For two days now we have been walking through 1 Corinthians 2. We have heard Paul’s confession that he came to Corinth in weakness with a simple gospel. And we have seen him distinguish the world’s wisdom from God’s hidden wisdom — a wisdom mysterious to the powerful and reserved for the mature.

Today Paul answers the great question that should be on every reader’s lips: how does this hidden wisdom get from the heart of God to the heart of the believer?