Chapter 2

Ok so chapter two...day two.. so i don't know what to write today for some reason.. I'm just going to type in what verses stood out to me and go from there.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 - "And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God."
so i guess it's saying that every time Paul makes a speech or is preaching the words he use are good, like he has excellent word choice and says it in a charismatic voice, but it's not from him. It's from the Lord, the LORD gave him these words and the charisma. The only way Paul could have done it was by the power of God. If Paul were to say these things by himself, with his own power and ways, then your faith shouldn't be there cause it's not from the Lord, it's from the wisdom of men. Paul, who is a man, said those things from his wisdom (a man) if he were to use his own words and power to make a speech or preach. that is not good listen to God not men.

1 Corinthians 2:7-8 - "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
"we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery" I think this means when we do have God speak through us then it's ok to not understand cause the wisdom of God is a mystery. God is a mystery which is good cause he's unpredictable and that's fun cause you never know what God's going to do (unless he tells you) and it's never the same. So when something happens and you do something to get there, don't expect just because you do the same thing the same result is going to happen cause God's not like that he's not predictable. If God was predictable then it wouldn't be fun cause every time God does something cool like a miracle then we wouldn't be shouting in joy and leaping cause some person just got save. We would be something like "oh wow he got save, I did not see that coming (out of sarcasm). it's ok Mark is going to be saved next week" or something along those lines. Life just wouldn't be fun if God was like that.

1 Corinthians 2:9 (just part of it) - "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard"
this is part of a song i think.

1 Corinthians 2:13 - "These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
I think the point of this verse is that compare spiritual things with spiritual. kind of like that one phrase "fight fire with fire". not sure but that's what i think it means. When you are teaching someone God's words don't yourself get in the way of it and let the Holy Spirit guide you. It's God's words not your words. and trinity Holy Spirit is God. So let the Holy Spirit teach not you. You know if i were to teach it would definitely not go so well. it would be disastrous if i were to teach.

Today was good i was asking people how their day was and i found that one of my close friends was have a very very good day. that person was very cheerful and happy, and the day before i mean that person was really grumpy and i talked to that person and i guess i kind of left the person without saying good bye or anything and that person got really mad like instant anger. and now today it was crazy happiness. That happiness was overwhelming joy and i pray that everyone has that joy. That every one's joy would be restored and renewed to a new joy, that our joy would set a whole new level of "joyness". Even to our enemies i pray that we would not reject them and/or discriminate them, but to let them in and love them. I pray that when we worship, we are actually worshiping and not faking it, I read earlier today someone's comment on their favorite artist that 50 cent is better than Kanye cause 50 cent is not faking he's real, the point is that we keep it real. I just pray that we keep it real. Amen.