1 Corinthians 2:9-16, 3:1-3
"But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for THOSE WHO LOVE HIM'. But God has revealed them unto us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 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. 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. These things we also speak, not in words that man's wisdom teaches but which the Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he is rightly judged by no one. For 'who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ. And I brethren could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal".
Paul is exhorting the Corinthian church to repent from their carnal ways and follow his manner of living. The "Us" in the second sentence is not everyone although it is available to everyone. Not everyone in Christ is willing to lay down their carnality for His spiritual things. We treat babies as such until they reach a point where we know they know to act in a more grown-up manner. Paul is explaining that if they want the blessing of the Lord upon their lives, they must build on the foundation they received in Christ. The new birth in Christ Jesus is really an act of obedience as the Spirit and Truth of this kingdom land upon the measure of faith given to each one. One is born again by the Holy Spirit and with that Spiritual birth comes a greater passion to follow God's ways. So follow it! Follow it to a bible-believing church and an open bible on your own. As you give yourself to it, He begins to build you up into all things in Him, if you will have it! He wants to give you His mind and every thing God has in mind for you!
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