Greg Robinson – God Hath Made Foolish the Wisdom of this World – Class 3 – Man’s Wisdom Hides God’s Wisdom

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Well, welcome back to our third
session for the morning with our

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brother Greg Robinson.
To introduce his subject for

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this morning.
He’s asked us to take a reading

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and that’s found in First
Corinthians Chapter 2.

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This is watching Lake Bible
School 2022.

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This is our Tuesday morning
session with a brother, Greg

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Robinson.
His theme for the week is God

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hath made foolish the wisdom of
this of this world from First

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Corinthians and his subject for
today’s class is man’s wisdom

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hides God’s wisdom for the Greg.
Thanks for the Luke.

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Good morning, my dear brothers
and sisters.

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Maybe getting a little bit
better there.

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I think maybe.
All right, Welcome to Class 3.

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We’re actually going to cover a
whole chapter today.

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So that’s kind of exciting as we
move move through the 1st 4

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chapters of First Corinthians.
And as you see there, our title

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today is Man’s Wisdom Hides
God’s Wisdom.

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Just a bit of a recap before we
move on into chapter 2.

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In our first class, we, we
looked at the wisdom of man, we

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looked at the city of Corinth.
We looked at the knowledge, the

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principles that that city was
based upon.

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It was a large, successful
worldly city, but it had no real

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place for God in it.
The Corinthian ecclesia was

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surrounded by this and they had
problems with divisions, with

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strife, with contentions.
The ways of the world were

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actually making their way into
the ecclesia quite successfully

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because the brothers and sisters
were not of the same mind.

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There were self appointed
leaders that were taking

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positions of of importance in
the ecclesia and there was a mix

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of God’s wisdom and man’s wisdom
that was guiding the ecclesia.

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They didn’t have the same
judgments.

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They didn’t make the same
decisions because they couldn’t

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agree with each other on things.
So for example, the the one that

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that keeps coming up is the
example of fornication.

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Some tolerated fornication and
suggested that that’s the,

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excuse me, that’s the course
that the ecclesia should follow.

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And some were opposed to that.
Man’s wisdom, then was coming to

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a head, coming head on with
God’s wisdom in the ecclesia.

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In our second class we looked at
the wisdom of God, and Paul

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showed them that really there
should be no divisions in the

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ecclesia because Christ was
their Lord, and that no one else

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had been crucified for them.
He showed them that what Christ

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did was to make the wisdom of
man foolish.

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He did that by his sacrifice and
that the wisdom of God was far

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superior because it brings life
and not death.

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Now from man’s perspective,
man’s wisdom was great because

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it had no cross in it.
What do I mean by that?

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So man looked at man’s wisdom
and said, this is this is

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exactly what we want because
there’s no sacrifice for us, at

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least no reward would come from
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But man’s wisdom could not offer
that eternal life.

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So here’s where we see the
problem with adapting man’s ways

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into the ecclesia.
Man’s wisdom doesn’t have the

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cross in it, and there has to be
the cross in order for it to be

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compatible with God’s wisdom.
And man’s thinking has gotten to

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be removed.
So this summed up for us in

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Paul’s words in the next in
First Corinthians chapter one at

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the end of the chapter there
regarding man’s wisdom.

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And what we saw yesterday was
that the purpose of life for

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most of mankind was satisfying
their desires, was elevating

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themselves and that that led to
death.

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And this chart made it a very
simple choice, as Paul presents

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it against God’s wisdom where
the purpose was for sorry, the

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purpose was to choose God’s will
over our own.

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The purpose was to glorify God
and that purpose would actually

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lead to eternal life.
And so by that decision, by what

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happens there, God has made
foolish the wisdom of this

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world.
So we’re going to go now to

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first Corinthians chapter one,
just to the end of the verse

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there, or the end of the
chapter, verse 30.

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And Paul wraps up the chapter,
and he says, But of him that is

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of God, are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us

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wisdom.
So by looking at the example of

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Christ, we could see God’s
wisdom.

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And then it brings us, as the
verse continues, righteousness,

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sanctification, and redemption.
So in the ecclesia there would

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have been some who felt that
eloquent human arguments were a

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lot smarter than God’s wisdom.
Some of the leaders were

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bringing in these humanistic
ideas and these ideas would have

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seemed to be right to many
people in the ecclesia.

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Now to some they actually seem
better than what Paul was

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teaching.
And so with Paul not being on

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site, that was a a big problem
for them.

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One of the examples then over in
chapter 5 we looked at and we

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talked about was that of
fornication.

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Some thought that it was good or
some thought that it was OK, and

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some did not think that it was
OK.

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But the behavior continued to
come into the ecclesia and the

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decision was simple.
If we go over to chapter 5,

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verse four, he says, or verse
five, he says that the solution

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was to deliver such and one unto
Satan for the destruction of the

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flesh, that the Spirit might be
saved in the day of the Lord

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Jesus.
He says your glorying is not

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good.
Know you not that a little

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leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
So God’s wisdom says let’s purge

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out the leaven.
Let’s get rid of fleshly

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thinking.
And if that’s the best way for

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us, the best course for us to
follow.

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So in chapter 2, Paul carries on
with this argument.

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He says, I know that it seems
like the wisdom of some of the

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humanistic teachers is superior
to the wisdom of God.

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He says, I know that when we
came to you, the way that we

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taught was was maybe not as as
strong as you were expecting, or

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it wasn’t filled with as much
wisdom as you would have liked

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to have seen.
And since we’ve left, many of

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these other teachers are
presenting things with

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eloquence.
And so Paul explains in the 1st

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5 verses that he came with very
simple teaching for a very

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important reason.
And that was because he wanted

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to focus on the sacrifice of
Christ.

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But when he did that, a lot of
the people in the ecclesia would

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have thought that there wasn’t
much substance to what Paul was

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saying, to what Paul was
teaching.

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Now, have you ever heard a
teacher that was really able to

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simplify things, making things
so simple for us that maybe we,

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we actually thought that that
teacher didn’t have much

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intellectual depth?
Have you ever had that that

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happened where you heard
somebody speak and you thought,

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well, they’re pretty, pretty
simple on this, this topic, and

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maybe they don’t know much about
it.

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And that’s why it’s, it’s being
presented in such a simple way.

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I think that’s what was
happening with Paul.

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He’s presenting the cross with
such simplicity that people

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actually looked at him and
looked at what he was saying and

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thought that there wasn’t much
depth to what he was saying.

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Now, often times when you go up
and talk to that that teacher

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afterwards, what do you find?
You find it an incredible depth

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of understanding that they have
and you find that actually their

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simplicity was, was really
because they had that depth of

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understanding in the 1st place.
So I think that’s an important

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thing that that we need to
realize and that’s I think what

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was happening with Paul in these
cases.

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So when Paul speaks, his wisdom
is not readily available,

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readily visible to the people
that were there.

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He teaches verse 30.
It says, but of him are ye in

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Christ Jesus, who of God is made
unto us wisdom.

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That’s how it was with Paul.
He was teaching these things.

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He says it says that he showed
us his wisdom in Christ and that

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by being in Christ and choosing
God’s wisdom that were made

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righteous.
So it was a it was really a very

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powerful message.
He says we’re made usable for

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God’s purpose by the sacrifice
of Christ.

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All right, so in the third
class, then our title is man’s

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wisdom hides God’s wisdom.
So let’s see how how all of this

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works out.
So chapter 2, verse one, it

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says, and I brethren, when I
came to you, I came not with

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Excellency of speech or of
wisdom.

