20/04/2025
That the Gospel is simple does not mean it is easy by the standards of men. If the rulers of this world had understood, they would not have crucified Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV) says, "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."
It is possible to hear the things of God and fail to recognize that they are of God. The natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God, nor can he understand them.
The fact that I do not speak to you with excellency of speech does not guarantee your understanding. Paul says, "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery," and no one understands His wisdom unless it is revealed by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:10 (KJV) reminds us, "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." The Gospel is the deep things of God, and this is what we preach.
Understanding is spiritual. Even those who rely on the wisdom of this world depend on the spirit of this world for understanding.
1 Corinthians 2:12 (KJV) says, "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." To know the things of God and His works, it requires a spiritual man who has had these things revealed to him, whose spirit has received the light of the Holy Spirit.
The mystery of the things of the Spirit is this: though they might be spoken in words, they are not understood through words alone. They are understood in the spirit, for the Spirit of God teaches a man’s heart to know and understand the things of God, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:13 (KJV) states, "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
Anyone who understands that every word sp