Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and it's impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated. Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Take God's word and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 2. I think one of the great, great chapters in all of

the Bible. I want to tell you tonight how you can be blessed. In order to be blessed, you must obey.

In order to obey, you must trust. In order to trust, you must love. And in order to love, you must know. Now, this chain of

events begins with the idea of knowing God. The reason that many people are not blessed is they

don't know God, that they might love God, that they might trust God, that they might obey God,

and that they might be blessed. I want to talk to you really about

how to know God through the Bible. How to know God through the Bible, how God can become real to you,

not someone that you know about, but someone that you know because to know him is to love him, to love him is to trust him.

To trust him is to obey him.

To obey him is to be blessed.

And it all begins with this idea of knowing God.

And the entire second chapter of 1 Corinthians deals with this idea of knowing God.

And really, it deals with the word wisdom,

because what wisdom is is the knowledge of God.

Wisdom is the knowledge of God.

Wisdom is seeing life from God's perspective, from God's point of view.

That's what wisdom is.

Now, he talks here in this chapter about human wisdom

and its deficiency, and then he talks about heavenly wisdom and its sufficiency. Now, we're going to

talk, first of all, about human wisdom and its deficiency. And then we're going to talk about heavenly

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