Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 339.<\/p>\n
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\nbrother Greg Robinson.
\nTo introduce his subject for <\/p>\n
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\nthis morning.
\nHe’s asked us to take a reading <\/p>\n
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\nand that’s found in First
\nCorinthians Chapter 2. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is watching Lake Bible
\nSchool 2022. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is our Tuesday morning
\nsession with a brother, Greg <\/p>\n
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\nRobinson.
\nHis theme for the week is God <\/p>\n
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\nhath made foolish the wisdom of
\nthis of this world from First <\/p>\n
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\nCorinthians and his subject for
\ntoday’s class is man’s wisdom <\/p>\n
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\nhides God’s wisdom for the Greg.
\nThanks for the Luke. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, my dear brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nMaybe getting a little bit
\nbetter there. <\/p>\n
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\nI think maybe.
\nAll right, Welcome to Class 3. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re actually going to cover a
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\nSo that’s kind of exciting as we
\nmove move through the 1st 4 <\/p>\n
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\nchapters of First Corinthians.
\nAnd as you see there, our title <\/p>\n
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\ntoday is Man’s Wisdom Hides
\nGod’s Wisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nJust a bit of a recap before we
\nmove on into chapter 2. <\/p>\n
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\nIn our first class, we, we
\nlooked at the wisdom of man, we <\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the city of Corinth.
\nWe looked at the knowledge, the <\/p>\n
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\nprinciples that that city was
\nbased upon. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a large, successful
\nworldly city, but it had no real<\/p>\n
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\nplace for God in it.
\nThe Corinthian ecclesia was <\/p>\n
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\nsurrounded by this and they had
\nproblems with divisions, with <\/p>\n
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\nstrife, with contentions.
\nThe ways of the world were <\/p>\n
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\nactually making their way into
\nthe ecclesia quite successfully <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the brothers and sisters
\nwere not of the same mind. <\/p>\n
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\nThere were self appointed
\nleaders that were taking <\/p>\n
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\npositions of of importance in
\nthe ecclesia and there was a mix<\/p>\n
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\nof God’s wisdom and man’s wisdom
\nthat was guiding the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nThey didn’t have the same
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\nThey didn’t make the same
\ndecisions because they couldn’t <\/p>\n
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\nagree with each other on things.
\nSo for example, the the one that<\/p>\n
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\nthat keeps coming up is the
\nexample of fornication. <\/p>\n
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\nSome tolerated fornication and
\nsuggested that that’s the, <\/p>\n
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\nexcuse me, that’s the course
\nthat the ecclesia should follow.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd some were opposed to that.
\nMan’s wisdom, then was coming to<\/p>\n
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\na head, coming head on with
\nGod’s wisdom in the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nIn our second class we looked at
\nthe wisdom of God, and Paul <\/p>\n
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\nshowed them that really there
\nshould be no divisions in the <\/p>\n
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\necclesia because Christ was
\ntheir Lord, and that no one else<\/p>\n
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\nhad been crucified for them.
\nHe showed them that what Christ <\/p>\n
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\ndid was to make the wisdom of
\nman foolish. <\/p>\n
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\nHe did that by his sacrifice and
\nthat the wisdom of God was far <\/p>\n
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\nsuperior because it brings life
\nand not death. <\/p>\n
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\nNow from man’s perspective,
\nman’s wisdom was great because <\/p>\n
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\nit had no cross in it.
\nWhat do I mean by that? <\/p>\n
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\nSo man looked at man’s wisdom
\nand said, this is this is <\/p>\n
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\nexactly what we want because
\nthere’s no sacrifice for us, at <\/p>\n
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\nleast no reward would come from
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nBut man’s wisdom could not offer
\nthat eternal life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s where we see the
\nproblem with adapting man’s ways<\/p>\n
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\ninto the ecclesia.
\nMan’s wisdom doesn’t have the <\/p>\n
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\ncross in it, and there has to be
\nthe cross in order for it to be <\/p>\n
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\ncompatible with God’s wisdom.
\nAnd man’s thinking has gotten to<\/p>\n
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\nbe removed.
\nSo this summed up for us in <\/p>\n
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\nPaul’s words in the next in
\nFirst Corinthians chapter one at<\/p>\n
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\nthe end of the chapter there
\nregarding man’s wisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we saw yesterday was
\nthat the purpose of life for <\/p>\n
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\nmost of mankind was satisfying
\ntheir desires, was elevating <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves and that that led to
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this chart made it a very
\nsimple choice, as Paul presents <\/p>\n
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\nit against God’s wisdom where
\nthe purpose was for sorry, the <\/p>\n
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\npurpose was to choose God’s will
\nover our own. <\/p>\n
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\nThe purpose was to glorify God
\nand that purpose would actually <\/p>\n
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\nlead to eternal life.
\nAnd so by that decision, by what<\/p>\n
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\nhappens there, God has made
\nfoolish the wisdom of this <\/p>\n
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\nworld.
\nSo we’re going to go now to <\/p>\n
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\nfirst Corinthians chapter one,
\njust to the end of the verse <\/p>\n
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\nthere, or the end of the
\nchapter, verse 30. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Paul wraps up the chapter,
\nand he says, But of him that is <\/p>\n
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\nof God, are ye in Christ Jesus,
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\nwisdom.
\nSo by looking at the example of <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, we could see God’s
\nwisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then it brings us, as the
\nverse continues, righteousness, <\/p>\n
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\nsanctification, and redemption.
\nSo in the ecclesia there would <\/p>\n
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\nhave been some who felt that
\neloquent human arguments were a <\/p>\n
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\nlot smarter than God’s wisdom.
\nSome of the leaders were <\/p>\n
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\nbringing in these humanistic
\nideas and these ideas would have<\/p>\n
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\npeople in the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nNow to some they actually seem
\nbetter than what Paul was <\/p>\n
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\nsite, that was a a big problem
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\nOne of the examples then over in
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\ntalked about was that of
\nfornication. <\/p>\n
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\nSome thought that it was good or
\nsome thought that it was OK, and<\/p>\n
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\nsome did not think that it was
\nOK. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the behavior continued to
\ncome into the ecclesia and the <\/p>\n
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\ndecision was simple.
\nIf we go over to chapter 5, <\/p>\n
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\nverse four, he says, or verse
\nfive, he says that the solution <\/p>\n
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\nwas to deliver such and one unto
\nSatan for the destruction of the<\/p>\n
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\nflesh, that the Spirit might be
\nsaved in the day of the Lord <\/p>\n
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\nJesus.
\nHe says your glorying is not <\/p>\n
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\nKnow you not that a little <\/p>\n
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\nleaven leaveneth the whole lump?
\nSo God’s wisdom says let’s purge<\/p>\n
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\nout the leaven.
\nLet’s get rid of fleshly <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if that’s the best way for <\/p>\n
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\nwith this argument. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, I know that it seems
\nlike the wisdom of some of the <\/p>\n
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\nhumanistic teachers is superior
\nto the wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, I know that when we
\ncame to you, the way that we <\/p>\n
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\ntaught was was maybe not as as
\nstrong as you were expecting, or<\/p>\n
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\nit wasn’t filled with as much
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\nAnd since we’ve left, many of <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Paul explains in the 1st <\/p>\n
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\nsimple teaching for a very <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that was because he wanted <\/p>\n
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\nBut when he did that, a lot of
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\nteaching. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, have you ever heard a
\nteacher that was really able to <\/p>\n
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\nsimplify things, making things
\nso simple for us that maybe we, <\/p>\n
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\nHave you ever had that that <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody speak and you thought, <\/p>\n
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\nwell, they’re pretty, pretty
\nsimple on this, this topic, and <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe they don’t know much about
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\nAnd that’s why it’s, it’s being
\npresented in such a simple way. <\/p>\n
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\nhappening with Paul. <\/p>\n
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\nlooked at what he was saying and<\/p>\n
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\nthought that there wasn’t much
\ndepth to what he was saying. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, often times when you go up
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\nbecause they had that depth of <\/p>\n
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\nSo I think that’s an important <\/p>\n
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\nrealize and that’s I think what <\/p>\n
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\ncases. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when Paul speaks, his wisdom
\nis not readily available, <\/p>\n
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\nreadily visible to the people
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\nHe teaches verse 30.
\nIt says, but of him are ye in <\/p>\n
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\nChrist Jesus, who of God is made
\nunto us wisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s how it was with Paul.
\nHe was teaching these things. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says it says that he showed
\nus his wisdom in Christ and that<\/p>\n
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\nby being in Christ and choosing
\nGod’s wisdom that were made <\/p>\n
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\nrighteous.
\nSo it was a it was really a very<\/p>\n
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\npowerful message.
\nHe says we’re made usable for <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s purpose by the sacrifice
\nof Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so in the third
\nclass, then our title is man’s <\/p>\n
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\nwisdom hides God’s wisdom.
\nSo let’s see how how all of this<\/p>\n
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\nworks out.
\nSo chapter 2, verse one, it <\/p>\n
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\nsays, and I brethren, when I
\ncame to you, I came not with <\/p>\n
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\nExcellency of speech or of
\nwisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when Paul came to Corinth
\nabout four years earlier, he’s <\/p>\n
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\ntelling them that I came and I
\ndidn’t come with eloquence. <\/p>\n
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\nI didn’t come to you with clever
\narguments. <\/p>\n
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\nI didn’t do what some of the
\nteachers that are now doing, <\/p>\n
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\nsome of the teachers now are
\ndoing in the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nInstead, I came declaring unto
\nyou the testimony of God. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, of course we know, of
\ncourse we know that Paul could <\/p>\n
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\nvery easily have blown away
\nthose other teachers, but he <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t do that.
