explain it to a 30-year or 40-year old man. I suspect that many a man Is married for 50 years and then passes away and never does understand woman's intuition: but the point is that the selection of words and the selection of ideas that have been used to explain a subject that would be beyond the comprehension of a six-year old boy. There is just no way in the world that you could probably find words or ideas or illustrations to get it across. In another area, think about how you would explain the workings of an internal combustion engine to a person who has no mechanical aptitude or interest in mechanical things. There has to be a certain level of experience or knowledge or desire you see before a person can begin to understand this. So what Paul is simply saying is that some things concerning the Christian life require a certain lev el of experience before they are comprehensible. I wish that this passage of I Cor inthians 2 gave us a list of topics, but it does not. It simply says "things." It does not give us a cat egory of subjects such as heaven, or Christ's coming, or the ministry of the Holy Spirit, or the great ben efits of prayer. What we have is simply the idea that these things are glorious, that they are signifi cant. Let us look again at verse 7, "But we speak the wisdom of Cod in a mystery (or as befits a mystery), even the hidden wisdom which Cod ordained before the world unto our glory." It is a body of glorious information. It is not an afterthought on God's part. It was ordained before the world for our glory.
Notice verse 8, "Which none of the princes of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." This is a glorious body of infor mation. In fact, it is so great that had the rulers ("princes") this in formation they would not have crucified Him. Why? Because they might have understood that He was not only the very Son of Cod, but that He was the King of Glory. They might have understood that He was going to intercede on their behalf. They might have under stood that He was going to prepare for them an eternal home. They might have understood that He could heal the ache within their heart, that He could unite husband and wife, mother and son, father and daughter. They might have un derstood that He came not as a threat to the rulers in Rome or in the other portions of the world, but He came only to rule and to reign in their heart. Look in verse 9, "But as it is writ ten, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." Although there is no catalogue of topics, there is a hint that "these things" refer to that which is coming, to the eternal glory that is going to be those who know Christ as Savior. That is why it is a glorious body of information, a glorious message.
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