CHAPTER LXIV
“EYE HATH NOT SEEN NOR EAR HEARD.”
Sermon by Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter
1 Cor. 2:9-14. This is not understood by any one except he has the Holy Ghost. “Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for those that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
Many today apply this to eternity, to the other world; they think we never know these things until we get into another world. I am glad the scripture explains itself. “Eye hath not seen,” in the natural state. God hath—in the present—revealed unto us by His Spirit. How? By His Spirit, in this world. “The Spirit searcheth all things; yea, the deep things of God.”
I desire to call your attention, especially, to the 14th verse. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
The natural man cannot understand this wonderful scripture. There are two classes of men; the spiritual man and the natural man. The natural man is in the “gall of bitterness”; the spiritual man is born of God and walks in the Spirit; he gets out into the deep. The natural man can never discern spiritual things, never hear and understand the work of the Lord; these things pass all human understanding. The wisdom of this world, intellect and science, can never understand the spiritual things of God.
There are two kinds of wisdom; the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. The wisdom from above, the natural man cannot comprehend; it never enters his imagination to think of the things God hath prepared for those who love Him.
He hath prepared already, and He hath revealed them to us by His Spirit. His Spirit lets us down into the deep things, even the deep things of God. This is what we preach, what we
practice, and what we stand on. The work of the Spirit is fool-
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