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\nHe makes a conscious effort to
\ndeliver a very simple message to<\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course, that was the <\/p>\n
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\nSo come with me over to Acts <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 18.
\nHere’s the historical time when <\/p>\n
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\nPaul actually came to the city
\nand let’s see what he was he was<\/p>\n
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\nthinking here if we can and get
\nsome more information about what<\/p>\n
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\nhappened with Paul actually came
\nto the city of Corinth to teach.<\/p>\n
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\nSo Acts 18 and verse 4 says any
\nreasoned in the synagogue every <\/p>\n
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\nSabbath and he persuaded the
\nJews and the Greeks and when <\/p>\n
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\nSilas and Timotheus were come
\nfrom Macedonia. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul was pressed in the spirit
\nand he testified to the Jews <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the message. <\/p>\n
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\nThe questions about wearing head
\ncoverings and, and the, the <\/p>\n
337
\n00:19:51,600 –> 00:19:53,480
\npractice to stop wearing head
\ncoverings. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:19:53,960 –> 00:19:57,040
\nThey turn the Lord’s Supper into
\nfeasting and to drinking. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:57,720 –> 00:20:01,480
\nThey use spiritual gifts to
\nglorify themselves, and they <\/p>\n
340
\n00:20:01,480 –> 00:20:04,640
\nquestion the resurrection.
\nNow all of these ideas were were<\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:04,640 –> 00:20:08,360
\nhumanistic ideas that were
\nalready present in the cults <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:08,360 –> 00:20:10,200
\nthat were in the city of
\nCorinth. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:10,680 –> 00:20:14,680
\nAnd so these ideas that began to
\ncreep into the ecclesia and and <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:14,800 –> 00:20:17,120
\nsome of them said that will
\nPaul’s not really even an <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:17,880 –> 00:20:21,200
\nauthority on these things.
\nAnd so we don’t necessarily need<\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:21,200 –> 00:20:25,280
\nto need to listen to the words
\nof Paul that gives us a picture <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:25,280 –> 00:20:27,880
\nof the environment of what’s
\nhappening there. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:30,080 –> 00:20:38,560
\nVerse 6 So verse 6, Paul stands
\nup and he says you’re not <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:38,560 –> 00:20:41,760
\ngetting it.
\nYou’re not seeing the whole <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:41,760 –> 00:20:44,320
\npicture here.
\nYou don’t understand what’s <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:44,320 –> 00:20:49,520
\nactually happened here.
\nHe says how be it we? <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:50,640 –> 00:20:51,720
\nYou’ll notice the difference
\nthere. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:51,720 –> 00:20:56,160
\nHe stops saying I and now he
\nsays we. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:56,640 –> 00:21:01,080
\nHow be it we?
\nSo he’s talking here about the <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:01,080 –> 00:21:08,240
\napostles as well as himself.
\nHe says, howbeit we speak wisdom<\/p>\n
356
\n00:21:08,840 –> 00:21:12,720
\namong them that are perfect.
\nWhat does he mean by that? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:21:14,000 –> 00:21:17,080
\nHe’s telling them that, look, we
\nmay have come and spoken with <\/p>\n
358
\n00:21:17,080 –> 00:21:22,280
\nsimplicity when we came.
\nHe says, however, we do speak <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:23,040 –> 00:21:26,880
\nwith wisdom.
\nWe do speak difficult things <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:27,480 –> 00:21:30,520
\namong those that are perfect.
\nAnd what does he mean by those <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:30,520 –> 00:21:32,880
\nthat are perfect?
\nHe says those that are <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:32,880 –> 00:21:35,880
\nspiritually mature.
\nNow what’s he saying to them? <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:37,360 –> 00:21:40,480
\nHe’s saying, look, if you
\nhaven’t heard us speak with <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:40,560 –> 00:21:44,640
\ndifficult teaching or giving you
\nharder things to understand, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:44,640 –> 00:21:48,040
\nthere’s a reason why that is.
\nThat’s because you’re not ready <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:48,040 –> 00:21:51,640
\nfor it yet.
\nDon’t think the message, don’t <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:51,640 –> 00:21:56,600
\nthink that the wisdom of God is
\nsome simple thing, because the <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:56,600 –> 00:21:59,520
\nwisdom of God is simple, but it
\nhas depth. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:59,520 –> 00:22:02,360
\nIt is profound.
\nThat’s what he’s telling them. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:02,520 –> 00:22:04,840
\nAnd if you haven’t heard those
\nthings from me yet, Paul saying,<\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:05,240 –> 00:22:07,400
\nthat’s because you weren’t ready
\nfor those things yet. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:08,280 –> 00:22:12,640
\nSo he says yet not the wisdom of
\nthis world, nor of the Princess <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:12,640 –> 00:22:14,200
\nof this world that came to
\nnaughty. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:14,800 –> 00:22:17,120
\nWe don’t speak man’s wisdom.
\nWe’re not we’re not going to <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:17,120 –> 00:22:18,920
\ngive you the wisdom that you’re
\nhearing from these other <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:18,920 –> 00:22:21,240
\nteachers, He says.
\nWe don’t quote those <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:21,240 –> 00:22:26,120
\nphilosophers because their
\nwisdom, their teachings are <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:26,120 –> 00:22:29,120
\ncoming to nothing.
\nThere’s no advantage to the <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:29,120 –> 00:22:33,720
\nteachings that they have because
\nman’s wisdom has always been <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:33,720 –> 00:22:36,360
\nreplaced by a newer version of
\nman’s wisdom. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:37,080 –> 00:22:38,280
\nIsn’t that true?
\nHaven’t we? <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:38,280 –> 00:22:42,080
\nHaven’t we, maybe all of us?
\nHaven’t we already seen man’s <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:42,080 –> 00:22:44,040
\nwisdom?
\nAnd what man thought was the way<\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:44,040 –> 00:22:46,640
\nthat we should live our lives is
\ndifferent than it was 20 years <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:46,640 –> 00:22:48,640
\nago.
\nIsn’t it different now? <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:48,800 –> 00:22:50,960
\nAnd it’s way different than it
\nwas 40 years ago. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:50,960 –> 00:22:54,480
\nAnd the next one I can’t help
\nyou with, but it’s, it’s, it’s <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:54,480 –> 00:22:57,800
\ngetting so that these the wisdom
\nof, of man is just continuously <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:57,800 –> 00:23:00,760
\nchanging.
\nIt’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s not<\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:00,760 –> 00:23:03,320
\nsomething that we can put our
\ntrust in or put our hope in. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:03,880 –> 00:23:06,960
\nBut God’s wisdom, Paul is
\nsaying, is timeless. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:07,600 –> 00:23:10,760
\nGod’s wisdom is far superior to
\nman’s wisdom. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:11,560 –> 00:23:14,800
\nAnd so he says in, in verse
\nseven, he says, but we speak the<\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:14,800 –> 00:23:20,640
\nwisdom of God in a mystery.
\nHe says, we’re talking to you <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:21,360 –> 00:23:27,640
\nabout the wisdom that comes from
\nGod, from the creator of the <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:27,640 –> 00:23:31,120
\nuniverse.
\nIt’s this word mystery means a <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:31,120 –> 00:23:33,960
\ntruth once hidden is what Vines
\ntells us. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:34,320 –> 00:23:37,520
\nIt’s a truth that’s been hidden
\nbefore and now has been <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:37,520 –> 00:23:40,120
\nrevealed.
\nThis is a truth that was once a <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:40,120 –> 00:23:43,560
\nsecret but now has been made
\nmanifest. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:44,160 –> 00:23:46,280
\nIt’s the message of the cell of
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:46,520 –> 00:23:48,400
\nIt’s the message message of the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:49,040 –> 00:23:52,440
\nIt’s the message of the Kingdom.
\nAnd Paul says, look, we are <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:52,440 –> 00:23:54,920
\nrevealing to you something that
\nis from God. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:55,880 –> 00:23:58,840
\nAnd it’s it’s something that is
\nfar superior to all other <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:58,840 –> 00:24:04,320
\nwisdom.
\nHe says there’s now in a way, <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:04,320 –> 00:24:07,920
\nhe’s saying there’s now an
\nimmortal ruler that’s ruling and<\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:07,920 –> 00:24:12,160
\nwho has now shared with us the
\nmysteries of the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:12,160 –> 00:24:16,360
\nI think that’s pretty amazing
\nhow Paul kind of strikes back <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:16,360 –> 00:24:19,360
\nagainst them their their
\nthoughts that he really was was <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:19,400 –> 00:24:21,800
\nsimple and didn’t have much
\ndepth to what he was teaching. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:22,040 –> 00:24:25,280
\nAnd he says, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
\nThere’s so much depth to this <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:25,600 –> 00:24:27,960
\nbecause this comes directly from
\nGod. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:28,840 –> 00:24:31,960
\nAnd so Paul was now going to
\nshare these things with them, He<\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:31,960 –> 00:24:35,440
\nsays even the hidden wisdom.
