1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (KJV) On What Does Your Faith Stand?

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (KJV)
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.

This appears to be the choice presented in the passage:

• Preaching with enticing words or
• Preaching in the power of God

The two seem to be incompatible. You cannot eat your cake and have it too. It is one or it is the other.

Though the congregation has some influence on which one they receive, the responsibility falls on the preacher to give the better. People may want the other but the preacher is responsible to please God, not man. Ultimately he will be held accountable for what he served. No matter what the people asked for, Aaron had no authority to create a golden calf. Preachers have no authority to entice people with their skills of delivery.

The result of one style of preaching versus the other is plain. Our faith stands on the sort of preaching that served to generate it.

• One stands on man’s wisdom and therefore will not stand. 
• The other stands on the wisdom of God and therefore can only stand.

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1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (KJV) On What Does Your Faith Stand?

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