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So when Paul came to Corinth
about four years earlier, he’s

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telling them that I came and I
didn’t come with eloquence.

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I didn’t come to you with clever
arguments.

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I didn’t do what some of the
teachers that are now doing,

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some of the teachers now are
doing in the ecclesia.

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Instead, I came declaring unto
you the testimony of God.

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Now, of course we know, of
course we know that Paul could

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very easily have blown away
those other teachers, but he

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didn’t do that.
Instead, what does he do?

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He makes a conscious effort to
deliver a very simple message to

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them.
And of course, that was the

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testimony of God.
So come with me over to Acts

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chapter 18.
Here’s the historical time when

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Paul actually came to the city
and let’s see what he was he was

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thinking here if we can and get
some more information about what

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happened with Paul actually came
to the city of Corinth to teach.

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So Acts 18 and verse 4 says any
reasoned in the synagogue every

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Sabbath and he persuaded the
Jews and the Greeks and when

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Silas and Timotheus were come
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Paul was pressed in the spirit
and he testified to the Jews

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that Jesus was Christ.
That’s the message.

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That simple message is what he
came and he taught that Jesus

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was Christ.
Now take that simplicity because

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we know that a lot of other
places we have much more detail

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and a much more complex argument
that’s that’s given by Paul.

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But here’s the focus is Jesus is
Christ.

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So go back to First Corinthians
chapter 2 and let’s see what

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Paul says in addition to this.
He says for this is verse 2.

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So First Corinthians chapter 2
and verse 2, it says, for I

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determine not to know anything
among you save Jesus Christ and

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him crucified.
So Paul resolved when he, when

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he was speaking to the
Corinthians, not to depend on

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human knowledge, he came simply
with the message that the

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Messiah was crucified.
That’s the message that he came

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with.
Now yesterday we saw that the

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cross of Christ is the wisdom
and the power of God, that the

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preaching of the cross is the
key to what the wisdom of God is

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all about.
And when when Christ sent Paul,

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it was the message of the cross
that had to be maintained.

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That’s what God was looking for.
That’s what Christ was looking

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for Paul to share.
First Corinthians one verse 17

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says for Christ sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the

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gospel, not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ

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should be made of none effect.
So actually Christ had

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instructed him that when he went
to Corinth that he would speak

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to them with simplicity.
He was following them the

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directions that Christ gave to
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We know Paul has the ability to,
to, to totally speak with with

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eloquence and we has the ability
to reason way beyond what

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probably the others in, in
Corinth.

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Actually, we’re able.
I think it’s pretty remarkable

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then that that Christ asks him
to go and to speak with, with

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such simplicity when he gets
there and how does he react?

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How does he speak when he
actually gets there and he

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stands up in front of the, the,
the brothers and sisters or

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those that he was he was
teaching.

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It says in verse three, he says,
and I was with you in weakness

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and in fear.
So with nervousness and in much

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trembling, it says so again, the
the idea that he was afraid to

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get up and stand in front of the
people of Corinth to teach them.

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Now that may be because of this,
this new way that he was asked

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to teach or this way that he was
asked to teach when he came to

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the city of Corinth.
It’s, it’s hard to believe Paul

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would have trouble with this,
but Paul was keeping his words

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simple.
He was keeping his words

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focused, and at the same time,
he says that he was trembling

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with fear.
Now, put yourself in the

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audience when Paul’s speaking
this way.

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Put yourself there watching or,
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say.
And you see this, this nervous

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teacher who’s standing up in
front of everybody and he’s

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speaking with such simplicity.
What’s your reaction going to

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be?
Your reaction is going to be,

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well, maybe he doesn’t actually
know much more than what he’s

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saying, or maybe he doesn’t know
what he’s talking about even.

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Or maybe there’s a much more
fuller understanding that we

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should be looking for than what
this man has to offer us.

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I think that’s what some of the
people would have actually been

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thinking about as Paul stood up
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So Paul explains to them, look,
this is how I was told to come

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and to speak to you.
I was told to come to speak to

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you.
And I spoke to you.

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And I was nervous about it when
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of you.
So he goes on in verse four and

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he says in my speech and my
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words of man’s wisdom, but in
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power.
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wisdom.
I didn’t use man’s reasoning.

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I didn’t use man’s skill.
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have used the power of the Holy
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He would have had a very simple
message and he would have stood

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up and he would have shown them
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performing miracles in front of
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And so Paul demonstrated then
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which we were, we were talking a
lot about yesterday, and that

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had a tremendous effect on
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And Paul was able then to
continue to share that message

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with them for a year and a half.
And maybe that’s why he used

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such simplicity.
That’s one of the reasons that

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he used such simplicity.
Now, a few things to consider is

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about this before we move on.
The first thing is it’s the word

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of God that changes people,
isn’t it?

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It’s not the miracles, it’s not
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It’s actually when they get down
and they get their minds into

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the Word of God.
So the way that Paul was

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teaching here was perfect for
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Paul starts out simple.
He gives them the simple

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message.
He shows them that it’s true,

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that it’s backed by the power of
God, and he allows the Word of

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God to do the work, which is
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And that being the case, it’s
important that all of us do the

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same thing, isn’t it?
Because we all know enough to

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say a few words to people about
the hope that we have about the

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cross of Christ.
If we could get them to just

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listen to those few words.
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open the word of God up for
themselves, we know that we can

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make progress or that the word
of God can make progress, right?

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We find that so often in the
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If, if they’ll come and they’ll
listen to us and they’ll listen

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to us and they’ll listen to us.
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own to open up the word and to
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progress begins to be made
because it’s God’s word that’s

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doing the work there.
All right, let’s move on to

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verse five.
He says that your faith should

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not stand in the wisdom of men.
So again, Paul was concerned

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that the brothers and sisters
not think of him as the person

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that they were worshipping or
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Instead it says, but in the
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Again, just like last last
yesterday’s class in in chapter

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1 verse 18, he says for the
preaching of the cross is to

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them that perish foolishness,
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It’s the power of God.
So Paul’s conscious of this Paul

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is deliberate in doing this in
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He made sure that the faith of
the brothers and sisters in

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Corinth was rooted in him.
Sorry, not in him, but in the

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word of God.
Now I remember when I was a kid

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and I remember reasoning, there
was a brother in our ecclesia

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that seemed to be to know his
Bible very well.

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He would give classes that that
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So I was probably, I don’t know,
eight or nine years old or

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something like that.
And when I heard him give the

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classes, I would listen and I
would, I would thought to

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myself, now if I want to be in
the Kingdom of God, all I have

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to do is to follow exactly what
he is doing and I will be able

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to be in the Kingdom of God.
I don’t know if any of you ever

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thought something like that when
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Of course.
So I went to my mom and I said,

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I’ve got it all figured out.
This is how I could be in the

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Kingdom of God.
And my mom says, well, wait,

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wait a second, wait a second,
wait a second.

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You have to get into the word
yourself.

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You have to learn those things
because the word of God has to

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has to have the impact on your
mind just like it’s had on his

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mind.
And that’s exactly right, isn’t

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it?
And so that’s where where Paul’s

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at.
He doesn’t want to become that

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leader that everybody’s going to
follow.

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He wants everybody to to get
into the word and and to learn

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it for themselves.
So after Paul left Corinth, he

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was there for a year and a half.
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there would have been some in
the ecclesia that weren’t

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careful about this like Paul
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And so we have these leaders
that that began to have

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prominence in the ecclesia and
there were people that were

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happy to follow them, thinking
that this is this is the way to

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go because it’s a lot easier to
allow someone else to do it and

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to become their follower.
Those people, those leaders

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found it satisfying to have
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They like to have the attention.
And so this this practice

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continued.
It was inevitable, I think then

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that some of those leaders would
begin to question what Paul had

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taught them.
They begin to oppose Paul.