\nSo it’s something that that had <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:35,440 –> 00:24:39,000
\nbeen given to him that wasn’t
\nmade visible fully until this <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:39,000 –> 00:24:42,800
\npoint in time, until the Lord
\nJesus Christ through his Holy <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:42,800 –> 00:24:47,640
\nSpirit revealed it unto them.
\nGod’s plan, he says, was <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:47,760 –> 00:24:52,360
\npredetermined, He says, even the
\nhidden wisdom which God ordained<\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:52,680 –> 00:24:58,120
\nbefore the world unto our glory.
\nSo God’s plan is something that <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:58,120 –> 00:25:00,840
\nhasn’t changed.
\nIt’s been around since the <\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:00,840 –> 00:25:03,360
\nbeginning.
\nThat’s what God intended to do. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:04,000 –> 00:25:06,800
\nAnd you’ll notice at the end
\nthere he says before the world <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:06,840 –> 00:25:11,400
\nunto our glory.
\nSo this plan is actually <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:11,400 –> 00:25:13,720
\nsomething that brings glory to
\nus. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:14,480 –> 00:25:17,160
\nIf we’ll follow this wisdom, if
\nwe’ll follow this wisdom that’s <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:17,160 –> 00:25:21,080
\nnow been revealed.
\nI think that’s amazing. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:21,880 –> 00:25:25,200
\nI think it’s amazing how subtly
\nPaul strikes back at what what <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:25,200 –> 00:25:28,760
\nthey were thinking about him.
\nIn this case, we go to verse 8, <\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:28,760 –> 00:25:31,080
\nhe says, which none of the
\nPrincess of this world knew. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:31,880 –> 00:25:34,360
\nFor had they known it, they
\nwould not have crucified the <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:34,360 –> 00:25:37,800
\nLord of glory.
\nHad the leaders of the world <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:37,800 –> 00:25:42,640
\nknow what Christ’s plan was,
\nwhat the plan for Christ was, <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:42,640 –> 00:25:46,320
\nwhat God’s plan was, had they
\nknown that they would never have<\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:46,320 –> 00:25:51,480
\ncrucified, but they were too
\ninterested in their own power, <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:52,200 –> 00:25:54,760
\nin their own prestige.
\nThey were, they were too <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:54,760 –> 00:25:58,040
\ninterested to stop and to listen
\nto the word of God, to <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:58,040 –> 00:26:01,120
\nunderstand this plan.
\nWe had Christ who for 3 1\/2 <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:01,120 –> 00:26:05,800
\nyears was teaching these things
\nto people, but they, they were <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:05,800 –> 00:26:08,160
\ntoo interested in their own
\nlives to stop and to listen to <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:08,160 –> 00:26:10,720
\nwhat he had to say.
\nAnd then he says at the end of <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:10,720 –> 00:26:14,360
\nthat verse, he calls him the
\nLord of glory. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:15,200 –> 00:26:19,920
\nHe is the one that brings us, He
\nis our Master that leads us to <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:19,920 –> 00:26:24,080
\ntrue glory.
\nHe says again, I think it’s <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:24,080 –> 00:26:26,280
\namazing.
\nThe Pharisees, the Sadducees, <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:26,280 –> 00:26:29,880
\nthe scribes, the teachers of the
\nlaw, they were all oblivious to <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:29,880 –> 00:26:34,360
\nthis message and they were
\noblivious to it because they <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:34,360 –> 00:26:38,600
\nwanted to to retain the glory
\nthat they had as the leaders of <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:38,600 –> 00:26:41,440
\nIsrael, right?
\nThey wanted to retain that that <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:41,480 –> 00:26:45,640
\nprestige that they had over the
\npeople that they were unaware <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:45,640 –> 00:26:49,840
\nthat God had a much greater
\nglory for them, a greater glory <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:49,840 –> 00:26:52,320
\nthat that was going to come
\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:52,320 –> 00:26:55,840
\nwho they crucified.
\nBut they were so busy pursuing <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:55,840 –> 00:26:58,920
\ntheir own things they did.
\nThey just didn’t see that and <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:58,920 –> 00:27:01,800
\nthey were completely blind to
\nthe wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:09,950 –> 00:27:15,870
\nIn verse 9, Paul actually there
\nquotes from Isaiah chapter 64. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:16,110 –> 00:27:18,590
\nSo let’s go over to Isaiah
\nchapter 64 and take a look what <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:18,590 –> 00:27:24,720
\nhe says there.
\nSo he’s continuing this idea, <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:24,720 –> 00:27:28,000
\nPaul’s continuing this idea
\nabout the world not knowing. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:28,920 –> 00:27:32,160
\nAnd that’s exactly what Isaiah
\nis talking about here in Isaiah <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:32,160 –> 00:27:36,400
\n64.
\nHe’s talking about the fact that<\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:36,400 –> 00:27:39,680
\nin his days the world was
\ncompletely blind to God’s <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:39,680 –> 00:27:43,200
\nwisdom.
\nAnd so Isaiah says, I wish you <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:43,200 –> 00:27:45,520
\nwould make yourself known to the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:48,800 –> 00:27:51,000
\nI wish you would make yourself
\nknown to the world, Isaiah says,<\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:51,000 –> 00:27:53,680
\nlike you did to Israel on Mount
\nSinai. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:54,600 –> 00:27:57,840
\nSo Isaiah 64, we’re going to go
\nat verse, go into verse 4. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:59,280 –> 00:28:04,160
\nIsaiah says, Oh, that thou
\nwouldst rend the heavens, that <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:04,160 –> 00:28:07,640
\nthou wouldst come down, that the
\nmountains might flow down at thy<\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:07,640 –> 00:28:13,400
\npresence, as when the melting
\nfire burneth, the fire causeth <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:13,400 –> 00:28:16,920
\nwaters to boil.
\nI wish you would come down to <\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:16,920 –> 00:28:19,960
\nmake thy name known to thine
\nadversaries. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:19,960 –> 00:28:23,480
\nHe says that the nations may
\ntremble at thy presence. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:23,480 –> 00:28:26,000
\nThis is what Isaiah wanted.
\nHe wanted that day to come when <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:28,600
\nthe world would would actually
\nsee God’s power and they would <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:28,600 –> 00:28:31,520
\nknow God and they would
\nrecognize God because he says <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:31,520 –> 00:28:33,400
\nmost of the people don’t know
\nyou. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:34,440 –> 00:28:38,000
\nThey don’t know your name, they
\ndon’t know your purpose, they <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:40,200
\ndon’t know your power.
\nI just wish that we could <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:40,200 –> 00:28:42,800
\nactually see your power.
\nYou would actually show that to <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:42,800 –> 00:28:45,480
\nthem.
\nVerse three he says when thou <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:45,480 –> 00:28:48,520
\ndidst terrible things.
\nAnd he’s talking about the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:48,520 –> 00:28:51,920
\nExodus, isn’t he, in the times
\nof the Exodus, which we looked <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:51,920 –> 00:28:54,880
\nnot for, they were they were
\nbeyond our expectations. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:54,880 –> 00:28:59,520
\nHe says there thou came as down
\nthe mountains flow down at thy <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:59,520 –> 00:29:03,640
\npresence.
\nFrom Isaiah, sorry, from Exodus <\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:03,640 –> 00:29:08,120
\nchapter 19.
\nIn Romans chapter one verse 20, <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:08,120 –> 00:29:12,160
\nPaul says that the world is
\nwithout excuse for knowing God. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:15,120
\nThere’s no excuse for the world
\nto to not know that there is a <\/p>\n
490
\n00:29:15,120 –> 00:29:18,600
\nGod and to acknowledge that and
\nto look for for what God has to <\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:18,600 –> 00:29:20,600
\nsay.
\nThey’re right. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:20,600 –> 00:29:23,360
\nThey’re without excuse, but
\nthey’re still ignorant. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:23,360 –> 00:29:26,840
\nThey still don’t know they found
\na way to to completely ignore <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:26,840 –> 00:29:33,000
\nGod and they’re blind because
\nman’s wisdom gets in the way of <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:33,000 –> 00:29:35,880
\nGod’s wisdom.
\nThey don’t understand the cross <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:39,360
\nbecause if they did understand
\nthe cross, that would mean that <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:39,360 –> 00:29:43,160
\nthey had to themselves sacrifice
\nand follow the example of <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:43,160 –> 00:29:46,920
\nChrist.
\nSo verse four he says, for since<\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:51,800
\nthe beginning of the world, men
\nhave not heard nor perceived by <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:51,800 –> 00:29:56,600
\nthe ear, neither hath the eyes
\nseeing, O God beside thee, what <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:56,600 –> 00:29:59,480
\nhe have prepared for him that
\nwaited for him. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:00,360 –> 00:30:03,720
\nPeople have not come to know
\nyour plan, he says. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:04,480 –> 00:30:07,000
\nAnd so Paul quotes these verses
\nand he says this is the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:07,000 –> 00:30:08,400
\npredicament that the world is
\nin. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:08,760 –> 00:30:12,560
\nThey haven’t come to know you.
\nGo back into First Corinthians <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:12,560 –> 00:30:21,680
\nchapter 2.
\nFirst Corinthians chapter 2 and <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:21,680 –> 00:30:26,280
\nat verse 9.
\nSo Paul quotes this he says, but<\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:26,280 –> 00:30:31,800
\nas it is written, I have not
\nseen nor ear heard, neither have<\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:31,800 –> 00:30:35,000
\nentered into the heart of man
\nthe things which God has <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:35,000 –> 00:30:41,840
\nprepared for them that love him.
