Proclaiming Christ Crucified

English Standard Version Chapter 2

2 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Charles H. Spurgeon, “Determine, Christian, that, by the grace of God, it shall be your endeavour to keep your eye single, to keep your faith fixed alone on the Lord Jesus, without any addition of your own works, or your own strength; and determining that, you may go on your way rejoicing, singing of the cross of Christ as your boast, your glory, and your all. We are now coming to the table of our Master, and I hope that this will be our determination there, to know nothing save Jesus Christ, and him crucified; and may the Lord give us his blessing! Amen.”

Spurgeon, C. H. (1900). Christ Crucified. In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol. 46, p. 213). London: Passmore & Alabaster.