Power Christ the Power of God

Power 

Christ the Power of God

It is the Power of Christ that will work through you

His Power is greater than your weakness or your biggest excuse

Yes, God so loves the world

But God never intended you to remain like the world

The cross is the transformer

The Power that comes from the cross

Lights up a person’s life and reveals the wisdom

and Power of God to all who believe

Christ the Power of God

“Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God”

Like an electrical plug in the wall you cannot

see the power unless you plug something into it.

Christ is the Power of God.

 To know that Power you need to get plugged into Him.

We could talk about all the powerful things in nature.

We could talk about all the powerful

accomplishments of mankind.

We could talk about all the powers

of influence to change social behavior.

But until you get plugged into Christ

you will never understand Power.

God takes things that are not and

makes them into things that are.

Christ takes the foolishness

and turns it into wisdom.

People come in all sizes, male and female,

different colors and backgrounds.

But we all come from Adam and Eve.

We all bleed the same.

People like you and I have

plugged into the Power of God.

People who have had great weaknesses

and had displayed His Power through them…

Abraham was too old

Isaac was a dreamer

Jacob was a liar

Leah was ugly

Joseph was abused

Moses had a stuttering problem

Gideon was afraid

Samson had long hair and was a womanizer

Rahab was a prostitute

Jeremiah and Timothy were too young

David had an affair and was a murderer

Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked

Jonah ran from God

Naomi was a widow

Job went bankrupt

Peter denied Christ

The disciples fell asleep praying

The Samaritan woman had seven husbands

Zacchaeus was too small

Paul was too religious

Timothy had an ulcer

Lazarus was dead

Look what God did with His Power in others.

So what can God do with you?

What matters is plugging into Jesus Christ.

It is His Power that will work through you.

His Power is greater than your

weakness or your biggest excuse.

Yes, God so loves the world.

But God never intended

you to remain like the world.

The cross is the transformer.

The Power that comes from the cross…

Lights up a person’s life and reveals the

wisdom and Power of God to all who believe.

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 1:20-31 NIV

20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

26 Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God — that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.   31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."