God always knows the greatest goal in any situation and the perfect way to achieve it. Therefore, His way to save sinners is perfect in every way. This way is through the incarnation of God the Son, Jesus, in His perfectly lived human life, in His terrible suffering and death on the cross, and in His glorious and triumphant resurrection from the dead. In this way, sinners are made humble and God is glorified. It is the perfect plan and there can be no other way that is better tha what God in His wisdom decided before creation in the covenant to save sinners. If there was a better way, then God would have done that, but there is no other way to accomplish God's greatest goal in saving sinners that through Jesus Christ and His work.
In this post on GOD IS WISE I will draw from John Piper's article mentioned above: "The Great Work of the Only Wise God"
because it is really an excellent one in addressing God's wisdom in saving sinners and in keeping His covenant with Israel.
The Work of Christ and the Wisdom of God
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe" where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jew a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
PT. 2
God always knows the greatest goal in any situation and the perfect way to achieve it. Therefore, His way to save sinners is perfect in every way. This way is through the incarnation of God the Son, Jesus, in His perfectly lived human life, in His terrible suffering and death on the cross, and in His glorious and triumphant resurrection from the dead. In this way, sinners are made humble and God is glorified. It is the perfect plan and there can be no other way that is better tha what God in His wisdom decided before creation in the covenant to save sinners. If there was a better way, then God would have done that, but there is no other way to accomplish God's greatest goal in saving sinners that through Jesus Christ and His work.
In this post on GOD IS WISE I will draw from John Piper's article mentioned above: "The Great Work of the Only Wise God"
because it is really an excellent one in addressing God's wisdom in saving sinners and in keeping His covenant with Israel.
The Work of Christ and the Wisdom of God
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe" where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jew a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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