1 Corinthians chapter 2 14 through 16 let's pray father we thank you for an opportunity to share your

word we thank you for another chance to see loved ones and friends and people we haven't seen in a while

and we pray that you would just be glorified in today's message and thank you for um that you are our king

of endless worth in your name me pray amen amen uh let's read it. First Corinthians chapter 2, 14 through 16,

but the person without the spirit does not receive what comes from God's spirit because it is

foolishness to him. This is the CSB version. I pretty much use CSB every week. If you're like,

what version is Alex using? Christian standard Bible version,

halfway through 14. And the rest of it says, he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated

by, it is evaluated spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything. And yet he

himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.

For who has known the Lord's mind that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ.

You guys know the story of Elijah?

Elijah, you know, he does a lot of crazy things.

One of the things is that he didn't die.

He was picked up by a chariot to heaven at the end of his life. But if you go to First Kings chapter 18, specifically verse 17, there's something that King Ahab, which was one of the kings

in Israel at the time, says to him that I think is really interesting. So first of all, at the beginning of

First Kings 18, Elijah comes on the scene and he says,

it's not going to rain.

Not going to rain at all.

Every day it's going to be dry.

And that started a famine.

The reason why is because under King Ahab's leadership, the whole people of Israel had turned

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