You can't believe on Jesus as the Lord of glory when you are more eager to maintain your own glory.

How can you believe who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?" Or to put it another way, you can't believe on Jesus as the Lord of glory when you are more eager to maintain your own glory than you are to seek and find God's. John 5:42–44

Jesus said in Matthew 11:25, "I thank The Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that He has hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes." So in Matthew 16:17 Peter confessed Jesus to be the Son of God, or the Lord of glory, Jesus said, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father who is in heaven did."

No one can receive the wisdom from God who loves power and acclaim so much that they do not see that the suffering of Jesus as the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:1 "I, was not able to speak to you as spiritual but as fleshly." This characterizes the people who do receive the wisdom of God, namely, the mature or the spiritual. They are the people who are characterized by the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

This should be a surprising discovery for you, namely, that the condition that is required in order for grasping the wisdom of God is not a certain level of intelligence, or education, or experience. The prerequisite is moral, not intellectual. It has as much to do with what you love as with what you think. Not education but sanctification is what makes you receptive to the wisdom God speaks. Not natural ability but spiritual humility opens you to the wisdom of God.

Scripture develops this in 1 Corinthians 3:2, 3. "I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not able, but neither still now are you able, for still you are fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking as mere men?" In other words, the only people who are going to be able to receive the solid food of the wisdom God speaks are: the people who by the power of God's Spirit have overcome jealousy and strife.

In God's order of things you cannot separate the holiness of your life from the depth of your understanding. God has revealed his very wisdom, but he has chosen to do so only among the mature, that is, the spiritual—not a religious elite but any and all who by resting in God's promises are becoming loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, meek, and self-controlled. You must have a heart for God's wisdom rather than man's.