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So we're going to start with 
First Corinthians chapter 2. 

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When I came to you, brothers, I 
did not come with eloquence or 

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superior wisdom, as I proclaim 
to you the testimony about God. 

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For I resolved to know nothing 
while I was with you except 

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Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 
If I came to you in weakness and

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fear and with much trembling, my
message and my preaching were 

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not with wise and persuasive 
words, but with a demonstration 

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of the Spirit's power, so that 
your faith might not rest on 

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men's wisdom, but on God's 
power. 

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We do, however, speak a message 
of wisdom among the mature, but 

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not the wisdom of this age or 
the rulers of this age who are 

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coming to nothing. 
No, we speak the God's secret 

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wisdom, a wisdom that has been 
hidden and that God destined for

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our glory before time began. 
Nothing of the rulers of this 

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age understood it, for if they 
had, they would have not 

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crucified the Lord of glory. 
However, as it is written, no 

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eye has seen, no ear has hurt, 
no mind has conceived what God 

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has prepared for those who love 
Him. 

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But God has revealed them to us 
through His Spirit. 

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For the Spirit searches all 
things, yes, the deep things of 

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God. 
For what man knows the things of

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a man, except the spirit of the 
man, which is in him? 

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Even so, no one knows the things
of God except the Spirit of God.

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Now we have received not the 
Spirit of this world, but the 

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Spirit who is from God, that we 
might know the things that have 

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been freely given to us by God. 
These things we also speak, not 

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in words which man's wisdom 
teaches, but which the Holy 

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Spirit teaches, comparing 
spiritual things with spiritual.

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But the natural man does not 
receive the things of the Spirit

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of God, for they are foolishness
to him, nor can he know them, 

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because they are spiritually 
discerned. 

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But he who is spiritual judges 
all things, yet he himself is 

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rightly judged by no one. 
For who has known the mind of 

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the Lord, that we may instruct 
him? 

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But we have the mind of Christ.