Les Feldick Bible Study

What kind of things does God use for His glory according to 1 Corinthians 1:28?

According to 1 Corinthians 1:28, God uses the base things of the world, things despised and ridiculed by the world, and things that are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are. He employs what the world views as nothing to confound the high and mighty.

Les explains that 1 Corinthians 1:28 continues the same thought: God uses the base things of the world, things that are even despised, things the world ridicules, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are. The world may not even be aware of them, and they have no credentials in the eyes of the successful world, but God uses those very things to confound the high and the mighty. That is His way of doing it, even though it seems contrary to logic.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: