OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-SUNDAY-07/08/2016-THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
Memorise
Because
the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. 1st Corinthians 1:25
Read
1st
Corinthians 1:18-25,
18 For
the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For
it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing
the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where
is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not
God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For
after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For
the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But
we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the
Greeks foolishness;
24 But
unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and
the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
KJV
MESSAGE
Foolishness
is commonly interpreted as the lack of a good sense of judgement. It has a
range of synonyms that include folly, imprudence, stupidity, laziness, and
perverse in speech. In addition, it is frequently contrasted with wisdom, such
that the fool is contrasted with the wise, and a fool is everything a wise
person is not. The Bible presents wisdom as a divine gift from God, while
foolishness characterises anyone that does not believe in God (Psalm 14:1). Consequent upon the above, it is unthinkable
that foolishness will be tied to God for any reason. However, the Bible in 1st Corinthians 1:25 says,
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and
the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
The Holy
Spirit responded to the early Church with the above statement, as they tried to
berate the message of the Gospel with the wrong assumption that the wisdom of
the world is superior to the wisdom of God. The Word of God clearly states that
what the people termed to be foolishness is much wiser than the wisdom of the
world. The people of the world cannot relate with the wisdom of God because it
is meaningless to them, they cannot understand the wisdom behind the principles
and commandments of God. The thought of salvation from sin, the process of
redemption, the mystery of the Holy Communion, water and the Holy Spirit
baptism, speaking in tongues, and the power of fasting and prayer, are all like
closed books to the people of the world. It is beyond their comprehension, they
cannot simply relate with the wisdom behind spiritual matters. 1st
Corinthians 3:19 says:
“For the wisdom of this world of foolishness with God.
For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.”
The Bible in 1st
Corinthians 2:14 further says;
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.”
It takes a
spiritual person to understand spiritual things. The inability of the world to
comprehend the things of God is deliberate as God has chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise. A person must first be born again, after
which Kingdom matters become plain without any need for explanation. Indeed,
the foolishness of God is wiser than men. Are you a bona fide member of the
Kingdom? Are you born again?
Prayer Point
Father please fill me with a
heavenly wisdom that the world cannot comprehend.
Bible in one year
1st John 1-4,
Psalms 30
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