1. How did Paul view his own speaking ability?

2. What was Paul determined to make the focus of his work in Corinth?

3. What did Paul desire their faith to stand in? …not to stand in?

4. Why does Paul refer to God’s wisdom as a "mystery?"

5. When did God plan the wisdom of this mystery?

6. Considering the context of 1 Corinthians 2, what is verse 9 talking about?

7. How does God reveal "things which the eye saw not, and ear heard not, and which entered not into the heart of man?

8. Who knows what is in the mind of man?

9. Which spirit did the apostles receive, and what was the result?

10. Which things also we ________________, not in _________ which _______________

11. Read Ephesians 3:3-5 and 1 Pet. 1:10-12. To whom did the Holy Spirit reveal these things? What did they do with the revelations?

12. Who cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God, and why not?

13. Who can receive the things of the Spirit of God, and how does he do it?

14. Who is the "natural" man, and who is the "spiritual" man? Read 1 Cor. 3:1-3 first.

15. For who hath known the _______________ of the ______________, that he should

16. How can we know what is in the mind of God and Christ? Read these passages again: 1 Corinthians 2:12-13, Ephesians 3:3-5, 1 Pet. 1:10-12