1 Corinthians 2

November 22, 2022

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Reading along with us in selections from 1 Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:

1 Corinthians 2 (NIV)

1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.............Continue Reading

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  1. Though Paul is not speaking with eloquence or human wisdom, he is speaking with God’s wisdom and reminding the Corinthian believers that they should be doing the same things. There seems to be a level of responsibility attached to their special condition in Christ (with the Spirit). I imagine Paul shocked them when he said “we have the mind of Christ”.

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  2. Lots of good reading!! Funny how Paul starts this chapter speaking how he came to them with the simple death and resurrection of Jesus. Paul took on the most brilliant men of this age. He always met people at their level Vs 8. The high priest. Herod. Pilate. Rejected Jesus. As Paul goes on to explain. The spirit of the world compared to the spirit of truth The things of God are foolishness to him. Love the last verse We have the mind of Christ!! as we spend more time in the word. Prayer. Fellowship. The mind of Christ will become more evident in us. As the worlds values fade away!!

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  3. Where would we be without the wisdom of God. Whether we refer to the wisdom that encourages faith without seeing or necessarily understanding, or the wisdom in His standards, or the wisdom from His word that can be written on our hearts and purify our thoughts and motives and help us be the people that God created us to be, it’s all good and necessary. Then on top of that to know that the Holy Spirit is within us instructing, enlightening, reinforcing, convicting and empowering every facet of the Christian life. To think that Sprit searches the deep things of God and makes them available to us is amazing! Now we do need to be prepared to have the world not understand what we say or how we think, but it doesn’t need to dampen our appreciation of that wisdom or us sharing it with them to hopefully lead them to the knowledge and faith of Christ. How awesome that through the word and the Spirit we can have the mind of Christ. And with that, no person should have the ability to put us down because of that. They may say it, but it doesn’t need to effect what we think about it.

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  4. I love that last verse that we have the mind of Christ! To have that understanding, to have that knowledge should change the way we operate in all aspects of our lives. To view this world and the things of this world as they are temporary and of no value compared to the things of God. To view people with His eyes we would show more kindness, more compassion, and we would share more truth.

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  6. It is the Spirit of God that lives within us that reveals to us the thoughts of God. I must remember that when people judge me for my belief in God and salvation through Jesus Christ. They judge me because they don’t understand it and they don’t understand it because they don’t have the gift of the Holy Spirit. Knowing this, it is important that I communicate the gospel message to others in a way that is genuine, sincere and straightforward.
    16for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”
    But we have the mind of Christ.

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  7. Wisdom of God vs. the wisdom of man

    It is interesting the contrast between the two,
    “wisdom of man”:
    excellence of speech or of wisdom
    persuasive words of human wisdom
    wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
    natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him

    “Wisdom of God” :
    Jesus Christ and Him crucified
    demonstration of the Spirit and of power
    wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
    deep things of God
    freely given to us by God
    comparing spiritual things with spiritual
    spiritually discerned
    the mind of Christ.

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