Chapter 2
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| 2:1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come according to the superiority of intellectual words and wisdom, proclaiming to you the witness of God. • 2 Indeed, I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him having already been crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of intellectual wisdom, • but in the demonstration and proof of the Spirit and power, 5 so that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but inside of the power of God. 6 We speak wisdom, moreover, among those who are complete [in Christ], wisdom that is not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are rendered inoperative. • 7 Rather, we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery kept secret, which God pro-determined already from before the ages into our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age has realized, for indeed, if they had realized, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man has not entered, that which God has prepared for those who love Him” (Isaiah 64:4 & 65:17). • 10 To us indeed, God has unveiled it through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of the man except the spirit of the man inside of him? Even so also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. • 12 And we have not received the spirit of the world-cosmos, but the Spirit who is out from God, that we might know the things God has already given to us [c]. 13 These things we also speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in words taught of the Spirit as spiritual to spiritual communicating together. 14 The natural man, however, does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them because they are spiritually distinguished. 15 The one who is spiritual, however, examines all things himself, but is examined by no one. • 16 Who, indeed, has known the mind of the Lord, that he will prove or instruct Him? We, however, possess the mind of Christ [d]. |
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| • Kingdom: When Jesus said, “It is finished,” in that moment the entirety of the old creation ceased. And when He rose from the dead everything became brand new (See 2 Corinthians 5:14 & 17). Now, inside of LIFE, the Cross keeps us utterly safe, and the Power of God carries us into being made just like Jesus. • Ruling Verse 1: We speak God’s Purpose that, by His mighty Determination, God takes us straight into Glory already ours, that we together, sharing form with Jesus, are God’s greatest accomplishment and the fulfilment of His deepest Desire. • Definition: God is a Story of Words inside of a Spirit Self-Awareness. He made us like Himself, also as a story of words, coming out from desire and attended with emotions, inside of a spirit self-awareness. God gives us His Spirit to be part of our own spirit, part of our humanity, that we might know, not only ourselves, but also God. The Spirit causes us to know every part of God that belongs to us. • The Form for God through Jesus: The Greek word refers to the intellectual mind of Jesus; elsewhere, the heart-gut mind of Jesus also is ours. To think like Jesus thinks is to think like God thinks, with His own words flowing through our minds. This also refers back to “fitted together inside of the same mind,” that, as we speak together the thinking of God, God shows us His residence as Love among us. |
d. The mind of Christ, the Greek nous, the intellect, is our mind as well. |