Please enjoy the second New Year’s classic from our Founder, Dr. Paul D. Lindstrom for his radio program “There’s No Place Like Home.“
Christ Sent Paul To Preach The Gospel
In 1 Corinthians 2:2, we read, “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” When Paul first entered the Greek city of Corinth, he had just come from nearby Athens, and his encounter with its humanistic philosophers at Mars Hill. (Acts 17:18-18:1) Corinth, like Athens, was saturated with such worldly wisdom and, in addition, as a great seaport and commercial center, was a city of opulent immorality.
The apostle, however, did not yield to the natural temptation to impress the Corinthians with his own wisdom. “For Christ sent me to preach the Gospel.” Therefore, Paul could say, ” My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” (I Corinthians 1:17; 2:4,5) The gospel, which Paul preached, was based on the assumption of creation by Christ (Colossians 1:16, 23), and then centered on the substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of that Creator, in anticipation of its glorious consummation at His return (Colossians 1:20).
The True Wisdom
Though Paul did not speak in terms of the evolutionistic wisdom of the philosophers, he did speak the true wisdom. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:8, “Which none of the princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
A Resolution For All Parents
Paul’s resolution simply to preach Christ, the Lord of all wisdom and power and glory, is a wonderful resolution for all Christian parents, making certain that in this new year our children are daily in the way they should go, in every area of life, from only a Christian perspective.
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