that he was told "it was two colors, a color scheme, a combination, designed to celebrate a gender transition."

The customer, Autumn Scardina, an attorney, requested the cake in 2017 in honor of her gender transition.

"We told the customer, this caller, that this cake was a cake we couldn’t create because of the message, the caller turned around and sued us," Phillips told Fox News. "This customer came to us intentionally to get us to create a cake or deny creating a cake that went against our religious beliefs."

He said that, "This customer had been tracking our case for multiple years. This case was just a request to get us to fall into a trap."  FoxNews.com also reported:

Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, told Fox News that this "was an obvious type of setup."

"At the trial, and in other testimony, this attorney confirmed that Jack was contacted in an effort to make a test case and to 'correct the errors' of Jack’s thinking," Waggoner told Fox News.

The National Review article also relates:

The director of the Colorado civil-rights division found “probable cause” in Scardina’s complaint but ended up dropping the case after being sued by Alliance Defending Freedom in federal court. After years of harassing Phillips, and a loss in the high court, Colorado almost surely would have lost.

Rather than appealing the commission’s dismissal, Scardina filed a lawsuit seeking damages, fines, and attorney’s fees. And here we are.

Here. We. Are. Jack Phillips, admittedly targeted for his religious beliefs and not finding any real relief at the high court - yet.  So, Christian believers who want to stand on conscience in the products they produce are still not completely legally protected, and people like Jack are even targeted by some professing Christians who believe that Jack should "bake the cake."  

But, Jack doesn't want to bake it.  And, he shouldn't have to be forced to. Paul, by the way, addressed this conscience issue regarding the consumption of meat.  But, here we are, and we have to rely on the wisdom of God to show us how to respond when the challenge of conscience comes, as well as when the consequences ensue.

Jesus was in a similar position - there were opponents who laid a trap for Him, yet He skillfully responded.  We have access to the wisdom of God, that will direct us in the steps that we take.  We have the mind of Christ, and we can think His thoughts, thoughts that are written for us, instructions that are given, in the Scriptures.  Even when the trap is set and perhaps we walk into it, we can rely on Almighty God to sustain us.