FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER TWO _ OUTLINE AND COMMENTARY-MARK DUNAGAN_ I. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER TWO: I. Paul's Approach To Preaching: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 II. The Gospel Is God's Wisdom: 1 Corinthians 2:6-9 III. The Necessity of Revelation: 1 Corinthians 2:10-13 IV. The Natural Man And God's Wisdom:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I, BRETHREN, WHEN. CAME UNTO YOU, CAME NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH OR OF WISDOM, PROCLAIMING TO YOU THE TESTIMONY OF GOD. 'when. came unto you' -the first time (Acts 18:1 ff) 'EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH' -Lit., according to elevation or superiority (Vincent p. 194) 'Superiority of speech' (NASV)... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR. DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU, SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 'Determined' -firm mental resolve, 'I had decided' (Nor). 'SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED' -'He does not mean to say that every sermon was. description of the crucifixion of our Lord, but that all his teac... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS, AND IN FEAR, AND IN MUCH TREMBLING. 'I was with you' -Acts Chapter 18. 'IN WEAKNESS' -'even as Paul's manner of preaching did not present the gospel as. new philosophy, neither did his bodily appearance. Whereas the Grecian philosophers manifested haughtiness and sel... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MY SPEECH AND MY PREACHING WERE NOT IN PERSUASIVE WORDS OF WISDOM, BUT IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER: 'speech and my preaching' -'message and my preaching' (NASV). Content and method of presentation. 'PERSUASIVE WORDS OF WISDOM' -now Paul did seek to persuade men. (Acts 17:2; 2... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN, BUT IN THE POWER OF GOD. 'that' -the purpose of God. 'STAND' -'rest' (NASV), should not be based upon. 'And he tells us he didn't try to make the Message appear especially "wise". It wasn't clothed in complex argument...The Corinthians hadn'... [ Continue Reading ]
WE SPEAK WISDOM, HOWEVER, AMONG THEM THAT ARE FULLGROWN: YET. WISDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD, NOR OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD, WHO ARE COMING TO NOUGHT: 'We speak wisdom' -'Yet we do speak wisdom' (NASV). Let no one say that the Bible isn't intellectually challenging. (2 Peter 3:16) 'AMONG THEM THAT AR... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE SPEAK GOD'S WISDOM IN. MYSTERY, EVEN THE WISDOM THAT HATH BEEN HIDDEN, WHICH GOD FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE WORLDS UNTO OUR GLORY: 'in. mystery' -'in the singular the term "mystery" ordinarily refers to something formerly hidden in God from all human eyes but now revealed in history through Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD HATH KNOWN: FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY: 'which' -i.e. which wisdom of God. 'NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD HATH KNOWN' -with all their counsellors and advisors, the 'big-wigs' missed the wisdom of God. And as "pr... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN, THINGS WHICH EYE SAW NOT, AND EAR HEARD NOT, AND WHICH ENTERED NOT INTO THE HEART OF MAN, WHATSOEVER THINGS GOD PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM. 'as it is written' -(Isaiah 2:4 /1 Corinthians 65:17) 'He does not employ the very words, but states the main thought, which emphas... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT UNTO US GOD REVEALED THEM THROUGH THE SPIRIT: FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHETH ALL THINGS, YEA, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. 'us' -God initially revealed such "things" to the Apostles and N.T. prophets. (Ephesians 3:3) They in turn recorded that revelation and when we read the New Testament we have access... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO AMONG MEN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF. MAN, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN, WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO THE THINGS OF GOD NONE KNOWETH, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 'For' -'Paul lays down the fundamental truth that the only person who can tell us about God is the Spirit of God. He uses. human analogy. There... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, BUT THE SPIRIT WHICH IS FROM GOD; THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT WERE FREELY GIVEN TO US OF GOD. 'not the spirit of the world' -'spirit that belongs to this world' (Wms). Fee believe's that all Paul is saying is that the Holy Spirit is "not of thi... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH THINGS ALSO WE SPEAK, NOT IN WORDS WHICH MAN'S WISDOM TEACHETH, BUT WHICH THE SPIRIT TEACHETH; COMBINING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH SPIRITUAL WORDS. 'Which things' -the "things" God prepared for those that love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9), the "things" which had never entered the mind of man (1 Corin... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD: FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM; AND HE CANNOT KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY JUDGED. 'natural' -'refers to one who obeys the promptings of his bodily nature..unspiritual or carnal.' (Lenski p. 115) 'He's the man who sta... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS, AND HE HIMSELF IS JUDGED OF NO MAN. 'spiritual' -the person who accepts the revelation from the Spirit, i.e. the person who believes and has embraced the word of God. 'JUDGETH ALL THINGS' -'appraises all things' (NASV); 'can find out the real value of... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE SHOULD INSTRUCT HIM? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. 'For' -quotation from Isaiah 2:13. also quoted in Romans 11:34. 'WHO HATH KNOW THE MIND OF THE LORD' -'Who is the person who wants to match wits with God?' (Fee p. 119) Read Job Chapter s 38-40,... [ Continue Reading ]