GOD’S ANSWER TO YOUR MOST BASIC PROBLEM

WORLDLY WISDOM VS. GODLY WISDOM:

GOD’S ANSWER TO YOUR MOST BASIC PROBLEM

– LIFE HACKS –

THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD:

1. 1. The pursuit of leads to wholeness.
2. 1. The pursuit of leads to wholeness.
3. 1. The pursuit of leads to wholeness.

THE WISDOM OF GOD:

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (New Living Translation)

¹⁸ The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.¹⁹ As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.” ²⁰ So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. ²¹ Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. ²² It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. ²³ So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. ²⁴ But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

1. The message of . (1 Corinthians 1:18)
2. Wholeness comes not from pulling your ,

but by laying your .

1. – the power of God, and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:24)
   1. Wholeness is found in the .

EVIDENCE OF GOD’S WISDOM:

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1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (New Living Translation)

²⁶ Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. ²⁷ Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. ²⁸ God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. ²⁹ As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. ³⁰ God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. ³¹ Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”

1. Consider story.

1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (New International Version)

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. ² For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³ I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 

⁴ My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, ⁵ so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

LIFE HACK:

When sin is your ,

Jesus is your .