Foolish Wisdom-5(2025)

FOOLISH WISDOM-V—1Corinthians 1:22-28[part-2--:24-25](1:18--2:5)

Attention:

Something deceptively seen by the heart’s predisposition.

There is a ‘radical far-left liberal’ belief at work in America, that holds that most anything except Christianity, should be considered as normative. IF the Church does not maintain intentional efforts to share the Gospel as a part of her day-today ministering, THEN such radicalized humanistic ideals will ‘naturally’ gain more sway in our American legislative & judicial systems.

And there is also a ‘radical far-right’ belief, that Christianity can & should be unwaveringly contained in law, by the requirement of Christian sympathizers. But, those who are Christian ‘sympathizers’ are not necessarily Christian. And so we can actually end up with the perversion of biblical belief. And those perversions would ensure the spread of a false gospel, or a ‘folk-christianity’, with humanistic religious & political ends. Again, IF the Church does not maintain intentional efforts to share the Gospel as a part of her day-today ministering, THEN such radicalized humanistic ideals will ‘naturally’ gain more sway in our American legislative & judicial systems.

None of the two beliefs are actually Christian.

Living under either radical right or left policies, principles, & regimes, democratic or not, people are FORCED to adhere to ‘values’ that God’s people cannot abide in or with, while having a free conscience exercised thru the Holy Spirit.

God tells us to:

1Tim. 2:1-4—“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, & giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings & all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet & peaceable life in all godliness & reverence. For this is good & acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved & to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Mat. 6:21-23—Jesus warns us,—“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”

FOOLISH WISDOM-V—1Corinthians 1:22-28[part-2--:24-25](1:18--2:5)

Depending upon the heart’s attitude that a person uses in their observations, what is actually ‘foolish’ may be viewed as ‘wise’(1:18)!...& conversely, what is actually God’s ‘wisdom’ may be viewed as ‘foolish.’

And worldly foolishness leads to the temporal & eternal detriment of all people, because ALL people are ultimately answerable to God in His perfect wisdom!

‘Foolish Wisdom’ can & should be seen for what it truly is...either Foolish OR Wisdom!

Need:

The apostle Paul related that the actual God-ordained wisdom in the Cross-work of Christ, was seen as foolishness by those who were perishing.

The wisdom of the Cross can be misconstrued.

BUT:

How can wisdom be properly interpreted?

9 means of understanding/interpreting foolish wisdom.

The title ‘Foolish Wisdom’ is intentionally indefinite. If something is truly foolish, can it be ‘rightly’/correctly described as wisdom?(NO!) And if something is truly wisdom, can it be ‘rightly’/correctly described as foolish?(NO!)

FOOLISH WISDOM-V—1Corinthians 1:22-28[part-2--:24-25](1:18--2:5)

Thru our initial foray into 1Corinthians 1:18-21 some months ago, we found that ‘Foolish Wisdom’ is interpreted/understood thru...

1. The MESSAGE Of The CROSS(:18)

2. PROMISED FUTILITY Present In The World(:19)

3. The VACUUM Present In The World(:20-21)

Absence/Dearth of wisdom

We also found that ‘Foolish Wisdom’ is interpreted thru...

4. GOD’s ANSWER To Adulterous SIGNS & WISDOM(:22-25)

[part-1--:22-23]

Today we’ll continue to see how...

4—Foolish Wisdom is interpreted thru...

GOD’s ANSWER To Adulterous SIGNS & WISDOM(:22-25)

by looking into the 2nd half, or [part-2--:24-25]

:24—“but to those who are called, both Jews & Greeks, Christ the power of God & the wisdom of God.”

Though the two major distinct separations among humanity consist of “Jews” & “Greeks”.....There are yet individuals within both “Jews” & “Greeks” who hear & accept the “call” of God, to trust Him.

•“To those who are called”, the “Christ” along with His Cross-work, constitutes or embodies both the “power” & “wisdom” that belong to “God”!

?Why is that true?—That is answered in :25....

“CHRIST” JESUS is God’s perfect answer to empty religiousness with it’s humanly limited conjectures, suppositions, & assumptions of “power” & “wisdom”!

:25—“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, & the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

The power “of God”(:18, 24)exists “because” the “foolishness of God”(the message of the Cross of Christ(:18))—as if God could possibly be ‘foolish’—is actually a standing example of true “wisdom”!

So the “foolishness” that some “men” would apply & attribute to God, houses vastly more “wisdom” than “men” can possibly muster in the whole gamut & scope of their so-called genius!(:20)

•“Mankind’s” greatest achievements of “wiseness” or “wisdom”—that embodies the adulteries of: “man’s” greatest philosophies, intellectual arguments, solutions, & theories, etc.—that is, those things that operate & explain ‘a version of life’ without God in the picture, are all relegated to the realm of actual & utter “foolishness”!