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The Message of the Cross 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 (HCSB) -

18 For the message of the cross is

foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 (HCSB) –

19 For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

1 Now brothers, I want to clarify

for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

2 You are also saved by it, if you

hold to the message I proclaimed to you – unless you believed for no purpose.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

3 For I passed on to you as most

important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4 that He was buried,

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

5and that He appeared to

Cephas, then to the Twelve.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

6 Then He appeared to over 500

brothers at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.

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• 1. The message of the cross

seems foolish to the world

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (HCSB) –

7 Then He appeared to James,

then to all the apostles.

8 Last of all, as to one abnormally

born, He also appeared to me.

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (HCSB) –

20 Where is the philosopher?

Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (HCSB) –

21 For since, in God’s wisdom, the

world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (HCSB) –

22 For the Jews ask for signs and

the Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (HCSB) –

24 Yet to those who are called,

both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,

25 because God’s foolishness is

wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

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• 2. The message of the cross

is wisdom & power from God

Ephesians 1:19-20 (NLT) –

This is the same mighty power

20 that raised Christ from the dead

and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.

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• 3. The message of the cross

produces boasting in the Lord

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• 3. The message of the cross

produces boasting in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (HCSB) –

26 Brothers, consider your calling:

Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

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• 3. The message of the cross

produces boasting in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (HCSB) –

27 Instead, God has chosen what is

foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

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• 3. The message of the cross

produces boasting in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (HCSB) –

28 God has chosen what is

insignificant and despised in the world – what is viewed as nothing – to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, 29 so that no one can boast in His presence.

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• 3. The message of the cross

produces boasting in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (HCSB) –

30 But it is from Him that you are

in Christ Jesus, who became God- given wisdom for us – our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 31 in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

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The Message of the Cross 1 Corinthians 1:18-31