\nIsaiah and Paul were both saying<\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:42,280 –> 00:30:47,680
\nthat most of the world has been
\nignorant of God’s plans, those <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:47,680 –> 00:30:51,640
\nplans that have been in place
\nfrom the beginning, those plans <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:51,640 –> 00:30:55,440
\nthat continued to be revealed.
\nBut most of the world was <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:55,440 –> 00:31:02,080
\nignorant of those plans.
\nAnd that plan is all about what <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:02,080 –> 00:31:05,040
\nGod has prepared for them that
\nlove Him. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:05,040 –> 00:31:10,520
\nNow what does verse 10 say?
\nWhat does he say to us in the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:10,520 –> 00:31:13,080
\nnext verse?
\nIt’s been hidden from the world,<\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:13,080 –> 00:31:17,560
\nhe says, but God hath revealed
\nthem or taken off the cover, as <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:17,560 –> 00:31:21,000
\nthat word means unto us by his
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:25,320
\nThese are the things that God
\nhas prepared to them, that love <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:28,360
\nHim, and they’ve been given to
\nus. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:29,960 –> 00:31:32,360
\nAnd that’s been given to us by
\nthe work of the Holy Spirit, he <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:32,360 –> 00:31:36,160
\nsays, And that’s been given to
\nus by the Word of God. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:36,880 –> 00:31:39,640
\nThose things have worked
\ntogether so that the apostles <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:39,880 –> 00:31:43,280
\nhad taken off the cover, they
\nhad these things revealed to <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:43,280 –> 00:31:47,000
\nthem and they were now sharing
\nthem with the world. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:51,000
\nNow what a contrast to, to the
\nwisdom that somehow the the <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:51,000 –> 00:31:53,360
\nleaders of the Corinthian
\necclesia, some of these leaders <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:53,560 –> 00:31:57,600
\nthought was, was better than
\nwhat Paul had shared with him <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:57,600 –> 00:32:00,280
\nwhen he first came.
\nAnd so they were trying to bring<\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:00,280 –> 00:32:02,720
\nthese, these ideas, these
\nhumanistic ideas into the <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:02,720 –> 00:32:05,480
\necclesia.
\nAnd Paul says, you, you, you <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:05,480 –> 00:32:08,680
\njust don’t understand.
\nYou just don’t understand the <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:13,120
\nbig picture of what’s actually
\nhappening here, he says. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:13,760 –> 00:32:15,920
\nFor the Spirit searcheth all
\nthings. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:16,480 –> 00:32:20,760
\nYeah, the deep things of God.
\nSo God had revealed these things<\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:20,760 –> 00:32:24,360
\nto the apostles by the Spirit,
\nby the Holy Spirit, and they’d <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:24,360 –> 00:32:26,880
\nrevealed them, and he’d revealed
\nthem to them by his word. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:27,520 –> 00:32:29,760
\nAnd they began to put those
\npieces together. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,320
\nAnd these are what he calls the
\ndeep things of God. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:34,120 –> 00:32:37,720
\nAnd God has given all of us this
\nsame kind of access to these <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:37,720 –> 00:32:39,560
\nthings.
\nSo they would look at what what <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:39,560 –> 00:32:42,080
\nthe Spirit had taught them and
\nthey would look at the the word <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:42,080 –> 00:32:43,360
\nof God.
\nAnd they put those things <\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:43,360 –> 00:32:46,200
\ntogether and they understood
\ntruths that they had never <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,200
\nunderstood before.
\nThey understood deep things. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:51,640
\nNow, where are we in this
\nequation? <\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:56,360
\nWe’ve been given the wisdom that
\nthe apostles has been given, had<\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:56,360 –> 00:32:59,800
\nbeen given, and we’ve been given
\nthe word of God alongside that. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:00,520 –> 00:33:03,960
\nAnd so we do the same thing, and
\nwe put those together in our <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:03,960 –> 00:33:07,440
\nminds and we develop spiritual
\nminds at the same time. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:08,520 –> 00:33:10,600
\nIt’s an amazing thing that
\nhappens with us. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:10,880 –> 00:33:13,240
\nIt’s an amazing thing that the
\nWord of God can actually work <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:13,560 –> 00:33:16,880
\ninside of our minds.
\nAnd what we find is that the <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:16,880 –> 00:33:20,280
\nnatural mind can’t rise to these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:20,520 –> 00:33:24,280
\nIt can’t understand the things
\nof the spirit unless we first <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:27,960
\nbegin to put the things of the
\nspirit into our own minds. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:28,680 –> 00:33:31,120
\nThe natural mind just can’t rise
\nto these things. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:31,440 –> 00:33:33,600
\nIt can’t rise above earthly
\nthinking. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:39,400
\nWhy do many Christians, what do
\nmany Christians, I sorry, what <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:39,400 –> 00:33:42,600
\ndo many Christians think about
\nhow the Spirit of God comes into<\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:44,680
\nUS?
\nHave you ever talked to them <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:44,680 –> 00:33:48,400
\nabout how this spirit develops,
\nthe spirit of God develops in <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:53,120
\nthem, and what do they think?
\nThey believe that when they <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:57,240
\naccept Jesus as their savior
\nthat the Spirit of God enters <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:57,240 –> 00:33:59,880
\ntheir minds and their thinking
\nchanges. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:06,000
\nIt’d be nice, right?
\nIt’d be nice if it was that <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:09,520
\nsimple for it just to to, to
\ncome into our minds and to <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:09,520 –> 00:34:13,000
\nchange the way that we think.
\nBut Paul saying no, it it takes <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:14,600
\nwork.
\nIt takes us sitting down with <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:14,600 –> 00:34:17,040
\nthe word of God and learning
\nthese things. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:17,520 –> 00:34:20,480
\nSo here’s a quote that I found
\nand there’s plenty more online. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:25,880
\nIf you were to look at these
\nabout how people think that they<\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:25,880 –> 00:34:28,960
\nreceive the Holy Spirit and you
\nmay have talked to different <\/p>\n
575
\n00:34:28,960 –> 00:34:32,120
\nChristians about this and they
\nreally do believe something like<\/p>\n
576
\n00:34:32,120 –> 00:34:34,440
\nthis.
\nSo this one says, if you’re <\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:34,440 –> 00:34:37,480
\nfamiliar with Christianity, so,
\nOK, this is bogus, right? <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:37,480 –> 00:34:41,400
\nSo just so we know going in, OK,
\nif you’re familiar with <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:41,400 –> 00:34:44,600
\nChristianity, you’ve probably
\nheard of the Holy Spirit. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:48,560
\nBut what is it and how does it
\nbecome a part of your life? <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:53,120
\nHe says theologians have filled
\nuntold pages with their thoughts<\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:53,120 –> 00:34:56,520
\non the subject.
\nBut the simplest answer is that <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:56,520 –> 00:34:58,680
\nthe Holy Spirit is the presence
\nof God. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,720
\nIt was sent to guide us after
\nJesus ascended to heaven. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:03,680 –> 00:35:07,440
\nYou will receive the Holy Spirit
\nafter you get saved and become a<\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:07,440 –> 00:35:10,080
\nChristian.
\nSo simple as that, right? <\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:13,120
\nJust like that, you will have
\nunderstanding and then it says <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:13,120 –> 00:35:15,400
\nsomething curious.
\nI think, however, learning to <\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:17,840
\nrecognize when the Spirit is
\nmoving, you can take a little <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:17,840 –> 00:35:20,120
\npractice.
\nIt’s, it’s probably because it <\/p>\n
591
\n00:35:20,120 –> 00:35:24,200
\nnever is, right?
\nBut that’s the that’s what <\/p>\n
592
\n00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:25,960
\npeople think.
\nThat’s the understanding that <\/p>\n
593
\n00:35:25,960 –> 00:35:28,560
\nthey have.
\nThey think and you talk to them,<\/p>\n
594
\n00:35:28,560 –> 00:35:31,000
\nthey think that the spirit
\nactually comes into their mind <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:31,000 –> 00:35:34,240
\nand it’s not a process of
\nmeditating and thinking about <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:37,080
\nthe Word of God.
\nIt’s not a practice, practice of<\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:37,080 –> 00:35:38,760
\nlearning the thinking of the
\nspirit. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:39,480 –> 00:35:40,760
\nBut they just don’t understand
\nthat. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:40,760 –> 00:35:44,200
\nThey don’t, they don’t get to
\nthe place where they think that <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:48,000
\nthat’s actually what happens.
\nAgain, it’d be nice, but that’s <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:53,200
\nnot what happens.
\nSo verse 11, it says for what? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:57,360
\nFor what man knoweth the things
\nof man save the spirit of man, <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:57,360 –> 00:35:59,440
\nwhich is in him.
\nThis is a hard one, I think, for<\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:59,440 –> 00:36:02,080
\nus to understand when we first
\nread it, to understand what he’s<\/p>\n
605
\n00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:05,400
\ntalking about here.
\nSo I think this helps. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:36:06,360 –> 00:36:09,200
\nSo what he’s talking about here
\nis that we don’t know the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:12,520
\nthoughts of a person unless we
\nhear their words. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:36:13,320 –> 00:36:16,320
\nSo a person might be thinking
\nsomething, but until they <\/p>\n
609
\n00:36:16,320 –> 00:36:19,080
\nactually speak to us, we don’t
\nknow what they’re what they’re <\/p>\n
610
\n00:36:19,080 –> 00:36:21,360
\nthinking.
