Why People Reject Jesus

There are lots of reasons that people reject Jesus.  With some effort we could name perhaps dozens of reasons.  But the first chapter of 1 Corinthians sums it up into two categories.  And to be fair, we must recognize that this is Paul writing to the Corinthian Christians, dealing with some of the problems they were facing.  Still, people are much the same today and have much the same problems.

We actually see three categories of people in 1 Corinthians 1; note this verse: "Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."

So it seems that Paul is summarizing these three categories of people:

Jews--They always wanted a sign.  But Jesus gave them plenty of signs; miracles that proved He was from God, that He was God.  Still, they wanted more.

Greeks--(non-Jews)--To them the Gospel of Jesus was just foolishness.  It didn't fit with their own thinking, their own reasoning.  And the Greeks were big into human reason; note Acts 17, when Paul went to Athens and spoke with them.

Believers--The above passage shows that, while Jews always wanted another sign (miracle), and Greeks called it "foolishness," there would be people who believed in Jesus, who knew Him to be the Christ, the Savior of the world.

The passage goes on to say, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."  God has no foolishness or weakness, but this passage just shows that if He did, it would put man's to shame.  We need to recognize that God is God, He has the power, and He will use it on us.  He will use it to raise us up.....or to bring us down.  Let's be in the 3rd category that Paul was talking about.  Praise be to God.

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