Foolishness of God

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Foolishness of God
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Several Texts

• Isaiah 588-10 8 "For My thoughts are not your
  thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the
  Lord. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the
  earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And
  My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 "For as the
  rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do
  not return there, But water the earth, And make
  it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to
  the sower And bread to the eater

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Several Texts

• Romans 1133 Oh, the depth of the riches both of
  the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable
  are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

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Several Texts

• 1 Corinthians 125 Because the foolishness of God
  is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is
  stronger than men.

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Several Texts

• 2 Corinthians 113 But I fear, lest somehow, as
  the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so
  your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity
  that is in Christ.

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Several Texts

• 1 Corinthians 127-29 27 But God has chosen the
  foolish things of the world to put to shame the
  wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the
  world to put to shame the things which are
  mighty 28 and the base things of the world and
  the things which are despised God has chosen, and
  the things which are not, to bring to nothing the
  things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in
  His presence.

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Examples

• Brass Serpent

• Numbers 214-9

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho
• Gideon's Victory

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5
• Judges 67

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho
• Gideon's Victory
• Naaman

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5
• Judges 67
• 2 Kings 5

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho
• Gideon's Victory
• Naaman
• Crossing Red Sea

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5
• Judges 67
• 2 Kings 5
• Exodus 14

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho
• Gideon's Victory
• Naaman
• Crossing Red Sea
• David Goliath

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5
• Judges 67
• 2 Kings 5
• Exodus 14
• 1 Samuel 17

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Examples

• Brass Serpent
• Walls of Jericho
• Gideon's Victory
• Naaman
• Crossing Red Sea
• David Goliath
• Blind Man

• Numbers 214-9
• Joshua 61-5
• Judges 67
• 2 Kings 5
• Exodus 14
• 1 Samuel 17
• John 9

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Application

• Baptism
• Weak
• Foolish
• How will this do any good?

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Application

• 1 Corinthians 121 For since, in the wisdom of
  God, the world through wisdom did not know God,
  it pleased God through the foolishness of the
  message preached to save those who believe.