1 Corinthians 2:6-16

In these times we need to listen closely to Holy Spirit. He will guide and protect those who place their trust in Him!

Jesus died for ALL of mankind…God alone knows the parameters of the salvation that He provided. Through His selfless act of obedience Jesus provided the only way to God…who are we to judge the wisdom of God? The fight is not against humans but against the temporary power of Satan.  

Jesus has already won the battle!

God’s wisdom—which is revealed in Christ’s death, resurrection, and the saving of humanity—is not bound by time; it is eternal. The Greek word used here, archōn, can refer either to humans or to divine beings. It could refer to evil spiritual entities. Paul emphasizes that Christ is eternal.  Meaning, it is not plain to the person looking for understanding of the world, themselves, and others. Rather, it can be understood only through revelation from God’s Spirit. Paul asserts that people cannot understand the things of God through human faculties they must rely on the Spirit graciously given to believers by God. God grants insight regarding His work to those who follow Him and do His will. Paul argues that people desiring to know more or have greater wisdom should seek to walk more closely with Christ, as God reveals His eternal work to people this way. The Spirit (pneuma in Greek) knows the things of God. God’s Spirit is not like the spirit of people or anything that can be comprehended, computed, or reasoned in this world. While God’s work is eternal, everything of this world is temporal—including current rulers and evil spiritual beings. Without God’s help through the Spirit, people lack the ability to understand His plans or work. 

The Spirit (pneuma) is the one who truly explains and reveals the ways of God to people—believers are just messengers and instruments of the Spirit’s message. Those who belong to the Spirit do not need to subject themselves to human condemnation or approval; they recognize that God is their only judge. The presence of the Spirit grants believers the ability to discern God’s will and works within them to make them more like Christ. Faithlife Bible.

People look at beauty, wealth, and power as greatly desirable. But all earthly splendor will be rendered meaningless and worthless by death and the coming of God’s judgment. Though Jesus emptied Himself of His majesty when He became human, He remained fully equal with the Father. Only the Holy Spirit could reveal the truths of God. We could never have discovered the mysteries of God or the benefits of Christ’s death by ourselves. But we can know them by experience because they have been freely given to us by God. 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. The apostles related with their own vocabulary and style what they had learned from the Spirit. The natural person does not have the Spirit of God, in contrast to the Believer who does have the Spirit. NKJ Bible.

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 

8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 

11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

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.

Job 15:8 | Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Job 32:8 | But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

Psalm 24:7 | Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.

Psalm 24:8 | Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.