Jesus Christ crucified is a stumbling block and foolishness

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St. Paul calls us to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. However, that message doesn’t resonate with everyone. We need to be OK with that.

 

 

OVERVIEW

 

St. Paul calls us to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. It is a message that is spiritually discerned.

However, that message doesn’t resonate with everyone. Some people might be offended. Other people will think it is nonsense. We have to be OK with that.

We freely offer the message to anyone who might be interested. But we don’t “force it down their throat.”

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Isaiah 8:14. He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8:15. Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Luke 2:34. and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Romans 9:33. even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Romans 14:13. Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

1 Corinthians 1:18. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

1 Corinthians 1:23. but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

1 Corinthians 2:14. Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Peter 2:8. and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

 

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