WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS?
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
What Is the Message of the Cross?
Richard Bradley
1 Corinthians 1:20-25
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who 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.
If you've been in church for even a little while you likely already know the story of the cross. About this time each year some preachers feel it necessary to do an almost forensic analysis of Jesus' death on the cross. The problem is that too often the story of the cross ends with the gory details and the true message of the cross is hardly mentioned.
While we don't want to minimize Jesus' death on the cross, and it was certainly hideous, the main message of the cross is that Jesus' death was not in vain; it accomplished exactly what God intended it to accomplish.
Look with me this morning at the message of the cross.
THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS ONE OF REVELATION (vv. 20-21):
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
Since the Garden of Eden God has watched us groping around in the dark trying to find Him and always failing. The only thing we can know about God through searching for Him is that there is one but we can know nothing about Him. We can't know that He longs t ...
Richard Bradley
1 Corinthians 1:20-25
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who 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.
If you've been in church for even a little while you likely already know the story of the cross. About this time each year some preachers feel it necessary to do an almost forensic analysis of Jesus' death on the cross. The problem is that too often the story of the cross ends with the gory details and the true message of the cross is hardly mentioned.
While we don't want to minimize Jesus' death on the cross, and it was certainly hideous, the main message of the cross is that Jesus' death was not in vain; it accomplished exactly what God intended it to accomplish.
Look with me this morning at the message of the cross.
THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS ONE OF REVELATION (vv. 20-21):
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
Since the Garden of Eden God has watched us groping around in the dark trying to find Him and always failing. The only thing we can know about God through searching for Him is that there is one but we can know nothing about Him. We can't know that He longs t ...
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