3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
Paul sensed personal inadequacy to minister in Greece especially since he did not receive a warm welcome in Athens (Ac 16:22-17:32). His fear and trembling had to do with how the […]
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4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power
Paul explained that he went to Corinth with fear and trembling because he might not have an adequate gospel presentation for the intellectual Corinthians. He went with a sense of dependency on […]
5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Now Paul explains why he rested in the “demonstration of the Spirit” (2:4). He did not want to depend on human facility but on the power of God.
that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men […]
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.
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature,
The “we” in this verse refers to the apostles. When the apostles spoke the wisdom of the Word […]
7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
The word […]
9But 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.”
But as it is written:
Paul now draws an inference from Isaiah 64:4 and 65:17. The context of Isaiah 64 and 65 speaks to Israel in captivity. God […]
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11For 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 […]
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.
13These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
First, […]
14But 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.
Now in verses 14 through 16 Paul takes up the subject of illumination. Illumination is God’s intervention on our behalf for a believer to understand the […]
15But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
But he who is spiritual judges all things,
The believer has a built-in Bible Teacher – the Holy Spirit. This stands in contradistinction to the non-believer, who cannot decipher spiritual truth (previous verse). It is the ministry of the […]