2:2 For
> The entire premise then of what I am doing there with you, had to do with whom I was there to represent. If there was any hint of a mixed message in me, I knew that it would taint everything in you, and spoil the intentions that I exist for. Christ prepared me for that which I would encounter and established me in it, way before I came to you with the same objective, of repeating Christ action in me, in you.
I decided
> I planned ahead of time, for what was my mission, its presentation, and when I would have met that mission in you, as having accomplished it. I was not coming to do a makeover of your city, but to call you out from them and into Christ. I came to set up a base of operations, separate from what you had going on there already. Christ did not come to join in on the world operation, but exist separately from them, in rejection of them.
to be
> So as I came, I did so determined to stay on message and not stray from that, I was there to lay a foundation of Christ in you, not to build a chapel of glory after mans ability to God, just for the masses to admire themselves in. I knew if I did that, I would have to deal with the opinions of the local customs, getting bogged down in them, and their thinking of things was irrelevant to me. I tried that among the Jews their, so I came in deliberate ignorance of your side issues of culture and left you with that perception of me as my state of mind, which you were in also, when I departed from there.
concerned
> I did not try to become your judge and prove myself before the local elite’s that mine was the more acceptable way, quite the opposite was in me as my mission. I simply cannot be preoccupied with them and their pointless observations of life, and serve my God at the same time, so I chose God. I knew that if I did not focus on the cross, they would spend all my time discussing their meaningless virtues with me and still end up in hell from the absence of Christ in them. I wanted to downplay what the society thought and taught, in that, it had no bearing on the message-of-the-cross.
about nothing
> I did not endeavor to discover the details of the human tragedies that bind you in your culture, which is how I see them, the possibilities of life in your book, are endless speculations, but Christ is sure in absolutes. I knew if I showed myself as ignorant to your culture, than I would not have waste time with all of those wanting to kill time just discussing things with me, that were not of the cross. In addition, I did not want to mislead you into thinking that the cross and your culture were compatible; they are not.
among you
> I did not try to weave myself into the fabric of your church society, just so that I could be a replacement for that which I was calling you out of. The church must always run counter to the culture around it, because culture is worldly in nature, but Christ is spiritual, and not in league with the world. If the culture is telling you to secure self-promotion in you, Christ is telling you the opposite. That is why I did not seek a place of status with you or your culture.
except Jesus Christ,
> I was not attempting to do God a favor by expounding Christ, thru man, as a vehicle, but rather favor man, in the expounding of God, thru Christ, too man. I wanted it clear that my goal was Christ alone, with no added culture to improve upon him, or clean him up to make him presentable. I was a person who was an expert on one thing alone, Jesus and the message-of-the-cross, at that is all I ever showed myself to know, I had a one track mind and everyone knew that of me.
as one
> I wanted to display Christ upon the cross, in the proper light, in the shame that it was, so that thru it, those who had found shame in themselves before God, then thru his grace, could meet Christ there, to know they are redeemed thru that repentance in them, to his resurrection. I did not want to cast any shadows of dispersion, of what the cross was about or whom Christ came to save. There is no glory in the cross for the world, but only in Christ, is there his glory in the cross. This being the case, the world wants nothing to do with a profitless God, in how they see the cross. However, I came with Christ in mind only, willing to spend the wealth of my breath and blood in life to express that fact alone.
who
> I wanted them to understand what was behind that which caused his shame on the cross. To know and understand what it was that made him become the Christ for us in the beginning, was based in their not knowing of God in his glory, which left them blind to their fate, which came from their act of pride and rebellion. Moreover, that thru that failure we existed in sin, which was the catalyst for who he became. They need to see it revealed from God, to know and understand who Jesus became as Christ, so he could reveal his Fathers glory to them. It is that sin of separation that condemns us now, to not know who Jesus is as Lord of all, is what condemns us completely. In that, God has boiled down all of mans sins, and salvation from them into one message and question to you, and that is what is the cross? In that answer though, it is not only who Christ became, but who Christ was, God come down to man to redeem man and reveal Gods glory, that fact, I was intent on making known among you, and that fact is only knowable to those to whom God reveals it.
had been
> I came to cultivate among the people that which Jesus had sown on mans behalf, and that which I was bringing, was a foreign distasteful food to the peoples liking. They did want not to hear what I had to say concerning him, but that is all I gave to them, in that, what Jesus had sown upon the cross, was no earthly good to them in human terms of prosperity, but eternally useful to them in their souls. I want you to understand that I cannot sow or add anything that is of myself, in league with what Christ has sown to man already, I can only reveal what he has done. I add nothing to it, or take anything away from what Christ did on the cross, I Paul, neither increase or decrease the cross, from that which it is in Christ.
crucified.
> This Jesus himself was given as a ransom for anyone would declare that he, and only he, is Lord over all creation. That he was nailed to a cross to die for the sin of mankind’s sins, which he himself never committed. Christ died alone, so that he alone could be the one and only redemption, by which man could be reunited with God.

2:3 And I was
> Look at how pitifully I compared to those highly esteemed among your city; they would be labeled fools to even appear with me in public. Yet I came ordained by Christ to bring to you the message-of-the-cross, I had my doubts about my own abilities and whether or not you would hear me. Then Christ himself came and told me in a vision that it was alright, that he had gone ahead and prepared you for me.
with you
> I spent a year and a half with you and when you joined in with me, it did not get any better, because you only saw my shame upon me, not an alluring figure to brag about. You could not brag and say come hear this great leader and the great wisdom of this age from him, because I was but a peasant to them, one only speaking of a cross and Christ death on that cross.
in weakness
> I was one coming to you as a beggar to hear me out, just as one of those who are starving in the world for food. That was my position among you, as one looking for pity from someone to take them in. At least it looked that way from the perspective, that I was not there in a vast array with other men to strengthen me, I was there trusting in the Lord, which was the appearance of weakness with men. On top of that though, I am a man who is sickly in appearance; nobody would ask my advice on how to live healthy, except maybe a leper.
and in fear
> That fact gave birth to me, in my own senses, a lack of self-defense, so I was scared also due to my weakness. I am no man of valor who stares down danger for the challenge or for the excitement of it. The risk to me was immeasurable, in so much that I dared not even think about those who wanted my blood. I know now why Elijah ran away and hid for his life, the thoughts of what might happen to me are terrifying me in the night. Compare me to a child with nightmares and it would not be a misrepresentation of me, there was a real cowardice alive in me when I was first there among you. Definitely, no tough guy image coming out from me, I was easy fodder for anyone to come after or make sport of.
and in much
> My body was as broken down, as was my walking in the Spirit, I was constantly looking over my shoulder to see my fate among you. This was not just an occasionally feeling, this had become the state that I was existing in. My being bold for Christ does not negate the mind of man in me, who was not on my side in this, my flesh was resisting the message of Christ, even as were those called noble in your city. I had enemies inside and out, that wanted my message and me to be put down.
trembling.
