307 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 3 - Book 26 - 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:9

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 26 I CORINTHIANS 2:6 - 3:9 Well, that's as it should be, and I think the number one criteria for understanding the Scriptures is to separate God's dealing with Israel from His dealing with the Gentile Body of Christ. Verse 13: I Corinthians 2:13 "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." Now we begin verse 14 with our flip side word again. I Corinthians 2:14a "But (even though we as believers can understand the Scriptures, and we can compare Scripture with Scripture) the natural man (the unsaved person) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God :..." The unbeliever cannot comprehend the deeper things. They may be able to understand the story of Bethlehem, and maybe some of the other things, but when it gets down to the deep doctrinal aspects of the Word of God, it's a closed Book to them. Now basically, why doesn't the natural man comprehend these things? I Corinthians 1:14b Your unsaved neighbors think that there's something a little bit wrong with you to go to a Bible study on a week night. That foolishness! Well that's the unsaved worlds opinion. I Corinthians 1:14b When we talk shop of that which we live and breathe, someone from another discipline can't understand what we're talking about. Paul the babbler is still held in high esteem, and tourists coming to Athens are constantly reminded of this man, and not the philosophers of the Greeks. So Paul is bringing out that all the things that he taught were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, and not the natural intellectual aspect of men's thinking, and what a different that makes. Once you get an understanding of the Word of God, then you get an understanding of almost everything. Now verse 15: I Corinthians 2:15 I Corinthians 15:1-4)) judgeth (or discerns) all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." We have that ability as believers to discern. We see this in Matthew Chapter 24 when those Twelve disciples approached Jesus: Matthew 24:3 Matthew 24:4 "And Jesus answered and said unto them, `Take heed that no man deceive you.'" In other words they're going to use the Word of God, but they are going to be deceptive as they use it. For a moment let's go back to the little Book of Jude, and this is exactly how the world thinkers operate. Jude 1:10,11 Jude 1:11a "Woe unto them! I'll just bring God what I've grown by the sweat of my brow, and surely God will accept me." So you see Cain rationalized, and so do these people. Now reading on in verse 11: Jude 1:11b Jude 1:12 Jude 1:13 I Corinthians 2:16 "For who (in the secular world) hath known the mind of the Lord (how many of these intellectual, the philosophers have known the mind of God? we have the mind of Christ." Now let's go into Chapter 3: I Corinthians 3:1a "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,..." Remember these people are believers, and if you don't believe me come back to Chapter 1 for a moment. I Corinthians 1:2a "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,..." Now if that isn't enough, come on over to Chapter 12, and remember Paul is still talking to the same people in Chapter 12 that he talked to in Chapter 1. Paul hasn't changed the direction of his approach, and look what he says in verse 13: I Corinthians 12:13 I Corinthians 3:1 "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal (or fleshly), even as unto babes (but where are these babies) in Christ." Now don't you forget that, because it's awfully easy to say, "Well these people weren't even believers." Remember a month ago in our last taping, I told you the reason that Paul wrote these two letters to the people at Corinth was because these believer had questions. Now verse 2: I Corinthians 3:2 Strong meat. They couldn't any more handle meat than an infant could handle solid food.) We don't know how long after these people were saved that Paul is writing this letter, but it was probably a year or two. I'm sure that it just tore the Apostle Paul up. Now verse 3. "For ye are yet carnal:..." Remember the word carnal here refers to believers who are still controlled by the flesh, rather than by the Holy Spirit. I shared with our class last night that God, through the Word, divides the whole human race into three categories. The believers are divided into the Spiritual, and Carnal. So you have spiritual believers, carnal believers, and unbelievers, and those are the three segments of the human race as God sees us. Now the Corinthian believers for the most part were carnal believers, they were not growing as Paul expected them to. Divisions! Don't set your eyes on man, set your eyes on the Word of God, set your eyes on the Crucified One, the One Who died for you, and rose from the dead. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible