Les Feldick Bible Study

Who does God usually call to be His servants according to 1 Corinthians 1:26?

Scripture says not many wise, mighty, or noble are called; God ordinarily chooses common, ordinary people rather than kings, queens, or university scholars. He selects servants from humble, unprominent backgrounds, as seen in Amos, Gideon, and Ezekiel, so that reliance is on Him rather than human status or education.

Les explains that in 1 Corinthians 1:26 Paul writes that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. God does not usually go into the kings and queens of the world or the ivy-covered halls of universities for His servants. In the Old Testament economy, He used common ordinary members of the Jewish nation, such as Amos, Gideon, and Ezekiel. Paul was an exception, being highly educated and moving in the upper echelons of Judaism, yet he put himself down as nothing, because God cannot use somebody unless they are nothing. Moses is the prime example: after 40 years in Pharaoh's palace as Egypt's second top man, he thought he could deliver Israel by his own power, pomp, circumstance, wisdom, and leadership.

1 Corinthians 1:26

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: