Brit Chadasha Foundations-Concepts in First Corinthians-Chapter 2

1 Cor 2.1-16 tells us about Paul’s reliance on God’s wisdom instead of human wisdom; and how we can receive this wisdom; the spiritual man and the natural man.

v 1…And when I came to you (Acts 18), brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech (like a philosopher) of wisdom (the Basar does not need the wisdom of men), proclaiming to you the testimony of God (as a witness).

v 2…For I determined (a conscious decision) to know nothing (other religious teachings) among you except Yeshua the Messiah and him crucified (not his own wisdom).

v 3…And I was with you in weakness (not exerting his authority as a shaliach sent by God) and in fear and in much trembling (he had his limitations).

v 4…And my message and my preaching was not in persuasive words of wisdom (of men), but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power (through the Scriptures and gifts of the Ruach Ha Kodesh),

v 5…that your faith should not rest in the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

v 6…Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature (have spiritual comprehension); a wisdom, however, not of this age (the Olam Ha Zeh; this present world), nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away (Heb 8.13-the Olam Ha Zeh and its wisdom is vanishing).

v 7…But we speak God’s wisdom (“chachmah” or knowing what to do when you have an understanding of the facts in the Torah, not political or rabbinical thought) in a mystery (Hebrew “sowd” or a foundation, hidden secret that could only be known by revelation), the hidden (wisdom), which God predestined before the ages (of the world) to our glory (deserving of our highest regard; veiled to the world because it did not belong to them);

v 8…which none of the rulers of this age (Olam Ha Zeh) has understood (God, Messiah, prophecy, etc), for if they understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (Psa 24.7-not incited the people against him);

v 9…but just as it is written (recorded earlier), “Things which the eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered the heart (desires, thoughts) of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him (he has laid up the discovery of the mysterious so we can discover them clearly in the Olam Haba-1 Cor 13.9-12).”

v 10…For to us God revealed (them) through the Spirit (Ruach reveals them internally); for the Spirit searches (looks over) all things, even the depths of God (inspiration comes by the Ruach, not the wisdom of men).

v 11…For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man (what is in his thoughts and what he is conscious of) which is in him. Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God (the Ruach Ha Kodesh is God).

v 12…Now we have received, not the spirit of the world (depraved, deranged part), but the Spirit from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God (we must realize that we can only know such things only through the Ruach of God),

v 13…which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom (Paul’s teachings did not have their origins from the rabbinical schools of Gamaliel he attended, or any school), but in those taught by the Spirit (in contrast to human wisdom), combining spiritual (thoughts) with spiritual (words-Paul’s doctrines can be found in the Torah and are in harmony with it-by “Torah” we mean the Tanak/Scriptures, made up of the Torah, the Nevi’im or Prophets, and the Ketuvim or writings).

v 14…But a natural man (unregenerated, not born again) does not accept the things of the Spirit (the language of the Scriptures were edited and inspired by the Ruach) of God; for they are foolishness (moronic) to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned (like an artist who can discern art, or a musician who can read music and knows good music).

v 15…But he who is spiritual (begotten by God-John 3.3-5) appraises (discerns) all things (comprehends the things revealed by God), yet he himself is judged of no man (the natural man is not equipped to judge a spiritual person-Col 2.16-17).

v 16…For who has known the mind of the Lord (Yehovah) that he should instruct him, but we have the mind of Messiah (we don’t need spiritual instruction from the natural man; Paul inserts “Messiah” here for Yehovah because Yeshua is Yehovah).

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