\nThat makes pretty logical sense,<\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:21,360 –> 00:36:23,200
\ndoesn’t it?
\nI think that’s pretty simple. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:23,760 –> 00:36:27,920
\nAnd so he says Even so, the
\nthings of God knoweth no man but<\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:28,000 –> 00:36:32,240
\nthe Spirit of God.
\nSo in the same way we don’t know<\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:36,680
\nthe things of God, contrary to
\nthe common Christian belief, we <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:36,680 –> 00:36:40,400
\ndon’t know the things of God
\nunless we hear God’s words. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:45,240
\nNow that’s what’s happened to
\nmost of mankind, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:45,480 –> 00:36:48,200
\nMost of mankind has never heard
\nGod’s words. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:48,640 –> 00:36:51,400
\nSo most of mankind does not know
\nthe wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:55,080
\nBut we have been given the words
\nof God. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:55,080 –> 00:36:57,920
\nWe’ve been given what we call
\nthe spirit word, and that’s what<\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:57,920 –> 00:37:01,960
\nhe’s talking about here, this
\nspirit word, or as in the case <\/p>\n
622
\n00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:04,960
\nof the apostles, the apostles
\nwere given the word directly <\/p>\n
623
\n00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:07,160
\nfrom Christ.
\nIt was spoken to them. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:37:08,120 –> 00:37:13,120
\nAnd we can’t know the things of
\nGod except by developing the <\/p>\n
625
\n00:37:13,120 –> 00:37:17,200
\nmind of the spirit.
\nThe spirit enters our mind, <\/p>\n
626
\n00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:19,400
\ndoesn’t it?
\nWhen we read the word of God, <\/p>\n
627
\n00:37:19,840 –> 00:37:25,200
\nit’s not magical, it’s powerful.
\nIt enters our minds and our <\/p>\n
628
\n00:37:25,240 –> 00:37:29,480
\nspirits or our minds then are
\nchanged by God’s word. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:35,040
\nThat’s why that’s why God gave
\nus the capability of developing <\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:38,440
\na character like His where He
\ngave us minds that could reason <\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:40,520
\nHis word and understand His
\nword. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:41,640 –> 00:37:43,720
\nNow if you ask people that have
\nbeen reading the word for some <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:47,480
\ntime, they’ll tell you that the
\nreason that they believe the <\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:50,320
\nBible, at least many will tell
\nyou that the reason that they <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:50,320 –> 00:37:54,640
\nbelieve the Bible has changed.
\nInitially, they believed the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:54,640 –> 00:37:57,160
\nBible or believed that it was
\nthe word of God because of Bible<\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:57,160 –> 00:38:00,040
\nprophecy.
\nThey read it, they saw the <\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:00,040 –> 00:38:03,200
\nprophecy and they were convinced
\nthat the prophecy came true and <\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:05,040
\nthey were convinced that it was
\nthe word of God. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:06,440 –> 00:38:09,920
\nBut as as they progress in their
\nunderstanding, what happens is, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:38:09,920 –> 00:38:11,960
\nis we begin to believe the word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:12,600 –> 00:38:16,400
\nThe Bible is the word of God
\nbecause we begin to understand <\/p>\n
643
\n00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:18,800
\nthe wonder of the world.
\nIt’s the word itself. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:38:19,320 –> 00:38:22,520
\nIt begins to actually change our
\nthinking and it changes our <\/p>\n
645
\n00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:24,120
\nbehavior.
\nAnd we could feel that and we <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:24,120 –> 00:38:27,400
\nknow that and we could see that
\nand we know that there’s nothing<\/p>\n
647
\n00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:29,520
\nelse that we read that’s like
\nthat. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:30,680 –> 00:38:32,080
\nAnd that’s what Paul’s talking
\nabout here. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:32,320 –> 00:38:35,000
\nThis is this is the wisdom of
\nGod that he speaks of. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:35,560 –> 00:38:39,840
\nIt’s something that’s hidden
\nfrom most of mankind for one <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:42,480
\nsimple reason.
\nIt’s because they don’t open <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:42,480 –> 00:38:44,920
\ntheir Bibles and read God’s
\nword. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:47,720 –> 00:38:51,080
\nIt’s an amazing thing.
\nSo in the same way, we don’t <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:51,080 –> 00:38:54,160
\nknow the things of God unless we
\nhear the words of God. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:59,400
\nVerse 12 he says now we have
\nreceived not the spirit of the <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:02,520
\nworld.
\nPaul says we haven’t received <\/p>\n
657
\n00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:05,680
\nman’s wisdom.
\nWhat we are teaching is not <\/p>\n
658
\n00:39:05,680 –> 00:39:11,120
\nbased on man’s words or man’s
\nideas, but it’s based on the <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:11,120 –> 00:39:15,720
\nSpirit which is of God.
\nWe have received the wisdom of <\/p>\n
660
\n00:39:15,720 –> 00:39:19,800
\nGod.
\nPaul, I think, has masterfully <\/p>\n
661
\n00:39:19,880 –> 00:39:25,760
\nshown here that what he and the
\napostles had been teaching was <\/p>\n
662
\n00:39:25,760 –> 00:39:30,240
\nso far superior to man’s wisdom.
\nAnd it was that because it had <\/p>\n
663
\n00:39:30,240 –> 00:39:34,560
\nbeen given to them as part of
\nGod’s plan, it wasn’t just <\/p>\n
664
\n00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:38,240
\nsomething that was what a smart
\nperson had figured out or had <\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:38,240 –> 00:39:42,160
\ndevised.
\nHe continues. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:42,160 –> 00:39:46,680
\nThat we might know the things
\nthat are freely given, freely <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:49,760
\ngiven.
\nThat’s the word grace there to <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:49,760 –> 00:39:53,560
\nus of God.
\nSo God has given these things by<\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:59,160
\nHis grace, and those were the
\nsame words that Paul was sharing<\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:59,640 –> 00:40:02,400
\nwith them.
\nAnd we find that in verse 13 he <\/p>\n
671
\n00:40:02,400 –> 00:40:07,880
\nsays which things also we speak
\nnot in the words which which <\/p>\n
672
\n00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:13,360
\nman’s wisdom teacheth, but which
\nthe Holy Spirit teacheth. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:40:14,840 –> 00:40:20,080
\nWhat a contrast the words which
\nman’s wisdom teaches and the <\/p>\n
674
\n00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:24,160
\nwords the apostles came to know
\nfrom the Scriptures. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:40:24,760 –> 00:40:27,680
\nAnd had come directly to them
\nfrom the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
676
\n00:40:27,960 –> 00:40:33,520
\nthrough the Holy Spirit.
\nThis absolutely sets apart the <\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:37,160
\nteachings of Paul from the
\nteachings of those that were <\/p>\n
678
\n00:40:37,160 –> 00:40:38,760
\nbringing humanism into the
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:45,480
\nHe says comparing spiritual
\nthings with spiritual, that word<\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:45,480 –> 00:40:49,480
\ncomparing means interpreting.
\nSo they could put the words that<\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:49,480 –> 00:40:52,080
\nhad been given to them next to
\nthe words of the Scripture and <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:52,080 –> 00:40:55,680
\nthey could understand, they
\ncould interpret the words of <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:55,680 –> 00:40:57,840
\nScripture and they could
\ninterpret the words that have <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:57,840 –> 00:41:00,360
\nbeen given to them.
\nAnd of course we say we could do<\/p>\n
685
\n00:41:00,360 –> 00:41:02,840
\nexactly the same thing by
\nstudying the Word of God. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:41:03,480 –> 00:41:07,360
\nWe could greatly develop our
\nspiritual understanding. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:10,240 –> 00:41:13,320
\nVerse 14, he says, but the
\nnatural man. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:20,200
\nSo those people that don’t go
\nbeyond natural thinking receive <\/p>\n
689
\n00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:24,840
\nnot the things of the Spirit.
\nFor receiveth, Vine says to <\/p>\n
690
\n00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:31,400
\naccept by deliberate and ready
\nreception of what is offered. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:41:32,640 –> 00:41:36,840
\nReceiveth not means that they
\nchoose not to accept. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:41:38,040 –> 00:41:41,600
\nSo there are people, Paul’s
\ntelling us, who deliberately <\/p>\n
693
\n00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:45,320
\nchoose to reject the revelations
\nof God. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:46,720 –> 00:41:51,320
\nWhy do they reject them?
\nWhy do they not bother reading <\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:51,320 –> 00:41:54,480
\nthe word of God?
\nWhy do their eyes gloss over <\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:54,480 –> 00:41:56,560
\nwhen you start to teach them
\nabout these things or start to <\/p>\n
697
\n00:41:56,720 –> 00:41:58,120
\nto read to them from the
\nScriptures? <\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:59,840 –> 00:42:00,960
\nRight?
\nThe verse continues. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:02,280 –> 00:42:05,800
\nHe says, for they are
\nfoolishness unto him. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:06,840 –> 00:42:10,880
\nThose words are foolish to them.
\nStrong says that that word means<\/p>\n
701
\n00:42:10,880 –> 00:42:14,160
\nsilliness or are ridiculous to
\nthem. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:42:15,640 –> 00:42:18,960
\nSo these people make a
\ndeliberate choice not to to hear<\/p>\n
703
\n00:42:18,960 –> 00:42:22,320
\nthe word of God.
