TITLE: Foolishness of the Cross

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 1:17-18

PROPOSITION: God works in ways we do not understand.

QUESTION: What?

KEY WORD: Examples

READING: Same

INTRODUCTION:

          1. Isaiah 55:8-10

          2. Romans 11:33

          3. 2 Corinthians 11:3

          4. To human reasoning, they are foolish, weak, base, senseless, crazy, stupid, and dumb.

I. Cross Red Sea Exodus 14:13-16; 30-31

II. Brass Serpent Numbers 21:4-9

III. March around Jericho Joshua 6:1-5

IV. Gideon Judges 6:7

V. Blind Man John 9

VI. Cross of Christ 1 Corinthians 1:18

VII. Baptism 1 Corinthians 1:21-25

Conclusion:

          1. Are there things that you do not understand?

          2. By faith, accept, believe, obey.

          3. WHAT IF: God said jump through a brick wall to be saved?  My job: JUMP. God's Problem: Make a hole.