What Happens to the Church When Christ is Not Center You Can Have the Mind of God I Corinthians 2

What Happens to the Church When Christ is Not Center

You Can Have the Mind of God

I Corinthians 2

The Church in Corinth had a lot of wrong thinking

Paul starts out in his first letter to them telling them

“We have the mind of Christ”

Many of us are insecure by the way people speak

We are insecure by the knowledge of God

What we need to discern, what God thinks about life around us

Are able to be understood by every believer, not just preachers and teacher

Your words may be like drool that falls out of your mouth

 But that does not mean God does not want you to know His mind on the matter

We may be babies in Christ that still drool

But that does not mean we cannot understand the Mind of God

God has given you His Spirit

So you can know the Mind of God

You Can Have the Mind of God

I Corinthians 2

When Paul came to Corinth

he had a simple message…

For I resolved to know nothing while I was

 with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

The message of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Paul reminds the Church in his first letter to

them after leaving, that he did not come as a

smooth speaker with one liner words of wisdom.

Paul did not come with boldness and arrogance.

Paul was well aware of the unpopular

message of Jesus and the persecution he

and others suffered for preaching Christ.

Paul reminded the Church in Corinth, and us,

 that the Message of Jesus and His crucifixion

is the Center and Foundation of the Church.

This is not to say there are not great Spiritual Truths.

There are lots of Spiritual Truths.

So once we have the Truth of Jesus Christ and Him

Crucified, how to move on to other Spiritual Truths.

Paul lays out the personal responsibility of

discovering the Truth about God yourself.

You and I are to grow in the secret wisdom of God.

How do we do that?

"For who has known the mind of the Lord

that he may instruct him?"

1 Corinthians 2:16

We are not God’s teachers no matter

how good we think we sound.

The world is in a lot of trouble because people

are trying to tell us how God should do things.

If we are going to be spiritual, two things are required…

One, we judge all spiritual things,

we cannot camp out on a corner of

the truth, all truth of God is important.

The second thing is man’s judgment does

not make our spiritual understanding right

or wrong, in the end it is God’s judgment.

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things,

but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

It might feel a little intimidating when we

are around others and around God.

We may want to take a back seat and not get involved.

I get that there are times I want to keep my mouth

shut because I don’t want to be questioned.

There are times I don’t want to share God’s Word because

I am not sure God would think I did a good enough job.

In Corinth and in the Church in Corinth a lot of

things were happening that got them off track…

Things a believer in Christ should be able to discern.

So Paul says…

 "For who has known the mind of the Lord

that he may instruct him?"

But we have the mind of Christ.

   Paul says to those believers, as well as, us…

“We have the mind of Christ”

As believers, we have been given the Spirit of God.

Because the Spirit of God lives in us, we have the

ability to know and understand the mind of God…

What we need to know about God,

What we need to discern, what

God thinks about life around us,

Are able to be understood by every

believer not just preachers and teacher.

Your words may be like drool that falls out of

your mouth, but that does not mean God does

not want you to know His mind on the matter.

We may be babies in Christ that

still drool but that does not mean we

cannot understand the Mind of God.

God has given you His Spirit.

So you can know what God thinks on every matter.

Because what happens around you

and in the Church matters.

Have this mind in you which is also in Christ.

Philippians 2:5

 Christ’s Mind was not on the things

of the flesh, but the Mind of the Father.

You and I are not to be mindless

but have the Mind of Christ.

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 2 NIV

2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.   2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:

"No eye has seen,

no ear has heard,

no mind has conceived

what God has prepared for those who love him"—

10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.   14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord

that he may instruct him?"

But we have the mind of Christ.