\nThey reject God’s wisdom by not <\/p>\n
704
\n00:42:22,320 –> 00:42:24,040
\nlistening to the words that God
\nspeaks. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:28,040
\nThe natural mind considers
\nitself only with the things of <\/p>\n
706
\n00:42:28,040 –> 00:42:32,400
\nthis world because it doesn’t
\nhave an understanding of God’s <\/p>\n
707
\n00:42:32,400 –> 00:42:36,120
\nplan.
\nIt doesn’t know that God has <\/p>\n
708
\n00:42:36,120 –> 00:42:40,160
\nmade foolish the wisdom of this
\nworld and that God has offered <\/p>\n
709
\n00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:44,040
\nus eternal life.
\nAnd as long as they reject the <\/p>\n
710
\n00:42:44,040 –> 00:42:46,800
\nword of God, as long as they
\ndon’t listen to what God has to <\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:46,800 –> 00:42:50,520
\nsay, they’re not going to know
\nthe things of the Spirit and <\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:50,520 –> 00:42:53,280
\nthey’re not going to learn the
\nwisdom of God. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:54,120 –> 00:42:56,880
\nSo he says neither can he know
\nthem. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,880
\nThey can’t grasp them
\nintellectually because men and <\/p>\n
715
\n00:43:00,880 –> 00:43:03,400
\nwomen don’t just absorb the
\nwisdom of God. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:43:04,560 –> 00:43:07,080
\nIt takes work.
\nAnd that’s what he finishes <\/p>\n
717
\n00:43:07,080 –> 00:43:09,280
\nwith.
\nBecause they are spiritually <\/p>\n
718
\n00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:15,760
\ndiscerned, the things of the
\nSpirit can’t be accepted or <\/p>\n
719
\n00:43:15,760 –> 00:43:19,000
\ngrasped by people who only have
\nhuman wisdom. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:43:22,080 –> 00:43:26,760
\nNow, we have to be careful, I
\nthink, because all of us are <\/p>\n
721
\n00:43:26,760 –> 00:43:31,640
\ngoing through this process of,
\nof going from having only <\/p>\n
722
\n00:43:31,640 –> 00:43:35,200
\nnatural wisdom or natural
\nunderstanding to a place of <\/p>\n
723
\n00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:40,040
\nhaving spiritual understanding.
\nAnd as we make that progression,<\/p>\n
724
\n00:43:41,160 –> 00:43:44,400
\nwe’re going to make decisions
\nsometimes that are the wrong <\/p>\n
725
\n00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:49,240
\ndecisions because they’re based
\non the wrong wisdom, and yet <\/p>\n
726
\n00:43:49,240 –> 00:43:51,840
\nthey’re going to feel to us like
\nthey are absolutely the right <\/p>\n
727
\n00:43:51,840 –> 00:43:54,400
\ndecision.
\nSo we’ve got to be careful in <\/p>\n
728
\n00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:58,080
\nourselves about this, and we’ve
\ngot to be careful about this in <\/p>\n
729
\n00:43:58,080 –> 00:44:01,160
\nothers as well.
\nWe can make wrong choices then <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:01,160 –> 00:44:04,760
\nthat affect our lives and maybe
\naffect the lives of others. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:44:05,680 –> 00:44:08,160
\nAnd this could happen even when
\nwe’re really confident that <\/p>\n
732
\n00:44:08,160 –> 00:44:12,280
\nwe’re making the right decision.
\nWhat’s the solution to that? <\/p>\n
733
\n00:44:12,400 –> 00:44:16,000
\nHow do we solve that problem?
\nOf course, God has given us our <\/p>\n
734
\n00:44:16,000 –> 00:44:21,400
\nbrothers and sisters, and it’s
\nvery helpful for us to remember <\/p>\n
735
\n00:44:21,400 –> 00:44:23,760
\nthat our brothers and sisters
\nare going through that same <\/p>\n
736
\n00:44:23,760 –> 00:44:26,760
\nprocess, that there are other
\nbrothers and sisters that are at<\/p>\n
737
\n00:44:26,760 –> 00:44:29,400
\ndifferent stages in the
\ndevelopment of the thinking of <\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:32,760
\nthe Spirit.
\nAnd we could go to them and we <\/p>\n
739
\n00:44:32,760 –> 00:44:36,000
\ncan hear from them correction or
\ninstruction. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:44:36,880 –> 00:44:40,320
\nAnd maybe sometimes if we’re a
\nlittle further down the road of <\/p>\n
741
\n00:44:40,320 –> 00:44:44,200
\nunderstanding spiritual wisdom,
\nthere’s an opportunity that we <\/p>\n
742
\n00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:49,240
\nshould take to go to someone and
\nto try to instruct them on the <\/p>\n
743
\n00:44:49,240 –> 00:44:51,920
\nthinking of the Spirit.
\nI think it’s especially <\/p>\n
744
\n00:44:51,920 –> 00:44:54,320
\nimportant in the world that we
\nlive in today, where man’s <\/p>\n
745
\n00:44:54,320 –> 00:44:59,840
\nwisdom seems to be so ingrained
\nin us that the culture, that the<\/p>\n
746
\n00:44:59,840 –> 00:45:03,560
\nmedia, everything presents it to
\nus as if it’s absolutely right. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:45:04,600 –> 00:45:07,480
\nAnd yet we know it’s not.
\nWe know it’s not. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:45:07,480 –> 00:45:10,800
\nAnd yet it feels like this is
\nthe right Rd. that we should be <\/p>\n
749
\n00:45:10,800 –> 00:45:13,400
\non.
\nWe’ve got to be careful then <\/p>\n
750
\n00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:18,840
\nthat we we we follow the right
\nwisdom and that we look to the <\/p>\n
751
\n00:45:18,840 –> 00:45:22,560
\nScriptures to find that wisdom
\nand that we help each other to <\/p>\n
752
\n00:45:22,560 –> 00:45:27,360
\nfind that wisdom.
\nSo verse 15 says, but he that is<\/p>\n
753
\n00:45:27,360 –> 00:45:33,320
\nspiritual judgeth all things he
\nthat is spiritual. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:45:34,480 –> 00:45:37,040
\nSo if he that is spiritual is
\ntalking about someone who has <\/p>\n
755
\n00:45:37,040 –> 00:45:39,600
\nspiritual understanding.
\nSo as we develop the mind of the<\/p>\n
756
\n00:45:39,600 –> 00:45:43,360
\nSpirit, we develop a greater
\nunderstanding in the wisdom of <\/p>\n
757
\n00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:45,680
\nGod.
\nAnd he tells us here that if we <\/p>\n
758
\n00:45:45,680 –> 00:45:51,040
\ncan do that, we can judge.
\nThe word means to discern, to <\/p>\n
759
\n00:45:51,080 –> 00:45:55,360
\nevaluate, or to judge.
\nAnd we could do that because we <\/p>\n
760
\n00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:58,640
\ncould see much more of the big
\npicture. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:45:59,600 –> 00:46:03,520
\nWe could base our judgments and
\nour understanding on God’s <\/p>\n
762
\n00:46:03,520 –> 00:46:09,240
\npurpose rather than on a very
\nlimited view that man’s wisdom <\/p>\n
763
\n00:46:09,240 –> 00:46:12,760
\ngives us, right?
\nIt’s a much bigger picture and <\/p>\n
764
\n00:46:12,760 –> 00:46:16,000
\nthis is critical in our lives
\nand the truth in the Old <\/p>\n
765
\n00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:21,320
\nTestament, the people are often
\ncondemned that the kings and for<\/p>\n
766
\n00:46:21,320 –> 00:46:24,320
\nlack of judgment and the Psalms
\ntalk about when Christ comes, <\/p>\n
767
\n00:46:24,320 –> 00:46:26,160
\nthey’ll finally be righteous
\njudgment. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:46:26,840 –> 00:46:28,120
\nThat’s something that was
\nmissing. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:46:29,320 –> 00:46:31,520
\nGo back to first Corinthians
\nchapter one, verse 10. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:46:32,840 –> 00:46:34,560
\nLook at what the problem in the
\necclesia was. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:46:37,280 –> 00:46:40,040
\nI beseech you, brethren, 1st
\nCorinthians 110 he says, I <\/p>\n
772
\n00:46:40,040 –> 00:46:43,000
\nbeseech you, brethren, by the
\nname of our Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n
773
\n00:46:43,000 –> 00:46:44,720
\nthat you all speak the same
\nthing. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:46:45,400 –> 00:46:49,400
\nThere be no divisions among you,
\nbut that you be perfectly joined<\/p>\n
775
\n00:46:49,400 –> 00:46:54,600
\ntogether in the same mind in the
\nthinking of the Spirit, and in <\/p>\n
776
\n00:46:54,600 –> 00:46:57,160
\nthe same judgment, the
\ndiscerning judgment that will <\/p>\n
777
\n00:46:57,160 –> 00:47:00,000
\ncome from that.
