1st Corinthians Chapter 2
Starting out chapter 2, Paul prides himself of knowing little of worldly knowledge
in verse 2 he says "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
Thats pretty simple. I know there was a man named Jesus. And I know he was crucified.
He is telling the people that this is all you need to know to have true wisdom.
He tells them that he came to them trembling and with fear, and the point of his visit wasn't to prove how charismatic he was, but to demonstrate to them the power of God. which we remember from chapter 1 verse 24 is actually Christ himself.
In verse 7 he says that God's wisdom is a secret.
He doesn't tell them this because he wants them to hide the reality of who Christ is, he is simply saying that not very many people knew who Christ really was.
He says in verse 8 that if the rulers of this world truly understood who Christ was, they never would have crucified him in the first place.
verse 9 says "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"
This means that nobody has seen what God sees, nobody has heard what God hears and nobody knows what God knows.
verse 11 says "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."
No man can understand another mans thoughts or plans, let alone Gods.
A man's spirit knows a man's thoughts. God's Spirit knows God's thoughts.
verse 12 says that we do not have the spirit of the world but the spirit of God, therefore we can know the thoughts of God because the Spirit of God searches the depths of the "Mind of God".
What is the spirit of the world?
I think he is saying that we no longer think, or see, or hear things the way the world sees them.
Upon receiving the spirit of God, we understand where God is coming from and we start seeing things from His perspective
Verse 14 says that a man without the Spirit of God can not accept the thoughts of God that come from the mouths of men, they are foolish to him because he can not understand them.
Without the spirit of God to "interpret" the thoughts of God, you are left with a meaningless bable, kind of like if you went to a country where you did not understand the language. People would make perfect sense to each other, but it would seem like nonsense to you.
Verse 15 says "The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment"
This does not mean that we don't judge things wrongly sometimes.
It simply means that we have the ability to judge things because we understand them as God understands them through his Spirit.
If we are not using the spirit to judge things and we are judging things from our own perspective, we are wrong.
Men without the Spirit can never judge things correctly because they forced to judge things from their own perspective, therefore forcing them to always be wrong.
They can not judge the judgement of the spirit, because they can not judge God.
