QT 2/24/2025 1 Cor 2:6-16, The bible will change your life

1 Corinthians 2:6–16 (ESV) —

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the heart of man imagined,

what God has prepared for those who love him”—

10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts 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 understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

 

NOTE: The wisdom of God that we impart is the truth from the scriptures. This is a secret and hidden wisdom of God. How can I say that? The scriptures are out there but they are not understood without the Spirit of God. Reading the bible and understanding the literal words does not seem hard. But apparently it is. It could be that men's (referring to mankind) mind are blinded to spiritual truth. They consider it folly so that they won't even try to understand it. I have people challenge me on a so-called contradictions in the bible. In every case to date, I have found simple explanations. I started to wonder why it was so hard to see logical explanations when the subject was the bible. The problem is that the atheist and person who does not believe in God begins with the assumption that the bible is wrong and contradictory, and then he precedes to find contradictory statements. But they really aren't, the person is blinded by his assumptions. If you assume it is true, you see the logical explanations. For example, one gospel mentions two demoniacs and another one demoniac in a story. The person who believes the bible is false says, "see a contradiction." I have a friend who was a military crime investigator -- He told me that when he heard two exact stories, it usually meant someone was lying. Two people in one story and one in another doesn't contradict. First, one is included in the number two. Second, one person may have been the dominant talker and mentioning the other didn't add anything to the story. These are all things we do when we write literal stories. If anything, slight differences don't contradict but rather validate the historical truth of the event, especially when written at the same time.

 

PONDER:

1. How do I approach the scriptures?
2. Do I believe the bible is true or do I believe it is false? My assumptions will influence my understanding.

 

PRAYER: Father, your word is literally life changing. It exposes our inner heart, revealing things about ourselves we never knew. It changes us from the inside out. It is, by far, the greatest self-help book that exists if people would only read it. Open our eyes to truth. Fill us with your spirit to understand its truth.