We don’t have to be famous Bible Scholars….we need only to know that our salvation is through the birth, death and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In Him and with Him in the unity of the Holy Spirit we are and will forever be…..just believe!
God’s plan of salvation does not conform to the world’s priorities. In fact, it seems foolish. Yet in reality, eternal salvation is more valuable than all the fame, wealth, and success pursued by the world. Wise refers to the Greek philosophers. Mighty refers to influential, politically powerful people. Noble includes all the aristocratic upper classes. No doubt many of the Corinthian believers were people who did not count in the eyes of the world but had found grace in God’s eyes.
God uses what is considered foolish and despised in this world to reveal His truth, so that He alone will receive the glory. Otherwise, the powerful would boast that they had found the truth. Instead, God sent His Son to become a humble carpenter and to die in the most despicable way, on a cross. Jesus’ life and death reveals God and His wisdom. Since Christ not only imparts wisdom but also righteousness, the Christian cannot boast, except in the Lord.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become athe righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Philippians 3:9
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
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