\nWe could see then why there were<\/p>\n
778
\n00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:01,920
\ndifferent judgments, can’t we,
\nin the ecclesia? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:47:01,920 –> 00:47:06,120
\nBecause they had all different
\nideas of what wisdom was and <\/p>\n
780
\n00:47:06,120 –> 00:47:09,760
\nthere wasn’t a conclusive
\nunderstanding of the wisdom of <\/p>\n
781
\n00:47:09,760 –> 00:47:12,640
\nGod that they could turn to or
\nthat they relied upon. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:47:13,040 –> 00:47:16,640
\nOr if there was that in the
\necclesia, they didn’t count on <\/p>\n
783
\n00:47:16,640 –> 00:47:19,760
\nit or they didn’t go to that
\nperson to to find it. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:47:21,600 –> 00:47:26,720
\nThink about David and Jonathan,
\nthey both saw the big picture. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:47:27,120 –> 00:47:30,680
\nWould you agree?
\nThey both had an understanding <\/p>\n
786
\n00:47:30,680 –> 00:47:35,640
\nof what God was doing when, when
\nthey were working together, they<\/p>\n
787
\n00:47:35,640 –> 00:47:38,800
\nwere both working with God to,
\nto save the nation of Israel. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:47:38,800 –> 00:47:42,200
\nI would say, what is the, what
\ndoes the Scripture say about <\/p>\n
789
\n00:47:42,200 –> 00:47:45,920
\ntheir souls?
\nThey were knit together, right? <\/p>\n
790
\n00:47:46,960 –> 00:47:51,000
\nThey had the same spirit.
\nIt’s not that they had their own<\/p>\n
791
\n00:47:51,160 –> 00:47:55,160
\nexclusive little spirit, but
\nit’s, they both had the thinking<\/p>\n
792
\n00:47:55,160 –> 00:47:57,360
\nof the spirit influencing their
\nlives. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:47:57,840 –> 00:48:00,520
\nAnd so they agreed on things and
\nthey made the same decisions <\/p>\n
794
\n00:48:00,520 –> 00:48:03,240
\nbecause they were making
\ndecisions based upon what God <\/p>\n
795
\n00:48:03,240 –> 00:48:06,480
\nhad in mind.
\nAnd so for us, if we can develop<\/p>\n
796
\n00:48:06,480 –> 00:48:09,640
\nthe mind of the Spirit, what
\nPaul’s saying here, if we could <\/p>\n
797
\n00:48:09,640 –> 00:48:13,200
\ndevelop the mind of the Spirit,
\nthen we’ll be able to rightly <\/p>\n
798
\n00:48:13,200 –> 00:48:17,440
\njudge all things.
\nIs that isn’t that a wonderful <\/p>\n
799
\n00:48:17,440 –> 00:48:18,840
\nthing?
\nWe’ll be able to make much <\/p>\n
800
\n00:48:18,840 –> 00:48:21,880
\nbetter judgments about things
\nbecause it’s based upon the <\/p>\n
801
\n00:48:21,880 –> 00:48:25,640
\nwisdom of God.
\nAnd then he says, yet he himself<\/p>\n
802
\n00:48:25,640 –> 00:48:30,000
\nis judged of no man.
\nThat sounds almost like a <\/p>\n
803
\n00:48:30,000 –> 00:48:33,200
\nhumanistic idea, doesn’t it?
\nAn idea today that don’t judge <\/p>\n
804
\n00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:34,520
\nme.
\nThat’s a, that’s a common <\/p>\n
805
\n00:48:34,520 –> 00:48:37,320
\nphrase, isn’t it?
\nIt sounds like he’s saying that,<\/p>\n
806
\n00:48:37,320 –> 00:48:42,160
\nbut what he’s saying here is no
\nman is the natural man. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:48:43,120 –> 00:48:46,320
\nHe’s saying we won’t be judged
\nby the natural man. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:48:46,680 –> 00:48:49,200
\nWe won’t be judged if we’re
\nfollowing the, the, the things <\/p>\n
809
\n00:48:49,200 –> 00:48:52,280
\nof the spirit.
\nThe reasoning of the natural man<\/p>\n
810
\n00:48:52,280 –> 00:48:56,320
\nwill be irrelevant.
\nAnd so what’s Paul thinking <\/p>\n
811
\n00:48:56,320 –> 00:48:58,640
\nabout here?
\nI think he’s thinking about the <\/p>\n
812
\n00:48:58,640 –> 00:49:01,720
\nfact that there were some that
\nwere actually calling him, <\/p>\n
813
\n00:49:02,320 –> 00:49:05,080
\ncalling him out and saying that
\nhe was doing the wrong things, <\/p>\n
814
\n00:49:05,080 –> 00:49:06,440
\nthat he didn’t have
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:49:07,000 –> 00:49:09,560
\nAnd he says, well, the problem
\nis, is that because they’re <\/p>\n
816
\n00:49:09,560 –> 00:49:14,200
\nbasing what they’re saying on
\nthe thinking of, of man, we <\/p>\n
817
\n00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:15,960
\ncan’t really even count on what
\nthey’re saying. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:49:15,960 –> 00:49:19,320
\nWe can’t trust their judgments
\nbecause their judgments are <\/p>\n
819
\n00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:21,240
\ninsufficient.
\nThere’s they’re, they’re making <\/p>\n
820
\n00:49:21,240 –> 00:49:23,960
\ntheir calls, they’re making what
\nthey’re saying based upon not <\/p>\n
821
\n00:49:23,960 –> 00:49:27,880
\nhaving enough information.
\nI think it’s amazing how Paul <\/p>\n
822
\n00:49:27,880 –> 00:49:31,320
\nputs these pieces together and
\nexplains the problems that the <\/p>\n
823
\n00:49:31,320 –> 00:49:33,880
\necclesia was having.
\nAnd I think those are the same <\/p>\n
824
\n00:49:33,880 –> 00:49:38,200
\nkind of problems that our
\necclesias can have today if <\/p>\n
825
\n00:49:38,200 –> 00:49:42,120
\nwe’re not focusing on that key
\nelement, which is developing the<\/p>\n
826
\n00:49:42,120 –> 00:49:44,000
\nthing, the thinking of the
\nspirit. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:49:45,360 –> 00:49:49,320
\nSo we have this human judgment
\nthen, which was just <\/p>\n
828
\n00:49:49,320 –> 00:49:53,240
\ninsufficient is what’s Paul’s
\ntrying to say here, and didn’t <\/p>\n
829
\n00:49:54,160 –> 00:49:57,040
\nreally have any impact on him
\nbecause it didn’t understand <\/p>\n
830
\n00:49:57,040 –> 00:50:00,080
\nwhat was really happening.
\nNow, I like to think about this,<\/p>\n
831
\n00:50:00,080 –> 00:50:04,600
\nthis this story of Elisha and
\nhis servant at Dothan to kind of<\/p>\n
832
\n00:50:04,600 –> 00:50:08,840
\nillustrate what this is like.
\nSo the king of Syria, you’ll <\/p>\n
833
\n00:50:08,840 –> 00:50:15,480
\nremember, had sent a great host
\nto bring Elisha to him because <\/p>\n
834
\n00:50:15,480 –> 00:50:18,080
\nhe was tired of Elisha helping
\nthe army of Israel. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:50:18,880 –> 00:50:21,520
\nAnd the Syrians came and they
\nsurrounded the city of Dothan, <\/p>\n
836
\n00:50:21,520 –> 00:50:23,480
\nright?
\nYou remember the situation and <\/p>\n
837
\n00:50:23,480 –> 00:50:26,880
\nElisha’s servant went out and he
\nsaw the Syrian Army. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:50:27,760 –> 00:50:30,320
\nAnd how did he feel about the
\nSyrians being there? <\/p>\n
839
\n00:50:31,400 –> 00:50:34,600
\nWhat did he think?
\nHe’s terrified, right? <\/p>\n
840
\n00:50:35,000 –> 00:50:37,280
\nHe was absolutely terrified.
\nHe thought we’re done for. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:50:37,560 –> 00:50:39,360
\nWhat are we going to do?
\nI don’t know how what we could <\/p>\n
842
\n00:50:39,360 –> 00:50:42,480
\ndo here.
\nAnd what was Elisha doing? <\/p>\n
843
\n00:50:43,880 –> 00:50:47,320
\nNothing, right.
\nNot worried about it at all. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:50:47,920 –> 00:50:49,920
\nNot concerned about the whole
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:50:50,520 –> 00:50:52,720
\nIf I was.
\nIf I was Elisha’s servant, I <\/p>\n
846
\n00:50:52,720 –> 00:50:55,480
\nwould have said, Elisha, you
\nhave totally messed up this <\/p>\n
847
\n00:50:55,480 –> 00:50:56,800
\ntime.
\nHere we are. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:50:56,960 –> 00:50:59,720
\nWe’re dead because the Syrians
\nare here and they’re <\/p>\n
849
\n00:50:59,720 –> 00:51:01,120
\nsurrounding.
\nAnd I might have thought, you <\/p>\n
850
\n00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:05,200
\nknow what, Elisha, I think maybe
\nI should take over and and you <\/p>\n
851
\n00:51:05,200 –> 00:51:07,080
\nshould kind of follow my
\ndirection here because you’ve <\/p>\n
852
\n00:51:07,080 –> 00:51:08,480
\ngotten us into this terrible
\nmess. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:51:09,480 –> 00:51:10,680
\nBut that’s not what it is, is
\nit? <\/p>\n
854
\n00:51:11,520 –> 00:51:17,840
\nElisha says fear not, for they
\nthat be with us are more than <\/p>\n
855
\n00:51:17,840 –> 00:51:22,200
\nthey that be with them.
