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Pamphlet #4072
My Note: God's Foolishness is wiser than men's wisdom! Ref. Scripture ! Cor. 1:25
God's Foolishness is wiser than men's wisdom!
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:17 ¶For Christ sent
me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power
of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom
of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God
the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the
Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto
the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto
them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and
the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how
that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He
that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 2:1 ¶And I, brethren,
when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring
unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in
fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 ¶Howbeit
we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this
world, nor of the princes of this world,
that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in
a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world
unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world
knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by
his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit
of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself
is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Pray that the Holy Spirit might grant you eyes to see and ears to hear.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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