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They begin to think.
You remember when he came, he

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really didn’t seem to have much
to tell us.

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You remember how he was.
He was so nervous about standing

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up in front of us and to
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They actually probably thought
that by introducing new ideas

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into the ecclesia, they were
actually helping to make the

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ecclesia better.
That, I think, would have been

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the perspective of those people
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And so that’s what they did.
That’s what they brought into

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the ecclesia.
And here’s kind of the list that

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we looked at the other night,
right?

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The envying the strife, the
divisions, the pride, the

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arrogance, the fornication, the,
the suing, right, not accepting

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wrong, not suffering yourself to
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The questions about wearing head
coverings and, and the, the

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practice to stop wearing head
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They turn the Lord’s Supper into
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They use spiritual gifts to
glorify themselves, and they

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question the resurrection.
Now all of these ideas were were

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humanistic ideas that were
already present in the cults

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that were in the city of
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And so these ideas that began to
creep into the ecclesia and and

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some of them said that will
Paul’s not really even an

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authority on these things.
And so we don’t necessarily need

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to need to listen to the words
of Paul that gives us a picture

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of the environment of what’s
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Verse 6 So verse 6, Paul stands
up and he says you’re not

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getting it.
You’re not seeing the whole

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picture here.
You don’t understand what’s

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actually happened here.
He says how be it we?

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You’ll notice the difference
there.

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He stops saying I and now he
says we.

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How be it we?
So he’s talking here about the

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apostles as well as himself.
He says, howbeit we speak wisdom

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among them that are perfect.
What does he mean by that?

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He’s telling them that, look, we
may have come and spoken with

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simplicity when we came.
He says, however, we do speak

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with wisdom.
We do speak difficult things

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among those that are perfect.
And what does he mean by those

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that are perfect?
He says those that are

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spiritually mature.
Now what’s he saying to them?

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He’s saying, look, if you
haven’t heard us speak with

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difficult teaching or giving you
harder things to understand,

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there’s a reason why that is.
That’s because you’re not ready

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for it yet.
Don’t think the message, don’t

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think that the wisdom of God is
some simple thing, because the

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wisdom of God is simple, but it
has depth.

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It is profound.
That’s what he’s telling them.

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And if you haven’t heard those
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that’s because you weren’t ready
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So he says yet not the wisdom of
this world, nor of the Princess

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of this world that came to
naughty.

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We don’t speak man’s wisdom.
We’re not we’re not going to

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give you the wisdom that you’re
hearing from these other

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teachers, He says.
We don’t quote those

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philosophers because their
wisdom, their teachings are

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coming to nothing.
There’s no advantage to the

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teachings that they have because
man’s wisdom has always been

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replaced by a newer version of
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Isn’t that true?
Haven’t we?

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Haven’t we, maybe all of us?
Haven’t we already seen man’s

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wisdom?
And what man thought was the way

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that we should live our lives is
different than it was 20 years

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ago.
Isn’t it different now?

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And it’s way different than it
was 40 years ago.

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And the next one I can’t help
you with, but it’s, it’s, it’s

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getting so that these the wisdom
of, of man is just continuously

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changing.
It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s not

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something that we can put our
trust in or put our hope in.

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But God’s wisdom, Paul is
saying, is timeless.

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God’s wisdom is far superior to
man’s wisdom.

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And so he says in, in verse
seven, he says, but we speak the

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wisdom of God in a mystery.
He says, we’re talking to you

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about the wisdom that comes from
God, from the creator of the

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universe.
It’s this word mystery means a

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truth once hidden is what Vines
tells us.

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It’s a truth that’s been hidden
before and now has been

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revealed.
This is a truth that was once a

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secret but now has been made
manifest.

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It’s the message of the cell of
salvation.

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It’s the message message of the
cross.

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It’s the message of the Kingdom.
And Paul says, look, we are

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revealing to you something that
is from God.

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And it’s it’s something that is
far superior to all other

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wisdom.
He says there’s now in a way,

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he’s saying there’s now an
immortal ruler that’s ruling and

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who has now shared with us the
mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

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I think that’s pretty amazing
how Paul kind of strikes back

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against them their their
thoughts that he really was was

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simple and didn’t have much
depth to what he was teaching.

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And he says, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
There’s so much depth to this

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because this comes directly from
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And so Paul was now going to
share these things with them, He

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says even the hidden wisdom.
So it’s something that that had

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been given to him that wasn’t
made visible fully until this

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point in time, until the Lord
Jesus Christ through his Holy

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Spirit revealed it unto them.
God’s plan, he says, was

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predetermined, He says, even the
hidden wisdom which God ordained

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before the world unto our glory.
So God’s plan is something that

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hasn’t changed.
It’s been around since the

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beginning.
That’s what God intended to do.

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And you’ll notice at the end
there he says before the world

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unto our glory.
So this plan is actually

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something that brings glory to
us.

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If we’ll follow this wisdom, if
we’ll follow this wisdom that’s

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now been revealed.
I think that’s amazing.

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I think it’s amazing how subtly
Paul strikes back at what what

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they were thinking about him.
In this case, we go to verse 8,

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he says, which none of the
Princess of this world knew.

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For had they known it, they
would not have crucified the

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Lord of glory.
Had the leaders of the world

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know what Christ’s plan was,
what the plan for Christ was,

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what God’s plan was, had they
known that they would never have

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crucified, but they were too
interested in their own power,

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in their own prestige.
They were, they were too

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00:25:54,760 –> 00:25:58,040
interested to stop and to listen
to the word of God, to

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understand this plan.
We had Christ who for 3 1/2

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years was teaching these things
to people, but they, they were

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too interested in their own
lives to stop and to listen to

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what he had to say.
And then he says at the end of

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that verse, he calls him the
Lord of glory.

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He is the one that brings us, He
is our Master that leads us to

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true glory.
He says again, I think it’s

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amazing.
The Pharisees, the Sadducees,

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the scribes, the teachers of the
law, they were all oblivious to

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00:26:29,880 –> 00:26:34,360
this message and they were
oblivious to it because they

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wanted to to retain the glory
that they had as the leaders of

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00:26:38,600 –> 00:26:41,440
Israel, right?
They wanted to retain that that

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prestige that they had over the
people that they were unaware

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that God had a much greater
glory for them, a greater glory

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that that was going to come
through the Lord Jesus Christ

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who they crucified.
But they were so busy pursuing

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their own things they did.
They just didn’t see that and

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they were completely blind to
the wisdom of God.

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In verse 9, Paul actually there
quotes from Isaiah chapter 64.

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So let’s go over to Isaiah
chapter 64 and take a look what

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he says there.
So he’s continuing this idea,

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Paul’s continuing this idea
about the world not knowing.

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And that’s exactly what Isaiah
is talking about here in Isaiah

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64.
He’s talking about the fact that

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in his days the world was
completely blind to God’s

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wisdom.
And so Isaiah says, I wish you

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would make yourself known to the
world.

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I wish you would make yourself
known to the world, Isaiah says,

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like you did to Israel on Mount
Sinai.

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So Isaiah 64, we’re going to go
at verse, go into verse 4.

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Isaiah says, Oh, that thou
wouldst rend the heavens, that

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thou wouldst come down, that the
mountains might flow down at thy

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presence, as when the melting
fire burneth, the fire causeth

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waters to boil.
I wish you would come down to

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make thy name known to thine
adversaries.

