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Gotta Tell Everybody How Christ Wen Mahke On Top One Cross

Eh bruddas an sistas! Wen I wen go by you guys first time, I wen tell you guys all da kine stuff from God dat nobody eva wen know befo time. But I neva ack like I mo betta den you guys. An wen I wen talk to you guys, I neva talk jus fo make me look smart. Wen I was wit you guys, I wen figga lidis: I ony know one ting, an dass Jesus Christ. He da Spesho Guy God Wen Send, but was him da peopo wen hang on top one cross fo kill um. An dass da ony ting I know fo shua.

You know, da first time, wen I wen go ova dea by you guys, I wen feel like I not strong, an I was scared an shaky. No matta I was teaching, o I was talking to plenny guys, same ting, aah? I neva like talk jus fo make da peopo tink, “Eh, we can trus wat dis guy telling us, cuz he know how fo talk real good, yeah?” No ways, brah! But wen I wen talk, I wen show you guys dat I get da Spirit in charge a me, az why I get power. Cuz I figga, no good you guys go trus God jus cuz you hear smart kine stuff dat peopo tell. Mo betta you trus God cuz he get da power, an you see wat he can do.

Da Smart Kine Stuff God Teach Us

Fo shua, wen us guys talk to da peopo who stay solid inside, we teach um smart kine stuff. But we no teach da same kine smart stuff da peopo inside da world stay teach nowdays, o da kine stuff da leada guys tink too. (Dem leada guys, dey all goin wipe out, you know.) Us guys, we teach ony da smart kine stuff dat come strait from God. Cuz God wen hide um from da peopo befo time, but from da start he wen figga he goin let us guys know um, so bumbye we goin come awesome. But da leada guys dat stay in charge nowdays, dey neva undastan. If dey wen undastan, fo shua dey no goin hang our awesome Boss on top da cross fo kill um.

So da smart kine stuff from God stay hide from befo time, jalike da Bible wen tell,

“Get tings you neva see,
    Get tings you neva hear bout,
    You no can even tink how unreal dis ting goin be.
Dass da kine stuff God wen make ready
    Fo us guys dat get love an aloha fo him.”

10 But us guys, God show us all da stuff we neva know befo time, cuz Godʼs Spirit stay in charge a us.

Da Spirit, he undastan everyting. He even check out how God stay, deep down inside him. 11 Us guys, we all get our own spirit inside us. Dass how we know how we tink an ack. Same ting wit God -- no mo nobody know how God stay inside, but Godʼs own Spirit, he know.

12 You know, us guys, we get Godʼs Spirit in charge a us. Dass why we no tink da same way da peopo dat get da spirit from inside dis world tink. Inside us, we get da Spirit dat come from God, az why. God like us know all da good kine stuff he wen give us guys.

13 Dass da kine stuff us guys stay talk bout. Us guys teach da stuff Godʼs Spirit teach us. We no need talk fancy kine, jalike how da smart guys like talk wen dey teach. But us guys, we put togedda da tings dat come from Godʼs Spirit fo da peopo dat stay tight wit Godʼs Spirit. 14 Dass why, if get one guy dat no mo Godʼs Spirit in charge a him, ony his own self, dat guy no goin like take da kine stuff dat come from Godʼs Spirit. He goin tink, “Az wase time!” No way da guy goin undastan. Gotta stay tight wit Godʼs Spirit fo check out if dat kine stuff az da trut. 15 Da guy dat stay tight wit Godʼs Spirit, he can check um out wateva. But same time, all da odda peopo, dey no can check out dat guy. 16 Jalike da Bible wen say:

“Who can figga out wat God stay tinking, aah?
    O who can teach God wat he suppose to do?
No mo nobody!”

But us guys, we know, cuz Christ help us guys tink jalike he tink.

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom(A) as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.(B) I came to you(C) in weakness(D) with great fear and trembling.(E) My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,(F) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,(G) so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.(H)

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,(I) but not the wisdom of this age(J) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.(K) No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery(L) that has been hidden(M) and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age(N) understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.(O) However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[b]
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—(P)

10 these are the things God has revealed(Q) to us by his Spirit.(R)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts(S) except their own spirit(T) 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(U) of the world,(V) 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(W) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(X) but considers them foolishness,(Y) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit(Z) 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?”[d](AA)

But we have the mind of Christ.(AB)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Some manuscripts proclaimed to you God’s mystery
  2. 1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 64:4
  3. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual
  4. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13