Friday, August 26, 2016

1 Corinthians 2:13-14

And we are setting these truths forth in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the [Holy] Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language [to those who possess the Holy Spirit]. But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated. 1 Corinthians 2:13-14

For a third time now in the first two chapters of 1 Corinthians our Father tells us that the Truth is meaningless and foolish to the world. We are told that the world is incapable of knowing the bottomless and bountiful riches that are in Christ. But their ignorance doesn’t mean for one second that we are unable to bless them in spite of their lack of knowledge. 

Think of Jesus and how our Father used Him. No one truly believed Him and yet how many were healed by Him. The dead were raised, even though they and their families did not believe or understand. A family actual scoffed at Jesus right before He raised their child. Water was turned to wine for a group of people who had no idea of the Truth. Ten lepers were healed and only one thanked Him. Everyone who was responsible for killing Him were forgiven even though they never asked for forgiveness or even thought that they needed it. The Apostles constantly saw miracles and were even empowered to perform them and they still doubted and mistrusted Jesus and yet they were still served by Him. So just because the carnal man may doubt or think that the Truth is foolish doesn’t stop our Father from loving them and doing for them. 

Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God’s blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you]. Luke 6:28

Bless those who persecute you [who are cruel in their attitude toward you]; bless and do not curse them. Romans 12:14

We are now one with Jesus Who ever lives to intercede for us and He does it for us only because of Grace. So how could we not freely bestow blessings on everyone, whether they understand the Truth or not? We are not better than them, we are not loved by our Father more than them. And because we do have the Holy Spirit and because He does allow us to know the profound things of our Father, we cannot help but to be used to serve them. 



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