Wisdom From the Spirit

Wisdom From the Spirit
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him" but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.[c] The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Gods Wisdom vs. Human Wisdom

Gods Wisdom vs. Human Wisdom

1 Corinthians 1 Read This Chapter
1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe
1:22
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks (Mankind) look for wisdom,

2 Timothy 3 Read This Chapter
3:7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
Romans 1 Read This Chapter
1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

It, and the related words suzeteo and suzetetes, sood-zay-tay-tace' refer to sharp discussions,
disputes, or questioning

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

I Cor !:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Foolishness. The Greek philosopher and the Jewish scribe scoffed at the thought of a Savior who had been crucified. They held that his crucifixion proved that he was not divine

Where are you? What do you believe?

John 3:15
For you see thee God loved the world so much or he loved the world in this manor with the result that he gave his son the only begotten one in order that everyone who believes in him should not perish but shall have eternal life.

John 3:16
For God did not send his son into the world to judge the world but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:17
He who believes in him is not judged but he who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the uniquely born son of God.

Written by Wes Miller
04/10/07