![]() Love is an easy word to say but a hard word to find. Yet during his presidency he would see the world erupt into the most terrible war in human history, with fifty million deaths, including the deaths of six million Jews in the holocaust. Somehow FDR instinctively knew that in the middle of the Great Depression, with panic and perplexity gripping our nation like a noose, America needed the kind of bracing and riveting love described in this chapter. The caption said that Roosevelt has been sworn into office at his first inauguration with his hand resting on this Bible, opened to one very special chapter-1 Corinthians 13-the Love Chapter of the Bible. It was a Dutch Bible, and it was covered with a beautiful binding held together with a clasp. The other item of special interest was the large family Bible. His speech was an actual prayer, and on the original version there are handwritten notes that he had made. Roosevelt may not have been the most moral man in the world, but he knew that on D-Day, the nation needed to cry to God on behalf of her sons storming the beaches of Normandy, and he led the nation in prayer. One of the original copies of the prayer he prayed during his broadcast on D-Day. It was built while he was still alive, and he used his presidential office there to make some of his famous fireside chats. FDR’s house is there and also his Presidential Library. ![]() 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.Earlier this month I visited the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York. 14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 12 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. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ![]() 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 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. 3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Bible Gateway 1 Corinthians 2 :: NIV 1 Corinthians 2 1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
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