1 Corinthians 2:1

As for myself, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or mystery and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom; 1 Corinthians 2:1

What so many of us fail to realize is that being a child of God is not an intellectual thing. Remember what we were shown in Chapter 1: that our Father will use crazy things that make absolutely no sense at all to show us just how wonderful He is. I once had a preacher tell me that the reason that he believed was because after all of his studies of the Bible he saw how the New Testament fit so seamlessly with the Old Testament. As he was making his intellectual argument for God I thought to myself, I sure hope so, the Old Testament was written first and if it didn’t fit the writers of the New Testament really dropped the ball. 

But the real issue that goes against the Word was that he was trying to be intellectual with his faith. He was making a worldly argument and that will never work in truly helping us realize the Truth that will set us free. Our Father tells us plainly that He uses foolish things that make no sense to cause us to be set free. Human philosophy and wisdom only bring us to failure and condemnation. 

[No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. 1 Corinthians 1:27

For when the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and recognize and know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching [salvation, procured by Christ and to be had through Him], to save those who believed (who clung to and trusted in and relied on Him). 1 Corinthians 1:21

We do not believe and we are not set free through our intellect. We believe and enjoy the complete freedom of Christ because our Father empowers us with His Holy Spirit to believe. 

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking under the power and influence of the [Holy] Spirit of God can [ever] say, Jesus be cursed! And no one can [really] say, Jesus is [my] Lord, except by and under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3

We have been liberated, so we don’t have to get all caught up in human education and never let anyone condemn you about not being intellectual when it comes to your faith. I once had a preacher tell me that the Word loses its power if you can’t tell people the Chapter and verse that it came from. Are you kidding me? Our peace is that our Father will use us however we are. Our peace is that we may be used to pray or teach in a tongue that we have never spoken before and one that we have no idea what we are saying as we are used to speak it. We take comfort in the foolishness of Truth that our Father may weaken us in the worldly sense to strengthen His power within us. We rejoice in the craziness that He may ask the youngest and the smallest of us to defeat the biggest baddest Giant that any of us has ever seen. We glory in the absurdity that our Father may use the oldest and feeblest of us to be the greatest witness that we have ever seen. None of what we are shown in the Bible makes any worldly sense; it is all foolishness to the world. We can’t be intellectual about any of it, so why try? Just sit back and relax and expect our Father to bring you into crazy situations that make no sense and then watch Him glorify the whole thing in ways that you could have never imagined. Watch Him do more through you than you ever prayed for, asked for, expected, deserved, or dreamed of.