Learning Nothing Except

This Week's Fighter Verses are 1 Corinthians 2:1, 2 and during this week's Wednesday night study we took some time looking at the context and content of this passage.

First Corinthians 1 lists different factions within the church (v. 12) and different groups the world views as wise (v. 20).  Chapter one ends with this very important quote "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."  
This introductory chapter reminds us to preach the foolish gospel to weak people and not get caught up in names, personalities or the wisdom of this world.  

Then comes the Fighter Verses, 1 Corinthians 2:1-2:

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  

Paul wanted the Corinthians to first and foremost know that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.  
He was not concerned with his own popularity.
The following James Denney quote contains the same main point.  "No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever, and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save."

Each week www.fighterverses.com has at least one, usually more than one, devotional related to that week's Fighter Verse.

The None But Christ and Him Crucified devotional contains the following quote:

We are saved from sin, through grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone, according to the word of God alone

In this sentence, which is taken from the 5 Solas of the Reformation, we see that our salvation and our life is about God alone.

The other devotional from this week, How to Know Nothing, Except the Good News, says

"The good news of who Jesus is and what he does to save sinners like us, carries much more meaning than merely how to get saved, or how we got saved.  It also shows how we should live everyday and how we look at everything in the world."

The truth of these Fighter Verses should impact our lives in so many different ways.
In our evangelism, we should be more concerned with a truthful presentation of the Gospel and not with the end results or an eloquent presentation.
In our daily walk, we should be more concerned with pleasing and depending upon God rather than ourselves and other people.
In our prayers, we should focus more on God's glory and God's will and not our desires and personal comfort.

For more about the Fighter Verses go to www.drodgersjr.com/p/fighter-verses.html