“Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
All this talk about the man’s wisdom not being how a person comes to understand the gospel and setting aside the use of wise speech in proclaiming the gospel might lead one to think that God does not value wisdom. But this is certainly not so. God just doesn’t value the kind of wisdom that the world values. The world’s wisdom is flawed, but God’s wisdom is perfect and complete--glorious. God’s wisdom is superior to the world's wisdom.
But God’s wisdom cannot be known by just anyone. It is a secret wisdom. It is not a secret wisdom in the gnostic sense, where there is a group of people who know something but are keeping it from everyone else somehow. Christians are not hiding the wisdom of God from the world. The world is simply unable to understand God’s wisdom. Therefore, they reject it as folly.
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