Message of the Apostolic: Christ Crucified

…Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

(I Cor. 1:20-25)

It is a tragic thing that so many in the body of Christ are beginning to water down the Gospel and the power of the Cross of Jesus Christ. Many are beginning to say that there is more than one way to the Father other than Jesus Christ.

However, we need a restoration of the true Apostolic Gospel in the Church today. We need to restore back the absolute Truth of the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ into every home, every school, every church, and every place in the world.

There is no way to God the Father, except through Jesus Christ. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man can come to the Father, except through Him (Jn. 14:6).

Everything in the world goes in the exact opposite direction of the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God was an innocent man dying on the Cross for the sins of the guilty. The wisdom of God was the Creator of the Universe taking on a human frame as a baby, then growing into a man and being killed by the very people He came to save.

 

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong…so that no one may boast before him… (I Cor. 1:27, 29).

The wisdom of God cannot be understood by human thinking, but it must be revealed by the Spirit (I Cor. 2:9-10). The fleshly human mind is at war with the things of the Spirit (Rom. 8:7). So, the things of God cannot be discerned with the human mind, but our mind must be renewed so that we can come under the leadership of God rather than the leadership of man (Rom. 12:1-3).

For this reason, Paul said that he did not preach with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of the power of God, so that their faith was not in the power of men but in the power of God (I Cor. 2:4-5). He said that he determined to know nothing among them except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified (I Cor. 2:2).