God’s wisdom or the world’s wisdom? We might also say, God’s way or the world’s way?
After his visit to Athens, resulting in only ‘a few followers’, Paul changed his approach in Corinth. He didn’t come with ‘wise and persuasive words but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power’. In other words Paul did things by the power of God that the Greeks couldn’t argue with, same with the religious Pharisees.
In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul speaks about the two types of wisdom and makes some very important comments about them.
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. 1 Cor 2:6 The wisdom and rulers of this age are coming to nothing! God has set a time limit to the present world system which seems very powerful, but it’s end is coming(we are also Spirit beings and sit with Jesus in Heaven).
No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined FOR OUR GLORY BEFORE TIME BEGAN(God’s wisdom came out of eternity, before time). 1 Cor 2:7
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that WE MAY UNDERSTAND what God has freely given us. 1 Cor 2:12 God has given us His Spirit that we can understand the things of the Kingdom.
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Cor 2:14 The things of God can only be spiritually discerned or understood with the help of God’s Spirit. The Athenians’ of Paul’s day and those under the Greek mindset in our day dismiss the things of God as foolishness! They can’t make sense of them without the revelation of the Spirit.
The final statement in 1 Cor 2 is encouraging for believers;
But we(together) have the mind of Christ. 1 Cor 2:16
God wants us to get to know Him and walk with Him here on earth, in fact He wants us to be His hands and feet while we’re here. If we’ll take the time to build relationship with God through His Spirit, then He’ll give us Heavenly wisdom to guide us while on this earth.
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him”. 1 Cor 2:9, Paul quoting from Isa 64:4
“Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God beside you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. You come to the help those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways”. Isa 64:4
God bless and keep you today.