I Corinthians 2, Wisdom from God

V. 3-5 Faith rests in God’s power not human wisdom

I truly believe that one of the major problems in our nation is that fact that so many rely upon intellect and secular reasoning to make political decisions. We elect people based upon how well they can articulate their platform to us, or should I say how well they sell it to us. The problem is that if you can be talked into believing something then you can also be talked out of believing it. So, we have created a society that every 4 years has to be convinced to believe something or convinced to not believe something. Whoever sells their point of view best to society, takes most of the vote and the power. In verses 3-5 of our scripture Paul makes clear to the people of Corinth that he didn’t come to them this enticing word that tried to sway their intellect into following a certain ideology. He came in the speaking solely under the power and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Like I mentioned earlier if someone can convince you to believe something then another can convince you to believe the opposite, but if the Holy Spirit reveals something to you then there is no going back. Leonard Ravenhill once said, “a man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.” Once you encounter Jesus Christ there is no way anyone is going to convince you of anything different than the truth because you have experienced the truth. You can tell a child that the stove is hot and not to touch it but if that child happens to touch the stove and gets burned you no longer must convince them that it is hot, they have experienced its heat first hand. Paul said that the enticing words of man isn’t what caused you to believe, instead you had an experience with the power of God. We talk about it all the time through this ministry, we should continually be seeking encounters with God because they will transform us into who He wants us to be. Encounters with God bring permanent change but the enticing words of men only tickle ears and sway individual opinion for a season.