God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
How
very wonderful it would be if the world's leaders all had access to
the spiritual side of the universe. It is not as though spiritual
wisdom has not been available, at least since the crucifixion and
resurrection of our Christ. The issue of lack of spiritual guidance
becomes more acute with each passing day. Just look at what is
unfolding right before our eyes around the globe. Their ears do not
hear, their eyes do not see, their minds do not understand. The
Apostle Paul, while leading the church at Corinth back from heresy,
offered the following insight during a time that mirror's what we
are seeing unfold this very day;
[1 Corinthians 2:6-16---New International Version (NIV)]
6 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. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has
been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9 However, as
it is written:
“What
no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
The Spirit searches
all things, even the deep things of God. 11
For
who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?
In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of
God. 12
What
we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who
is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13
This
is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with
Spirit-taught words.[b]
14
The
person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from
the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot
understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15
The
person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a
person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16
for,
“Who
has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
so as to instruct him?”
But
we have the mind of Christ.
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