“For the foolishness of God is wiser
than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
1
Corinthians 1:25
What
is the foolishness of God? Five times in 18 verses the Apostle Paul refers to
the message of God as foolishness; a message that destroys the wisdom of the
wise and frustrates the intelligence of the intelligent. It is the message of
the cross!
“For the message of the cross is
foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the
power of God.”
1
Corinthians 1:18
The
world we live in sees the message of the cross as foolish. The cross is mocked
and depicted as polarizing causing even many churches to take down their crosses
and stop singing about the cross of Christ in order to be more appealing to the
world. However, the very message they are removing is the message that God has
chosen through which to save us:
“For since in the wisdom of God world through
its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what
was preached to save those who believe.”
1
Corinthians 1:21
The
idea that a man had to die on a cross to save us from the penalty of sin,
simply, frustrates our human thinking. It runs counterintuitive to what the world
teaches us. The world teaches that we do not need God. It emphasizes self-sufficiency
and refuses to recognize God’s revelation of Jesus Christ to us.
God
calls the wisdom of this world foolish, because through it mankind has yet to
find truth or come to know God. This makes the gospel message incompatible with
human wisdom. That is why we should never equate the message of the cross with
philosophy, science or human wisdom.
1
Corinthians 1:20
Pastor Scott
Burr
http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com/
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