In 1 Corinthians and chapter
2, Paul makes this very plain statement about the gospel, the
truth of God, the truth concerning Jesus Christ, and all that the
Spirit of God makes known. He says, the natural man, receive
if not the things of the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness
under him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. The natural man receive if not
the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness under
him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. Now there are many who go around speaking of the things
of God or speaking of Jesus Christ in some sort of attempt to persuade
the natural man to understand that which he cannot understand. to persuade those who are blind
to see that which they cannot see. When in reality we can speak
all we like of Christ and who he is and what he has done and
who God the Father is and who the Spirit of God is and what
their purpose is and why the world is here and why you're
here and why Christ came into this world and why he died and
the fact that he rose again and why he rose again we can speak
of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and explain everything
and the natural man will listen and will say, that's foolishness. He cannot understand, he will
not understand, he will walk away. Which is why in the world
around us the reaction of most people to the gospel and the
things of Jesus Christ is one of disinterest, apathy, scorn
and rejection. It is why when I speak unto you,
O natural man of Jesus Christ, that your mind wanders, that
your gaze is turned, that you stare at the floor, that you
want to listen to anything else but these things. Because your
natural heart, your natural inclination is set against God, is set against
the things of the Spirit of God, is set against Jesus Christ. Without any real logic or reason,
your natural response is to reject, no matter how reasonable this
message may be. No matter how right it may be,
no matter how true it may be, no matter that I may speak of
the realities of life, and the fact that you're born, and the
fact that you will die, and the fact that life is brief, and
the fact that there is a reason why you're here on this earth,
that there is a God who created you, That there is a God who
sustains you and there is a God before whom you must stand and
answer for all you have done, fought and said in this world,
despite the fact that that is absolutely true and reasonable.
and you know that life is brief, and you know your life is passing
away, and you know that you must die one day, and you know that
there must be something beyond death, and you know that for
this world, full of its creation, and full of the wonders of creation,
and the wonders that you see all around you in nature, and
in the animal world and in the human body despite all the evidence
that is presented unto you in the creation round about you
and in the message of God when presented to you despite all
the evidence your natural heart rejects and says this is foolishness Because you cannot know these
things unless God opens your understanding. Unless he gives
you discernment. You are blind to the truth of
God. You are dead to the truth of
God and you will not listen, not because you are more intelligent,
not because you are better taught, not because you have greater
understanding, but because these things are spiritually discerned. They are foolishness unto you
and God has hid them from you. God has hidden them from you. God will either open your eyes
so that you may see or he will hide the truth from you. And
the fact of that, the reality of that, is that whether you
come to see and believe the Gospel and the things of the Spirit
of God, whether you see and believe in Jesus Christ, or whether you
live your days in darkness rejecting Him, is not in your hands. It's not your decision to make. It's not something that you have
decided or you have come to an understanding about. Whether
you see these things or whether you reject these things is entirely
in the hands of Almighty God. He's either shown you or he's
hidden these things from you. Paul opens the chapter with these
words, writing to the believers in Corinth under whom God had
preached the gospel and whose eyes had been opened to the truth,
he writes this, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you
the testimony of God. For I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And
I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power. that your faith should not stand
in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 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 naught. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before
the world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world
knew, For had they known it, they would not have crucified
the Lord of Glory. We speak the wisdom of God in
a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the
world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world
knew. For had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Now what a statement that is.
What a statement that is. And how it puts us in our place. Paul and the apostles preached
the wisdom of God in a mystery. Which wisdom was hidden from
many. He describes it as the hidden
wisdom. which God ordained before the
world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world
knew. These poor people in Corinth, these who had come to see and
hear Jesus Christ in the Gospel, and believe on Him, when they
heard of Christ and Him crucified, these who believed unto salvation,
Having seen and experienced the power of God in the gospel, had the hidden wisdom of God
revealed unto them. A wisdom which none of the princes
of this world knew. A wisdom which multitudes rejected
as foolishness because if they'd known this, if they'd known this
wisdom, if they'd known this message as a reality, they'd
have never have crucified Jesus Christ. If they had known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. They'd have
never taken him and rejected him and delivered him up unto
the Romans and said, crucify him, crucify him, we will not
have this man to reign over us. They'd have never beaten him
and bruised him and nailed him to a tree and lifted him up in
the midday sun to die. They'd have never spat upon him
and laughed at him and mocked him if they'd known who he was.
Not just outwardly. not just knowing what he said. They knew who he said he was. He came unto that people in that
age and said, I am the Son of God. They knew he said he was
the Son of God. He said, I am the King of the
Jews. They knew he said, I am the King
of the Jews, but they didn't believe him. They rejected his
testimony. They ridiculed him and scorned
him. And when he comes unto you in
the Gospel and says, I am the Son of God, and I am the King
of the Jews. And I am God in the person of
Jesus Christ and I came into this world to suffer and die
in the place of sinners, to offer myself as a sacrifice in the
place of sinners that I should suffer what they deserve to suffer
for their sins. in order that they should be
spared and delivered and washed clean in my blood and be made
to be righteous before a holy God. When he comes in the Gospel
and says why he came, that he came to save his people from
their sins, what is our response? The natural man's response is
that that is foolishness. the natural man's response is
to reject that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. To reject that
he's who we claim to be. To reject that he truly died
and truly rose again. To reject that he sat on high
in glory now, preaching the gospel and reigning over this world.
The natural man shuts his eyes to these things and shuts his
ears to these things. His understanding is closed. And to him, all these things,
The things of the Spirit of God. The things concerning Jesus Christ. The Gospel of God concerning
His Son, Jesus Christ. All these things are foolishness. Because they've been hidden from
the natural man. And because they've been hidden,
the natural man, the princes of this world, crucified the
Lord of Glory. And you and I naturally, in our
natural fallen state as sinners, in our hearts, we crucify the
Lord of Glory. Our reaction to the gospel, our
reaction to the message of Jesus Christ is to say that's nonsense,
it's irrelevant, it's a myth, I will not and I do not believe. And in our hearts we take Christ
and we as it were lead him to the cross and we nail him to
it and we lift him up and we wander away and leave him to
die. That is our reaction to Him. We do exactly to Christ what
the princes of this world did to Him in that day and age and
generation. Our response is the same. Your
response and my response. because the natural man receive
if not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness
under him neither can he know them because they are spiritually
discerned I can speak unto you of these things I can declare
them unto you as true and faithful and you can't know them unless
God opens your understanding God opens your blind eyes to
see. God opens your deaf ears to hear. Unless God gives you spiritual
understanding. For these things are spiritually
discerned. They are hidden. They are the
hidden wisdom of God. Now Paul, in the verses we read,
says regarding his preaching of these things, that he came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom as men would see
it when he declared the testimony of God. He determined that his
hearers would know Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That was his
message. He preached Christ and Him crucified. He preached the cross. He preached
what happened at the cross, why it happened, who was crucified,
what was going on in the darkness, the necessity of the cross, the
necessity of your understanding of the cross, the necessity that
the natural man should be crucified at the cross, and that the spiritual
man should rise from the dead with Christ from the grave. He preached the cross. He preached
the wrath and the judgment of God against sin. He preached
the fact that God must judge man's sin. And the reason that
Christ came and the reason he was crucified was because that
sin was laid upon Christ as a substitute and Christ died bearing that
sin in order to take that sin away in order to die the death
that his people should die in order to stand in their place
that they should live Paul's message was the message of the
cross that was his constant message He repeated it. He preached it
constantly. That was the message. It wasn't simply the centre of
his message. It wasn't simply the heart of
his message. It was his message. I determined
not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That was his message. But he
didn't declare it. in a way which would appeal unto
the natural man. He didn't come preaching a message
with excellency of speech and of wisdom. He wasn't known for
his oratory or his great words or his great turn of phrase. He wasn't known for the way he
could counter every argument and objection of man. He didn't
persuade his hearers to believe on Christ by taking up every
single argument that they could present to get the reality of
the truth of God. When they came with their objections,
and they came with their reasoning, and they came with their, but
what of this, and what of that? When they came with their science,
and their proofs, and their claims, and their counter claims, Paul
wasn't known as someone who had every answer and could argue
with such great wisdom in man's eyes, or whose great speech convinced. His power didn't lie in his intellectual
reasoning or his being able to persuade even the most ardent
opponent. His power lay in the Gospel. He preached Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. And it's that message which was
and is the power of God and the salvation. Indeed, his description
of his preaching is that When he preached this message unto
the Corinthians, he was with them in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the spirit and of power. Naturally speaking, he was someone
that men would ridicule. Here he comes, this preacher. And he's weak. And he's fearful. And he's trembling. And he's
not full of enticing words of man's wisdom. He's not full of
great oratory. He's someone who they hear and
the natural man responds by laughing and mocking and saying that's
foolishness. None of his hearers were convinced
to believe on Jesus Christ because of Paul's great power, because
of Paul's great oratory, because of Paul's great arguments. They
believed because in his preaching of Christ and Him crucified.
God demonstrated the power of the Gospel. There was a demonstration
of the Spirit and of power. Because no matter what the wisdom
of man says concerning the things of Jesus Christ, no matter what
your wisdom might say, and no matter how many men, women and
children may come with the same opposition to the gospel, no
matter how great a multitude there is who laughs and ridicules
this message. And no matter how great the people
are, whether they are kings and queens and princes and presidents
and people in authority and people in power, no matter who the opponents
of Jesus Christ are, The fact is that this message, no matter
how despised, no matter how ridiculed, and no matter how it may be delivered
in weakness or in trembling and fear, this message is the power
of God under salvation. This message, when God sends
it, when God speaks it, when God preaches it by a servant
he sends, when he sent Paul to preach this message at Corinth,
no matter how frail Paul was, no matter how weak Paul was,
no matter how fearful Paul was, and no matter how he may have
stumbled with his words, and how ignorant his words may have
been in man's eyes, or how he may not have answered all the
objections which people may have come with, when he delivered
this message he delivered the power of God under salvation. And the greatest of forces, the
greatest of powers in this world could not and cannot stand in
its wake. These Corinthians believed the
message of Christ and Him crucified because it is the power of God
under salvation and when God came unto them and said unto
them, behold my son, they beheld. When God came unto dead sinners
in Corinth and said unto them, live, they lived. When God came unto dead sinners
in Corinth and said unto them, in the blood of Jesus Christ
I have forgiven you, they were forgiven. When God comes in the
Gospel unto you and says, behold my son, believe on the name of
Jesus Christ and be saved, If He comes unto you by the Spirit
of God and says unto you, believe on my Son, you will believe. And all your objections and all
your wisdom and all your opposition will crumble because you cannot
stand in the wake of this message. My speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not stand in
the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. These Corinthians
who heard and believed this gospel were not founded upon the great
preacher Paul. Their faith did not depend upon
him, or upon his ability to explain things to them, or upon his ability
to answer their questions. Having heard the gospel by Paul,
they may have gone away into a hostile world around them,
and they may have faced the opposition and the persecution of many in
that city. But their faith stood strong. They'd have been asked questions
that they could not answer. They'd have been laughed at and
spat upon and threatened with death because that was the day
in which they lived. Believers at this time were put
to death to associate with Christ and his people. In this day and
age, at Corinth and in Rome and elsewhere, believers faced persecution
which led to death. Many were thrown to the lions. Many were crucified. Many were
stoned. Many were martyred. It was not
an easy thing to confess Christ in that day. And their faith
did not stand by being in a crowd and supported by others. Their
faith did not stand in the wisdom of men which said, yes, this
is the way. For the wisdom of men all around
them said, no, that's not the way. But although they faced great
hatred and great opposition, although they may, like Paul,
have been filled with much weakness and much fear and much trembling
when they would speak of Christ unto their neighbours. Nevertheless
their faith stood because their faith did not stand in the wisdom
of men but in the power of God. For if your faith stands in the
wisdom of men, it will stand as long as others agree with
you. And how many there are in churches
of various descriptions who will stand for Jesus Christ when they're
in a multitude of several hundred and everyone else is saying the
same thing. But when the fashion changes,
and when the tide changes, and when the public opinion outside
changes and suddenly says that this thing is wrong, then the
people in those churches change their thinking too. Then their
faith suddenly starts to alter. Because a faith which is built
upon the wisdom of men is no faith at all, it's foolishness.
It's like building on sand and when the storms come, the house
is washed away. But a faith that's built upon
the rock Christ Jesus, stands when the storms come. You may
not have the answer to what people tell you. You may not be able
to explain this and explain that and counter their objections,
but you know that Christ is your Saviour. You're rooted upon a
rock. You're stood upon a rock. God
has put you there. God came unto you in the gospel,
and opened your eyes unto things which were once hidden to you,
and caused you to see. He took your blind eyes and made
you see, and no matter what men will say unto you and do unto
you, you will say, once I was blind. But now I see. Once I was blind but now I see
you're stood upon a rock and the storms won't sweep you away
because your faith does not stand in the wisdom of men but in the
power of God. In the power of God. In the gospel. and the power of God in the Gospel
and the work of God in the Gospel the work of the Spirit of God
in preaching that Gospel unto you and making known the truth
unto you and revealing Christ unto you that's where your faith
stands if you have this faith that's where the Corinthian faith
stood and that's what you lack if you are but a natural man
who is filled with the wisdom of this world, and unto whom
the gospel and the things of the Spirit of God are but foolishness. Paul says, we speak wisdom among
them that are perfect. We speak wisdom among them that
are perfect. Those who come to see this, those
whose eyes have been opened and ears have been opened to hear
the voice of Jesus Christ in the gospel, those whom God has
perfected and clothed in righteousness, know that these things are true. They are the wisdom of God, the
power of God. And this message concerning Christ
is wisdom. yet it's not the wisdom of this
world nor is it the wisdom of the princes of this world for
that wisdom comes to naught there is wisdom and there is wisdom
there is the wisdom and the knowledge and the opinions and the ideals
of men who say this is the way and they present a way unto us
to walk in But the way that seemeth right unto them leads to destruction. It's a broad way, an easy way,
a way in which multitudes walk. It's the way that appeals to
the natural man. It concerns the here and the
now. It concerns what you can see
in the world around you and touch, handle and feel in the world
around you. It concerns that which is obvious. Well you can see this and you
can see that and you've heard this. But where is Christ they
say? Where is he? How can we believe
in a God that we cannot see? How can we believe in the Son
of God who's not here? Where is he? So in their wisdom. they say well if I can't see
him and if I can't hear his voice audibly now I will not believe
him as if they would if they saw him and heard him in person
but the reality is the same wisdom that rejects upon those grounds
is the same wisdom that the princes of this world who took Christ
physically and crucified Him had in their hearts. They did
see Him, yet they couldn't see Him as the Son of God. They did
hear Him, but they didn't believe the words He spoke. There He
was, the Son of God incarnate, stood in front of them. They
had no excuse, but they couldn't see him for who he was. And they
heard everything he said, but they did not comprehend or believe
it. Because unto them, his speech
and his message, even though they heard it from his own mouth,
was still foolishness. It was still foolishness. They
did not understand it. They did not know it. We speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, Paul says. It's a mystery. When
Christ preached the gospel unto the people who saw him in that
day and age, his speech was still a mystery to them. Even the hidden
wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory, it
was hidden from them. Which none of the princes of
this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. They heard these words from his
own lips and they didn't know it. They didn't believe it. Because if they had, they'd have
never crucified him. And if you heard it and believed
it, you wouldn't put him to death in your hearts. But that's exactly
what you do. That's exactly what we all do
when we heard this message naturally. We turn the other way. Jesus said in the Gospels, when he prays to his Father,
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. because
thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast
revealed them unto babes. I thank thee, O Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from
the wise and the prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. God hides these things and God
reveals these things. And those who think that they
are wise, and those who think that they are prudent, the princes
of this world, the great in this world, those full of the wisdom
of this world. God has hidden these things from
them. And God has gone unto those that
they consider babes. the ignorant, the foolish, those
who aren't as well taught as we are, those who aren't as educated
as we are. Oh, those foolish people believe
because they've not learnt anything like we have. They're not educated
like us, that's why they go to church, that's why they listen
to the gospel, that's why they're so foolish to live that life
and speak of Jesus Christ, because they're not educated like we
are. Yet these educated fools are the princes of this world
who did not know God and did not know His Son and did not
know the truth despite all their wisdom and they took the Son
of God. They took He who is the truth
and they crucified the Lord of Glory. Oh what a place to be,
to be left by God like they were to their own devices. Oh how
solemn to be left to ourselves and left to our own will and
our own way. By nature we want to go this
way, we want our own way. We want to do what we want to
do and we don't want anybody to prevent us. Our wills are
so determined, so strong. We want our own way. We want
this and we want that. We want to be this, we want to
go there, we want to have this. And nobody's going to stop us.
But how solemn if God gives us our way, our will, all that we
desire, and leaves us to ourself, and allows us to put the Lord
of Glory to death in our hearts, to our destruction. You may get
your way. You may have God say, very well
then, You want this, have it, and have it in abundance. You
want riches, be as rich as you like. You want land, have as
much of it as you want. You want status and acclaim,
be as popular as you like. I'll raise you up to the highest
of heights. I'll make you a pharaoh. I'll
make you ruler over a kingdom. And yet he hardens your heart
to the truth. And when a Moses comes into your
presence with the gospel, you great king, you mighty prince
of this world, cast him and his people out. And you then chase
after them. And you drown in the river, in
the Red Sea. You're destroyed. Oh, how solemn
to be given all that we desire and be destroyed in the process.
You can have this world, you can have everything you want
in this world and you'll get it if you seek after it and God
leaves you to it and God chooses to give it to you. But what does
it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own
soul? What does it profit us if we're
the richest on earth for 70 years and in a blink, in the blinking
of an eye, in a moment our life is enclosed and we fall into
destruction and all the riches and all the land and all the
property and all the popularity and acclaim that we had here
in this world is gone and we stand before Almighty God and
He says unto us, why didn't you? Believe in my son. And you've
no excuse because you heard of him. Because Moses came unto
you and declared unto you the gospel concerning Jesus Christ
and it was foolishness to you. And you laughed at him and you
chased him away. Maybe you put him to death in
your heart. Maybe you mocked him and scoffed
at him and spat upon that preacher of Jesus Christ. Oh, what a fool! And there you are before God,
stood before Him, when you're in eternity. And He says, why
didn't you hear? Why didn't you believe? And you
have no answer. And He says, depart from Me,
ye worker of iniquity. And you cast into outer darkness.
Oh, how foolish. Whether we hear, and believe,
or whether we mock and crucify the Lord of glory, whether these
things are hidden from us or revealed unto us, whether they
are hidden from the wise and prudent or revealed unto babes,
is in God's hands, not yours. It's in God's hands, not mine. God determines who will hear
and who will believe. And the power that will cause
us to believe in Jesus Christ is not the wisdom of man, is
not the knowledge of man, is not science and progress and
advances of man. The power which will cause a
dead sinner to live It's the power of God in the Gospel. It's
the power of the message of Christ and Him crucified. It's a message
which comes in weakness and in fear and in trembling, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power. As it is written, I
have not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man the things which God have prepared for them that
love Him. What blessings there are in the
Gospel! But God have revealed them unto
us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
We know about ourselves because we have a human soul and we understand
men and we understand ourselves. But we do not understand God
and the things of the Spirit of God unless we have the Spirit
of God. Even so the things of God knoweth
no man. but the Spirit of God. 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, 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. 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. But he that is spiritual judgeth
all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who have
known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ. If you know Christ, if you know
the Gospel, if you are headed for a place, an inheritance,
which God has prepared for them that love Him, then it's because
God in the Gospel has come unto you in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power. and has caused that which was
once hidden to be revealed, that which was once hid to be seen. He's touched your blind eyes
and made you to see. He's touched your deaf ears and
made you to hear. He's put faith in your dark dead
heart and made you see. See out of time, see out of this
world, see into eternity and see Jesus Christ crucified for
you. If He's caused you to believe,
He's brought you to that place where time and eternity meet
at the cross. And He's caused you to look out
at time through the cross, through the sight of Jesus Christ into
eternity. He's caused you to look into
the face of Jesus Christ and see His love for you. as He bore
your sins upon the cross, as He was made sin for you, as He
was judged of God and felt the wrath of God pouring down upon
Him, that He might deliver you from your sins and deliver you
from condemnation. He's caused you by faith to look
upon Christ and see the blood in His hands and His feet and
flowing from His side and see forgiveness in that blood. He's
caused you to come unto Christ in the Gospel and to fall down
at His feet Fall down at the feet of the crucified Saviour
and be washed in His blood and know that He loved you and gave
Himself for you. He's caused you to see those
things which are hidden from the natural man. and believe
those things that are spiritually discerned, that you could never
believe before, that you never did believe before, that you
always laughed at, that you ridiculed, because it was foolishness to
you. It was foolishness unto you that salvation should be
through Christ, that salvation should be through this man, through
the Son of God. It was foolishness unto you that
these things really happened. and it was foolishness unto you,
that salvation should simply be by looking by faith unto Christ,
that there's nothing else to be done. You thought if you're
to be saved, if you're to be washed of sin. If you're to be
righteous before a holy God, surely there must be something
that you do. Surely it's down to your decision. Surely it's down to your works.
Surely there's more to it. But know when God in the gospel
showed you that it's all in Christ, it's all because of what he did.
It's all because He came and laid down His life for His people. He did it all. They did nothing. They're simply shown this truth
in the Gospel. The Spirit of God comes unto
them and causes them to live by the power of God in the Gospel. He gives them the faith to believe. They didn't even have any faith. They were dead in trespasses
and sins. You were dead in trespasses and
sins. If God gives you this faith to
believe, He's given this faith to you to believe. If you believe
in Christ, it's because God determined that these things would no longer
be hidden unto you, but would be revealed unto you. That your
eyes would be opened and you would see. You didn't do anything. One day you were blind, one day
you were dead, and then the day came when the gospel came, and
no longer was it foolishness unto you, no longer was it hidden
wisdom unto you, but God spake unto you. He spake your name,
and he as it were said, Lazarus, Lazarus, come forth, and you
rose up. and you lived and you came forth
and you looked and you beheld Christ and him crucified and
you said this is no longer foolishness to me this is my life and my
soul this is my all this is my saviour crucified for me he loved
me and he gave himself for me and no longer will you follow
the wisdom of this world and the princes of this world because
they led you to stone Christ and to crucify Christ and to
stone his preachers and to crucify his preachers and to trample
his message underfoot they led you astray but now God has come
unto you a babe and revealed his truth unto you and Christ
thanks God that he's hidden these things from the wise and the
prudent and revealed them unto babes and you'll thank God that
though He hid these things from the wise and the prudent and
though when you felt you were wise and you were prudent and
you were reasonable and you were educated all these things were
hidden from you but now God's brought you down to nothing and
made you see yourself as a babe, as a nothing before God He's
revealed the truth unto you and it's like a light has been switched
on there you were in the darkness you couldn't see a thing you
were blind stumbling about in the dark but then he came in
the gospel and he came in demonstration of the spirit and of power and
he spake and you lived O sinner are you still stumbling about
in the dark? O natural man Do you still reject
these things as foolishness? Or has God come unto you? Will
He come unto you? In the Gospel, in a still small
voice, in the Spirit of God, and say, Behold my Son. Behold Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Behold His love. for sinners such as you. Believe on the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ and be saved.