1 Coríntios 2
Samuel Johnson · Citado em PreceptAustin
1 Coríntios 2
Johnson - Paul had made the decision that he was not going to use gimmicks or clever approaches, but simply give the people a clear presentation of Jesus Christ. It's so easy to get sidetracked by good and worthwhile things. We can preach about social issues, the political debates of our day, the crisis in the Middle East, the economy. For Paul the choice was clear: “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” Paul was an ambassador, not a salesman. -- Dave Guzik Determined (decided)(2919)(krino gives us English words critic, critical [kritikos] = a decisive point at which judgment is made) has the basic meaning to form an opinion after separating and considering the particulars in the case. Krino always involves the process of thinking through a situation and coming to a conclusion. And thus krino means to evaluate and determine what is right, proper, and expedient for correction. To distinguish or decide between (in the sense of considering and reaching a decision), to make up one's mind. Wuest gives an excellent sense of the progression of meaning of this Greek word - The word krino meant originally to separate, then to distinguish, to pick out, to be of opinion, and finally, to judge. Uses of krino in letters to Corinth - 1 Co. 2:2; 1 Co. 4:5; 1 Co. 5:3; 1 Co. 5:12; 1 Co. 5:13; 1 Co. 6:1; 1 Co. 6:2; 1 Co. 6:3; 1 Co. 6:6; 1 Co. 7:37; 1 Co. 10:15; 1 Co. 10:29; 1 Co. 11:13; 1 Co. 11:31; 1 Co. 11:32; 2 Co. 2:1; 2 Co. 5:14; Paul's words "I determined" remind men of the opening words of Isaac Watts great hymn for Paul "surveyed" the "wondrous cross" and poured contempt on all his pride! Listen to this incredibly beautiful version by Kathryn Scott... When I Survey the Wondrous Cross When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, And the burden of my heart rolled away, It was there by faith I received my sight, And now I am happy all the day. And now I am happy all the day. Paul determined to glory in and preach the Cross of Christ. Let the minister be hid so that Christ might be seen. To know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except (to concentrate entirely on) Jesus (Iesous) Christ (Christos), and Him (literally "this [very] One") crucified (stauroo) - Paul was fixated on the Cross of Christ and we should have the same single-minded focus! Paul may have liked the acronym "KISS" (see origin below) regarding the proclamation of the Gospel - "Keep It Simple Stupid!" Nothing is the first word in the sentence for emphasis and is the strongest Greek negative (ou) which means absolutely nothing and gives us the picture of a (Spirit) driven man on mission, a man who was laser focused and (Spirit) energized to present Jesus Christ. Paul understood time and that sought to redeem the time and not be side-tracked by peripheral ploys, like "Where did evil originate from?, etc." Paul sought to present the only One Who has conquered evil and beloved, we should seek to do the same, always taking dead men back to the Man Who died on the Cross. Obviously in saying nothing, Paul was not saying that he emptied his mind, but that he set aside his store of knowledge in order to focus his attention on the crucified Christ, Who was his one passion. May He be ours also. In His Name. Amen. KISS, an acronym for keep it simple, stupid, is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.[1][2] The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. (To this statement from Wikipedia, we say "Amen!") God is looking for “Cross-eyed” preachers! Crucified (stauroo) is in the perfect tense which speak of past completed action (the historical event of the crucifixion of Christ) with abiding effects as the result of His crucifixion. In 1 Co 1:23-24+ Paul declared (in response to requests of Jews and Greeks - 1 Cor 1:22+) "we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." Paul was not about to deviate from a message that came with "the power of God and the wisdom of God," and neither should we, beloved. Yes, it is foolishness (moros, moria ~ "moronic") to the natural man (1 Cor 1:18, 21, 23, 25+, 1 Cor 2:14+). Yes, the Gospel will many times result in rejection. But it is the only message that will save a lost soul from everlasting torment! We must say that when He died on the cross, He paid the ultimate penalty to deliver us from our sins. When someone told C H Spurgeon that all his sermons sounded the same, he responded “That's because I take a text and make a beeline to the Cross.” May all God's preachers do the same for the glory of the Lamb. Amen As Pastor Alan Carr says "That is our mandate! We are not to concern ourselves with the petty affairs of men. We are not to get caught up in the mundane business of a fallen world. We have been called to a heavenly task, We have been divinely and sovereignly chosen from among all the 7 billion people living on earth today to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to tell them “how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures,” 1"Cor."15:3–4. That is the Gospel, and we are to preach it! We must tell them about Jesus Christ, “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification,” Rom." 4:25. That is the Gospel, and we are to preach it! We are to trumpet the message of Rom."10:9;"Acts"16:31, and John"3:16. We are to tell them that “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life,” 1" John" 5:12. We are to preach the Gospel! (The Biblical Pattern For Preaching) Ray Pritchard - We have a word for people like Paul. We call a person like him a “Johnny one-note.” He was a man of one message. If you heard him in Thessalonica or Athens or Rome, it was always the same—Jesus Christ and him crucified. He never strayed from his basic message. Someone once asked the great British preacher Charles Spurgeon (many think he was the greatest preacher since the Apostle Paul) why all his sermons sounded alike. “That’s simple,” he replied. “I take my text wherever I can find it, and then I make a bee-line for the cross.” He and Paul came from same mold. In our text we discover the pastor’s life work. If a man could come to the end of his ministry and have someone say, “He spoke to us only of Jesus Christ and him crucified,” his ministry would not have been in vain.... if you want to know how to be right with God, if you want to know how to have your sins forgiven, if you want to know how to go to heaven, then you need the message Paul preached: Jesus Christ and him crucified....The grass withers, the flower fades, only the Word of the Lord lasts forever. And that’s why Paul labored as he did “so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power” (v. 5). All that comes from man must perish with man; what comes from God lasts forever....three words to summarize Paul’s preaching: clarity, simplicity, boldness. Paul was so clear that no one could miss his message. He was simple because he spoke plainly about what Jesus Christ accomplished in his death on the cross. And he was bold in stating that truth over and over again. He was a man of one message, a preacher with a one-track mind, a one-note Johnny who would not be silent. He focused on the cross because that was the one part of the Christian message the world could not duplicate....To us—and only to us—did God vouchsafe the message of Jesus Christ and him crucified. That is our message, our only message. We are to tell it because no one will if we don’t. We must say that when he died on the cross, God laid on him all our sins. He took our place, dying where we should have died, bearing our punishment, standing as our substitute, taking our sin and its punishment upon himself. He died that he might be our Savior and bring us home to God. He was the just dying for the unjust, the good dying for the bad, the righteous dying for the unrighteousness, the holy dying for the sinful. And in his death he won our salvation. Then he rose from the dead on the third day, proving all his claims to be true....Here is the message of the gospel in just ten words: Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. (Pritchard) Krell on crucified in perfect tense says it "suggests that his focus was not as much on the historical event of the cross but on its ongoing effect for those who believe in Jesus, namely, that in this event they can find personal justification, redemption, and sanctification (cf. 1:30). The point is that the death of Jesus Christ covers everything. Jesus is the one person that fixes everything! One final thought before we move on: To give people what they need sometimes you must not give them what they want. Most parents learn this early on. When your daughter is sick she may want another cookie, but what she needs is the medicine the doctor prescribed. If you love her you’ll give her what she needs, not what she wants. The same is true as we speak to others about Christ. They may want to hear other things; we must tell them about Jesus, for He alone can save them. Do not back down from people. Do not kowtow to others. God is looking for “cross-eyed” preachers. He wants us to have a solitary focus and agenda. Robertson on Him crucified - This phase in particular (1 Cor 1:18) was selected by Paul from the start as the centre of his Gospel message. He decided to stick to it even after Athens where he was practically laughed out of court. The Cross added to the skandalon of the Incarnation, but Paul kept to the main track on coming to Corinth. (WP)
1 Coríntios 2
Johnson - This often misused and misquoted. Most of the time it is used to speak of heaven. Yet, the verse is not talking about things that we must wait until we get to heaven to enjoy. It is talking about things God has prepared for His that can be enjoyed and experienced now. Jack Arnold - Paul loosely quotes from Isaiah 64:4 to show that God has wonderful things prepared for those who take God’s wisdom seriously and walk by faith in it. God’s wisdom is not understood by natural processes. It does not come through the eye gate. A person may read the Bible from cover to cover; he may devour books on theology, but unless there is a work of grace by God, he will never comprehend the gospel. Nor does God’s wisdom come through the ear gate. A person may listen to the gospel message every Sunday and never grasp the message. A friend may give an unsaved person tapes explaining the gospel or may sit down and tediously go through the gospel with him, but he will not comprehend the meaning without a work of God. Nor does it come by an emotional experience or a mere intellectual assent to facts about Christ. No, these things are entered into by an enlightening of the Holy Spirit and through faith on the part of the one grappling with the truth. God has prepared truths for the Christian that he could have never dreamed about as an unbeliever. These divine truths are open to those who love and keep on loving God. This wisdom is for those who are growing in grace and in knowledge and in commitment. God desires we should mature, grow up spiritually so we can enter into these wonderful things He has prepared for you. These things do not come to us by any natural processes but by faith which is motivated by the Holy Spirit. God’s wisdom cannot be discovered by listening to the great secular voices of the past nor can we read about it in secular history. Yet, God’s wisdom is truth without which men and women falter and fail, marriages end in divorce, homes breakup, violence breaks out in society, and all the evils we see around us begin to flood in. Therefore, God’s wisdom is the most vital truth the world can know anything about, and this truth is made known to men by the Holy Spirit through the Bible. These truths are available for the believer if he will claim them by faith. (1 Corinthians 2:6-13 Gods Wisdom) D L Moody - MOST people say “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” and they stop there. But see what the New Testament says, “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.” You see the Lord hath revealed them unto us: “For the Spirit searches all things—yea, the deep things of God.” The promises of God are not mere mottoes to hang on the wall, but checks to be cashed... --- Vance Havner Vance Havner - These things God has prepared refer not only to joys awaiting us in heaven but blessings available NOW. We can have a foretaste of glory and of the powers of the age to come. We can sample the fruit of the land before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets. If such advance blessings are to be had we ought to lay hold upon them now! (ED: THIS BEGS THE QUESTION - ARE YOU EXPERIENCING THE RICHES OF YOUR SALVATION IN CHRIST OR ARE YOU LIVING AS A SPIRITUAL PAUPER? YOU DON'T NEED TO ATTEND ANOTHER COURSE IN THE VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN LIFE. THE KEY IS TAKE IN THE WORD AND LIVE OUT THE WORD [AKA OBEDIENCE]). The promises of God are not mere mottoes to hang on the wall, but checks to be cashed—and if we ever needed them we do now! If there is a bank account in our name we ought to use our checkbook of faith and prayer. While we lay up treasure in heaven we may also draw funds to our credit and heavenly cash for our earthly needs today. (Though I Walk Through the Valley)