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Where Is God’s Power Found?

Where Is God’s Power Found?. If you look in the wrong place you will never find what you are looking for. Where Is God’s Power Found?. If you look in the wrong place you will never find what you are looking for. The Jews and Greeks have proved this point already! (1:22-23).

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Where Is God’s Power Found?

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  1. Where Is God’s Power Found? • If you look in the wrong place you will never find what you are looking for.

  2. Where Is God’s Power Found? • If you look in the wrong place you will never find what you are looking for. • The Jews and Greeks have proved this point already! (1:22-23)

  3. Where Is God’s Power Found? • 1 Corinthians 1:22-23 (NKJV) - For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

  4. Where Is God’s Power Found? • Sometimes it is easier to see the mistakes of others than to see your own mistakes!

  5. Where Is God’s Power Found? • The Corinthians were being influenced by some who were following the flesh and not following God.

  6. Where Is God’s Power Found? • The Corinthians were being influenced by some who were following the flesh and not following God. • The first step in solving any problem concerning God’s will is to recognize where to find God’s wisdom.

  7. Where Is God’s Power Found? • The Corinthians were being influenced by some who were following the flesh and not following God. • The first step in solving any problem concerning God’s will is to recognize where to find God’s wisdom. • The Corinthians had very serious problems to be solved. (1:10-13)

  8. Where Is God’s Power Found? • 1 Corinthians 1:10-13 (NKJV) - Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

  9. Where Is God’s Power Found? • 12 Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

  10. Where Is God’s Power Found? • Any problem can be solved if we will look to find God’s will.

  11. Where Is God’s Power Found? • Any problem can be solved if we will look to find God’s will. • Throughout this book we will see Satan’s wisdom that some Corinthians were following contrasted with God’s wisdom.

  12. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • All things have a value. It is important to determine their eternal value!

  13. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • All things have a value. It is important to determine their eternal value! • Example: "How much did that house cost?" (Mt 16:26)

  14. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Matthew 16:26 (NKJV) - For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

  15. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Wisdom teaches us the real valve of things.

  16. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Things that are nothing when compared to God's wisdom. (1 Cor 2:1-5)

  17. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NKJV) - And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

  18. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

  19. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • excellence of speech

  20. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • excellence of speech • excellence of ...wisdom - not just a philosophy!

  21. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • human strength

  22. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • human strength • human confidence, consider the humble beginnings of the church there. Paul was not the overconfident philosopher.(Acts 18:9-10)

  23. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Acts 18:9-10 (NKJV) - Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”

  24. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • persuasive words (2 Cor 10:10; 2 Cor 4:2)

  25. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 2 Corinthians 10:10 (NKJV) - “For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

  26. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 2 Corinthians 4:2 (NKJV) - But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

  27. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Please note that Paul does not condemn eloquence. (Acts 18:24)

  28. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Acts 18:24 (NKJV) 24Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

  29. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • When the presentation and personality of the speaker is emphasized then you will get a certain result. (Ezk 33:30-33)

  30. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Ezekiel 33:30-33 (NKJV) - “As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’

  31. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 31 So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. 32 Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

  32. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 33 And when this comes to pass—surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

  33. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Contrast to this God's Wisdom.

  34. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Contrast to this God's Wisdom. • Jesus Christ and him crucified. (2:2)

  35. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 1 Corinthians 2:2 (NKJV) - For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

  36. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • The "demonstration of the Spirit and of power," - This is the confirmation of the divine revelation (Mark 16:17-20; 2 Cor 12:12)

  37. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Mark 16:17-20 (NKJV) - And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  38. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

  39. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 2 Corinthians 12:12 (NKJV) - Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

  40. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • The power of God.- Who wants to fight God? (Acts 5:39; Rom 1:16)

  41. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Acts 5:39 (NKJV) - but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.”

  42. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Romans 1:16 (NKJV) - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

  43. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • What was Paul's view of himself? (2 Cor 4:7)

  44. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • 2 Corinthians 4:7 (NKJV) 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

  45. God’s wisdom is not found where the world wants to look • Where does your faith rest?

  46. God’s wisdom has greater appeal as we mature • There are many things that have changed in my life as I have grown older.

  47. God’s wisdom has greater appeal as we mature • There are many things that have changed in my life as I have grown older. • Some tastes may be a matter of physical changes.

  48. God’s wisdom has greater appeal as we mature • There are many things that have changed in my life as I have grown older. • Some tastes may be a matter of physical changes. • Others hopefully are a matter of maturity! (1 Cor 13:11)

  49. God’s wisdom has greater appeal as we mature • 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV) 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  50. God’s wisdom has greater appeal as we mature • God’s wisdom will not have the flashy appeal of the world, but it will have the power of God that will produce lasting change.

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