To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From: GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He may be
with you forever. [John 14:16]
1 Corinthians 1:17–25 (The Living Bible) 17 For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel;
and even my preaching sounds poor, for I do not fill my sermons with profound
words and high sounding ideas, for fear of diluting the mighty power there is
in the simple message of the cross of Christ. 18 I know very well
how foolish it sounds to those who are lost, when they hear that Jesus died to
save them. But we who are saved recognize this message as the very power of
God. 19 For God says, “I will destroy all human plans of salvation
no matter how wise they seem to be, and ignore the best ideas of men, even the
most brilliant of them.” 20 So what about these wise men, these
scholars, these brilliant debaters of this world’s great affairs? God has made
them all look foolish and shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. 21
For God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find God through
human brilliance, and then he stepped in and saved all those who believed his
message, which the world calls foolish and silly. 22 It seems
foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven as proof that what is
preached is true; and it is foolish to the Gentiles because they believe only
what agrees with their philosophy and seems wise to them. 23 So when
we preach about Christ dying to save them, the Jews are offended and the
Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. 24 But God has opened the eyes of those called to salvation, both Jews and
Gentiles, to see that Christ is the mighty power of God to save them; Christ
himself is the center of God’s wise plan for their salvation. 25
This so-called “foolish” plan of God is far wiser than the wisest plan of the
wisest man, and God in his weakness—Christ dying on the cross—is far stronger
than any man.
1 Corinthians 2:7–16 (The Living Bible) 7 Our
words are wise because they are from God, telling of God’s wise plan to bring
us into the glories of heaven. This plan was hidden in former times, though it
was made for our benefit before the world began. 8 But the great men
of the world have not understood it; if they had, they never would have
crucified the Lord of Glory. 9 That is what is meant by the
Scriptures which say that no mere man has ever seen, heard, or even imagined
what wonderful things God has ready for those who love the Lord. 10
But we know about these things because God has sent his Spirit to tell us, and
his Spirit searches out and shows us all of God’s deepest secrets. 11
No one can really know what anyone else is thinking or what he is really like
except that person himself. And no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own
Spirit. 12 And God has actually given us his Spirit (not the world’s
spirit) to tell us about the wonderful free gifts of grace and blessing that
God has given us. 13 In telling you about these gifts we have even
used the very words given to us by the Holy Spirit, not words that we as men
might choose. So we use the Holy Spirit’s
words to explain the Holy Spirit’s facts. 14 But the man who isn’t a
Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the
Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him because only those who have
the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others
just can’t take it in. 15 But the spiritual man has insight into
everything, and that bothers and baffles the man of the world, who can’t
understand him at all. 16 How could he? For certainly he has never
been one to know the Lord’s thoughts, or to discuss them with him, or to move
the hands of God by prayer. But, strange as it seems, we Christians actually do
have within us a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:1–5 (AMP) 1 AS FOR myself, brethren, when I came to you, I
did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or mystery
and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation
of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom; 2
For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a
display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you
except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified. 3 And I was in
(passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling [after I
had come] among you. 4 And my
language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and
plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit
and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring
in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them], 5
So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but
in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:5 (AV) 5 That your
faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:5 (The Living Bible) 5 I
did this because I wanted your faith to stand firmly upon God, not on man’s great ideas.
1 Corinthians 2:5 (NKJV) 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of
men but in the power of God.
[Please Note: Always Read the
Word of God in Context, reading the entire chapter or book, asking the Holy
Spirit of the Living God to give you the interpretation. 2 Peter 1:16–21 (Williams) 16 For it was not mere stories of fancy
that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He
received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory
there was borne to Him a voice like this, “This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom
I take delight.” 18 we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven
while we were with Him on that sacred mountain. 19 So we have the
message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a
lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 because you recognize this truth above
all else, that no prophecy in Scripture
is to be interpreted by one’s own mind, 21 for no prophecy has
ever yet originated in man’s will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God.]
Philippians 2:9–11 (The Living
Bible)9 Yet it was because of this that God raised
him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name which is above every other
name, 10 that at the name of
Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11
and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.
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