Big Idea (last week):
Believing the gospel and humbly submitting to the gospel is the wisest thing you could ever do
30 And because of (God) you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
~1 Corinthians 1:30-2:5
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Big Idea:
True wisdom comes through
believing and submitting to
the gospel
1 Corinthians 2:6-16…
🡪 Fleeting wisdom (6)
🡪 Lasting wisdom (7-13)
🡪 Transforming wisdom (14-16)
a. Fleeting wisdom (6)
b. Lasting wisdom (7-13)
c. Transforming wisdom (14-16)
- always changing
- doesn’t deliver what it promises
a. Fleeting wisdom (6)
b. Lasting wisdom (7-13)
c. Transforming wisdom (14-16)
- comes through God’s Word
- comes through God’s Spirit
-doesn’t change
a. Fleeting wisdom (6)
b. Lasting wisdom (7-13)
c. Transforming wisdom (14-16)
- new reference point
- doesn’t mean we’re above critique
-“the mind of Christ”
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
~Philippians 2:4-11
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Big Idea:
True wisdom comes through
believing and submitting to
the gospel
Our response…
🡪 Believe the gospel
🡪 Ask God to reorder our affections
🡪 Enjoy a superior satisfaction!