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*The Instruction of the Cross*
*February 2, 2003*
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*Scripture Reading: *1Cor.
2:6-16
*Introduction:*
In last week's message we discussed the problem of divisions in the Corinthian church.
We also discovered Paul's solution for those divisions; that the cross of Christ calls us to community.
The church is to be known as the community of the cross.
In fact, we learned that the overall message of 1Cor. is the doctrine of the cross in its social application.
So we continue this morning with Paul's elaboration on what we can learn from the cross as he addresses the many other problems in this Gentile church barely out of the pagan darkness of its worldly environment.
He went so far as to say in 1Cor.
2:2 that he resolved to know nothing while he was with them except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
The preaching of the cross was his central message in the planting of their church.
Why was it important that Paul say this?
It was because the Corinthian Christians not only had a problem with divisions concerning whom each individual house church followed as a leader, but also who had the greatest evidence of spiritual wisdom.
Just like Jesus' disciples who sometimes argued over who would be the greatest, this church was full of immature believers who got caught up with comparative rather than absolute worth before God.
Their divisions would be their undoing.
So again, the doctrine of the cross was the solution.
This time it is the doctrine of the cross as the wisdom of God.
Man has always sought glory for himself through the contest of wit, wisdom and intelligence.
This may be why he plays the game of chess, but he has recently been beaten at his own game.
*ILLUS: *Chicago Tribune, 1~/31~/03, /Making Machines Human is Real Chess Match of AI World/
Now if man can be beaten by his own artificial intelligence, what does that have to say about God's intelligence in comparison?
*Big Question:*
/What can we learn from the cross?/
We learn that man's wisdom is worldly ignorance leading to death.
We learn that God's wisdom is divine intelligence leading to life.
We learn that man's worldly ignorance put the cross in place.
We learn that God's divine intelligence allowed the cross to be put in place.
We learn that the cross was God's plan to reveal his divine intelligence through man's worldly ignorance.
We learn that the cross was God's plan to overcome man's worldly ignorance.
Through the cross we come to know the mind of Christ.
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