1My friends, remember when I first came to you and told you God’s message. I didn’t use smart talk and clever words, like a man that thinks he knows everything.
2No. I decided to tell you only about Jesus Christ, and that he died on the cross for us. I didn’t talk about other things.
3I was feeling weak and frightened while I was with you. I was so frightened I was shaking.
4I didn’t think up clever ideas or give smooth speeches to get you to believe my message. No. I trusted God’s spirit to use his power to show everyone that my message is true.
5I did this so you will not trust in a smart person, but you will trust in the power of God.
6But when you trust in Jesus, and you become strong for him, that’s when we can talk about things that are wise and good. I don’t mean smart ideas that people in this world think up, like the way the bosses of this world plan things. Those bosses will finish up anyway.
7No, the wise and good things that we talk about are the secret things that belong to God. Long ago, before he made the world, God decided to hide these secret things from the people, but he decided to tell these things to us.
8None of the bosses of this world understood these things. So they killed Jesus. They nailed our very great and good leader, to a cross.
9But, you know, all of this is in God’s book. We can read this, “God got good things ready for the people that love him. These things are better than anything anybody else can ever think up. Nobody ever saw or heard anything like the good things God got ready for us.”
10But God’s spirit shows these things to us. His spirit understands everything, even those things that God has not yet told to anybody.
11You see, nobody knows what another person is thinking. Only that person’s own spirit knows, nobody else. Well, it is like that with God, too. Only God’s spirit knows what God is thinking.
12And remember this, God didn’t get us to think the way the people of this world think. No. God gave us his spirit, and his spirit helps us, so we can understand all the good things God gave us.
13These are the things that we tell you about. We don’t use words that smart people taught us, but we use the words that God’s spirit teaches us. And we explain God’s message to people that have God’s spirit living inside them.
14You see, if God’s spirit is not living inside people, they can’t believe any message from God. They can’t understand what God wants to teach them. They think it is all stupid. You see, the Holy Spirit is the only one that can help people understand the things of God.
15People that have God’s spirit can think about all these things and understand them. But people that haven’t got God’s spirit can never understand the people that have got his Spirit.
16As we read in the God’s book, “Nobody can know what God is thinking. Nobody can try to tell him the right way to think.” But the Holy Spirit is in us, so we can think the same way that Jesus Christ thinks.
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