Christian wisdom appears to be foolishness to the people of the world. But it is wiser than the philosophy of this age which comes to nothing. Christians 'speak the wisdom of God' which is revealed through His Spirit and received by His Spirit. Christians have the highest and most complete wisdom in Christ.

The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation but those of us who are on the way to see it as God's power to save. - 1Cor. 1:18 -

For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. - 1Cor. 1:25 -

As for me, brothers, when I came to you, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed. During my stay with you the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus and only about him as the crucified Christ. Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great 'fear and trembling' and in my speeches and the sermons that I gave, there were none of the arguments that belong to philosophy; only a demonstration of the power of the Spirit. And I did this so that your faith should not depend on human philosophy but on the power of God.

Bot still we have a wisdom to offer those who have reached maturity; not a philosophy of our age, it is true, still less of the masters of our age which are coming to their end. The hidden wisdom of God which we teach in our mysteries is the wisdom that God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began. It is a wisdom that none of the masters of this age have ever known or they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; we teach what scripture calls; the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.

These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit not by any other man and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us.

Therefore we teach not in the way in which philosophy is taught but in the way that the Spirit teaches us; we teach spiritual things spiritually. Any unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God; he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man on the other hand is able to judge the value of everything and his own value is not to be judged by other men. As scripture says; Who can know the mind of the Lord so who can teach him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ. - 1Cor. 2:1-16 -

In his body lives the fullness of divinity and in him you too find your own fulfilment in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power. - Col. 2:9-10 -

Christ alone is the true head of men and angels.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -