Re: [TruthTalk] 1 Corinthians 2:14 fg.

[Lance Muir]

Amen pastor. Ya gots my point! ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: April 09, 2005 11:12 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] 1 Corinthians 2:14 fg. In a message dated 4/9/2005 2:30:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'Someone who is merely human doesn't accept the things of God's spirit. They are foolishness to such people, you see, and they can't understand them because they need to be discerned spiritually. But spiritual people discern everything, while nobody else can discern the truth about them! For 'who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct him?' But WE HAVE THE MIND OF THE MESSIAH'   In my own case, my dear family, I couldn't speak to you as spiritual people, but as people who were all too obviously merely human, little babies in the Messiah. I fed you with milk, not solid food, because you weren't able to take it - and you still can't, even now! You're still determined  to live in the old way! Yes, wherever there is jealousy and quarreling, doesn't that mean you're living in the old way, behaving as any merely human might do? When someone says 'I'm with Paul!', and someone else says 'I'm with Apollos!, are you not mere humans?'   Actaully, this is a very good translation.   There are those who draw attention to themselves by insisting that their interpretation is actually directly from the mind of God.  They pretend they are of God in a way that distinquishes them from the larger body.  Such is divisive and leads us away from the Person we claim to serve.   To put one's understanding of scripture on the same level as those who wrote those scriptures to foster the outrageous.  Such cannot be defended by the very scriptures these people pretend to understand.   The above scripture does not teach an "inspired translation or understanding of scripture."   The key wording, here, is " of scripture."    Verse 10 of this context makes it clear that the Apostle is talking about the Spirit's revelatory ministry in the life of the believer apart from any other influence.   Not the preacher, not the prophet, not the pastor, not the evangelist, not the apostle, not scripture !!!   This passage actually establishes the fact of personal realationships between God and man.    This passage is a direct assault against external ministries:   (v.16)  For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?  But we have the mind of God Christ."   The larger context is a statement of the way things SHOULD BE  in the life of the Corinthians  --  not the way things are with these people.   This "larger context" proclaims a situation that is NOT THE RESULT of spiritual giftedness but of spiritual MATURITY.   That's right.   Spiritual maturity.   And so Paul says (3:1)  ".....brethren, I could not speak to you as to spiritual men but as to men of the flesh  ..."   That is the end of this passage of thought  !!!!!!!    And How does this passage of thought begin ?????   Chapter 2:6   ".....we speak wisdom among those who are mature."      It is the childish one who presents any other option and relies on any other source other than the personal indwelling of the Spirit.   Romans 14 makes it clear that this relationship is one of Master and saint  --  exclusive of the corporation   (and I am not putting down the need for the Assembly).  The brother in Romans 14 is wrong about (perhaps) a number of things  --   but He is made right because of his relationship with God   (Romans 14:4).  Romans 8:28 tells us that God can work good our of anything  -- to the believer.   The work of the Spirit, here in I Cor 2, is a similar statement  --   the Spirit working His will in the life of those who are mature enough to allow this process to happen.    I Cor. 2 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNDERSTAND SCRITPURE IN A DIDACHE SENSE OF THE WORD.  Pastor Smithson