> Because of this, my faith was shaken down to its very core and I would hide sacred as anyone ever was from life. In all appearances, I was defeated and down for the count, which is how I felt, and there is benefit in all of you knowing this, because it solidifies by my example, the power being in the cross and not the man. My presence with you should have made you weary of trusting in anyone other than Christ in the cross. Especially your knowing that I have an appointed position in the church, and yet I am faint in my own self to rise to the occasion, it left little doubt that the power is Christ in the man, not the man in Christ.

2:4 My conversation
> When we sat and talked I did not approach you as one expounding the meanings of the universe, or as one speaking down to you from my position of higher learning than you. I was not exploring among you the human mind or intrigue of its ability to reason things for itself. I did not come promoting mankind and his eventual triumph over all things, quite the opposite was my talking to you of such things. The nature of me among you, when I spoke to you was at the personal level of what you needed to be with God, from God.
and my preaching
> When I gave a discourse in speaking publicly, there were no standing ovations or award nominations for me afterwards, not even someone saying, "great speech", with slap on the back. I was basically adlibbing it in the Spirit of God, so far as any orchestrated efforts on my part were, no dress rehearsals from me ever took place. My presentations lacked any professionalism, to say the least, and it was obvious to everyone who heard me, that I was an amateur at what I was doing. So, how in the light of that, could Christ use me?
were not
> Yet there I was, with no viable reason that they could see, I had no captive audience when I spoke in public, I was ignored, more than I was heard by the people. Your culture judges men in their prowess before others, one need not even tell the truth knowingly among the people, but if he can make a better show of it, he will receive acclaim among them, more than an honest man will who speaks simply. All things in your culture are relative in their truth, but I came preaching absolutes of Christ, that did not mesh with the long entrenched ideals of your thoughts of existence, and their reasons for mans superiority. I came defiling your history and nationality among you, that which you based your whole society on, I was denying among you.
with persuasive
> I was not trying to convince anyone to find Christ as acceptable social behavior or myself as a charmer, I was telling them he was necessary, not optional. When you do that, you are not appealing to the better self in them, you are in their minds, putting them down, offensive to them in your manners. I did not build their egos to win them over to me, I was deflating them and they did not like it one bit.
words of wisdom,
> I did not open the floods gates of what they were seeking, so that they would have all understanding in themselves, and therefore confidence in themselves, of everything that is unknown about God, they would now posses. I was narrow-minded and not the least bit open-minded, intolerant of such exploring of the minds of humanity with them. There was little that they could see in me, which was worthwhile for them in a human perspective.
but with
> Having that in them, the perspective of them in me, was established where God could show himself thru me, using me as a vessel that I myself could never be in my own strength. This way I could example for you, what you could be, if you were willing to set aside human achievement, for Christ achieving spiritual things thru you, that were not of your own design and making.
a demonstration
> What came out of me then was a show of what was in the cross and its ability to have effect, not by human intervention, but divine intervention, something that could not be witnessed to by outsiders so much, as experienced by those who were in Christ. God made a powerful case by his own hand, by causing the unexplained miracles to be seen, without rituals or extravagant displays of man trying to bring down the heavens from mans efforts. Similar in thought to Elijah’s efforts against the prophets of baal, Elijah became the evidence on earth of Gods authority in him, without all the show-me efforts of baals prophets, to call down baal, by displaying their own prowess to cause it. For you who would come to Christ, were their miracles among you done, because your society as a whole, dismissed these evidences, they were done for you the believers who came out from them, as your confirmation in God and Christ in you, as he called you to himself.
of the Spirit
> The sense that people went away with of me, was not a audible one that came out of my speaking ability, those who responded, did so because of that which was in them as result of me speaking, was not just a spoken word, but a revealing in them that they had never before heard in union with spoken words. I am not devaluing the word of God, by my own promotion, I am validating it; I am separating it, and qualifying it as something that is outside from that of human experience. As something, that is beyond the human hearing or thought process of things. Because it runs counter to what men hear and say in public, it is irrelevant in the daily discourse of men to have any meaning to be adhered too.
and of power,
> It catches man off guard in its authority, because is has no home in the mind of man, as that which makes sense. It does not build up man from that which they already are, rather it tears down the human view of God and life. Its sets a course, and a source to be able to thrive beyond what man knows he is struggling with, but has always been deft of the power to resolve it. This is why they wane away the hours both day and night, exploring every thought of man, and still come up empty. Yet, here is Christ causing man to abandon all that, for something so simplistic as the message-of-the-cross, and having undeniable power from it among them. Nothing of man in it, but everything in it says the divine power of God, which calls out believers to it.

2:6 Now
> One the other side of this issue, there exist the truth as it is, not as man tries to suppose it to be. Therefore, we need to review that argument as well and compare it to what is at hand for them of worldly points of view, in light of God truth.
we do
> Where that exist, as I just said, is in the power of Gods grace, for us to receive the knowledge of the truth as it is. Because grace is Gods power to us, in fact, if in speaking of Gods grace in us, to have a helpful understanding of its meaning, replace the word "grace" with the word "power", to grasp what God is giving us, is his power (grace) to believe his truth. So the truth of God is in what we say, we only present ourselves in the darkness of foolishness before the world’s image of us. So that Gods true word shone in its light, shines bright from him only, and not in the assembly of the wicked-minded people. We are not about being fools for the mere sake of folly, but to demonstrate the state of humanity, too humanity, we cloak ourselves in it, to create a separation from the ways of God and man. We disparage human wisdom by making ourselves over in its folly, to show where God is in relation to them. God is found opposite of them, in what is to them, the folly of their thinking. Not in the astute thinking of them, that they would pride themselves in, but in the lowly estate of their minds that they consider it meaningless.
speak wisdom
> Then, once we have received from God his power, we can proceed from their with deeper discussions, which are good and that which God wants us to do. Simply not in the worldly ways of before, which are in man, but in the spiritual base of Gods wisdom, as it is knowable to us. When we then in knowing the reason of our salvation, can know the right way to live, that is not contained in the human experience alone, but God in us as that purpose. As our point of reference and reverence is not in what we see and hear in man, but in what we cannot see and hear in God, all of which begins only at the cross. This is not a call to blind faith, as man would call it as they see it. It is for the very first time, seeing it as the creator of us was trying to get us to see it in the law, which man failed to do. Therefore, this is not a new plan from Gods original, but a new delivery of it, that excludes mans understanding it before he comes to God in repentance. Under the time of the law, understanding the law came first and repentance after that, but now it is repentance first, then coming too understanding law and holiness, after the fact of salvation by grace.
among the
> This does not occur among them who are void of Gods salvation, to them everything of Gods word is reviewed in their minds with them as judge of it. If they like it and it fits their philosophy, it’s okay; otherwise, they discard the word of God. So where is true wisdom found, it is among those who found victory in their own shame at the cross. Those who emptied themselves of human perspectives, in order to allow God to fill them with his truth as it actually exist. God not only offers you a clean slate on life, so that it can be written with him from a new beginning. You must also come to God with that same clean slate, of your understanding of how things truly are, in order to find a new and active life in him.
mature,
> When you do this you have in you the level of maturity to learn new things according God, it is not a set point of arrival mind you where you know everything, that is a state that God only exist in. But a state of learning ability, because as long as you live, you will never be able to contain the full knowledge of God or even its application in life. However, what you have in you is a mature mindset, which sees it first from Gods point of view, before defining it as absolute truth. This does not come with a degree to authenticate it, but it does come from time tested exposure to Gods word. For those who want a mature mind in the perfect knowledge that exist in God, it is available, but it is in learning about the perfect mind of God that perfects us, not being perfect in our own understanding of it. The mature become mature, thru exposure to Gods word, as it continually changes our mind to the mind of Christ in us. In the world, we became evil increasingly by living with the devil and what he promoted in us. With God, we become perfected in our maturity, by living with Gods holiness in his word and in our deeds of grace. So perfection is the mind of God, in that which we come to know about it, as it has then its power (grace) to deliver us into it refuge of safe keeping and understanding. Every Christian that ever lives, dies a student of the cross, and never the master of Gods word. There is never an end to ones own learning process.
but not
> This insight, then gives you the ability to reject what the world sees as truth, and supplant it with Gods wisdom. We need this, because we still live in a fallen world, much of which is under to superficial control of Gods enemies. The vast armies of the world are against Gods message-of-the-cross and us. Nevertheless, the greater vastness of Gods invisible armies is greater then all of them together. Therefore, we rest in the power of Gods word, not in the numbers of the world’s strength. It is not the assembly of us, it is too whom we are assembled that we rest assured of Gods victory, not in despair of the worlds current control of the minor agendas of man. This then, should be our state always; too whom we are assembled, not in what number we exist in.
a wisdom
> What they promote is only their human agenda and goals in life, they have no desire to know God, if they did, they would be with God and with us in his church. They see what they know as being distinct from God, in showing themselves something, not in acknowledging God as the author of what is wise to be known. Because to them, that lowers them to being only yes men, but you know, when your wrong, and everything you base life on is a lie, you better admit it and say yes to God every time, or you will just always be wrong.
of this age
> One thing that we must realize is that because they have no absolute base for their beliefs. What they believe is all relative, and their beliefs fluctuate in line, with what is expedient and their circumstances. To them, all wisdom is negotiable, in accordance to the dilemmas at hand; they see no need for absolute rules that govern everything the same, regardless of the conditions of it.
or of the rulers
> What they think among men, rules over men for the time being, but because it is not able to cement its place as an absolute truth, it is easily discarded and replaced. They do not look for a concrete base for what they believe in, because they need to be able be flexible in assembly and maintaining all of their disjointed beliefs that contradict one another. It is the only way leaders can have the appearance of being in charge and in control, is continuously rewrite the rulebook.
of this age,
> They only want things locked down, so long as it suits their purpose at the time, as soon as something better comes along or it crimps their human perspective, it is simply dismissed without reason and the assent of men to do so. This never changes from one generation to the next, that is why the scripture says that there is nothing new under the sun, because man is simply recycling the same old lies over and over.
who are perishing.
> These are often ways and means, which they take to the grave with them. Because they have no lasting value, beyond the persona of the ones who promoted them. You see all of mans wisdom exist only in the minds of them that are keeping them alive. In addition, I am not saying that what these human perspectives say they represent, do not sometimes take on a life of their own, in others after them. Just as in sin, which we are taught from scripture is visible in many generations after a father’s original sinful tendency. So also, lies can far outlast them who first told them, especially if they attach a meaning of deity to it somehow, as exist in all the false religions of the world.

2:7 Instead
> You see, they always need to find something they think is new, to replace the old thing that did not work, even though the new thing, is nothing more than a repackaged old thing once again. Then we come along, actually promoting something that is new and ageless in its conception, but they refuse to try it, because it is not a historical relic to them. However, they treat it as though it is out of date and expired in their minds, even though they have never tried it, and it has its testimony alive in people of every generation.
we speak
> Every generation hears about and each generations rejects what we testify too, not because it is false, but because its source is not them. From the fall of man, we have been trying to recreate our own creation in our image, instead of Gods image. But the only true image we can live in, is that in which we were created to be, Gods image, and that can only be found from Gods revelation of it, too us, in his Spirit thru his word. As we proclaim Christ on the cross as the redemption of man, we lead people in our preaching to become the image of Christ, a new creation in his image, just as God intended for us.
the wisdom
> This is Gods strategy for saving mankind from sin as its goal, and not making us feel good about who we are in this life as it objective. It was a work of art no less, even in light of the tragedy that came upon Christ to do it. Its design was beyond human comprehension or imagination, which God would die for man sins in their place, that he would give up his glory, in exchange for our sins.
of God,
> Because of its divine origin, only a divine power could succeed in accomplishing it, that is what was at he heart of the law, was proving man incapable of exercising the art of creation, or even recreation of themselves. Therefore, the wisdom of God was then to do it himself again, in a way that was impossible both for man to actually do and before man to ever conceive of.
hidden in
> What we need to see is that what God has done, is not obvious or apparent to the human mind, because it is not practical. Therefore, God did not try to explain it all to us until it was all complete in the arena of mankind. What cloaked it though, was not just some supernatural veil, though it was at first, it was the blindness of sin in mans heart, which blackens it even today. The secret is out, but they still cannot see it, even though God has spelled it out for them.
a mystery,
> Even in its planning stages, it was written about, but not understood, the reason it was a mystery to man, was that they could not figure out its puzzle, which it was spread across his written word. Even the disciples did not understand it, until after the Holy Spirit taught them in it, after the resurrection. Which is how they were then able to write us the scripture proving it. So it required the power of grace to reveal the mystery, that was the missing part, the power(grace) that kept it unknown to man.
that God
> It all had its origin in a sovereign act on Gods part, which means it was separate from all creation in its design and ability to produce it. No human instinct or reasoning was behind the unveiling of what only God was able to do. This was an incapable act of man, and only an act of God could produce its effect. He, who was only the highest power, could bring about this, for those were only the lowest power.
determined
> His power, is in his providence, to use it as and when he sees fit, where in his sovereignty, he was the one in position to make man and salvation an estate or possession of his. In his providence, it was his choice to act on it accordingly, only too his wisdom’s discretion, as he saw fit to do it, in his consideration alone. Although this does not mean he was only thinking of himself, but that it was as he judged, best to do it this way, in the wisdom of his providence, in the estate of his sovereign will. Therefore, where his sovereignty is his estate, providence is his power of discretion, where he need not explain himself to man, which is what he did here in exercising that.
before the ages
> Which also means that it was part of the original creation itself, not just an after thought. Before creation itself, God had determined how to save man from his fall into sin, and put into effect that strategy from the very beginning of time. God was not going to create, only to lose it all to mans sin, when he was able as God to save some of them, who would be saved thru him.
for our glory.
> This he chose to do for our benefit, where thru grace in its power, is our ability to have faith and believe, and that benefit then is cumulative in our walk with him. Grace will continue to be the power of our faith for as long as we live. In addition, an increasing value that need not diminish in us over time. It is a cautious possibility that our faith could weaken, but it is not a necessary pitfall in life, if we live in the grace of God. Therefore, God planned for us to rise above our sinful state and exceed in him from the very beginning. This new state would also be one of greatness and come with authority in heaven. It is not a salvation to a lowly position in heaven, but one of being lifted up for all the angels to see us in and as a testimony in eternity of Gods fullness of glory. That this so glorious a God, that would become nothing at all and even less in being defiled by mans sin, to save so lowly a creature as man.

2:9 But
> So look at them now, in a comparison of them to us, they are powerless, in both grace or in prevention of God, but we are not. Theirs is a state of blindness, deafness and ignorance of what God is doing. They cannot and will not ever get it, but we do, and this is why, both the prediction of where we are now and the why of it, is in the Old Testament. In the verse that I will next refer to, it is present tense with us, not something we are still looking for, and the evidence is in us, not in the way of the worlds response, but ours. So do not look at the world to validate it in you, that you got it right, from the way they respond to the cross. You are only asking those who live in perpetual darkness, to tell you what is light, or it is like you asking the devil, who is only evil, how to be good. Only God can reveal himself, his truth, holiness and salvation. My point being, that we do not seek wisdom in among the fools, but we seek it from God and he has provided it for us. Only the foolish continue in seeking wisdom among their own band of fools, and remain in that state, the wise seeks Gods higher wisdom and receive it.
just as it is written,
> Look at this application of a verse in Isaiah 64:4, the sense of that verse is as follows, I’m applying the meaning of it, not an exact quote.
"Things that
> They never had the ability or even the imagination to take into account what was coming upon them. It was a case beyond that of a man knowing what are his internal organs, when never having encountered the human anatomy before.
no eye
> So what is visible to take in and analyze, reads more like disconcerted words or actions of what Gods is going to do. To watch his hand only left one confused because you could not see enough from our vantagepoint in space and time. Because as each generation dies, their perspective of life dies with them, so to resolve what was a motion picture in time, with just one frame of it, was impossible. Likewise, to review the books of learning were of no aid at deciphering their meanings or coming up with the answer of what God was up to. Because the definitions were missing to know their meanings, which were held in reserve until the Holy Spirit came.
has seen,
> So without God they dismissed and were blind to his plan, their were no witnesses to testify to what Gods whole plan was, because God had not brought them in on his plan. One generation saw the foundation plans, another a floor plan, some the plumbing, others a window view. But only God held in his possession, the master plans, which was the assembly of what were all the pieces that were before mankind unassembled. We all know how good men are at "some assembly is required".
or ear heard,
> God never allowed them to hear with clarity, what was meant in what he said, they might as well heard it all in tongues. In fact, who among them ever instructed anyone or was preaching the coming of the cross, not one. Not until John the Baptist, was there anyone who knew what and who was coming to fulfill the law of prophecy.
or mind imagined,
> Our hearts could not have conceived it, nor did that which we considered, relate to our minds, or arrive at in our thoughts as the meaning of what God was doing. It passed over us like the wind, we did not see it coming and do not know where it went. It was simply beyond us in our humanness, to have it give birth in us its truth. It would have been easier for us to drink in the vastness of the oceans, then in ourselves, ever resolve that which God had planned ahead of time and was now doing accordingly. What he is saying then is, that we never had the illuminating ability in us, to be inspired to think in such way of his providence. In addition, to have known it as an existence in the presence and mind of God, that he would be our actual salvation.
are the things
> There is such variety and fullness of his salvation, the first being the ability to gain true wisdom outside of humanity after salvation. In that, we were not looking to ourselves to find answers, but to God. After that comes those things which evolve in our relationship with him and from the Holy Spirit and our spiritual gifts. The intent of these things is in the revealing of the gospel to us presently, but the context of that gospel is eternal, so it is both things present and future, for all of who come to the gospel. It is not what is coming up for us in heaven that are these things, but what has already begun in us because of the cross, and will continue in heaven because of it having begun in us now.
God has
> Which brings us back to the point where God is the source and resource of them, where they are not now, nor were they ever things that were humanly discernable without him. This then returns us to the previous point of context here that the world is just wrong and always will be, so pay them no mind when they reject the message-of-the-cross.
prepared for
> Now let me first state the "why of this" for you. All value is in Christ and we are valued by God according to Christ blood, or in other words, the value God sees in us, is that of which it cost him to redeem us, that being the blood of his son. Therefore, God has acted according to that as his value source for us, in that which he has stored away for us. In that, it had its beginning in how he came to have value in us, he did not discover it in us, he revalued us from another source of reference in us, as to recalibrate our relationship or position to that of Christ’s. This means if we are in Christ, we are equal to his blood in value, which means everything to God, and are priceless to him. If not we are more than just worthless to him without meaning, even worse than that, he spilled and spent his sons blood for nothing on you, and for that alone more than anything, he is planning vengeance against you. So because of the high value he put on the blood by which Christians are valued in, in that we are all equal, one and all, to the blood of Christ, as our cost basis to him. God because of that planned for us accordingly.
those who love
> But only the ones who are his, not everyone, in that, the love Christians have has its origin in God and cannot not be duplicated in the love of man. By that I mean, it is a Godly love that is born of his Spirit in you, God birthed it in you so you could love him in his love. However, without his Spirit first in you, you are void of it and dead to Gods love, and human love is not acceptable.
him."
> So Gods love can only interact with his own love and responds only in response to his call of love in man, so that it returns his love to him and him alone. Gods love is exclusive to his Spirits presence, so those without his Spirit sense not the love of God, until he calls them thru it. In other words, it is a closed loop love, among a family that has first received of God, and then are able exist in it. This in both the way we interact with God in the vertical sense of relationship and to the church in the horizontal relationship sense to each other. Gods love came to you, so now you can come to God with his love language, which you were before void of.

2:10 God has
> The author of our having understood his love and insight is God. It was initiated and instituted in us, for us, by him. He wanted us to know the truth and that is why he is coming to us with the wisdom and insight we need to see, hear and understand what he is telling us.
revealed these
> All things concerning salvation were unknowable without him, even though the message-of-the-cross he made simple. Its formation was above humanities mind to conceive it or understand it as being effective in salvation. It was a senseless act to man, without out God revealing its reason to us. No one would have ever figured out that the cross was what gave power to grace to make it effective for salvation. The cross, made the power of God available to man, to accomplish everything that God can do, according to his will, thru man. The wisdom and insight of God into things, is now at the disposal of man to know, which is what God wants us to have.
to us
> To those he came to save, that responded to his call, they became chosen and special as a result of having received Gods calling and trusting him in it to save them thru the cross. We then as our ministry tell the world of what was revealed in us, and God brings those who will hear and receive his call into him, with the spirits action in them.
by the Spirit.
> We are now all students and the way instruction came to us was thru the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our teacher of Gods word, he allows us to not just understand, but accept the truths of God that are by their nature, unacceptable to man. That is probably the more profound and stunning effect the Spirit has in us, which is the ability and power to believe the unbelievable to us.
For the Spirit
> The Spirit has a mission in us, to relate us to God and God to us, the Spirit is our communication access to God in both directions. It is based in relationship though, not just some auto response, as one might define faith. The Holy Spirit is our most intimate companion in relation to God; he shares our joys and grieves our sins. He knows all our potential and every pitfall that we fall into, but most importantly, he knows who God wants us to be and how to get us there.
searches all things,
> The Spirit is probing and defining who we are and who God is in us, this includes the emotions, holiness, justice, provisions, assignments, disciplines, encounters, family, restorations, etc. that God has planned in himself for you. The Spirit is the central tie in of all those of the church body. The providence of divine intervention can be seen in the arrangement of unknown Christians, brought together unaware for the same purpose, meeting in the middle of nowhere, the Spirit providing the behind the scene arrangements. Because the Spirit knows who has what and who needs what.
even the deep
> This is not just between people though, the Spirit has full and direct access with God. Know I am not saying that as with the Father and Son, there is not exclusive knowledge information, as is with the Rapture, that only the Father knows. However, to that, which is to be revealed to man, in man’s place and ministry with God, the Spirit is there to produce these things in us. He is there to reveal the secrets that God wants us to know, not the things we think we should understand, that might fall under acts of providence, such as how he goes about choosing those that will be saved.
things of God.
> Even the highest thoughts of the most high God are known to the Spirit, because the Spirit is God in us, as an acting agent for God. The Holy Spirit has perfect rest and fellowship in his position in the trinity, which is God. He has perfect communion with the Father and the Son, sharing in all attributes, in that which is in the realm of God to know. The three of them, abiding in their perspective roles, is God.

2:11 For
> The premise of all this, is that, that which is the invisible and intangible within the being, is hidden from outsiders by its very nature. The character, attributes and principles that might tell us something about someone we know, do not tell the whole story of who they are when no one else is around, they only tells us what they want us to know. Neither do they tell us whether or not they actually believe in them or just use them as a means to an end, a sort of second nature way of living from their upbringing, but absent a moral absolute concerning them.
who
> Each of us views others from our perspective of them, not theirs, this is the wonderment of man, that is, what is someone really thinking. This is most prominent between men and women who view life from totally opposite ends of the universe, different dimensions of time and space, I am not even sure we are the same species for that matter. Nevertheless, the confusion to be worked out between them, is a prime example of what is the challenge here. Because as complex as that relationship is, it pales in comparison to Gods realm to ours.
among men
> Man has limits built in and our external senses cannot penetrate and read the course of others, mind you this is human to human, not God to man. So it is our own privacy of our thoughts that are internally hidden and externally unknown. We devise shadows to hide behind in life, so that no one can fully know who we are. We are masters at concealment, but very poor in revealing the vulnerabilities or weaknesses we have. Which is also what prevents mans salvation, because we must first reveal our sins, for God to cover them for us. Hidden sins will remain active in us like living yeast, but God will make dormant revealed sins thru repentance in the church, so they no longer affect your life.
