The Scandalon

The Scandalon

Series: First Things First:Corinthians
Date: October 12, 2008 By: Steve DeWitt Campus: Crown Point
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Summary

Senior Pastor Steve DeWitt explores the foolishness of the gospel and the cross to the unbeliever and how even in the 1st century Corinthian church there were many who did not understand.

Passage

18 For the word of the cross is folly 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 the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Corinthians 1:18 — 1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV