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I Corinthians 2:13-15
Excerpted from: Do You See God?

True wisdom, brethren, is the result of human reason coupled with revelation. But even true wisdom will result only if a person believes what God says. Then, you see, the person has the opportunity to see God. And it is hidden from those who put their faith in human wisdom.

Natural in this context (verses 13-15) does not mean evil. It simply refers to a person whose horizons are bounded by the things of natural life - by the around and the about. Such a person is not equipped to discern the activities of God. But a person with the Spirit of God can examine that area and scrutinize so as to judge. Therefore, you see, in his judgment God comes into the picture. And, when the Spirit of God comes into a person's life, the basis of his judgment should change! It is not because the person is any greater or better, but because the Spirit of God equips that person to see and to use the wisdom of God, because now he can judge all things from God's perspective. That is our responsibility!

Brethren, because we have been given this calling, we should see God so clearly and know His greatness so intimately that we can live in the expectation that something great can happen at any moment to those who are receptive. Brethren, the God who raised up Jesus is equal to any occasion - any possibility! Is there anything that is too great for Him? Nothing! He throws that challenge out to man - to those who see Him.

I Corinthians 2:9-13
Excerpted from: Reconciliation and the Day of Atonement

Because of the action God took upon the sin of Adam and Eve—Adam and Eve being cut off from the Holy Spirit—all of the cultures of mankind have been built on reasoning that is apart from God's Holy Spirit. You might say that man has been doomed to produce those kinds of cultures that are based on his own reasoning, because access to the Holy Spirit was cut off, and therefore there was a dimension missing in mankind's reasoning processes.

Therefore, the separation can only get wider, unless God acts to heal the breach. Unless God bridges the gap, mankind is unable to do it because (as we just read in I Corinthians 2) spiritual things are not physically discerned; eyes, ears, nose, mouth—they do not discern spiritual things. So mankind is trapped—he is doomed in that regard. Even though mankind was created with a spiritual capacity, it is so limited that it cannot find the true things of God, and therefore man is very easily overpowered by Satan.

Articles
Born Again or Begotten? (Part Two)
Do You See God? (Part Two)
Eternal Torment?
Judgment, Tolerance, and Correction
Parables and a Pearl
Parables and Prophecy
Parables and Prophecy
Religious Confusion and You
Seeing Is Not Believing
The First Prophecy (Part One)
The Fruit of the Spirit
The Gift of Discerning Spirits
Time and Life
What Did Jesus Do?
What Is the Holy Spirit?
Who Is Doing the Work of God?
Y2K: You-2-the-Kingdom

Bible Studies
Self-Control
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit
The Miracles of Jesus Christ: Healing a Deaf-Mute (Part One)
The Model Prayer (Part Five): Your Will Be Done
The Model Prayer (Part Two): Our Father in Heaven

Booklets
Preparing the Bride

Essays
All About Attitude
Are These Your Feasts? (Part One)
Character and Reputation (Part Two)
Citizens of Heaven
Is Venting Anger Sin?
Jesus, Nathanael, and Jacob's Ladder
Listen Carefully (Part One)
Man's Natural Spirituality
Man's Natural Spirituality
No Works Is No Good!
Our Awesome Calling
The Bible's Claims About Itself
The True Gospel (Part 6)
Trust the Bible (Part One)
We Persuade Men
What Is Real Conversion? (Part Five)
What Is Truth?

Sermons
The Feast Brings Hope
Sin And Overcoming (Part 1): If Anyone Sins!
Themes of I Corinthians (Part 3)
What We Can Learn From This Day of Atonement
The Wonderful, Powerful Gift of God's Holy Spirit
Why Many Do Not Understand
Matthew (Part Twenty-One)
Testing the Spirits (Part 1)
The Faithfulness of God (Part 3)
Why Are We Called To Overcome?
The Three Angels
What the Holy Spirit Does
How Our Joy May Be Full!
God the Father (Part 3)
Immutable Scientific Laws
Powerful Effects of the Holy Spirit
The Law's Purpose and Intent
Why We Do Not Vote
Sight to the Blind
Teaching Us to Think (Part Two)
No One Else Matters (Part Two)
Discerning Truth and Applying Wisdom
Back to Life (Part Five)
The Post-Resurrection Last Words of Christ (Part One)
That No Flesh Should Glory
'All Mine Are Yours!'
Tests of True Knowledge
Limiting the Holy One of Israel (Part 1)
Who Are You?
Hands That Shed Innocent Blood
Self-Government
Experiencing God
Without a Parable
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 9)
Christ Our Wisdom
Gifted With Power From on High!
The Needed Dimension
Narrow Is the Way
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (1994)
Going On to Perfection
The Pure in Heart
'But I Say To You' (Part One)
Lessons From First-Century Christianity
Recognizing the Intents of the Heart
Elements of Motivation (Part 2)
Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part Two)
The Unleavened Sinless Life!
Discern and Distinguish Between Spirits
The Father's Promise of Power!
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Thirty-Two): Ecclesiastes 8:1-9
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon without Becoming Assimilated (Part Five)
Self-Examination, Not Self-Preoccupation
Psalm 51 (Part Three): Verses 5-12
What Does God Really Want? (Part 6)
Why We Do Not Vote
Jesus in the Feasts (Part One): Unleavened Bread
Christ Our Wisdom
Developing Discernment
How Emotions Affect Spiritual Maturity
The Bible Does Not Have All the Answers!
Is God's Way Simple?
A Survey of God's Gifts to Us
Why We Do Not Vote
How the Human Mind Shapes What We Believe
Holiness of God (Part 3)
The Christian and the World (Part 3)
The Christian and the World (Part 3)
Real Conversion
The Christian and the World (Part Two)
Benefits of the Third Resurrection

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