1 Corinthians 2

1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

• Paul's saying, I come to teach the simply truth, God's truth

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

• Fear is joined with trembling in all these passages save.
• His sense of weakness, produced fear, and this resulted in trembling
• Galatians 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
• 2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

• Not with man's ways = they are foolishness ways
• Roman 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
• Paul says I use this as an example because of the weakness of your nature.
• Here spirit = spiritual gift, in this case Divine wisdom = The powerful gift = Power

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

• Have your faith in God, not man

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

• Don't have the wisdom of this earth age
• Princes of this world = leaders, false pastors, Satan's seedline

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

• Mystery = Hidden = Same as in Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
• Ordained = pre-ordained
• Roman 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
• God has the power to establish you according to what I've told you according to the teachings of Christ, God plan that has been secret from the beginning.
• World = world ages as in verse 6

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

• The princes = leaders, Kenites, false pastors
• The princes of this world crucified the Lord
• Those that say they are Jews but they are of Satan's church (Rev 2)
• The church of Pergamos = They say they are Jews, but are of the synagogue of Satan
• Jew means to be a descendant of Judah (true Israel) and or merely a resident of Judea
• The Kenites began to dwell at Jerusalem, which is in the land of Judea, this by no means made them a descendant of the tribe of Judah
• You want to be with this church = Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• The "key of David" is the knowledge of the true genealogy of Christ as opposed to the genealogy of the false Christ.
• It is being able to distinguish between the "wheat group" and the "tare group".
• It is the knowledge of to whom the truth is written and what their destiny is to be.
• No man can shut, deceive, or sway the mind when the truth of the true Christ resides in his heart.
• Know their fruit, If they are against Christ = They are of the synagogue of Satan.
• Know their fruits, good figs and bad figs
• Tares are the devil's seedline the Kenites
• If you are Against Christ, you are doing the work of the devil.
• The Anti-christ denies the existence of the true God.
• Who were they = that said = Crucify him, crucify him. The chief priests and the rulers and the people
• Luke 23:13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
  14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
  15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
  16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
  17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
  18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
  19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
  20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
  21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

• Is = Has Been
• Hath not seen = saw not
• Nor ear heard = and ear heard not
• Neither have = and went not
• Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
  5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
  6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
  7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
  8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
  9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
  10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
  11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

• Hath revealed = revealed
• His = The
• How do you get wisdom?
• The spirit searcheth all things
• The Holy Spirit revealed to them that searcheth
• Verse 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

• This is why we are not to judge people.
• You don't know what's people are thinking

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

• Only God gives us the word of God, Freely = IF = you search the word of God
• The spirit which is of God; we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
• We are = Taught by the Holy Spirit

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit  teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

• Judgeth = discerneth
• Judged = discerned, above
• Isaiah 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
  14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
  15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
  16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
  17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
  18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

• When you have the Holy Spirit within you, to know right from wrong
• Hath know = knew

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25