The Church is Build on God's Wisdom
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Opening
Opening
Who do you consider wise and why?
Uncle Harold
Engage: Session Overview
Engage: Session Overview
The church is not build on human wisdom. Human wisdom does not bring anyone to Christ. Paul knew how to craft a speech and get the attention of a crowd. However, as he shared his faith, he simply declared the truth. He did not resort to a sales pitch. He did not try to get an audience all worked up with “persausive words”
1 Corinthians 2:4 (NIV)
My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
He just told the truth and depened on the Holy Spirit to open the hearts and minds of those who heard the Word. Wisdom belongs to God, and he shares it with those who walk with him.
Examine: Introduction
Examine: Introduction
Numbers 20 reports that the people of Israel were whining because they were thirsty. Instead of trusting God, they complained. Moses was upset, so God told him that He would cause water to flow from a rock near the encampment. He instructed Moses to speak to the rock. But instead of speaking to the rock, Moses struck it twice. Because he disobeyed God’s clear instructions, Moses would not lead the people into the promised land. He had received an opportunity to refect the holiness of God before all of Israel, but in his frustration, he failed to trust God enough to honor him as holy. It is possible to become so preoccupied with our frustrations that we fail to yield to God’s wisdom.
One: The church is built on the knowledge of Christ crucified (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
One: The church is built on the knowledge of Christ crucified (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
1 Corinthians 2:1–5 (NIV)
1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
CSB Study Bible: Notes (Chapter 2)
2:1–2 Paul reminded the Corinthian believers that his message was never based on worldly wisdom, but on the offensive message of Christ … crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.
4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
Not with fancy words, just relying on the power of the Holy Spirit.
5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
Two: The church is built on the wisdom of God.
Two: The church is built on the wisdom of God.
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.
7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Three: The church is built on the revelation of God by his Spirit.
Three: The church is built on the revelation of God by his Spirit.
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Four: The church must get past worldly jealousy and bickering.
Four: The church must get past worldly jealousy and bickering.
1 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.
2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?