1 Corinthians 2:1-5 KJV
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
The great battle for both the preacher and the people is this; that the faith we possess is not in the wisdom of men but the power of God.
It is so easy for us to get faith and flesh mixed up.
The preacher wants so desperately to see converts, to rescue souls from the doom they will certainly know without Christ, that he is tempted to use any means at his disposal to win an audience and convince his hearers of the truth of his message. The problem is, if the people have been won by his devices, they have not been won to Christ.
Then we, as people, are so easily seduced by the wisdom of the flesh that it becomes us to be constantly at the awares for the enticements of the flesh. We can so easily be caught in the allures of worldly wisdom that we scarcely know that we have bought into something that is entirely not of the Lord.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
The great battle for both the preacher and the people is this; that the faith we possess is not in the wisdom of men but the power of God.
It is so easy for us to get faith and flesh mixed up.
The preacher wants so desperately to see converts, to rescue souls from the doom they will certainly know without Christ, that he is tempted to use any means at his disposal to win an audience and convince his hearers of the truth of his message. The problem is, if the people have been won by his devices, they have not been won to Christ.
Then we, as people, are so easily seduced by the wisdom of the flesh that it becomes us to be constantly at the awares for the enticements of the flesh. We can so easily be caught in the allures of worldly wisdom that we scarcely know that we have bought into something that is entirely not of the Lord.
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