So we're going to start with First Corinthians chapter 2.
When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or
superior wisdom, as I proclaim to you the testimony about God.
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. If I came to you in weakness and
fear and with much trembling, my message and my preaching were
not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration
of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on
men's wisdom, but on God's power.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but
not the wisdom of this age or the rulers of this age who are
coming to nothing. No, we speak the God's secret
wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for
our glory before time began. Nothing of the rulers of this
age understood it, for if they had, they would have not
crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written, no
eye has seen, no ear has hurt, no mind has conceived what God
has prepared for those who love Him.
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of
God. For 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 God.
Now we have received not the Spirit of this world, but the
Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have
been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not
in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But 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.
But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is
rightly judged by no one. For who has known the mind of
the Lord, that we may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.