OUR FATHER WHO TEACHES US BY HIS SPIRIT

1 Corinthians chapter 2 verses 6 - 16 records the apostle Paul declaring to the Corinthians that even though he presented only the simplicity of the gospel and put the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ as the preeminent and pivotal fact, once they had entered the economy of  faith, there was an expectation that they would mature and be able to receive Godˋs wisdom that was completely separate from the wisdom generated by the temporal realms.

Godˋs wisdom was concealed in mystery such that it was completely opaque to the rulers of the age and even though it was written of in ancient scriptures, was undecipherable to them.

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—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

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. 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?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

This wisdom, hidden from all beings before the beginning of time, was discreetly metted out so that those who were called would find pathways to glory as the wisdom of God unfurled in their lives. Paul references Isaiah chapter 64 verse 4 which foretells the intervention of God in the lives of His people in ways that were going to be beyond their wildest imaginations.  For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him. (AMP).

To those who would believe and mature in Christ, the Spirit of God transmits these mysteries to them in such a way that they are able to understand things that were utterly incomprehensible to the rulers of this world and to those without the Spirit of God.

Whereas people without the Spirit see the things of God as foolishness, those with the Spirit of God, imbued with the mind of Christ, are able to rightly judge and act on the things that are dispensed by the Spirit of God.

Amen.

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