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The sermon presents Christ as both God’s omnipotent power and perfect wisdom, emphasizing His eternal deity, role in creation, incarnation, miracles, and saving work. The Gospel’s divine power is demonstrated by its unlikely historical spread, its moral holiness, and its transformation of sinners. Christ continues to free believers from condemnation, sustain them in suffering, and provide wisdom for Christian living. Hearers are urged to examine whether they truly know this saving power and to respond to Christ with repentance and faith before judgment.
Theological center: Jesus Christ is the divine Son, Creator, Savior, and source of God’s power and wisdom, personally revealed in the Gospel and active in believers.
Applications: Follow Christ’s ways · Turn to Christ today · Examine Christ’s personal work · Tremble before judgment
Primary texts: 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 · John 1:1-3 · Philippians 4:13
“Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:24 UNBELIEF towards the Gospel of Christ is the most unreasonable thing in the entire world, because the reason which the unbeliever gives for his unbelief is fairly met by the character and constitution of the Gospel of Christ. Notice that before this verse we read—“The Jews required a sign, the Greeks seek after wisdom.” If you met the Jew who believed not on Christ in the apostle’s day, he said, “I cannot believe, because I want a sign.” And if you had met the Greek, he said, “I cannot believe, because I want a philosophic system, one that is full of wisdom.” “Now,” says the apostle, “both these objections are untenable and unreasonable. If you suppose that the Jew requires a sign, that sign is given him—Christ is the power of God,. The miracles that Christ wrought upon earth were signs more than sufficiently abundant, and if the Jewish people had but the will to believe, they would have found abundant signs and reasons for believing in the personal acts of Christ and His apostles.” And let the Greeks say, “I cannot believe because I require a wise system.” O Greek, Christ is the wisdom of God. If you would but investigate the subject, you would find in it profoundness of wisdom—a depth where the most gigantic intellect might be drowned. It is no shallow Gospel, but a deep, and a great deep too, a deep which passes understanding. Your objection is ill-founded, for Christ is the wisdom of God and His Gospel is the highest of all sciences. If you wish to find wisdom, you must find it in the word of revelation.” Now, this morning, we shall try to bring out these two thoughts of the Gospel. And it may be that God shall bless what we shall say to the removing of the objection of either Jew or Greek—that the one requiring a sign may see it in the power of God in Christ, and that he who requires wisdom may behold it in the wisdom of God in Christ. We shall understand our text in a three-fold manner—Christ, that is, Christ personally, is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” Christ, that is, Christ’s Gospel, is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” Christ, that is, Christ in the heart—true religion, is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” I. First, to begin with CHRIST PERSONALLY. Christ considered as God and man, the Son of God equal with His Father, and yet the man, born of the Virgin Mary. Christ, in His complex person, is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” He is the power of God, from all eternity. “By his word were the heavens made, and all the host of them.” “The…