1:27
Instead of choosing the wise and influential, God chose the foolish things, the weak things. He chose you and me. And He did this to shame the wise and the strong of this world. The gospel is a God thing not a man thing. It is God working that we should rely on, not on our own supposed wisdom or strength.
1:28,29
Instead God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, you and me. He chose the things that are not to nullify the things that are. He did this “so that no one may boast before Him”. This was not an act of egotism on God’s part, but to face us up to reality. All things come from God, and we need to trust in Christ alone. We are utterly dependent upon Him. We would not even exist unless God had created us. God is facing us up to reality.
1:30,31
We are in Christ purely because of God’s sovereign choice. I will say yet again, this does not mean we are passive, we are active in this, mostly in believing in Christ. Christ is the wisdom of God, It is because of the “weakness” and “foolishness” of the cross that we are saved. Humanly speaking, no one is in a weaker position than a man upon a cross. The disciples warned Jesus against the foolishness of going to Jerusalem where He would be handed over to men. Christ is our righteousness, holiness and redemption. So we should boast in Christ alone, and Paul quotes from Jer 9:24 to hammer home his point.
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