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I imagine that Paul had earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Jerusalem University under Professor Gamaliel, a PhD in philosophy from the Antiochian branch of the University of Athens, and a doctorate in communications from the University of Damascus. He was well prepared to take the word out into the world, except for one thing. All that wisdom from the universities and colleges could not preach the message of the Gospel.
Theoretically, with a college degree, a person should be able to earn more money that a non-college graduate. Furthermore, even if Paul had had all those degrees, he found he had to preach a crucified Christ, a dead Christ who had risen from the dead. This was not how to preach success.
That Christ died and rose from the dead demonstrates that God’s foolishness has more wisdom than we have. God’s degree is called holiness, and it comes from imitating someone who died and rose from the dead. Rather than carrying around parchments showing that he had college degrees, Paul carried around the cross of Jesus, and proclaimed the forgiveness of sin through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
Paul may have had some physical handicaps, but he had good schooling in Jewish life and practice. He embraced, however, the wisdom and power of the cross of the Lord Jesus. Today’s passage shows in a general way the power and wisdom of God’s weakness and foolishness. The rest of this chapter (1:26-31) will show the effects in the Corinthians of God’s wisdom and strength. Despite the low estate of the Corinthian community, God had given them a share in the power wisdom of God.
Paul, the Corinthians, and many of us have found that God works best with human weaknesses and failings. God’s weakness and foolishness is stronger and wiser than our wisdom and power. God uses the weak to shame the strong and the foolish to shame the wise.