New Testament · Letters

1 Corinthians chapter 2

When I came to you, , I didn’t come with impressive rhetoric or philosophical arguments to tell you about . I made a deliberate decision to focus on one thing while I was with you: Jesus, —and specifically the fact that he was .I showed up feeling , anxious, and honestly .My message and my preaching didn’t rely on clever, persuasive arguments. Instead, showed up with ,so that your wouldn’t be built on human but on God’s power.Now, we do share a kind of —but it’s for people who are . It’s not the kind of wisdom this current world system values, and it’s not the kind the deal in—rulers who are already being shown to be irrelevant.Instead, we share God’s wisdom that was —a he set in place before time even began, designed for our .None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had, they never would have the .But as say: “Things no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has imagined—these are the things God has for those who love him.”But God has revealed these things to us through his Breath. everything—even himself.Think about it—who really knows what’s going on inside a person except that person’s own ? In the same way, nobody knows what’s going on inside God except God’s own Breath.And here’s the thing—we haven’t received . We’ve received , so that we can actually understand the gifts God has us.And that’s exactly what we talk about—not using language taught by human cleverness, but using , to people who have God’s Breath in them.But can’t receive the things that come from God’s Breath. They seem like to that person, and they can’t make sense of them because these things can only be ., though, can , while no one operating without the Breath can properly evaluate them.“Who has ever understood what is thinking? Who could possibly advise him?” But we actually share .