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He says that the nations may
tremble at thy presence.

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This is what Isaiah wanted.
He wanted that day to come when

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the world would would actually
see God’s power and they would

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know God and they would
recognize God because he says

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00:28:31,520 –> 00:28:33,400
most of the people don’t know
you.

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They don’t know your name, they
don’t know your purpose, they

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00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:40,200
don’t know your power.
I just wish that we could

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actually see your power.
You would actually show that to

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them.
Verse three he says when thou

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didst terrible things.
And he’s talking about the

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Exodus, isn’t he, in the times
of the Exodus, which we looked

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not for, they were they were
beyond our expectations.

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He says there thou came as down
the mountains flow down at thy

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presence.
From Isaiah, sorry, from Exodus

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chapter 19.
In Romans chapter one verse 20,

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Paul says that the world is
without excuse for knowing God.

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There’s no excuse for the world
to to not know that there is a

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00:29:15,120 –> 00:29:18,600
God and to acknowledge that and
to look for for what God has to

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00:29:18,600 –> 00:29:20,600
say.
They’re right.

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00:29:20,600 –> 00:29:23,360
They’re without excuse, but
they’re still ignorant.

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00:29:23,360 –> 00:29:26,840
They still don’t know they found
a way to to completely ignore

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00:29:26,840 –> 00:29:33,000
God and they’re blind because
man’s wisdom gets in the way of

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00:29:33,000 –> 00:29:35,880
God’s wisdom.
They don’t understand the cross

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00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:39,360
because if they did understand
the cross, that would mean that

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they had to themselves sacrifice
and follow the example of

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Christ.
So verse four he says, for since

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the beginning of the world, men
have not heard nor perceived by

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00:29:51,800 –> 00:29:56,600
the ear, neither hath the eyes
seeing, O God beside thee, what

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00:29:56,600 –> 00:29:59,480
he have prepared for him that
waited for him.

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People have not come to know
your plan, he says.

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00:30:04,480 –> 00:30:07,000
And so Paul quotes these verses
and he says this is the

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00:30:07,000 –> 00:30:08,400
predicament that the world is
in.

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00:30:08,760 –> 00:30:12,560
They haven’t come to know you.
Go back into First Corinthians

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00:30:12,560 –> 00:30:21,680
chapter 2.
First Corinthians chapter 2 and

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00:30:21,680 –> 00:30:26,280
at verse 9.
So Paul quotes this he says, but

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as it is written, I have not
seen nor ear heard, neither have

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00:30:31,800 –> 00:30:35,000
entered into the heart of man
the things which God has

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00:30:35,000 –> 00:30:41,840
prepared for them that love him.
Isaiah and Paul were both saying

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that most of the world has been
ignorant of God’s plans, those

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00:30:47,680 –> 00:30:51,640
plans that have been in place
from the beginning, those plans

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00:30:51,640 –> 00:30:55,440
that continued to be revealed.
But most of the world was

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00:30:55,440 –> 00:31:02,080
ignorant of those plans.
And that plan is all about what

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00:31:02,080 –> 00:31:05,040
God has prepared for them that
love Him.

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Now what does verse 10 say?
What does he say to us in the

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00:31:10,520 –> 00:31:13,080
next verse?
It’s been hidden from the world,

518
00:31:13,080 –> 00:31:17,560
he says, but God hath revealed
them or taken off the cover, as

519
00:31:17,560 –> 00:31:21,000
that word means unto us by his
Spirit.

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00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:25,320
These are the things that God
has prepared to them, that love

521
00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:28,360
Him, and they’ve been given to
us.

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00:31:29,960 –> 00:31:32,360
And that’s been given to us by
the work of the Holy Spirit, he

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00:31:32,360 –> 00:31:36,160
says, And that’s been given to
us by the Word of God.

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00:31:36,880 –> 00:31:39,640
Those things have worked
together so that the apostles

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00:31:39,880 –> 00:31:43,280
had taken off the cover, they
had these things revealed to

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00:31:43,280 –> 00:31:47,000
them and they were now sharing
them with the world.

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00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:51,000
Now what a contrast to, to the
wisdom that somehow the the

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leaders of the Corinthian
ecclesia, some of these leaders

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00:31:53,560 –> 00:31:57,600
thought was, was better than
what Paul had shared with him

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00:31:57,600 –> 00:32:00,280
when he first came.
And so they were trying to bring

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00:32:00,280 –> 00:32:02,720
these, these ideas, these
humanistic ideas into the

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00:32:02,720 –> 00:32:05,480
ecclesia.
And Paul says, you, you, you

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00:32:05,480 –> 00:32:08,680
just don’t understand.
You just don’t understand the

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00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:13,120
big picture of what’s actually
happening here, he says.

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00:32:13,760 –> 00:32:15,920
For the Spirit searcheth all
things.

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00:32:16,480 –> 00:32:20,760
Yeah, the deep things of God.
So God had revealed these things

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00:32:20,760 –> 00:32:24,360
to the apostles by the Spirit,
by the Holy Spirit, and they’d

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00:32:24,360 –> 00:32:26,880
revealed them, and he’d revealed
them to them by his word.

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00:32:27,520 –> 00:32:29,760
And they began to put those
pieces together.

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00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,320
And these are what he calls the
deep things of God.

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And God has given all of us this
same kind of access to these

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00:32:37,720 –> 00:32:39,560
things.
So they would look at what what

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00:32:39,560 –> 00:32:42,080
the Spirit had taught them and
they would look at the the word

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00:32:42,080 –> 00:32:43,360
of God.
And they put those things

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00:32:43,360 –> 00:32:46,200
together and they understood
truths that they had never

546
00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,200
understood before.
They understood deep things.

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00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:51,640
Now, where are we in this
equation?

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00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:56,360
We’ve been given the wisdom that
the apostles has been given, had

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00:32:56,360 –> 00:32:59,800
been given, and we’ve been given
the word of God alongside that.

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00:33:00,520 –> 00:33:03,960
And so we do the same thing, and
we put those together in our

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00:33:03,960 –> 00:33:07,440
minds and we develop spiritual
minds at the same time.

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00:33:08,520 –> 00:33:10,600
It’s an amazing thing that
happens with us.

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00:33:10,880 –> 00:33:13,240
It’s an amazing thing that the
Word of God can actually work

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00:33:13,560 –> 00:33:16,880
inside of our minds.
And what we find is that the

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00:33:16,880 –> 00:33:20,280
natural mind can’t rise to these
things.

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00:33:20,520 –> 00:33:24,280
It can’t understand the things
of the spirit unless we first

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00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:27,960
begin to put the things of the
spirit into our own minds.

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00:33:28,680 –> 00:33:31,120
The natural mind just can’t rise
to these things.

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00:33:31,440 –> 00:33:33,600
It can’t rise above earthly
thinking.

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00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:39,400
Why do many Christians, what do
many Christians, I sorry, what

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00:33:39,400 –> 00:33:42,600
do many Christians think about
how the Spirit of God comes into

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00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:44,680
US?
Have you ever talked to them

563
00:33:44,680 –> 00:33:48,400
about how this spirit develops,
the spirit of God develops in

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00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:53,120
them, and what do they think?
They believe that when they

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00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:57,240
accept Jesus as their savior
that the Spirit of God enters

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00:33:57,240 –> 00:33:59,880
their minds and their thinking
changes.

