1 Cor 2:1-16
I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no ind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
Who has known the in of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
A clear statement of God's message, not style without substance, was his main concern. But the Corinthians were infected with something of the spirit of nearby Athens. They fancied(幻想) themselves as thinkers and took pride in their supposed intellectual superiority.
Why?
Paul makes Christian foundation on the Christ, not the wisdom of world.
The wisdom is revealed by the Spirit who has freely given us. Let us know the mind of the Lord.
Only the Holy Spirit may introduce us to know the truth of the Lord and the gospel.
Preaching Jesus Christ only not me not the preacher. But preacher should has good witness before men.
How?
I am nothing without the Spirit, Spirit let me know the way of the Lord and his word. The wisdom is in the Lord, waiting for us to dig in, and getting more rich in Spirit.
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