The Foolishness of Preaching 1 Corinthians 1:18-21.

The Foolishness of Preaching

1 Corinthians 1:18-21

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Cor. 1:18-21

The Place of Preaching


• His last command = preach



• Results of preaching = salvation




• The content of preaching in Acts





• The Person of the resurrection






• The Person in your life

His Last Command = Preach

15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 16:15-16

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Matt. 28:18-19

Results of Preaching = Salvation

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Cor. 1:21 15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and

preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but

he who does not believe will be condemned.Mark 16:15-16

The Content of the Preaching 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of

death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. . . .

29 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.

32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. Acts 2:24, 29-32

The Content of the Preaching

33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand,

35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly

that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Acts 2:33-36


13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.

14 "But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15 "and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

Acts 3:13-15


2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. . . .

10 "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.

Acts 4:2, 10, 33


30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Acts 5:30

38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

39 And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree.

40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly . . .

Acts 10:38-40


28 And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death . . .

30 But God raised Him from the dead. . . . 33 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that

He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

34 And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: I will give you the sure mercies of David.

Acts 13:28, 30, 33-34


18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. . . .

30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

Acts 17:18, 30-31


6 But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!

Acts 23:6

15 I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Acts 24:15

The Person of the Resurrection

• Jesus – The Savior



32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

Acts 2:32

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Acts 5:30

23 From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior--Jesus—

Acts 13:23



• Jesus the Christ – The Messiah

30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne . . .

Acts 2:30

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36



• Jesus the Christ – The Messiah

• Lord Jesus Christ – The One With Authority

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Acts 2:36 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to

the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.Acts 4:33






• The Person in your life

The Person in Your Life

The Savior, The Messiah, The Lord



• Is He Your Savior?




• Have You Acknowledged the Christ?




• Have You Acknowledged the Christ?

• Have You Submitted to His Authority?

The Hope of the Resurrection


• Believe John 8:24



• Repent Luke 13:3




• Confess Faith Rom. 10:9





• Be Baptized Acts 22:16






Added to His church, His body, His kingdom






Added to His church, His body, His kingdom

• Be Faithful Rev. 2:10

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