The Wisdom of God
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Paul preached the gospel. He didn’t use a bunch of fancy speech tricks or appeal to the wisdom of the day.
Christ and Christ crucified was enough for him even if it seems crazy to the world.
Remember the wisdom of the world is not God’s wisdom.
6 We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, What no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived— God has prepared these things for those who love him. 10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually. 15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16 For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Maturity in Christ brings wisdom.
Maturity in Christ brings wisdom.
When we come to Christ our understanding of the deeper mysteries of God begins to grow.
Make no mistake however, we do not fully understand everything.
The reason those of us who are “mature” seem wiser is because we have lived through things, we have seen things, we have experienced things. We have had victories, we have failed but in each we have found knowledge which leads to wisdom.
Wisdom is knowledge applied.
Wordly wisdom is not God’s wisdom.
Wordly wisdom is not God’s wisdom.
I know this has been repeated but we have to get this down… what the world thinks, what it calls important or even how the world thinks we should respond is absolutely not how God looks at things.
When we say you have to lay down your life the world doesn’t understand this. When we say we can praise God in the midst of heartache the world just can’t wrap its collective thinking around it.
True wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit.
True wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit.
All the knowledge of the world will not lead a person to Christ, only the Holy Spirit can do that.
The Holy Spirit knows the mind of God and reveals His mind to us.
Without the Holy Spirit working the unbeliever cannot comprehend spiritual truth.
Without the Holy Spirit working the unbeliever cannot comprehend spiritual truth.
This includes salvation. If the Holy Spirit is not drawing someone all our conversations, presentations, and laying out the plan will not work.
Paul says the unbelievers sees it as foolishness.
It is a spiritual process not a physical, mental or philosophical process.
We have the mind of Christ.
We have the mind of Christ.
We only have the mind of Christ through the Holy Spirit.
If we have the mind of Christ then we should think like He thinks.
If we have the mind of Christ them we evaluate life as Jesus does.