Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Series
Understanding of this Age
Human limitations to understanding
• Time
• Physical senses
• What others reveal to us
Understanding of God
Limitations removed by God
Corinthians expected God to be like their gods – angry, limited, fickle, uncaring, and unknowable.
A New Understanding
Humanly we cannot know and understand God.
Only through the Holy Spirit can we know God and understand spiritual things.
Ministries of the Holy Spirit
1. The Spirit indwells all believers.
2. The Spirit searches our hearts.
3. The Spirit teaches us.
4. The Spirit matures the believer.
Contrast of natural (unsaved) person and the spiritual (saved) person.
The Holy Spirit’s indwelling all of us and giving us all access to know and understand God is a source of great UNITY.
Take Homes
Are the Bible & spiritual things blurry and difficult?
Have you trusted Jesus as your Savior?
Believer, do you still find the Bible and spiritual things oo deep and often confusing?
Join the club!
Study His word with your local church!
If you know more than everyone else and everyone else knows that…
Be careful!
- Knowledge alone puffs up.
- Love for each other builds up.