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
declare God’s wisdom, a mystery 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:
“What no eye has
seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the
things God has prepared for those who love him— these are the things God has
revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches
all things, even the deep things of God. 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. 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. 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. 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. The person
with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not
subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so
as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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Corinthians 2:6-16
Sometimes we forget
the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force. The Bible describes Him as God. He
is present everywhere, and He has infinite power. He knows all things, and He
can do things only God can do. The Spirit can create and give life. He is equal
in every way with the other, Persons of the Trinity – The Father and the Son.
The Holy Spirit
indwells us if we have received forgiveness of sin through Jesus. He desires to
transform us so that we become more and more like Jesus. Let’s cooperate with
the Spirit by reading God’s Word and relying on His power to obey what we
learn.
The
Christian who neglects the Holy Spirit is like a lamp that’s not plugged in.
Our Daily Bread –