From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM

Subject: 2-10-25 THOUGHTS

2-10-25   THOUGHTS

Some straight talk...  You cannot  “SMART” your way to God!  The wisdom issue has been turned upside down by God!  God has revealed Himself through ”the word of the cross” so that it is ever HIS POWER, and not ours.  The Jews looked for signs, the Greeks sought wisdom.  Paul says the preaching of Christ crucified is the answer and the method!  Paul said in 2Cor 11:3 “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your  minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity [of devotion] to Christ.”  Never  us...  always  God  through  Christ our Lord!

1Cor 1:18-25     For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  19  For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE."   20  Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21  For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22  For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23  but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, 24  but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

My Prayer:
Father, help us to see Your wisdom in its simplicity, and pursue it with humility and submission.
May our search for You be powerful,  as we yearn for You continually.  Through the word of the cross,  open our simple eyes to Your eternal truths.  Seeing Jesus,  hide us in the cleft of  Your Rock.  Save us, O God, in powerful believing.  May the crucified Christ be driven into the center of our being!  Kindle a fire within us, O Father God.    In Jesus,   Amen.