I always like to tell people that if I am ever the smartest guy in the room we are all in big trouble. I am not trying to be clever, I’m just being honest about my limitations on an intellectual level. The same thing applies to my spiritual life. I will never be the smartest on in the room when it comes to understanding and being able to explain God’s Word and the spiritual importance of His message. The good news is that I don’t have to be a genius. In verse 12 it says, We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. God’s Holy Spirit helps us to understand all that we need to know. Even Paul, who was a pretty smart and well educated fellow, understood the importance of allowing God to be the message and not our own understanding. Paul expresses this in verses 4-5, 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. The important thing to me in these verses is how Paul makes sure that men’s wisdom rests solely on God’s power.