1. Who Is The “Natural Man”? (I Corinthians 2:14)

2. Natural Man – I Cor. 2:14
Does not receive the things of the Spirit… for they are foolish to him
He cannot know them … for they are spiritually discerned.
Unable because of “total depravity” – needs Spiritual “Illumination” from the Holy Spirit???

3. Natural Man – I Cor. 2:14
Does not receive the things of the Spirit… for they are foolish to him
He cannot know them … for they are spiritually discerned.
Unable because of “total depravity” – needs Spiritual “Illumination” from the Holy Spirit???
When unbelievers read Scripture they can believe and be saved (John 20:30-31)

4. Natural Man – I Cor. 2:14
Does not receive the things of the Spirit… for they are foolish to him
He cannot know them … for they are spiritually discerned.
Unable because of “total depravity” – needs Spiritual “Illumination” from the Holy Spirit???
When unbelievers read Scripture they can believe and be saved (John 20:30-31)
The Holy Spirit’s work is “revealing” the Scripture so we can know the mind of God (2 Pet. 1:3, Eph 3:3-5 I Cor. 2:10-13)

5. Things of the Spirit – Foolish
“Word of the Cross” to them who perish (I Cor. 1:18)
Preaching “Christ crucified” Jews and Greeks (I Cor. 1:23)

6. Things of the Spirit – Foolish
“Word of the Cross” to them who perish (I Cor. 1:18)
Preaching “Christ crucified” Jews and Greeks (I Cor. 1:23)
The message of salvation through Christ and the cross is understood, but rejected as foolish to the natural man.

7. Things of the Spirit – Foolish
“Word of the Cross” to them who perish (I Cor. 1:18)
Preaching “Christ crucified” Jews and Greeks (I Cor. 1:23)
The message of salvation through Christ and the cross is understood, but rejected as foolish to the natural man.
God’s saving message is foolish to man’s wisdom and pride ...why many do not heed the call of the Gospel (I Cor. 1:26)

8. Things of the Spirit – Foolish
The Bodily Resurrection From The Dead (Acts 17:18, 32)
Sadducees: no resurrection, no angel, no spirit (Acts 23:8)

9. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual receives the revelation of the mind of God and is able to “judge all things” (I Cor. 2:15).
Knows the eternal plan of God – Salvation From Sin (I Cor. 2:8-9)

10. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual receives the revelation of the mind of God and is able to “judge all things” (I Cor. 2:15).
Knows the eternal plan of God – Salvation From Sin (I Cor. 2:8-9)
Knows the glories of Heaven that follows (I Pet. 1: 11, 3-4)

11. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual is judged by no man (I Cor. 2:15)
“I am not mad, most excellent Festus…(Acts 26:24-25, 29)?

12. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual is judged by no man (I Cor. 2:15)
“I am not mad, most excellent Festus…(Acts 26:24-25, 29)?
“We are a sweet savor of Christ unto God… in them that are saved, and in them that perish” (2 Cor. 2:15-17)

13. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual is judged by no man (I Cor. 2:15)
“I am not mad, most excellent Festus…(Acts 26:24-25, 29)?
“We are a sweet savor of Christ unto God… in them that are saved, and in them that perish” (2 Cor. 2:15-17)
“If we have only hoped in Christ in this life…most pitiable” (I Cor. 15:19)

14. The Spiritual VS. the Natural
The Spiritual is judged by no man (I Cor. 2:15)
“I am not mad, most excellent Festus…(Acts 26:24-25, 29)?
“We are a sweet savor of Christ unto God… in them that are saved, and in them that perish” (2 Cor. 2:15-17)
“If we have only hoped in Christ in this life…most pitiable” (I Cor. 15:19)
The Revealed Mind of God – Certainty, not a probability wager - Blaise Pascal ( )