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00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:06,000
It’d be nice, right?
It’d be nice if it was that

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00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:09,520
simple for it just to to, to
come into our minds and to

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00:34:09,520 –> 00:34:13,000
change the way that we think.
But Paul saying no, it it takes

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00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:14,600
work.
It takes us sitting down with

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00:34:14,600 –> 00:34:17,040
the word of God and learning
these things.

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00:34:17,520 –> 00:34:20,480
So here’s a quote that I found
and there’s plenty more online.

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If you were to look at these
about how people think that they

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00:34:25,880 –> 00:34:28,960
receive the Holy Spirit and you
may have talked to different

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00:34:28,960 –> 00:34:32,120
Christians about this and they
really do believe something like

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00:34:32,120 –> 00:34:34,440
this.
So this one says, if you’re

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00:34:34,440 –> 00:34:37,480
familiar with Christianity, so,
OK, this is bogus, right?

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00:34:37,480 –> 00:34:41,400
So just so we know going in, OK,
if you’re familiar with

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00:34:41,400 –> 00:34:44,600
Christianity, you’ve probably
heard of the Holy Spirit.

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00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:48,560
But what is it and how does it
become a part of your life?

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00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:53,120
He says theologians have filled
untold pages with their thoughts

582
00:34:53,120 –> 00:34:56,520
on the subject.
But the simplest answer is that

583
00:34:56,520 –> 00:34:58,680
the Holy Spirit is the presence
of God.

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00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,720
It was sent to guide us after
Jesus ascended to heaven.

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00:35:03,680 –> 00:35:07,440
You will receive the Holy Spirit
after you get saved and become a

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00:35:07,440 –> 00:35:10,080
Christian.
So simple as that, right?

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00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:13,120
Just like that, you will have
understanding and then it says

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00:35:13,120 –> 00:35:15,400
something curious.
I think, however, learning to

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00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:17,840
recognize when the Spirit is
moving, you can take a little

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00:35:17,840 –> 00:35:20,120
practice.
It’s, it’s probably because it

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00:35:20,120 –> 00:35:24,200
never is, right?
But that’s the that’s what

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00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:25,960
people think.
That’s the understanding that

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00:35:25,960 –> 00:35:28,560
they have.
They think and you talk to them,

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00:35:28,560 –> 00:35:31,000
they think that the spirit
actually comes into their mind

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00:35:31,000 –> 00:35:34,240
and it’s not a process of
meditating and thinking about

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00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:37,080
the Word of God.
It’s not a practice, practice of

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00:35:37,080 –> 00:35:38,760
learning the thinking of the
spirit.

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00:35:39,480 –> 00:35:40,760
But they just don’t understand
that.

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00:35:40,760 –> 00:35:44,200
They don’t, they don’t get to
the place where they think that

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00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:48,000
that’s actually what happens.
Again, it’d be nice, but that’s

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00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:53,200
not what happens.
So verse 11, it says for what?

602
00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:57,360
For what man knoweth the things
of man save the spirit of man,

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00:35:57,360 –> 00:35:59,440
which is in him.
This is a hard one, I think, for

604
00:35:59,440 –> 00:36:02,080
us to understand when we first
read it, to understand what he’s

605
00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:05,400
talking about here.
So I think this helps.

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00:36:06,360 –> 00:36:09,200
So what he’s talking about here
is that we don’t know the

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00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:12,520
thoughts of a person unless we
hear their words.

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00:36:13,320 –> 00:36:16,320
So a person might be thinking
something, but until they

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00:36:16,320 –> 00:36:19,080
actually speak to us, we don’t
know what they’re what they’re

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00:36:19,080 –> 00:36:21,360
thinking.
That makes pretty logical sense,

611
00:36:21,360 –> 00:36:23,200
doesn’t it?
I think that’s pretty simple.

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00:36:23,760 –> 00:36:27,920
And so he says Even so, the
things of God knoweth no man but

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00:36:28,000 –> 00:36:32,240
the Spirit of God.
So in the same way we don’t know

614
00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:36,680
the things of God, contrary to
the common Christian belief, we

615
00:36:36,680 –> 00:36:40,400
don’t know the things of God
unless we hear God’s words.

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00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:45,240
Now that’s what’s happened to
most of mankind, isn’t it?

617
00:36:45,480 –> 00:36:48,200
Most of mankind has never heard
God’s words.

618
00:36:48,640 –> 00:36:51,400
So most of mankind does not know
the wisdom of God.

619
00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:55,080
But we have been given the words
of God.

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00:36:55,080 –> 00:36:57,920
We’ve been given what we call
the spirit word, and that’s what

621
00:36:57,920 –> 00:37:01,960
he’s talking about here, this
spirit word, or as in the case

622
00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:04,960
of the apostles, the apostles
were given the word directly

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00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:07,160
from Christ.
It was spoken to them.

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00:37:08,120 –> 00:37:13,120
And we can’t know the things of
God except by developing the

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00:37:13,120 –> 00:37:17,200
mind of the spirit.
The spirit enters our mind,

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00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:19,400
doesn’t it?
When we read the word of God,

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00:37:19,840 –> 00:37:25,200
it’s not magical, it’s powerful.
It enters our minds and our

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00:37:25,240 –> 00:37:29,480
spirits or our minds then are
changed by God’s word.

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00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:35,040
That’s why that’s why God gave
us the capability of developing

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00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:38,440
a character like His where He
gave us minds that could reason

631
00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:40,520
His word and understand His
word.

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00:37:41,640 –> 00:37:43,720
Now if you ask people that have
been reading the word for some

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00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:47,480
time, they’ll tell you that the
reason that they believe the

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00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:50,320
Bible, at least many will tell
you that the reason that they

635
00:37:50,320 –> 00:37:54,640
believe the Bible has changed.
Initially, they believed the

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00:37:54,640 –> 00:37:57,160
Bible or believed that it was
the word of God because of Bible

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00:37:57,160 –> 00:38:00,040
prophecy.
They read it, they saw the

638
00:38:00,040 –> 00:38:03,200
prophecy and they were convinced
that the prophecy came true and

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00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:05,040
they were convinced that it was
the word of God.

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00:38:06,440 –> 00:38:09,920
But as as they progress in their
understanding, what happens is,

641
00:38:09,920 –> 00:38:11,960
is we begin to believe the word
of God.

642
00:38:12,600 –> 00:38:16,400
The Bible is the word of God
because we begin to understand

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00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:18,800
the wonder of the world.
It’s the word itself.

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00:38:19,320 –> 00:38:22,520
It begins to actually change our
thinking and it changes our

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00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:24,120
behavior.
And we could feel that and we

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00:38:24,120 –> 00:38:27,400
know that and we could see that
and we know that there’s nothing

647
00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:29,520
else that we read that’s like
that.

648
00:38:30,680 –> 00:38:32,080
And that’s what Paul’s talking
about here.

649
00:38:32,320 –> 00:38:35,000
This is this is the wisdom of
God that he speaks of.

650
00:38:35,560 –> 00:38:39,840
It’s something that’s hidden
from most of mankind for one

651
00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:42,480
simple reason.
It’s because they don’t open

652
00:38:42,480 –> 00:38:44,920
their Bibles and read God’s
word.

653
00:38:47,720 –> 00:38:51,080
It’s an amazing thing.
So in the same way, we don’t

654
00:38:51,080 –> 00:38:54,160
know the things of God unless we
hear the words of God.