knows the things
> It must be revealed for us to know it in another, if they choose to be silent in their true feelings, others are left in the dark, as to what they have knowledge of or what their intentions are. In fact, we complain to one another that we are not mind readers in our communication problems with others, and no wife knows what a thing-a-ma-jig is anyway, apparently, neither does a husband.
of a man
> One person never expects the unexpected actions of another, because they are the secrets of what they themselves only know. Take a simple equation, of 2 + 2, what does it equal, if I won’t answer, does that I mean I don’t know or won’t answer. You can assume anything you want, but only I know my answer, and that is the point here. Only if I reveal my answer do you know what I know, otherwise, it is a mystery.
except the
> Of all the things that make up who we are I our personality, we devise what they are independently from others, in how we decide to react to all forms of stimulus around us. People tell us stuff all day long, but we decide that which we accept or reject. No one else knows if we truly are taking their advice from them or not despite what we say or in our actions to them.
man’s spirit
> The mind that is in us is as dark a place to behold as any, and it reveals what is there to no one but oneself. It is not an open book, as some would falsely conclude, there are always the unknown things that are of the internal domain only. Wounds and enemies, confidences and trusts, many things are concealed and taken to the grave with us in there actual form in us.
within him?
> This is why it is unknown, it is internally invisible and it is what makes up his character, and he is in sole possession of it, except from God who sees the true heart of everyone. Man buries himself in his own soul, in a case of identity theft, to the point that even he may no longer know who he is, because of the many disguises that conceal who he is. It may be another subject all together, but a hint of what leads to mental breakdown, is the unrevealed sins that still bind us.
So too,
> In like manner, having been created in Gods image, there is this similar domain of Gods kingdom in God also, as it relates to man. Not that man is on the same plain with God, but that it is even more difficult for man to know the things of God, when he cannot even know the things of another man or woman. I was just taking a human example, to proclaim the even greater vastness of God by comparison.
no one
> With God you have providence at work and it is restricted information to God, that which he knows alone. Not just that though, it is his power as a sovereign to act in providence, for or against his creation. Man may curse or praise God for what he does, but no one but God himself can hold God accountable, all things are Gods choice.
knows the things
> Not only is God invisible to man, but his thoughts are higher, in that, it is unknowable to created beings without revelation to it. He must explain that of himself to the mind of man to be understood by man, and even that must be done with power behind it, in order to cause the mind of man to understand it. It is known as a quickening or an awakening to the truth in us, that makes us come alive to God, where before we are dead.
of God
> It is the possession of Gods providence where are kept his secrets and wisdom that it exist in, not in the concepts of man and what man thinks God should be like. When a person says they think God is this or that, it means nothing, because God is who he is independent of everything except himself.
except the
> That then being the only thing that we need to know about him, that his wisdom is exclusive to God by its nature. That being the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who have had eternal access to one another and are at rest in that relationship and rule all creation from its position in them.
Spirit of God.
> The Holy Spirit is fully part of Gods nature and therefore expresses the mind and desires of God. In fact, without the Holy Spirit, that which we know of God would be unknown, because it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to inform us of what the Father and Son is saying to us. This was in creation by design, not by default, we were designed for the ministry of the Holy Spirit in us, and thru which we can know God.

2:12 Now
> Let us be clear on what God is doing in us, what are our resources, and how to tell the differences. We must define this, so that we know the differences when we encounter them. We know then, that the character traits of the flesh are demanding and oppressive in themselves, making us anxious of results because it has no possession. So then, the character traits of the Spirit are peace and rest, without a cause within us as that which is needful to take place. For the Spirit in us, has no necessity and need that it does not already possess.
we
> Those who are Christian, have been given an out from that which they were. They no longer have just the one option, that they are born in the world with; God has given them another. This means also that the first one has been become subordinate to God in the process because God has superceded it.
have not
> Now in that first life we had, there is absolutely never any connection between what is ungodly, and that which God creates in us. God is not culpable in mans sin, man himself is to blame for that, God did not put sin in us, we became sin in rebellion, but then God defined it against the backdrop of holiness in the law and condemned sin in it.
received
> The ways of the world did not come from God, they are developed from the sin of man, it was not put in us by God, we wrote the book on sin ourselves in the violation of our own conscience. Sin is self-induced in us and passed along both genetically and as a learned behavior from others. Although earth is a prison colony, which is a result of the curse of God, we make our own existence here, he simply denied us access to paradise in a fallen state. Our sins are still of our own making, despite the curse of God.
the spirit
> The devil has long been at work deceiving us in the thoughts and patterns of life that we as humans aspire to. He knows how to excite our passions and use that against us, but it develops within us at our own cost, not his. The devil has the power to harass us and entice us with suggestions as believers, but not possess us, condemn us and definitely not save us. Non-believers he or his demons can possess and have command over, but not the power of condemnation, that is Gods only, the devil only can accuse.
of the world,
> Because of our selfish reproducing way we live, which is a result of a fallen world and a prison colony mentality. It is does not produce logic on a level moral playing field; rather it is the illogic of the immoral out of balance society, where anything goes, without any absolutes.
but
> On the other hand, that was then and this is know, we have a new life in us that is void of the old ways around us. We no longer reference them in our relationship to God, because they are not a measure of that relationship. In fact they are completely opposite of them in what they represent, they oppose the world and the world opposes them. The Spirit of the world is void of God, but this in us is the fullness of God.
the Spirit
> This new Spirit runs counterclockwise to the worlds ways, in the thoughts, obligations and with a character of holiness. This means we also run counterculture to them, a real problem for the two to coexist. We a real problem for the world, because our actions not only accuse them, but we interfere with their anything goes mentality. This Spirit in us is a frustration to them, which they are not drawn to, except from God intervening.
who is
> We know that this new Spirit in us is not from us or the world, it does not even communicate with the world in a way of discourse, but has dominance over the world at its will to command it, which has its basis in God. Man did not conjure up this Spirit in some new age philosophy, because this Spirit is the heart of God.
from God,
> It was God who hid his Spirit from us until now, and this Spirit came out from him as its origin. This Spirit is alive and it has what we would refer to as the breath of God in him, able to also breathe that life of itself into us. Though I refer to it as though it was an object in introduction, the Holy Spirit is an entity, a person, to be referred to as a "he", in human terms in referencing a deity.
