“Am I A Spiritual Person or A Person of The Holy Spirit?”
1 Corinthians 2
When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan.
2 For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling.
4 And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.
5 I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.
- Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
- That’s the center of true ‘spirituality’.
Spiritual people - exploring all the different ways, all the possible truths, all the ways to live life.
Jesus says in John 14.6:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except by me.”Jesus is the center of everything.
If every Bible was gone, that claim alone from Jesus discounts everything else.
So spiritual person, what do you do about Jesus Christ?
- Are you looking for illumination or elimination?
- The difference between a person who has spirituality versus the person who has the Holy Spirit is literally the difference between Heaven and Hell.
- Hell will be filled with spiritual people.
- Heaven will only have people of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2
6 Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.
7 No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God —his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began. 8 But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord. 9 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared for those who love him.”
10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit.
For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
- Know this about your own spirit and what it reveals:
Jeremiah 17
9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
10 But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
Romans 3
10 As the Scriptures say,
“No one is righteous— not even one.
11 No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.
12 All have turned away; all have become useless.
No one does good, not a single one.”
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19 Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God…
21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago.
22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
- There is no ‘clever’ or winsome way to say the truth, that the Law of God shows the perfection of God and we are, all of us apart from Christ, in constant rebellion to God, and as we showed last week,
Romans 2.5
“Because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”
1 Corinthians 2
13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit.
It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.
16 For,
“Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?”
But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
- This is not our boast, but it is our boast in the Lord.
- What will you do with what you’ve been given?
- Jesus has declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one can come to the Father except through me.”
1 Corinthians 1
30 God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
31 Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”
- A spiritual person is not just influenced by all the spirits in this world full of spiritual warfare.
- Instead, a spiritual person responds to the Holy Spirit of God and is convicted of their own sin.
- They allow their heart soul and mind to turn to the righteousness of God and take hold of his promises to escape the judgment to come.
- God has made himself known to you through the declaration of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1
4 …because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises.
