The Advocate
I Corinthians 2:10–16
“these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 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. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
God freely gave us His Spirit for us to discern His thoughts that we may be close to Him. Let us endeavour to keep close to the Holy Spirit, He will draw us near to the Father. Through Him, as the Son said that unto us “the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given (Matt 13:11).” Such in the Old Testament to Joshua (Num 27:18), to David (I Sam 16:12-13) and even king Saul (I Sam 10:10), the difference is that the indwelling in us in Christ is now complete and permanent that we may seek God daily. Indeed, let us seek God’s wisdom everyday through our prayers and through studying His Word, and by Him we grow richer in knowing Jesus Christ, “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you (John 14:26)”, and through Him we gain the mind of Christ.
“these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 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. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
God freely gave us His Spirit for us to discern His thoughts that we may be close to Him. Let us endeavour to keep close to the Holy Spirit, He will draw us near to the Father. Through Him, as the Son said that unto us “the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given (Matt 13:11).” Such in the Old Testament to Joshua (Num 27:18), to David (I Sam 16:12-13) and even king Saul (I Sam 10:10), the difference is that the indwelling in us in Christ is now complete and permanent that we may seek God daily. Indeed, let us seek God’s wisdom everyday through our prayers and through studying His Word, and by Him we grow richer in knowing Jesus Christ, “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you (John 14:26)”, and through Him we gain the mind of Christ.
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