2:4-6a,10,13 my message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a...

Anchor Your Faith

1 Corinthians 2:4-16

2:4-6a,10,13 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature…these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God… This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

Anchor your faith in the power of the Spirit

2:4-5 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

Anchor your faith in the wisdom of the Spirit

2:10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

Written Word (Scripture):2 Tim 3:16 all Scripture is God-

breathed2 Peter 3:15-16 Paul wrote with

God’s wisdom… hard to understand… as other Scriptures

Acts 8:30-35

Anchor your faith in the wisdom of the Spirit

2:10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

Living Word (Spirit):Heb 4:12; Heb 6:5; Matt 4:4John 14:26; 16:13-15

1 Kings 19:11-13 a gentle whisper

Anchor your faith in God, not people

2:11 know God

2:12 know the things given by God

Let’s anchor our faith in the power, presence, wisdom, Word of God