Bible Verse of the Day Saturday October 5th 2019

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1 Corinthians 2:14 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.

In this 2nd chapter of 1 Corinthians Paul continues speaking on the differences between human wisdom and Godly wisdom. He shows how God reveals His wisdom to people, that is through the Holy Spirit of God. 

It would be impossible for someone that does not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to accept what God has to offer. The person without the Spirit of God would only be looking at the temporal instead of the eternal. You cannot see, feel or touch eternal life in a natural setting, so it would seem foolish for someone without the spirit, to focus on things that cannot be viewed with natural vision. Moreover, someone in the natural world would be looking for “the bottom line” or “what’s in it for me,” where someone who has access to the supernatural, would understand that all of the gold and silver, fame and fortune, is but a temporary thing. The one without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will live their lives on a human and material level. This is a form of blindness, spiritual blindness that blocks all that God is and all God can do in human lives from those that do not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 

This person without the Spirit of God, reading God’s Holy Word would be like someone reading text from a language they cannot understand. In this case, they would need an interpreter to allow them to comprehend what they were reading. This interpreter, in the case of God’s Holy Word, is the Holy Spirit, who will respond to anyone that is truly, with a repentant heart, seeking the truth.

We must keep in our mind that this chapter is not speaking to how people understand the Bible in a universal logic, but Paul’s message here is on the central and essential message of the crucified and resurrected Savior. Paul argues here, and in much of his writings, that it (The resurrection of Christ Jesus) would be essentially inconceivable to the mind without the Spirit.

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