There are spiritual truths that wisdom cannot teach nor can the conscious mind of man perceive. They can only be known by the heart of God, the tender loving mercies of the Father, revealed to us by the Holy Spirit when we accept the free gift of salvation in Christ Jesus.
Paul emphasized that the intellectuals of this world could not teach the knowledge he was giving to the Corinthian believers. Note that the Spirit did not simply dictate words to Paul and the other apostles; He taught them. In other words, the phrase teaches that the spiritual truths of God are combined with the spiritual vocabulary of the apostles.
1 Corinthians 2:13-16
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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