Post by Les Brewer on Apr 16, 2012 12:25:00 GMT
John Wolf
Calvary's Cross Ministries
Preaching Christ Crucified,I Cor.1:18-25
From the Pastor's desk....
18.)"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19.)For it is written:'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.'
20.)Where is the wise?Where is the scribe?Where is the disputer of this age?Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21.)For since,in the wisdom of God,the world through wisdom did not know God,it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
22.)For Jews request a sign,and the Greeks seek after wisdom;
23.)but we preach Christ crucified,to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24.)but to those who 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." (NKJV)
Hi to all brothers and sisters in Christ,and to all those who may be reading this.I pray that the Lord would direct your thoughts to the wisdom God displayed in the crucifixion of His Son,Jesus Christ.
Many today in the body of Christ and all those who are outside the body of Christ fail to see the wisdom of God in sending His only begotten Son to die for the lost.I'm not sure if I will be able to do any justice to this subject,but I will give it my best effort.
The world can not understand and many Christians do not understand either why it was necessary for God the Father to send His Son,to go through the humility,brutality,cursing,mocking and all the other evil things He had to endure,and then to be put to death on the most cruel device of torture and shame man has ever devised.Understand,that this is the very reason He came.It was because of our inhumanity to man,our lust for power over others,our lust for ungodliness and sin that Christ came.
We as frail,pitiful,fallen,sinful man can not help ourselves.How can someone,whose every waking moment is spent on the sin nature ever break loose from it? We can't! Not in and of ourselves.It is not within mankind to be able to ever better himself to the point of being able to redeem himself out from under the curse of sin.
Many men and women through the centuries have recognized their inability to free themselves from sin.They have isolated themselves from the rest of humanity in dark caves and monasteries secluded high up in the mountains,every year in Latin American countries,scores of individuals will endure the pain and suffering of physical crucifixion and asceticism,beating themselves with whips and cords,sticks and stones,in an effort to rid themselves of sin,only to find that none of it helps to get rid of the sin problem.
The reason none of these things work is because man misses the entire point of the matter.We are sinners by nature.From our birth to our death we will struggle with this thing called the sin nature.It is our proclivity to sin, we can't help it.We inherited it from our parents and they got it from theirs,and so forth and so on,all the way back to Adam And Eve,the first two parents.
Herein is the wisdom of God.
The Godhead knew from before the creation of anything,that mankind would fall into sin and unrighteousness.They ( the Godhead) made the plan of redemption before they created anything.When it was just the Father,Son and Holy Spirit through foreknowledge,they knew that man would fall into sin,and it would be necessary to redeem us from sin (I Peter 1:18-21)
The perfect,spotless Son of God volunteered to be the Savior of the world.Because Jesus Christ is the God-man,and because He existed before He became a man,and because He has perfect knowledge and understanding,He knew ahead of time how man would reject Him,spit on Him,beat Him,revile Him,torture Him,mock Him and then nail Him to a cross,to die as if He were a common criminal.
The sad fact is,that if it were determined by God to send His Son today,rather than two thousand years ago,we would still put Him on the cross and He would still be willing to undergo it's shame,in order to redeem us.You say,'Never,we are so much more enlightened now than men were back then.' Really? Are we? If anything,man's inhumanity to man has only gotten worse.To prove my point:Germany of the 1930's and 40's was the most educated nation on earth at that time,and look at what it produced.A despot who used humans in experiments.He used their skin to make lampshades and belts.He had gasoline injected into the veins of the Jews to see how long they would live.He murdered between 6 and 10 million people in the name of the Mother Land.
It also produced others such as Stalin and Lennon who made Hitler look like a choirboy,compared to what they did.They were responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people,all in the name of Socialism and Communism.Wake up America,we are headed in the same direction.
Seventy-five percent of religious persecution today in the world is done against Bible believing Christians.People today hate Jesus Christ more now than they did two thousand years ago.Yes,man would still put Jesus on the cross today.And He would still be willing to go,if that was what God wanted.This is the proof of the great love of God for His creation.He is not willing that any perish,but that all would come to repentance.Jesus said that if you do not repent you will perish.The sad fact is,is that many today would rather try to make it into heaven their own way,rather than to go by way of the cross.Another sad fact is,is that many will die lost trying,because foolish pride gets in the way.I pray that you will think about your situation and give it your wholehearted attention.You've been weighed in the balances,and have been found wanting by God.Please,do not ignore the problem....It will not go away....Love in Christ.....JW
Calvary's Cross Ministries
Preaching Christ Crucified,I Cor.1:18-25
From the Pastor's desk....
