However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. (7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, (8) which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (9) But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (10) But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

The first letter to the Corinthians was written by the apostle Paul. In our verses today Paul compares the wisdom of God to the wisdom of this world. The rulers of this world appear in the eyes of the world to be clear sighted and wise but they are temporal and transitory; they judge as natural man in matters of politics but God’s revelation must be spiritually discerned. Man cannot know the reality of truth by his/her senses. This world is not as it appears and truth is known from God’s spirit to man’s spirit and never by man’s senses.
Paul’s preaching in Corinth offended many who perceived the gospel he preached as crude or not wise enough; the gospel upended natural man’s wisdom/intellect. The Jews expected signs and wonders and they saw nothing miraculous in Christ Jesus – the gospel was not convincing to many but Paul is saying men of this world were/are not competent judges. Natural man views the gospel as foolishness – man can never realize the wisdom of God’s will on their own as the gospel and faith are only spiritually discerned and this is the heart and soul of our message today.
Man is not able by intellect to know God and Paul’s message to the faithful in Corinth was that believers are exempt from this blindness though special illumination of God’s Spirit, in Christ.