Simply Powerful | Lessons from 1 Corinthians 2 (Part 2)
Paul is saying, v3, he came ‘in weakness and fear and much trembling’. Why? Perhaps because even here in pagan Corinth, Paul is also facing up to educated Orthodox Jews, trained as he had been, who rejected the crucified Messiah and persecuted His followers. So he’s ‘in weakness’, because he wants to present something he hadn’t been brought up with, that he himself had violently rejected, but was more powerful than anything he’d ever known. He didn’t use wise and persuasive words - no, he came with a demonstration of the Spirit’s Power! Why? So that their faith might not rest on men’s wisdom…
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