Do
not deceive yourselves.
If any one of you
thinks he is wise by the standards of this age,
He should become a
'fool' so that he may become wise.
For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
As it is written:
'He catches the
wise in their craftiness'; (Job 5:13) and
again,
'The Lord knows
that the thoughts of the wise are futile.' (Psalm
94:11)
(1 Corinthians
3:18-21)
For Christ did not
send me to baptize,
But
to preach the gospel--
Not
with words of human wisdom,
Least
the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
For the message of
the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
But to us who are
being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written:
'I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
The intelligence
of the intelligent I will frustrate.' (Isaiah 29:14)
Where is the wise
man? Where is the scholar?
Has
not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the
wisdom of God
The world through
its wisdom did not know him,
God was pleased
through the foolishness of what was preached
To save those who
believe.
Jews demand
miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
But we preach Christ
crucified:
A stumbling block to
Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
But to those who
God has called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God.
For
the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom,
And
the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
Brothers, think of
what you were when you were called.
Not many of you were
wise by human standards;
Not many were
influential; not many were of noble birth.
But
God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;
He chose the lowly
things of this world and the despised things—
And the things that
are not –to nullify the things that are,
So that no one
may boast before Him.
It is because of Him
that you are in Christ Jesus,
Who has become for
us wisdom from God—and redemption.
Therefore, as it is
written:
'Let him who
boasts boast in the Lord.' (Jeremiah 9:24)
(1 Corinthians
1:17-31)
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When I came to you, brothers,
I did not come with
eloquence or superior wisdom
As I proclaimed to
you the testimony about God.
For I resolved to
know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ
And Him crucified.
I came to you in
weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
My
message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,
But
with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
So
that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's
power.
(1 Corinthians
2:1-5)
Wisdom From The
Spirit
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, we speak of
God's secret wisdom,
A
wisdom that has been hidden
And that God
destined for our glory before time began.
None of the rulers
of this age understood it,
For if they had,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
However, as it is
written:
'No
eye has seen , no ear has heard, no mind has conceived
What God has
prepared for those who love Him' (Isaiah 64:4)--
But God has
revealed it to us by His Spirit.
The Spirit
searches all things even the deep things of God.
For who among men
knows the thoughts of a man
Except the man's
spirit within him?
In the same way no
one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
We have not receive
the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God,
That
we many understand what God has freely given us.
This
is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom
But in words
taught by the Spirit,
Expressing
spiritual truths in spiritual words.
The man without the
Spirit
Does not accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God,
For they are
foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,
Because they are
spiritually discerned.
The spiritual man
makes judgments about all things,
But he himself is
not subject to any man's judgment:
'For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?'
(Isaiah
40:13)
But
we have the mind of Christ. (1
Corinthians 2)
Every born again
Christian
Who has received their
personal Day of Pentecost;
Who allows Christ to
live in and through them,
Has the mind of Christ
and therefore the wisdom of God.
They know that the
wisdom of this age and the rulers of this age
Are coming to nothing!
They await the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory!
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