It's All About the Lord

Wednesdays, 2025.

05/28/2025

1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5.

Central Idea: Everything we do should be about the Lord, Jesus Christ.

I. We boast in the Lord. [26-31]

Our wisdom is in Him, and apart from Him, we are nothing.

Listen to a paraphrase of these verses:

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language Chapter 1

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.”

II. We proclaim the Lord. [1-2]

Announcing = proclaiming (καταγγελλων)

We do not come with brilliance, flattery of speech, or whatever else. The power of God works best when we are simply obedient.

III. We rely on the Lord. [3-4]

The manner of Paul’s coming described in verse 3 would typically not attract people in them realm of worldly wisdom and human rhetoric.

Yet, the power of the Gospel does not need human brilliance, speech, or wisdom.

IV. We point people to the Lord. [5]

Why did Paul not let this distract away from His mission to proclaim Jesus? Because it was not about drawing people to himself; it was about pointing them to Jesus— that they might experience the power of God!