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First Corinthians, chapter 2 verses 7 and 8.

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for

our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

This is really important for how we understand the wisdom of God.

So verse 7 says we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

So the whole picture is here the wisdom of God involves his plans, God's plans for the history of salvation from before the foundation of the world.

Now, this wisdom from God is totally different from the wisdom of man that God would

ordain the death of his son to be the means by which sinners could be reconciled to him. What man would have thought of the incarnation. God with us, in human flesh,

born in a manger and stable, to live among us and then to die on a cross the most cruel form of death

imaginable and yet we know from before the foundation of the world, God

purposed to do this so that we might be saved from our sins. Like this is all the wisdom of God and it is contrary to the

wisdom of man to the ways of man which is, so verse 8 says,

none of the rulers of this age understood this,

for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

If they knew, understood this was God in the flesh,

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