![]() ![]() ![]() And our conviction is that from the pulpits of our country, we are supposed to hear not the bright ideas of men, not their rambling thoughts, not their theorizing or their speculation. We’re using the pulpit as a metaphor, of course we’re not suggesting that a block of wood has in itself power or faces pitfalls, but we’re saying the pulpit as the place at which the opening up of the Scriptures takes place. Now, my subject this morning is the pulpit-its pitfalls and its power. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.”įather, with our Bibles on our laps and with our minds tuned to hear your voice, we pray that the Spirit of God will be our teacher. ![]() I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. “When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. Therefore, as it is written: ‘Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.’ It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. Not many of you were wise by human standards not many were influential not many were of noble birth. “Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. “Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. ![]() For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’ “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. Can I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to 1 Corinthians and chapter 1, and to follow along as I read from the eighteenth verse? ![]()
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