Today's Daily Bread

THE GOSPEL IS TAUGHT AND RECEIVED BY THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Date : Thursday, March 19, 2026
Passage : 1Corinthians 2:6~16
Keyverse : 12  
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We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
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None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" - the things God has prepared for those who love him -
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these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
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for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Every age and culture have prevailing forms of wisdom by which people live. Though these may seem better than what has come before, history shows that none have lasted because none can solve man’s fundamental problems of sin and death. God’s wisdom is different. God hid his wisdom for a time but had always determined to reveal it for our glory (7). To those who love God, God has revealed his glorious wisdom by the Holy Spirit. God’s wisdom is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Only a person’s spirit knows a person’s thoughts. In the same way only God’s Spirit knows God’s thoughts and wisdom. God’s Spirit revealed the gospel through Jesus. God’s Spirit opens our hearts and minds to understand and receive the gospel. Paul’s emphasis on God’s Spirit was to help the Corinthians – and us – to understand that the gospel is not a manmade story but God’s revelation. Paul and the other apostles did not teach human wisdom but God’s wisdom. The Corinthians had accepted the gospel only through the Spirit (14), not by any human means.

We have accepted the gospel only by the work of the Holy Spirit. Depend on God’s Spirit as you meditate on God’s word and share it with others. Prayer: Father, thank you for revealing the gospel to me through your Spirit. Work in hearts today.
One Word: Spirit-taught words