655
00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:59,400
Verse 12 he says now we have
received not the spirit of the

656
00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:02,520
world.
Paul says we haven’t received

657
00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:05,680
man’s wisdom.
What we are teaching is not

658
00:39:05,680 –> 00:39:11,120
based on man’s words or man’s
ideas, but it’s based on the

659
00:39:11,120 –> 00:39:15,720
Spirit which is of God.
We have received the wisdom of

660
00:39:15,720 –> 00:39:19,800
God.
Paul, I think, has masterfully

661
00:39:19,880 –> 00:39:25,760
shown here that what he and the
apostles had been teaching was

662
00:39:25,760 –> 00:39:30,240
so far superior to man’s wisdom.
And it was that because it had

663
00:39:30,240 –> 00:39:34,560
been given to them as part of
God’s plan, it wasn’t just

664
00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:38,240
something that was what a smart
person had figured out or had

665
00:39:38,240 –> 00:39:42,160
devised.
He continues.

666
00:39:42,160 –> 00:39:46,680
That we might know the things
that are freely given, freely

667
00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:49,760
given.
That’s the word grace there to

668
00:39:49,760 –> 00:39:53,560
us of God.
So God has given these things by

669
00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:59,160
His grace, and those were the
same words that Paul was sharing

670
00:39:59,640 –> 00:40:02,400
with them.
And we find that in verse 13 he

671
00:40:02,400 –> 00:40:07,880
says which things also we speak
not in the words which which

672
00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:13,360
man’s wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Spirit teacheth.

673
00:40:14,840 –> 00:40:20,080
What a contrast the words which
man’s wisdom teaches and the

674
00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:24,160
words the apostles came to know
from the Scriptures.

675
00:40:24,760 –> 00:40:27,680
And had come directly to them
from the Lord Jesus Christ

676
00:40:27,960 –> 00:40:33,520
through the Holy Spirit.
This absolutely sets apart the

677
00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:37,160
teachings of Paul from the
teachings of those that were

678
00:40:37,160 –> 00:40:38,760
bringing humanism into the
ecclesia.

679
00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:45,480
He says comparing spiritual
things with spiritual, that word

680
00:40:45,480 –> 00:40:49,480
comparing means interpreting.
So they could put the words that

681
00:40:49,480 –> 00:40:52,080
had been given to them next to
the words of the Scripture and

682
00:40:52,080 –> 00:40:55,680
they could understand, they
could interpret the words of

683
00:40:55,680 –> 00:40:57,840
Scripture and they could
interpret the words that have

684
00:40:57,840 –> 00:41:00,360
been given to them.
And of course we say we could do

685
00:41:00,360 –> 00:41:02,840
exactly the same thing by
studying the Word of God.

686
00:41:03,480 –> 00:41:07,360
We could greatly develop our
spiritual understanding.

687
00:41:10,240 –> 00:41:13,320
Verse 14, he says, but the
natural man.

688
00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:20,200
So those people that don’t go
beyond natural thinking receive

689
00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:24,840
not the things of the Spirit.
For receiveth, Vine says to

690
00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:31,400
accept by deliberate and ready
reception of what is offered.

691
00:41:32,640 –> 00:41:36,840
Receiveth not means that they
choose not to accept.

692
00:41:38,040 –> 00:41:41,600
So there are people, Paul’s
telling us, who deliberately

693
00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:45,320
choose to reject the revelations
of God.

694
00:41:46,720 –> 00:41:51,320
Why do they reject them?
Why do they not bother reading

695
00:41:51,320 –> 00:41:54,480
the word of God?
Why do their eyes gloss over

696
00:41:54,480 –> 00:41:56,560
when you start to teach them
about these things or start to

697
00:41:56,720 –> 00:41:58,120
to read to them from the
Scriptures?

698
00:41:59,840 –> 00:42:00,960
Right?
The verse continues.

699
00:42:02,280 –> 00:42:05,800
He says, for they are
foolishness unto him.

700
00:42:06,840 –> 00:42:10,880
Those words are foolish to them.
Strong says that that word means

701
00:42:10,880 –> 00:42:14,160
silliness or are ridiculous to
them.

702
00:42:15,640 –> 00:42:18,960
So these people make a
deliberate choice not to to hear

703
00:42:18,960 –> 00:42:22,320
the word of God.
They reject God’s wisdom by not

704
00:42:22,320 –> 00:42:24,040
listening to the words that God
speaks.

705
00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:28,040
The natural mind considers
itself only with the things of

706
00:42:28,040 –> 00:42:32,400
this world because it doesn’t
have an understanding of God’s

707
00:42:32,400 –> 00:42:36,120
plan.
It doesn’t know that God has

708
00:42:36,120 –> 00:42:40,160
made foolish the wisdom of this
world and that God has offered

709
00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:44,040
us eternal life.
And as long as they reject the

710
00:42:44,040 –> 00:42:46,800
word of God, as long as they
don’t listen to what God has to

711
00:42:46,800 –> 00:42:50,520
say, they’re not going to know
the things of the Spirit and

712
00:42:50,520 –> 00:42:53,280
they’re not going to learn the
wisdom of God.

713
00:42:54,120 –> 00:42:56,880
So he says neither can he know
them.

714
00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,880
They can’t grasp them
intellectually because men and

715
00:43:00,880 –> 00:43:03,400
women don’t just absorb the
wisdom of God.

716
00:43:04,560 –> 00:43:07,080
It takes work.
And that’s what he finishes

717
00:43:07,080 –> 00:43:09,280
with.
Because they are spiritually

718
00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:15,760
discerned, the things of the
Spirit can’t be accepted or

719
00:43:15,760 –> 00:43:19,000
grasped by people who only have
human wisdom.

720
00:43:22,080 –> 00:43:26,760
Now, we have to be careful, I
think, because all of us are

721
00:43:26,760 –> 00:43:31,640
going through this process of,
of going from having only

722
00:43:31,640 –> 00:43:35,200
natural wisdom or natural
understanding to a place of

723
00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:40,040
having spiritual understanding.
And as we make that progression,

724
00:43:41,160 –> 00:43:44,400
we’re going to make decisions
sometimes that are the wrong

725
00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:49,240
decisions because they’re based
on the wrong wisdom, and yet

726
00:43:49,240 –> 00:43:51,840
they’re going to feel to us like
they are absolutely the right

727
00:43:51,840 –> 00:43:54,400
decision.
So we’ve got to be careful in

728
00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:58,080
ourselves about this, and we’ve
got to be careful about this in

729
00:43:58,080 –> 00:44:01,160
others as well.
We can make wrong choices then

730
00:44:01,160 –> 00:44:04,760
that affect our lives and maybe
affect the lives of others.

731
00:44:05,680 –> 00:44:08,160
And this could happen even when
we’re really confident that

732
00:44:08,160 –> 00:44:12,280
we’re making the right decision.
What’s the solution to that?

733
00:44:12,400 –> 00:44:16,000
How do we solve that problem?
Of course, God has given us our

734
00:44:16,000 –> 00:44:21,400
brothers and sisters, and it’s
very helpful for us to remember

735
00:44:21,400 –> 00:44:23,760
that our brothers and sisters
are going through that same

736
00:44:23,760 –> 00:44:26,760
process, that there are other
brothers and sisters that are at

737
00:44:26,760 –> 00:44:29,400
different stages in the
development of the thinking of

738
00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:32,760
the Spirit.
And we could go to them and we

739
00:44:32,760 –> 00:44:36,000
can hear from them correction or
instruction.

