What is the preaching of the cross to those who are lost?
According to 1 Corinthians 1:18, the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, meaning lost people. They dismiss it as tied to someone who lived and died two thousand years ago and see no relevance for today. Yet the same message is the power of God to those who are saved.
Les explains from 1 Corinthians 1:18 that the preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish—to lost people. He notes the common objection: why fool around with something connected to someone who lived and died 2,000 years ago, and what does that have to do with us today? His answer is “Everything.” By contrast, unto us who are saved, or made righteous, it is the power of God. Les also stresses that good works never save anybody, because they do not have the power of God; they are only something done in the energy of the flesh. Moving to verse 21, he reads that after the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe—plus nothing. Otherwise salvation becomes legalism, a works religion.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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What is the preaching of the cross?
The preaching of the cross is that Christ died, was buried, and rose from the dead.