The Spirit of God - 1 Corinthians 2

We have the mind of Christ

1 Corinthians 2 (New International Version, ©2010)

Good Morning Partners and Friends,

Today is 2.17.2011

This morning we can look all over the world and see unrest, everyone is in turmoil and all confused in what is going on. How can we keep our peace in all this?

Even the Bible said in the last days even the elect could be tricked.

What are we to do?

·       We need to study the world and see what it tells us about the days and the time we are living in.

·       We also need to develop a personal relationship with God. Some call it this part of God the Holy Spirit.

When we develop a close personal relationship with the Holy Spirit we will know HIS voice. We can speak to him and he will answer and He can speak to us. This is a very valuable way we can ensure we will not be tricked. We must but put in the time so we will know without a doubt that the voice speaking is from God Almighty.

The enemy can and will try to copy everything God has done including this but we that know the Shepard’s voice will not be tricked.

The word of God tells us to test the spirits, this is a must. God will not tell you anything that is not based in His written word.

Let’s see what 1 Corinthians 2 has to say about the Spirit of God -- The Holy Spirit.

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

 6 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. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:

   “What no eye has seen,

   what no ear has heard,

and what no human mind has conceived”[b]—

   the things God has prepared for those who love him—

 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

   The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

   “Who has known the mind of the Lord

   so as to instruct him?”[d]

   But we have the mind of Christ.

Footnotes:

   1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 64:4

   1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual

   4. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13