C.H. SPURGEON ~ AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” SUNDAY AM, MAY 17, 1857

1 Corinthians 1:24 UNBELIEF towards the Gospel of Christ is the most unreasonable thing in the entire world, because the reason which the unbeliever gives for his unbelief is fairly met by the character and constitution of the Gospel of Christ. Notice that before this verse we read— “The Jews required a sign, the Greeks seek after wisdom.” If you met the Jew who believed not on Christ in the apostle’s day, he said, “I cannot believe, because I want a sign.” And if you had met the Greek, he said, “I cannot believe, because I want a philosophic system, one that is full of wisdom.” “Now,” says the apostle, “both these objections are untenable and unreasonable. If you suppose that the Jew requires a sign, that sign is given him—Christ is the power of God. The miracles that Christ wrought upon earth were signs more than sufficiently abundant, and if the Jewish people had but the will to believe, they would have found abundant signs and reasons for believing in the personal acts of Christ and His apostles.” And let the Greeks say, “I cannot believe because I require a wise system.” O Greek, Christ is the wisdom of God. If you would but investigate the subject, you would find in its profoundness of wisdom—a depth where the most gigantic intellect might be drowned. It is no shallow Gospel, but a deep, and a great deep too, a deep which passes understanding. Your objection is ill-founded, for Christ is the wisdom of God and His Gospel is the highest of all sciences. If you wish to find wisdom, you must find it in the word of revelation.”