740
00:44:36,880 –> 00:44:40,320
And maybe sometimes if we’re a
little further down the road of

741
00:44:40,320 –> 00:44:44,200
understanding spiritual wisdom,
there’s an opportunity that we

742
00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:49,240
should take to go to someone and
to try to instruct them on the

743
00:44:49,240 –> 00:44:51,920
thinking of the Spirit.
I think it’s especially

744
00:44:51,920 –> 00:44:54,320
important in the world that we
live in today, where man’s

745
00:44:54,320 –> 00:44:59,840
wisdom seems to be so ingrained
in us that the culture, that the

746
00:44:59,840 –> 00:45:03,560
media, everything presents it to
us as if it’s absolutely right.

747
00:45:04,600 –> 00:45:07,480
And yet we know it’s not.
We know it’s not.

748
00:45:07,480 –> 00:45:10,800
And yet it feels like this is
the right Rd. that we should be

749
00:45:10,800 –> 00:45:13,400
on.
We’ve got to be careful then

750
00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:18,840
that we we we follow the right
wisdom and that we look to the

751
00:45:18,840 –> 00:45:22,560
Scriptures to find that wisdom
and that we help each other to

752
00:45:22,560 –> 00:45:27,360
find that wisdom.
So verse 15 says, but he that is

753
00:45:27,360 –> 00:45:33,320
spiritual judgeth all things he
that is spiritual.

754
00:45:34,480 –> 00:45:37,040
So if he that is spiritual is
talking about someone who has

755
00:45:37,040 –> 00:45:39,600
spiritual understanding.
So as we develop the mind of the

756
00:45:39,600 –> 00:45:43,360
Spirit, we develop a greater
understanding in the wisdom of

757
00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:45,680
God.
And he tells us here that if we

758
00:45:45,680 –> 00:45:51,040
can do that, we can judge.
The word means to discern, to

759
00:45:51,080 –> 00:45:55,360
evaluate, or to judge.
And we could do that because we

760
00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:58,640
could see much more of the big
picture.

761
00:45:59,600 –> 00:46:03,520
We could base our judgments and
our understanding on God’s

762
00:46:03,520 –> 00:46:09,240
purpose rather than on a very
limited view that man’s wisdom

763
00:46:09,240 –> 00:46:12,760
gives us, right?
It’s a much bigger picture and

764
00:46:12,760 –> 00:46:16,000
this is critical in our lives
and the truth in the Old

765
00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:21,320
Testament, the people are often
condemned that the kings and for

766
00:46:21,320 –> 00:46:24,320
lack of judgment and the Psalms
talk about when Christ comes,

767
00:46:24,320 –> 00:46:26,160
they’ll finally be righteous
judgment.

768
00:46:26,840 –> 00:46:28,120
That’s something that was
missing.

769
00:46:29,320 –> 00:46:31,520
Go back to first Corinthians
chapter one, verse 10.

770
00:46:32,840 –> 00:46:34,560
Look at what the problem in the
ecclesia was.

771
00:46:37,280 –> 00:46:40,040
I beseech you, brethren, 1st
Corinthians 110 he says, I

772
00:46:40,040 –> 00:46:43,000
beseech you, brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

773
00:46:43,000 –> 00:46:44,720
that you all speak the same
thing.

774
00:46:45,400 –> 00:46:49,400
There be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfectly joined

775
00:46:49,400 –> 00:46:54,600
together in the same mind in the
thinking of the Spirit, and in

776
00:46:54,600 –> 00:46:57,160
the same judgment, the
discerning judgment that will

777
00:46:57,160 –> 00:47:00,000
come from that.
We could see then why there were

778
00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:01,920
different judgments, can’t we,
in the ecclesia?

779
00:47:01,920 –> 00:47:06,120
Because they had all different
ideas of what wisdom was and

780
00:47:06,120 –> 00:47:09,760
there wasn’t a conclusive
understanding of the wisdom of

781
00:47:09,760 –> 00:47:12,640
God that they could turn to or
that they relied upon.

782
00:47:13,040 –> 00:47:16,640
Or if there was that in the
ecclesia, they didn’t count on

783
00:47:16,640 –> 00:47:19,760
it or they didn’t go to that
person to to find it.

784
00:47:21,600 –> 00:47:26,720
Think about David and Jonathan,
they both saw the big picture.

785
00:47:27,120 –> 00:47:30,680
Would you agree?
They both had an understanding

786
00:47:30,680 –> 00:47:35,640
of what God was doing when, when
they were working together, they

787
00:47:35,640 –> 00:47:38,800
were both working with God to,
to save the nation of Israel.

788
00:47:38,800 –> 00:47:42,200
I would say, what is the, what
does the Scripture say about

789
00:47:42,200 –> 00:47:45,920
their souls?
They were knit together, right?

790
00:47:46,960 –> 00:47:51,000
They had the same spirit.
It’s not that they had their own

791
00:47:51,160 –> 00:47:55,160
exclusive little spirit, but
it’s, they both had the thinking

792
00:47:55,160 –> 00:47:57,360
of the spirit influencing their
lives.

793
00:47:57,840 –> 00:48:00,520
And so they agreed on things and
they made the same decisions

794
00:48:00,520 –> 00:48:03,240
because they were making
decisions based upon what God

795
00:48:03,240 –> 00:48:06,480
had in mind.
And so for us, if we can develop

796
00:48:06,480 –> 00:48:09,640
the mind of the Spirit, what
Paul’s saying here, if we could

797
00:48:09,640 –> 00:48:13,200
develop the mind of the Spirit,
then we’ll be able to rightly

798
00:48:13,200 –> 00:48:17,440
judge all things.
Is that isn’t that a wonderful

799
00:48:17,440 –> 00:48:18,840
thing?
We’ll be able to make much

800
00:48:18,840 –> 00:48:21,880
better judgments about things
because it’s based upon the

801
00:48:21,880 –> 00:48:25,640
wisdom of God.
And then he says, yet he himself

802
00:48:25,640 –> 00:48:30,000
is judged of no man.
That sounds almost like a

803
00:48:30,000 –> 00:48:33,200
humanistic idea, doesn’t it?
An idea today that don’t judge

804
00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:34,520
me.
That’s a, that’s a common

805
00:48:34,520 –> 00:48:37,320
phrase, isn’t it?
It sounds like he’s saying that,

806
00:48:37,320 –> 00:48:42,160
but what he’s saying here is no
man is the natural man.

807
00:48:43,120 –> 00:48:46,320
He’s saying we won’t be judged
by the natural man.

808
00:48:46,680 –> 00:48:49,200
We won’t be judged if we’re
following the, the, the things

809
00:48:49,200 –> 00:48:52,280
of the spirit.
The reasoning of the natural man

810
00:48:52,280 –> 00:48:56,320
will be irrelevant.
And so what’s Paul thinking

811
00:48:56,320 –> 00:48:58,640
about here?
I think he’s thinking about the

812
00:48:58,640 –> 00:49:01,720
fact that there were some that
were actually calling him,

813
00:49:02,320 –> 00:49:05,080
calling him out and saying that
he was doing the wrong things,

814
00:49:05,080 –> 00:49:06,440
that he didn’t have
understanding.

815
00:49:07,000 –> 00:49:09,560
And he says, well, the problem
is, is that because they’re

816
00:49:09,560 –> 00:49:14,200
basing what they’re saying on
the thinking of, of man, we

817
00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:15,960
can’t really even count on what
they’re saying.

