My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
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… and in fear and much trembling and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. again, there was a decision. You know, last night, Chandler talked about the safety belt. Right, we put on that safety belt, and honestly, my safety belt is sermon prep. I'm not talking about studying the Word of God. Okay? I study the Word. We should all be students of the Word of God. Study, study, study, study. But sometimes my safety belt is my sermon prep and just figuring out how to deliver it just right to where I know it can't fail. I know, like what you were saying last night. I know how to keep people's attention. I know how to put together a message I'll keep everyone's attention for 40 minutes. I figured that out. Okay, so that's my safety best. …
… and much trembling. and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of god This has been on my mind so much. I'm going, God, I don't know how to do this. Like, how do I come before a crowd in weakness and in fear and in much trembling? You guys, I've been doing this for the last 30 years I've been preaching. I can't even tell how many thousands of times I've gone in front of a crowd and just started speaking. It's like sleeping or eating. It's just, it's so natural. And then I read this and I'm just like, okay, what does it mean to come with trembling? How do I come before a crowd in weakness, in fear, and in trembling? how do you get in front of a crowd when they actually flew you over there and they're all excited to have you there because some gift you have how do you then show up in weakness and fear in trembling shouldn't I come here with like a confidence man I got a message for you you know shouldn't I have something prepared that's just airtight like bring my best stuff and just throw it on there and jump on the plane and go okay I did my job but to come in weakness and fear and trembling I'm just going God what does that even look like …
… when he brought the gospel to a city that was without the good news. verse 4 chapter 2 1 Corinthians 2 verse 4 and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God my speech my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit, the presence and of power, that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Chapter 4 of 1 Corinthians. Paul has an issue here with teachers and fathers. Teachers have become people of word but no action. lots of talk he says verse 19 but I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills and I will know not the word of those who are puffed up but the power for the kingdom of God is not in word it is in power 1 Thessalonians. …
… And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. That is, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. commitment to Spirit-admitted preaching involves, first of all, our delivery. Listen to what he says. He says, when I came to you, brethren, I didn't come with superiority of speech or of wisdom proclaiming to you the testimony of God. Involves the delivery of the message, the proclamation of the message. You say, well, what do you mean the delivery of a message? When you and I look at that verse of Scripture, He says, I didn't come to impress. I didn't come with eloquence of speech. And you know, if you could ask most preachers, well, what ability would you like? And many of them would say, well, I would like eloquence. Listen to what Paul says. …