\nElisha saw the big picture. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:51:22,680 –> 00:51:25,640
\nHe saw the whole picture.
\nWell, his servant only had this <\/p>\n
857
\n00:51:25,640 –> 00:51:27,600
\nlimited view of what was
\nactually happening. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:51:29,720 –> 00:51:31,920
\nIf we ask his servant, he would
\nhave said we should run, we <\/p>\n
859
\n00:51:31,920 –> 00:51:33,400
\nshould hide, we should get out
\nof here. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:51:34,120 –> 00:51:35,320
\nBut that wasn’t the right
\nanswer. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:51:36,480 –> 00:51:39,840
\nThe right answer was do nothing.
\nAnd so God finally made that <\/p>\n
862
\n00:51:39,840 –> 00:51:44,640
\nvisible to Elisha’s servant.
\nIt’s pretty amazing. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:51:44,640 –> 00:51:49,000
\nI think we think about Christ
\ntelling the disciples about the <\/p>\n
864
\n00:51:49,000 –> 00:51:50,720
\nfact that he had to go to the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:51:51,480 –> 00:52:00,180
\nLet’s go over to Mark chapter 8.
\nMark chapter 8. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:52:03,180 –> 00:52:05,740
\nI’ll just go through this
\nquickly here. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:52:07,380 –> 00:52:10,460
\nHere we have Peter with the
\ncompletely wrong idea because he<\/p>\n
868
\n00:52:10,460 –> 00:52:11,900
\ndoesn’t understand what’s
\nhappening. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:52:13,220 –> 00:52:19,420
\nSo Mark 8 verse 30, verse 31
\nsays, And he, that is Jesus <\/p>\n
870
\n00:52:19,420 –> 00:52:22,760
\nbegan to teach them that the Son
\nof man must suffer many things <\/p>\n
871
\n00:52:22,760 –> 00:52:25,320
\nand be rejected of the elders,
\nof the chief priests, the <\/p>\n
872
\n00:52:25,320 –> 00:52:28,600
\nscribes, and be killed.
\nAnd after three days rise again.<\/p>\n
873
\n00:52:29,280 –> 00:52:33,440
\nAnd he spake that openly.
\nAnd Peter took him and began to <\/p>\n
874
\n00:52:33,440 –> 00:52:35,560
\nrebuke him.
\nSo Peter goes, no, no, no, no, <\/p>\n
875
\n00:52:35,560 –> 00:52:39,080
\nno, that’s completely wrong.
\nVerse 33 But when he had turned <\/p>\n
876
\n00:52:39,080 –> 00:52:42,160
\nabout and looked on his
\ndisciples, he rebuked Peter <\/p>\n
877
\n00:52:42,160 –> 00:52:46,520
\nsaying, Get thee behind me
\nSatan, for thou savorest. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:52:47,200 –> 00:52:50,200
\nAnd that word savers means to
\nthink or to exercise your mind. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:52:50,360 –> 00:52:54,600
\nYour mind is thinking not the
\nthings that be of God, but the <\/p>\n
880
\n00:52:54,600 –> 00:52:57,920
\nthings that be of men.
\nYour mind is still being <\/p>\n
881
\n00:52:57,920 –> 00:53:01,600
\ndirected by human wisdom.
\nHe says here, I bet if the <\/p>\n
882
\n00:53:01,600 –> 00:53:04,680
\ndisciples had taken a vote on
\nthat day, they would have all <\/p>\n
883
\n00:53:04,680 –> 00:53:07,720
\nagreed that Christ shouldn’t be
\ncrucified, wouldn’t they? <\/p>\n
884
\n00:53:08,520 –> 00:53:10,760
\nThey probably would have all
\nsaid, yes, you’re not going to <\/p>\n
885
\n00:53:10,760 –> 00:53:12,160
\nbe crucified.
\nThat’s not what’s going to <\/p>\n
886
\n00:53:12,160 –> 00:53:14,920
\nhappen here.
\nLater in time though, when they <\/p>\n
887
\n00:53:14,920 –> 00:53:17,840
\nunderstood, they fully agreed
\nthat Christ needed to be <\/p>\n
888
\n00:53:18,200 –> 00:53:21,280
\ncrucified.
\nAll right, let’s go back to <\/p>\n
889
\n00:53:21,280 –> 00:53:23,920
\nFirst Corinthians chapter 2 and
\njust look at the last verse. <\/p>\n
890
\n00:53:23,920 –> 00:53:35,370
\nThen
\nverse 16. <\/p>\n
891
\n00:53:35,370 –> 00:53:40,730
\nHe says, For who hath known the
\nmind of the Lord, that he may <\/p>\n
892
\n00:53:40,730 –> 00:53:44,810
\ninstruct him, but we have the
\nmind of Christ. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:53:46,730 –> 00:53:50,050
\nLet’s go over to Isaiah chapter
\n40 because that’s where this is <\/p>\n
894
\n00:53:50,050 –> 00:53:52,610
\nbeing quoted from Isaiah chapter
\n40 and verse 13. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:53:56,560 –> 00:53:59,160
\nIt’s talking about where God got
\nHis wisdom. <\/p>\n
896
\n00:54:00,040 –> 00:54:03,800
\nIt’s talking about the superior
\nnature of God’s wisdom to man’s <\/p>\n
897
\n00:54:03,800 –> 00:54:09,560
\nwisdom.
\nIsaiah 40 verse 13 says Who hath<\/p>\n
898
\n00:54:09,560 –> 00:54:15,640
\ndirected the spirit of Yahweh?
\nThe answer of course is there’s <\/p>\n
899
\n00:54:15,640 –> 00:54:19,720
\nno one who gave Yahweh wisdom or
\nbeing His counselor hath taught <\/p>\n
900
\n00:54:19,720 –> 00:54:25,080
\nhim.
\nNo one has taught Yahweh with <\/p>\n
901
\n00:54:25,080 –> 00:54:27,240
\nwhom took He counsel and
\ninstructed him. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:54:28,280 –> 00:54:32,360
\nYahweh was not instructed and
\ntaught Him in the path of <\/p>\n
903
\n00:54:32,360 –> 00:54:36,240
\njudgement.
\nYahweh was not taught and taught<\/p>\n
904
\n00:54:36,240 –> 00:54:39,680
\nhim knowledge.
\nAgain, Yahweh was not taught and<\/p>\n
905
\n00:54:39,680 –> 00:54:41,600
\nshowed to him the way of
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
906
\n00:54:42,320 –> 00:54:44,160
\nYahweh was not shown
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
907
\n00:54:45,320 –> 00:54:48,840
\nHe says, behold, the nations are
\nas a drop of a bucket. <\/p>\n
908
\n00:54:50,040 –> 00:54:52,280
\nThe nations are only a drop in a
\nbucket. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:54:52,280 –> 00:54:54,320
\nThey’re nothing.
\nThe wisdom of man is absolutely <\/p>\n
910
\n00:54:54,320 –> 00:54:57,520
\nnothing.
\nThey’re counted as the small <\/p>\n
911
\n00:54:57,520 –> 00:55:02,360
\ndust of the balance.
\nThe wisdom of man is like a <\/p>\n
912
\n00:55:02,400 –> 00:55:06,920
\nlittle piece of dust.
\nIt’s impossible, he says, for <\/p>\n
913
\n00:55:06,920 –> 00:55:12,880
\nthe wisdom of man to instruct,
\nto instruct God, because God’s <\/p>\n
914
\n00:55:12,880 –> 00:55:17,080
\nwords are infallible.
\nThere is no wisdom like <\/p>\n
915
\n00:55:17,080 –> 00:55:19,800
\nYahweh’s.
\nAnd that’s the point that he’s <\/p>\n
916
\n00:55:19,800 –> 00:55:21,400
\nmaking.
\nHe’s telling them that we have <\/p>\n
917
\n00:55:21,400 –> 00:55:25,240
\naccess to the wisdom of God
\nbecause it’s been given to us <\/p>\n
918
\n00:55:25,520 –> 00:55:27,840
\nand that’s what we can share
\nwith you. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:55:33,420 –> 00:55:38,260
\nAnd then he says, but we have
\nthe mind of Christ. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:55:39,660 –> 00:55:44,340
\nWhat we’ve been teaching you has
\ncome from Christ. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:55:45,140 –> 00:55:48,900
\nIt’s Christ who’s been
\ninstructing us, and we’re <\/p>\n
922
\n00:55:48,900 –> 00:55:55,520
\nsharing that wisdom with you.
\nWould anybody put their trust in<\/p>\n
923
\n00:55:55,520 –> 00:56:00,320
\nthe wisdom of man when the
\nwisdom of God is true wisdom? <\/p>\n
924
\n00:56:01,720 –> 00:56:06,040
\nWhen the wisdom of God glorifies
\nGod, When the wisdom of God <\/p>\n
925
\n00:56:06,040 –> 00:56:10,040
\nlooks at the whole picture, when
\nthe wisdom of God is unchanging?<\/p>\n
926
\n00:56:12,560 –> 00:56:14,960
\nThe wisdom of God is amazing,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
927
\n00:56:15,720 –> 00:56:19,800
\nAnd Paul is just asking them to
\nlisten to the wisdom of God <\/p>\n
928
\n00:56:20,720 –> 00:56:23,680
\nbecause he has the mind of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
929
\n00:56:25,600 –> 00:56:25,920
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