818
00:49:15,960 –> 00:49:19,320
We can’t trust their judgments
because their judgments are

819
00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:21,240
insufficient.
There’s they’re, they’re making

820
00:49:21,240 –> 00:49:23,960
their calls, they’re making what
they’re saying based upon not

821
00:49:23,960 –> 00:49:27,880
having enough information.
I think it’s amazing how Paul

822
00:49:27,880 –> 00:49:31,320
puts these pieces together and
explains the problems that the

823
00:49:31,320 –> 00:49:33,880
ecclesia was having.
And I think those are the same

824
00:49:33,880 –> 00:49:38,200
kind of problems that our
ecclesias can have today if

825
00:49:38,200 –> 00:49:42,120
we’re not focusing on that key
element, which is developing the

826
00:49:42,120 –> 00:49:44,000
thing, the thinking of the
spirit.

827
00:49:45,360 –> 00:49:49,320
So we have this human judgment
then, which was just

828
00:49:49,320 –> 00:49:53,240
insufficient is what’s Paul’s
trying to say here, and didn’t

829
00:49:54,160 –> 00:49:57,040
really have any impact on him
because it didn’t understand

830
00:49:57,040 –> 00:50:00,080
what was really happening.
Now, I like to think about this,

831
00:50:00,080 –> 00:50:04,600
this this story of Elisha and
his servant at Dothan to kind of

832
00:50:04,600 –> 00:50:08,840
illustrate what this is like.
So the king of Syria, you’ll

833
00:50:08,840 –> 00:50:15,480
remember, had sent a great host
to bring Elisha to him because

834
00:50:15,480 –> 00:50:18,080
he was tired of Elisha helping
the army of Israel.

835
00:50:18,880 –> 00:50:21,520
And the Syrians came and they
surrounded the city of Dothan,

836
00:50:21,520 –> 00:50:23,480
right?
You remember the situation and

837
00:50:23,480 –> 00:50:26,880
Elisha’s servant went out and he
saw the Syrian Army.

838
00:50:27,760 –> 00:50:30,320
And how did he feel about the
Syrians being there?

839
00:50:31,400 –> 00:50:34,600
What did he think?
He’s terrified, right?

840
00:50:35,000 –> 00:50:37,280
He was absolutely terrified.
He thought we’re done for.

841
00:50:37,560 –> 00:50:39,360
What are we going to do?
I don’t know how what we could

842
00:50:39,360 –> 00:50:42,480
do here.
And what was Elisha doing?

843
00:50:43,880 –> 00:50:47,320
Nothing, right.
Not worried about it at all.

844
00:50:47,920 –> 00:50:49,920
Not concerned about the whole
situation.

845
00:50:50,520 –> 00:50:52,720
If I was.
If I was Elisha’s servant, I

846
00:50:52,720 –> 00:50:55,480
would have said, Elisha, you
have totally messed up this

847
00:50:55,480 –> 00:50:56,800
time.
Here we are.

848
00:50:56,960 –> 00:50:59,720
We’re dead because the Syrians
are here and they’re

849
00:50:59,720 –> 00:51:01,120
surrounding.
And I might have thought, you

850
00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:05,200
know what, Elisha, I think maybe
I should take over and and you

851
00:51:05,200 –> 00:51:07,080
should kind of follow my
direction here because you’ve

852
00:51:07,080 –> 00:51:08,480
gotten us into this terrible
mess.

853
00:51:09,480 –> 00:51:10,680
But that’s not what it is, is
it?

854
00:51:11,520 –> 00:51:17,840
Elisha says fear not, for they
that be with us are more than

855
00:51:17,840 –> 00:51:22,200
they that be with them.
Elisha saw the big picture.

856
00:51:22,680 –> 00:51:25,640
He saw the whole picture.
Well, his servant only had this

857
00:51:25,640 –> 00:51:27,600
limited view of what was
actually happening.

858
00:51:29,720 –> 00:51:31,920
If we ask his servant, he would
have said we should run, we

859
00:51:31,920 –> 00:51:33,400
should hide, we should get out
of here.

860
00:51:34,120 –> 00:51:35,320
But that wasn’t the right
answer.

861
00:51:36,480 –> 00:51:39,840
The right answer was do nothing.
And so God finally made that

862
00:51:39,840 –> 00:51:44,640
visible to Elisha’s servant.
It’s pretty amazing.

863
00:51:44,640 –> 00:51:49,000
I think we think about Christ
telling the disciples about the

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fact that he had to go to the
cross.

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Let’s go over to Mark chapter 8.
Mark chapter 8.

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I’ll just go through this
quickly here.

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Here we have Peter with the
completely wrong idea because he

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doesn’t understand what’s
happening.

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So Mark 8 verse 30, verse 31
says, And he, that is Jesus

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began to teach them that the Son
of man must suffer many things

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and be rejected of the elders,
of the chief priests, the

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scribes, and be killed.
And after three days rise again.

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And he spake that openly.
And Peter took him and began to

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rebuke him.
So Peter goes, no, no, no, no,

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no, that’s completely wrong.
Verse 33 But when he had turned

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about and looked on his
disciples, he rebuked Peter

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saying, Get thee behind me
Satan, for thou savorest.

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And that word savers means to
think or to exercise your mind.

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Your mind is thinking not the
things that be of God, but the

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things that be of men.
Your mind is still being

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directed by human wisdom.
He says here, I bet if the

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disciples had taken a vote on
that day, they would have all

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agreed that Christ shouldn’t be
crucified, wouldn’t they?

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They probably would have all
said, yes, you’re not going to

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be crucified.
That’s not what’s going to

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happen here.
Later in time though, when they

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understood, they fully agreed
that Christ needed to be

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crucified.
All right, let’s go back to

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First Corinthians chapter 2 and
just look at the last verse.

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Then
verse 16.

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He says, For who hath known the
mind of the Lord, that he may

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instruct him, but we have the
mind of Christ.

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Let’s go over to Isaiah chapter
40 because that’s where this is

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being quoted from Isaiah chapter
40 and verse 13.

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It’s talking about where God got
His wisdom.

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It’s talking about the superior
nature of God’s wisdom to man’s

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wisdom.
Isaiah 40 verse 13 says Who hath

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directed the spirit of Yahweh?
The answer of course is there’s

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no one who gave Yahweh wisdom or
being His counselor hath taught

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him.
No one has taught Yahweh with

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whom took He counsel and
instructed him.

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Yahweh was not instructed and
taught Him in the path of

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judgement.
Yahweh was not taught and taught

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him knowledge.
Again, Yahweh was not taught and

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showed to him the way of
understanding.

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Yahweh was not shown
understanding.

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He says, behold, the nations are
as a drop of a bucket.

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The nations are only a drop in a
bucket.

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They’re nothing.
The wisdom of man is absolutely

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nothing.
They’re counted as the small

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dust of the balance.
The wisdom of man is like a

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little piece of dust.
It’s impossible, he says, for

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the wisdom of man to instruct,
to instruct God, because God’s

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words are infallible.
There is no wisdom like

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Yahweh’s.
And that’s the point that he’s

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making.
He’s telling them that we have

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access to the wisdom of God
because it’s been given to us

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and that’s what we can share
with you.

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And then he says, but we have
the mind of Christ.

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What we’ve been teaching you has
come from Christ.

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It’s Christ who’s been
instructing us, and we’re

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sharing that wisdom with you.
Would anybody put their trust in

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the wisdom of man when the
wisdom of God is true wisdom?

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When the wisdom of God glorifies
God, When the wisdom of God

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looks at the whole picture, when
the wisdom of God is unchanging?

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The wisdom of God is amazing,
isn’t it?

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And Paul is just asking them to
listen to the wisdom of God

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because he has the mind of
Christ.

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Thank you.