Having The Mind of Christ

Sharing the Gospel

1 Corinthians 2:1 NIV84

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

1 Corinthians 2:1

Share without eloquence

Share without eloquence

Share without superior wisdom

Simply proclaim the testimony about God

Simply proclaim the testimony about God.

Paul went to Corinth

1 Corinthians 2:3

1 Corinthians 2:3 NIV84

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

With weakness

With weakness

With fear

With much trembling

The message of God

1 Corinthians 2:4–5 NIV84

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

1 Corinthians 2

Does not come with man’s “wisdom”

Does not come with persuasive words

It comes with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power

So faith doesn’t depend on man’s wisdom

Faith is based on God’s power

Paul’s Message

1 Corinthians 2:6 NIV84

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.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Wise to the mature

Not understood by the wisdom of this age

The hidden mystery

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV84

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”—

1 Corinthians 2:9–10 NIV84

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.

Humanly we cannot understand

Only understandable through God’s Spirit

Only the Spirit understands the deep thoughts

1 Corinthians 2:11–14 NIV84

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. 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.

1 Corinthians 2:11-14

Spirit of the world verses the Spirit from God!

The world pursues worldly things

The spiritual discern God’s Spirit

Man without the spirit does not accept the things from the Spirit of God

The spiritual man

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 NIV84

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.

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Judges all things

But judged by no man

The mind of the Lord instructs us!

We have the mind of Christ

QUESTION: Do you have the mind of Christ?

Are you worldly?

Are you spiritual?