Lesson 2038

(Lesson 2038)(06-01-17) 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 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? 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. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men."

In today's quote, Paul demonstrated that to those who seek to save themselves by their own earthly rituals, the gospel of Jesus Christ, crucified, is foolishness.

The major stumbling block to those who claim to seek eternal salvation, is now, and always has been their own hypocritical, and false, sense of self importance. In the entirety of Paul's ministry, he preached that everlasting redemption of the human soul comes ONLY from the acceptance of the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ as a sacrifice for all sin. There is NO sin that mankind is capable of justifying within, or by, him/herself. The ONLY remitter of sins is the grace of God through the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God" (Romans 3:23-25)~