18.)"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19.)For it is written:'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.'
20.)Where is the wise?Where is the scribe?Where is the disputer of this age?Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21.)For since,in the wisdom of God,the world through wisdom did not know God,it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
22.)For Jews request a sign,and the Greeks seek after wisdom;
23.)but we preach Christ crucified,to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24.)but to those who 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." (NKJV)
Hi to all brothers and sisters in Christ,and to all those who may be reading this.I pray that the Lord would direct your thoughts to the wisdom God displayed in the crucifixion of His Son,Jesus Christ.
Many today in the body of Christ and all those who are outside the body of Christ fail to see the wisdom of God in sending His only begotten Son to die for the lost.I'm not sure if I will be able to do any justice to this subject,but I will give it my best effort.
The world can not understand and many Christians do not understand either why it was necessary for God the Father to send His Son,to go through the humility,brutality,cursing,mocking and all the other evil things He had to endure,and then to be put to death on the most cruel device of torture and shame man has ever devised.Understand,that this is the very reason He came.It was because of our inhumanity to man,our lust for power over others,our lust for ungodliness and sin that Christ came.
We as frail,pitiful,fallen,sinful man can not help ourselves.How can someone,whose every waking moment is spent on the sin nature ever break loose from it? We can't! Not in and of ourselves.It is not within mankind to be able to ever better himself to the point of being able to redeem himself out from under the curse of sin.
Many men and women through the centuries have recognized their inability to free themselves from sin.They have isolated themselves from the rest of humanity in dark caves and monasteries secluded high up in the mountains,every year in Latin American countries,scores of individuals will endure the pain and suffering of physical crucifixion and asceticism,beating themselves with whips and cords,sticks and stones,in an effort to rid themselves of sin,only to find that none of it helps to get rid of the sin problem.
The reason none of these things work is because man misses the entire point of the matter.We are sinners by nature.From our birth to our death we will struggle with this thing called the sin nature.It is our proclivity to sin, we can't help it.We inherited it from our parents and they got it from theirs,and so forth and so on,all the way back to Adam And Eve,the first two parents.
Herein is the wisdom of God.
The Godhead knew from before the creation of anything,that mankind would fall into sin and unrighteousness.They ( the Godhead) made the plan of redemption before they created anything.When it was just the Father,Son and Holy Spirit through foreknowledge,they knew that man would fall into sin,and it would be necessary to redeem us from sin (I Peter 1:18-21)
The perfect,spotless Son of God volunteered to be the Savior of the world.Because Jesus Christ is the God-man,and because He existed before He became a man,and because He has perfect knowledge and understanding,He knew ahead of time how man would reject Him,spit on Him,beat Him,revile Him,torture Him,mock Him and then nail Him to a cross,to die as if He were a common criminal.
The sad fact is,that if it were determined by God to send His Son today,rather than two thousand years ago,we would still put Him on the cross and He would still be willing to undergo it's shame,in order to redeem us.You say,'Never,we are so much more enlightened now than men were back then.' Really? Are we? If anything,man's inhumanity to man has only gotten worse.To prove my point:Germany of the 1930's and 40's was the most educated nation on earth at that time,and look at what it produced.A despot who used humans in experiments.He used their skin to make lampshades and belts.He had gasoline injected into the veins of the Jews to see how long they would live.He murdered between 6 and 10 million people in the name of the Mother Land.
It also produced others such as Stalin and Lennon who made Hitler look like a choirboy,compared to what they did.They were responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people,all in the name of Socialism and Communism.Wake up America,we are headed in the same direction.
Seventy-five percent of religious persecution today in the world is done against Bible believing Christians.People today hate Jesus Christ more now than they did two thousand years ago.Yes,man would still put Jesus on the cross today.And He would still be willing to go,if that was what God wanted.This is the proof of the great love of God for His creation.He is not willing that any perish,but that all would come to repentance.Jesus said that if you do not repent you will perish.The sad fact is,is that many today would rather try to make it into heaven their own way,rather than to go by way of the cross.Another sad fact is,is that many will die lost trying,because foolish pride gets in the way.I pray that you will think about your situation and give it your wholehearted attention.You've been weighed in the balances,and have been found wanting by God.Please,do not ignore the problem....It will not go away....Love in Christ.....JW
