The Wisdom and Power of the Cross

The cross humbles the proud. It saves the lost, and it gives us as believers a righteousness that far exceeds anything the world can offer. And in a culture and in a world obsessed with self promotion, with clever ideas, God says glory in me and me alone. If you're here today and you don't know Jesus Christ and you've never come to that foot of the cross and literally said, I can't. I can't. You're halfway there. Call on the one who can. Save me. I want heaven. Save me. I believe. I believe. [01:46:48] (46 seconds)  #HumbleAtTheCross

Listen, church. We need to repent of that. We need to come to a place where we say, you know what? In weakness, god, that's where you work. That's the place of god's presence. Where I don't have the strength, where I'm left out, where I'm not acknowledged, where my position and my authority and my plans and what I know and my experience is disregarded. Thank you, Jesus, because in that place of weakness, you're gonna work through me. Amen. [01:30:39] (35 seconds)  #PowerInWeakness

Faith Baptist Church, you know, when we're gathered, we gather Tuesday night to celebrate the lord's table, it's not about you. Sure. And it's never been about you. That's what troubles my heart. You know, people like, I need the lord's table every week. I need listen, my friend. It's not about you. That's right. You made something that isn't about you, about you, about what you want. You know, worship's not about you. [01:25:26] (26 seconds)  #WorshipIsNotAboutYou

We live in a world that really what we're looking for is people like us. You know, we just get along with people that I get along with. Boy, this person does what I do, and and they have the same goals and same outlook and same philosophy. And so that's the people I get along with. But you know what the cross does? The cross takes a group of people from all different walks of life and cultures and ways of thinking and makes them one in Christ. It's amazing. The wisdom of god, the power of god in the gospel. We need to hear it preached to us. [01:10:44] (32 seconds)  #CrossUnitesUs

Faith Baptist Church, as we come upon this week, I I I'm gonna preach the gospel this morning to you. You say, you know what? I I I think the lost people need to hear the gospel. Amen. Amen. But you need to hear the gospel too. I need to hear the gospel too. It needs to be something that I'm constantly rehearsing and preaching to myself. Because the gospel impacts not just my salvation, but informs the entirety of my Christian life. The concepts of the gospel, what Christ did that I it's not up to me now to try harder, but rather to learn to trust more Amen. [01:09:25] (38 seconds)  #RehearseTheGospel

Pastor here for twenty years. You know, a lot of people come in. They don't have the same standards I do. They don't understand why we do what we do. Boy, I'd sit there with a judgmental heart and spirit towards people and boy, the lord's had to just say, you are a wretch. That's hard to hear from the lord, isn't it? You're wicked. You ever had your heavenly father say that to you? That's just wicked. Okay, lord. You've substituted what you're doing for a walk with me. See, spirituality is yieldedness and him producing fruit. [01:43:10] (39 seconds)  #FruitNotPerformance

It's to those who perish. Don't be discouraged, brothers and sisters, when you're giving the gospel and you're speaking of the lord Jesus Christ, if people mock because to them it's foolish, but you know it's true because you've known and experienced its power. Because you believed. Notice this in verse 19. God has promised this is coming from Isaiah 29. If you wanna know the reference, Isaiah 29. God says what? I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring to nothing the understand standing of the prudent. [01:13:25] (39 seconds)  #DontBeAshamedOfTheGospel

The cross strips away the pride. The cross says, you can't do it. You can't get there. God literally had to come down, become man, and die for you. That's right. Amen. And yet you think now, after having all of that for you, now is the time to be arrogant. Now is the time to find dependency on yourself, to come to a place where you just trust yourself. No. As you've received the lord Jesus Christ, walk in him that way. How did I receive him? [01:28:47] (31 seconds)  #CrossBreaksPride