so that
> The Spirit came not that he might dominate the world, he came in order to dominate us, and in so doing, relieve us of or sin nature and replace it with Gods nature. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is not only our insight into the heart of God, but our courage to stand against evil, when surrounded by it in an evil world. The Holy Spirit is literally Gods exit strategy for us in this world, in order that we may live in the world, but not of the world.
we may know
> Then as we exist in the world, that we be trained in the ways of God, the Holy Spirit then is for the purpose of giving us revelation or access to the unknown. We are to become students of God, thru his word, and the Spirit is become our voice of reason in this, to accept the unacceptable of God. In addition, therein then, is he our comforter, to have faith in the impossible, to find rest in Gods providence of things on earth, as in heaven.
the things
> To have understanding of the way things are from a heavenly realm and not of human origin. In that, that is how things really are and how we shall exist for eternity. We are merely becoming aware that God is God, always has been and always will be, to which the Holy Spirit is giving us both insight to and rest in that fact.
that are
> The first thing we need to know about this in us, is that was not done grudgingly or conditionally. The process and the state of them, who have Christ as savior, are things of luxury to God in how he now sees us. We are a joy to him, not a task or a labor; God is enjoying you thru the good times and the bad. In the rejoicing of your heart and in your disciplining, he is not put off by us and you are not the first child he has raised and gone thru this with.
freely given
> Although we all share equally in Christ’s body, it will manifest itself differently according to the gift God gave you, which was not earned by you but was given to you as your portion. Now, your portion may appear larger or smaller, but that is because of the work of the Holy Spirit at work in another according to their need, as it will be with you in another area as reflected by your labors in that area.
to us
> To the Christians, when we see the manifestation of the Spirits work, we know that it was not us, but providence in us that it was done. Not that we are not part of what God is doing, the gifts are made subject to us, so we are partners with Christ mission, but it is the Spirit, not us that is at work thru us and that which is the resource. We do not produce the Spirit in us, the Spirit is producing us in the image of Christ as we involve our interest and ourselves with that which the Spirit of God is doing on earth.
by God.
> So it is the position that we take-up with God, that we see him make us new in him, it is where we place our thoughts, treasures and aspirations to, that we experience God more fully. Not in relation to do we receive the Spirit of God or not because of works, that is not the issue. The Spirit is our first and only resource of God in us as a gift, having come in its possession of us, as way of our possession in Christ salvation. The Holy Spirit is what has made us born again; we are now born of God as his seed of the Holy Spirit gave birth in us that of himself.

2:13 And
> Because of that transition in us, some things and methods have changed in combination with what we once knew and who we once were.
we speak
> Our attitude and mannerism are not the same, there is a new reason behind our thinking, and so because of that, that which comes out of us is entirely different. In fact a new phrase that relates that meaning, is what the bible has been saying all along, and that is "garbage in, garbage out". If we live according to and in the presence of sin and its desires, than that which comes out from us in our conversations reflects that sin. In the same manner, if what we have been taking in, as we live in our desires to know God, we reflect his Holy attributes in us.
about these things,
> So that which we are considering here, was not previously known to us and we could not have been aware of them before. Because we did not know God, we could not act on them, but now we do. In that we have taken God into us literally, he dwells in us, so we have taken holiness in, and holiness will come out from us as a result of that. It is the process of God at work in us to make us over in the image of his son Jesus.
not with words
> Whereas, men discuss things without end or course to them, because they have no absolutes for what they know, they are all just winging it, meaning it to show themselves something without any real base to it. Whether with big words or complex arguments, they amount to nothing in the end. Because men are only trying to make a name for themselves, which is always less than what they think of themselves.
taught us
> Which they acquired only thru partial knowledge in teaching and external observations, there was no higher one then themselves, to tell them what they did not know. It came out from them and too them only, nothing more being added to it or able to filter out the wrong of it.
by human wisdom,
> All of which was based in imagination or trying to show mans intellect and knowledge of things, which is all misplaced and misguided. Man cannot control what he knows, let alone aspire to something that is no more than his imagination, to eventually come into its presence as a reality.
but
> On the other hand, Christians have someone bringing the unknown things of God to them and helping them to understand it. We are being helped up externally, thru an internal access to the wisdom of God.
in those
> Our insight and perspective of things is not merely in instruction in the obvious, because all the things of God, that are there to believe and learn, are essentially unacceptable to man. So instruction will not change the heart of faith of anyone alone, the law proved that, only in concert with God is there achievement to wisdom in us. Only as he takes us into his confidence and reveals the unthinkable ways of himself, do we then begin to know God.
taught by
> God provided more than just teaching, which came thru a non-verbal perception he gave us that was not formulated by human design. Therefore, it cannot come under human understanding that is worldly interpretable. It is not only taught by God, but also interrupted by him, where for some non-tangible reason, we all of a sudden get it. However, I am here to tell you what that non-tangible reason is; it is the Holy Spirit.
the Spirit,
> This is accomplished in Christians only by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, apart from which, even intellectual acknowledgment of his truth by non-Christians, is not an absolute in them, were they to do so. Because it has no concrete base in them that holds it there, that is part of our benefit it God, in that, he not only reveals it in us, he secures us in it for our future belief.
explaining
> The process then is that which reveals and makes us aware, and is done by comparing apples to apples, so to speak. By not using the temporal worldly things as they are now known to us, to try to define and express the eternal non-physical things of God. But rather to allow us to be aware of that which is basically unacceptable to us from a human perspective, and seeing it from and relating it too, that which is from a heavenly perspective, defining it in a new way for us. This is in essence a supernatural process in us, unattainable without the Holy Spirit.
spiritual things
> The goal is then, revealing the God of heaven, not in the way he is viewed on earth though. For instance, what is the cross without its spiritual definition, it is but a cross, but not so for Christians, it in a word represents the, who, what, when, where, why and how, we are Christians. We have in us, spiritual definitions that mean nothing to the world, but everything to us. They are words that have an expression or Parable attached, such as Prodigal son, which has a spiritual interpretation in it. Therefore, it is that, which is being brought to the understanding of them, who were destined for it. It is not randomly spoken, it is meant for those whom God is calling to with his power or grace, those who are made able to receive it into them. Spiritually discernable only by these spiritual people, it is in essence a code of ethics or spiritual law, only deciphered in one with the Holy Spirit, who knows the meaning and can make us to understand it.
to spiritual people.
