1 Corinthians 1-2

• Called by the will of God. God made the decision (1:1)
• Grace and peace from God (v3)
• Thanksgiving nature for what God has given (v4-6)
• Who will sustain to the end (v8) - assurance that God will be there with us in every moment
• No division within a church (v10). Paul explains there is no division in the body of Christ so no division in the church (v12-13)
• Wisdom cannot in beyond God's thinking or his plan (v19-22)

• Paul may have delivered a respectable speech, but he humbles himself and honours God for using the spirit to guide him (2:4)
• God's wisdom is not our wisdom, otherwise Jesus would not have been crucified (v6-8)
• And God's wisdom is revealed through the spirit (v10), because the spirit is from him and no one can understand him better but through himself.
• So it is not our wisdom who teaches us but through the Holy Spirit (v13)