The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation

2nd Sunday of Baonah 2015

The spirit of wisdom and revelation

 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of

glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Eph

1:17

St Cyril of Alexandria commentary on the gospel of John (Lib. 10: PG 74, 434)

After Christ had completed his mission on earth, it still remained

necessary for us to become sharers in the divine nature of the Word. We had to give up our own life and be so transformed

that we would begin to live an entirely new kind of life that

would be pleasing to God. This was something we could do only by

sharing in the Holy Spirit.

We speak wisdom

6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet

not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

1Cor 2:6

Wisdom ordained for our glory !!!

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God

ordained before the ages for our glory, 1

Cor 2:7

Rulers do not know!!

which none of the rulers of this age

knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord

of glory. 1 Cor 2:8

The misquoted verse

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear

heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, The things which God

has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor 2: 9

Revealed to us

But God has revealed them to us through

His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

1 Cor 2:10

The Spirit knows !!!

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man

which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit

of God. 1 Cor 2:11

Which spirit?!!

Now we have received, not the spirit of the

world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we

might know the things that have been freely

given to us by God. 1 Cor 2:12

Who is teaching?

These things we also speak, not in words which

man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit

teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor 2: 13

Receivers not instructors

For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Cor 2:16

conversionAnd the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Lk 5:21

And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!” Lk 5:26

St Cyril of Alexandria commentary on the gospel of John (Lib. 10: PG 74,

434)

It can easily be shown from examples both in the Old

Testament and the New that the Spirit changes those in

whom he comes to dwell; he so transforms them that they

begin to live a completely new kind of life.

Application