The Bible is all true and inerrant. Adam and Eve sinned for the first time and death entered the world as intimate fellowship with God was interrupted. Jesus, God in the flesh, came to make propitiation for sin, taking the due penalty of death and God's wrath upon Himself. Anyone who believes and trusts in Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and does the will of the Father receives eternal life.
Does my belief in these fundamentals of Christianity make me special? Have I somehow been touched by the finger of God in a way other believers are not - a way that enables me to believe MORE in these truths? Am I one of the few that realizes how half-truth telling is sinful? Is the Bible not very clear?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Foolishness to the World
I Corinthians 1:18-31
"18For 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.
22For 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."
As I read this passage this morning, it came alive to me. Every day I see people in the "Science" world and young adults living in the so called"wisdom" of the world. They do not understand the Wisdom of God, seeing it as foolishness which only keeps them from their fleshly desires. They fulfill the desires of their flesh and neglect their spiritual man leaving it empty, not understanding true contentment comes from filling that void with God. They live for the moment, everseeking peace and contentment, but never finding them even though "He is not far from us all. For in Him we live, and move and have our being." Acts 17: 27b-28a.
"18For 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.
22For 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."
As I read this passage this morning, it came alive to me. Every day I see people in the "Science" world and young adults living in the so called"wisdom" of the world. They do not understand the Wisdom of God, seeing it as foolishness which only keeps them from their fleshly desires. They fulfill the desires of their flesh and neglect their spiritual man leaving it empty, not understanding true contentment comes from filling that void with God. They live for the moment, everseeking peace and contentment, but never finding them even though "He is not far from us all. For in Him we live, and move and have our being." Acts 17: 27b-28a.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
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