As an introduction to this study, please read the 1-minute devotion Our Divine Translator.
When I gave seminars in Budapest, Hungary, most often my friend Edina translated. Because she’s a Hungarian and a Christian and because she taught school for several years in America, she's an excellent translator.
The Holy Spirit is God so He obviously knows the mind of God, but He also knows how we are made. He knows the mind of fallen man and the process of renewing our minds in Christ. He's our "Divine Translator."
We can memorize the entire Bible, but only God's Spirit can help us understand it.
1. What important truths does God's Spirit show us in 1 Corinthians 2:10-16?
What sets Christians apart from non-Christians? Should we expect unsaved people to understand our faith?
1 Corinthians 2:10-16: "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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. 14 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. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, 'Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?' But we have the mind of Christ."
2. What important truths are contained in the following passage?
Some people claim that they only believe the words of Christ. How does Jesus refute this belief in this passage? See Why Not Only Trust the Words of Christ?
John 16:7-15: "Very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you."
If you are a believer, you have your Divine Translator with you at all times. If you are not a believer, I encourage you to become one. Please read the Eternal Life post and answer this question: Can a simple misunderstanding keep you from heaven?
copyright 2013, Gail Burton Purath, BiteSizeBibleStudy.com, edited and updated in 2021
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