> It is meant for those that are now citizens of heaven, in that, we can only relate to it from that perspective, because of God as its source. We cannot analyze scripture from a human perspective alone, using what man deems important in life, because they cannot accept even the most basic truths of God without exception. In the end, it is so that as God has already predestined, all of his believers would have the mind of Christ in them. They then are those who are destined to hear, receive and understand that which is being secretly put in them and interrupted from the Holy Spirit. It is putting things and saying things in Gods words and definitions, according to what God means by them, not man, subjecting it to worldly interpretation as having any foundation to them.

2:15 The one
> So this in reference to whoever becomes a Christian, in that, this is exclusive to believers, they are the ones who gain access to God and are no longer separated from him. It is to the one who is inclusive in the fellowship body of Christ, which as a whole is an exclusive group of those who came to the cross.
who is
> Only for them and effective only in Christians, is it real to them, because it has power in it for them, but not for unbelievers. Here then is a real point of divide though, if non-believers were to obey the principles of the law, their community would reflect the benefits of those principles, because they would establish law and order externally among them. But that is where the effect of Gods law would end in them, they would not know God anymore for having abbreviated a form of Godliness among them. Having never engaged the meaning of them beyond community, so that thru them they perceived who God is. Whereas the believer is in this not to do the law as an end in itself, but to know God first, and learn from God the nature of his laws, because of wanting to know God, not because of the laws. So that they do not just blindly obey them, but support them from an informed mind that finds them righteous, because of Gods help in understanding them. That then is the one who is right, who not only obeys the law, but the one who believes in its origin, principles and absolutes in bringing them into Gods world. The law being only the discussion tool here though, what we are discussing does include the law, but is not its primary focus.
spiritual
> So it is the one who has the whole process of God at work in them, who has a spiritual life with God, which is found in the pursuit of knowing him. It does not denote though, one who is of a certain learning level in their Christian life, "spiritual" is not to be defined as someone who has been a Christian longer and knows more about the word of God. It denotes someone who knows God thru the Holy Spirit, period. It is someone whose Spirit is alive in them because they became a Christian, not because others in the church approved them to be more spiritual. I am not putting down the idea of recognition of them who apply Gods word and have become knowledgeable in it, which is one goal for us to have the mind of Christ in us. That just is not the point of this usage of the term spiritual, here it simply denotes being alive to God, thru the Holy Spirit, now living in union with your born again Spirit. This is where the Holy Spirit has made its home in you, or set up shop, so to speak, as the temple of God in you.
discerns
> Because of the Holy Spirit in them, one has the ability to interpret and search out the application of its meaning in life. To know right from wrong and sense the error of a message that is not of the cross. It is also that which provides the unity in the church, and so far as the church is concerned; there are three common denominators, which we have at work in us. The first is the message of Jesus and the cross, the second is the grace to us from the Father, and the third is our spiritual rebirth with the Holy Spirit. All of these then become just one common denominator under the heading of God, God alone being that which we have in common. However, those three things underwrite our entire Christian existence and experience and make us viable in God. That is also the reason for our insight into God, that he has provided all of these things for us, for that purpose in us, to know his glory.
all things,
> That also defines what one is able to know, as whatsoever is given them by God to know, we will not know everything, that is beyond human capacity. This by default then means they have access to all things that are spiritual in nature, to be able to examine them and study them for your benefit. It does not mean all knowing, or as we would put it, "know-it-alls". It is all available to us as a Christian body, not just all in one individual, though some would argue against that in themselves, but that is but false pride.
yet
> At the same time though, as much attention that we who are spiritual have from God and as much confirmation that we have in us from God himself. The world is oblivious to what is going on right under their nose, concerning Gods action and communion with us. This is because it is not available to the human senses, which is all that they have to know things by. They are literally missing the sense of God in them, as one of their perceptive abilities in life, or what we call sensory perceptions. Moreover, this is one, which is attainable only from God, in that he must first instill or impregnate it in us, as we were taught it in scripture. That is a hard saying for all people, in that, we cannot come to know God, then consequently standing accused and condemned of that fact before God. Leaving us hopelessly lost then in that state without knowing God, unless he first comes and forces himself upon us thru grace, with the intention of saving us. Therefore, now we know the reasoning of that grace, because God came to us in that manner, but before we were as the world, incapable of making the connection or the realization of its meaning to them.
he himself
> This person then becomes one who has much insight with God, cannot though share it with anyone who is outside of the church, in order to express the beauty and the meaning of it because they are lost. To them outside the church, it is not a conscious state in them for it to be able to have any presence of mind in them, that shares in the glory of God thru it. We praise God in the church, for his glory in us, that we see from this, but it is only in the church body that there is any rationale to its presence in us.
is understood
> The Christians own state of clarity, does not automatically transfer to others, in such manner as, being married to a brain surgeon, does not make the spouse one. So the one without the Spirit of God in them cannot understand the rhyme-or-reason of the joy or beliefs of the Christians. We sometimes criticize with the derogatory words, "it takes one to know one", but this is one case where that can actually be said in favor of Christians, as a positive trait for us and a negative argument against them who are not. Because it does take a Christian to know and understand a Christian, in relation to their desire for knowing God and our adoration of his word.
by no one.
> Let my take this simple explanation and really complicate it. Christians have the advantage of perspective in relation to the world, of being on the inside with God, looking out at that of the world, in perspective relation to God. They also have a disadvantage in their relationship with God, of being in that same, inside looking out state. However, mired down somewhat, in their leftover worldly influences, of looking at God from a worldly perspective, in relation to God. So much as, it relates to their own state of Christianity being hindered by our own flesh and its worldly viewpoints. On the earth, we see the world around us from Gods view, but in viewing ourselves in the church, we have a tendency to see from our own view, instead of Gods. So we look at the world and say, you do not see, while at the same time, God is looking at us and saying you do not see. We look at the world from Gods view, but not always at ourselves from that same perspective. Then this is how it comes back to our issue here, non-believers just kind of say, huh, to the whole concept? We are still in the right place though, even though it is not a breeze for us to get it right, it is better than being among the world, who never learns or is able to hear God.