Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

1.1, verses 22 through 24.

For Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom.

But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom

of God.

Think about that summary of not just the gospel, but people's response to the gospel. Like, for Jewish people,

this is a total stumbling block. The idea of Christ crucified, like the Messiah nailed to a cross.

Galatians 3 talks about a cursed is anyone who is hung on a tree.

That's what the law said.

So for the Messiah to be cursed, like that is a major stumbling black.

The idea that God in the flesh would die a cruel death on a cross.

Christ crucified is a total stumbling block to Jewish people, not just in the first century, but even today.

And to Gentiles, like folly.

This is crazy to say to somebody, and it makes sense.

Like, for you and I to say to someone today,

just think the self-made American businessman or businesswoman

to tell them 2,000 years ago,

a Middle Eastern man died on a nondescript hill in a

nondescript part of the world he is nailed to a cross and his death determines the

fate of every single person in the world, including you. Like, really, that seems ridiculous. And it is.

It's folly to many people today. But that's the point. It always has been folly to Gentiles,

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