Study human philosophy for a few minutes and you know you'll find that every religion that man has ever developed and he's developed all of them except Christianity is complex.

That appeals to his brain, to his ego, it's elaborate. Man won't crush his ego to come down to the level of the simplicity of the cross

and the fact that he recognizes that it doesn't matter what he thinks and it doesn't matter how smart he is,

but that you're saved not through your intellect but through faith.

Welcome to Grace to you with a great.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

An actor says people need to love each other more. A writer says education can solve society's problems.

A politician says more government spending and put an end to society's ills.

That's the kind of wisdom the world offers and people chase after that so-called wisdom as the

solution to mankind's greatest problems.

Now it's one thing for the secular world to bank on human wisdom. Today though, human wisdom has crept

into many churches, staining pure doctrine, and that means many people are being led to trust things that cannot be trusted.

In stark contrast is the word of God.

Take a close look at why you can trust it.

As John MacArthur continues his series is the Bible reliable and

now with today's lesson here's John if you will take your Bible and turn to

1st Corinthians chapter 1 the book of 1st Corinthians is divided basically into Paul's discussion of the various problems

that existed in the Corinthian Church.

The entire book beginning in verse 10 of chapter 1 and going into chapter 16

deals with the areas of problems in the assembly. But the first problem that confronted the apostle, as he wrote, was the problem of division.

The church was divided into factions and parties. They were fighting against each other, quarreling, they had split, and this was a very, very grave problem.

And so the Apostle writes, chapter 1, verse 10, clear to the end of chapter 3 to deal with the

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