For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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… According to basic principle of the world and not according to Christ. 1 Corinthians 1 says, because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Now, I want to bring it all back to the return of Jesus and of Israel. Two different things, but they are so tightly connected. Zechariah 12 says that He will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. Jesus will come to a nation that still doesn't get it. And He will pour upon them the spirit of grace and supplication. It comes first. And then the injunction. Then. Say the word then. First, He pours on them what? The spirit of what? Grace and supplication. Then they will mourn for Him. No, then they will look on me whom they pierced. In other words, when he will come to that point in his second coming, as physically he will descend on Mount of Olives, he's going to pour upon them that spirit. …
… but to those who are called both Jews and Gentiles. Christ, the power of God. Christ, the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. Think about your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by the world's standards. Not many of you were influential. Not many of you were born to high status, 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. God chose what is low and despised in the world, even the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, so that no human being may boast, no one may boast in the presence of God. It is from him, it is because of God that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, righteousness, a right relationship with God, holiness, closeness to God, redemption, belonging to God. So that, as it is written, let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. …
… POWER OF GOD, AND THE WISDOM OF GOD. NOW WATCH VERSE 25, BECAUSE THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN, AND THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IS STRONGER THAN MEN. NOW WHAT GOD IS, IS, IS ABOUT IS THIS. HE WANTS TO SLAY MAN'S ABOMINABLE PRIDE. MAN THINKS THAT HE, HE LIVES IN A WORLD OF LIGHT. HE THINKS THAT HE, HE HAS ENLIGHTENED HIMSELF. HE THINKS THAT HIS DISCOVERIES, HIS WISDOM, HIS WIT, AH, HE THINKS ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO DELIVER HIM. AND GOD SAYS IN THIS PASSAGE OF Scripture, there's only one thing that will, uh, save anybody in this world, and it is what he calls the foolishness of preaching. Not foolish preaching. We've had too much of that. But the, the foolishness of preaching, that is preaching the cross. You see, the Jews, they wanted a sign, and, and the Greeks wanted a demonstration of power. Verse 24, uh, but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD. THE GREEKS, THE JEWS, RATHER, WANTED, UH, AH, A, A, A, DEMONSTRATION OF SIGNS AND POWERS, AND THE GREEKS WANTED WISDOM. WELL, WHAT HE IS SAYING IS THIS, THERE'S SUCH POWER IN THE CROSS THAT THE CROSS AND THE CROSS ALONE CAN RADICALLY AND DRAMATICALLY AND ETERNALLY CHANGE THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE. AND THE WISDOM OF GOD IS SUCH THAT IN THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS. LISTEN, THE WISDOM OF, OF GOD IS THIS, THAT THE CROSS IS SOMETHING THAT A LITTLE CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND. THAT'S THE …