1 Corinthians 2:10-16 (Spiritual Understanding)
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Spiritual Understanding
Spiritual Understanding
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Get ready because He has something for you that you’ve only read about
Something that you haven’t heard of happening to other people
God has prepared something for you to tap into
A different way to pray
A new perspective on who He is
New ways to reach people around you
New business ideas
Love Him, Seek Him
Worship Him, Go after his heart
Praise Him, Spend your waking moments trying to know him better
He’s a rewarder
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Looking for a lost dog:
Riding my bike
One track minded
All I could focus on
The street lights coming on
The oncoming punishment
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
How do we obtain those things?
What makes it possible for us to have them?
They only come by His Spirit
His spirit
We received his spirit
15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
We’ve been adopted into the family of God:
The lineage: adopted into greatness, not what last name you bear, but a heavenly lineage
We bear the same expectations, there’s a standard of holiness we must now come to grips with
The benefits: the secrets, the provision, the blessings, most of all the wisdom
We have to be partakers of His divine NATURE
WE HAVE A NEW NATURE
PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT
COLTER WENT TO THE HOSPITAL
Most People Pray when they face big problems, Leaders pray before they face big problems
I didn’t know this at the time
2 Peter 1:4 (NKJV)
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
Without the Spirit, there’s no true way to understand the magnitude of what God has provided for us
Andrew Womack-we’ll have to be supernaturally comforted when we realize what we missed out on earth
Every misconception of God’s nature is ignorance of who HE really is:
People pervert, distort, twist, misinterpret, blame, accuse and even go as far to curse God because they have no idea who HE is
If they enemy can confuse people enough to paint the wrong view of God to people it can keep them from serving Him
That’s why it’s so important to daily get in tune with the heart of the Father
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Spiritual things are only spiritually discerned:
The Holy Spirit makes wisdom of the knowledge we hide in our heart
Aim to understand things spiritually first
The world can’t understand the things of God
The world will try to intellectualize God first before humbling themselves to his spirit
Without the spirit of God we are unqualified to judge spiritual matters
That’s why the world is in so much Chaos
It always will be without the spirit of God
16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
What better way to know the heart of the Father than look to the earthly representation OF HIM on earth
Christ
We have his mindset, we have his mind
Pray for the mind of Christ for you and your Family
Rebuke the Spirit of confusion
I have a clear mind
My thoughts are stayed on you Father
Do you need answers?
Pray in the Spirit