Christ, The Power and Wisdom of God
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For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish? For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached. For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, in order that, as it is written: Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
A story about getting off course.
A church off course. why do you think the most powerful passage on love, which we use in almost every wedding, is found in this book? If we were preaching on the love chapter i would say, because they were not focused on the things of love they were trusting in the wisdom and the power of man, rather than the message of the cross, the most amazing display of love in God’s only son dying a violent and publicly humiliating death to offer forgiveness to mankind and seal our hope in his resurrection. they took their focus off this and forgot the things of god. that great expression of love who inspires the believer into sacrificial love. of course that is not what we are here to preach on today. so, I’m not going to say all that.