Don't intellectualise God ... demonstrate His power

1Cor 2:1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

We are living in a critical time in terms of the integrity of the Gospel and the restorative plan of God for the church, as He prepares His bride for the return of Christ. In this passage, Paul plainly spells out the manner in which the Gospel is to be presented and also the manner in which we are to enter into revelation living as Spirit-filled and Spirit-led Christians.

Do you know what God wants of you? He wants your availability to His Holy Spirit and your radical obedience in faith. He doesn’t want your good looks, your wise learning, your cunning abilities or even your beautiful singing voice. He certainly doesn’t want your intelligent and cute ways of presenting Christ to the unsaved.

The gospel needs to be presented in a demonstration of God’s power. That’s why we need to be filled deeper and deeper in the Holy Spirit and be operating more and more in the power of God. Stepping out of our comfort. Moving in the gifts of the Spirit – word of knowledge, prophecy, word of wisdom, healing, miracles.

v5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power – people who get converted to Christ through a light-weight gospel presentation, get a light-weight conversion. An intellectual acceptance of Jesus will produce an intellectual believer. When a person is presented with the gospel, there needs to be a conviction of sin and deep sorrow leading to repentance. The fear of the Lord needs to be present.

The fear of the Lord is clean – endures forever. I love it when people come to Christ with weeping, deep conviction. Why? Because it’s evidence of a heart being opened, touched, cleansed and healed.

Parents – do all you can to get your child a great education, but teach them to walk in the Spirit. When the scripture says, “get wisdom, get knowledge… it’s talking about revelation. Be the prophetic generation not the pathetic one.