1 Corinthians 2:6-16 Page 1129

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3 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 Corinthians 2:6

4 No, we declare God s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God deshned for our glory before Hme began. 2:7

5 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 2:8

6 However, as it is wrinen: What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived (Isaiah 64:4) the things God has prepared for those who love him these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. 2:9-10

7 The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 2:10-11

8 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 2:12

9 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realihes with Spirit-taught words. 1 Corinthians 2:13

10 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 2:14

11 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for

12 Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? (Isaiah 40:13) But we have the mind of Christ. 2:15

13 You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die. Genesis 2:16-17

14 The mind governed by the Knowledge of Good and Evil Rank it. Rate it. Sort it. Label it. Judge it. Feel superior or inferior to it.

15 God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are 1 Corinthians 1:27-28

16 The wisdom of God confounds our ranking, judging and sorhng systems. It reveals it to be false and deadly. This splifng mind is how we all begin. It is our immature mind. It is incapable of handling the Mind of Christ.

17 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are shll worldly mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are shll not ready 1 Corinthians 3:1-2

18 You are shll worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not achng like mere mortals? For when one says, I follow Paul, and another, I follow Apollos, are you not mere mortals? 3-4

19 The Mind of Christ is UniHve. God is One and we are invited into this Divine communion.

20 Richard Rohr Video on Non-Dual Thinking.

21 The Mind of Christ transcends and includes our early idenhty boundaries.

22 If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuhng the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Philippians 3:4-6

23 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him Philippians 3:7-9

24 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hoshlity between us Ephesians 2:14

25 He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus pufng to death that hoshlity through it. Eph. 2:15-16

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27 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restorahon, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11

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