My God and My Country

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Church at Corinth

Chapter 1:30

30 But ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

Cross references:

Jeremiah 33:5, 36:16; Philippians 3:9

Brethren:

In yesterday’s reading, it was written that man’s wisdom is nothing compared to the wisdom that is, and from God.

In the verse that precedes today's study, we find that no man should glory in his wisdom, (mankind's), for it brings, and profits us nothing. (Read also Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Today, we read that through Christ Jesus we find the wisdom that is of God. The sacrifice that He made for us, brings us the wisdom, this to say, the revelation, of God's plan for salvation. It brings us righteousness, which is now acceptable to God. For we cannot obtain righteousness on our own. This same righteousness brings us sanctification, thereby setting us apart from the world, and making us inclusive in His coming Kingdom. Finally, all of the above brings to us redemption, that is by His grace and mercy.

“The object of the apostle is to show that man of himself possesses no good, that whatever he has comes from God, and from God only through Christ.

Even the good which you possess is granted by God, for it is by and through him that Christ Jesus comes, and all the blessings of the Gospel dispensation. As being the author of that evangelical wisdom which far excels the wisdom of the philosopher and the scribe, and even that legal constitution which is called the wisdom of the Jews, (Read Deuteronomy 4:6). Justification, as procuring for us that remission of sins which the law could not give, (Read Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:21). As procuring for and working in us, not only an external and relative holiness, as was that of the Jews, but true and eternal holiness, (Read Ephesians 4:24), wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. He is the author of redemption, not from the Egyptian bondage, or Babylonian captivity, but from the servitude of Satan, the dominion of sin and death, and from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God, or the redemption of the body, (Read Romans 8:21, Romans 8:23).” - Adam Clarke