Messge by Jory Leong at SSMC on 29May2016

3. Is a zebra black with white stripes
or white with black stripes?
Is today yesterday’s tomorrow
or tomorrow’s yesterday?
PARADOX
is a statement that sounds
contradictory but is true.

4. KINGDOM PRINCIPLES
Paradoxical
^
1. Foolish but Chosen

5. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NLT)
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you
were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when
God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are
wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame
those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by
the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to
bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a
result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

6. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NLT)
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you
were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when
God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are
wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame
those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by
the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to
bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a
result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

7. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NLT)
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you
were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when
God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those who think they
are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame
those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by
the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to
bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a
result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

8. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NLT)
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you
were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when
God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those who think they
are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame
those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by
the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to
bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a
result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

10. 1 Corinthians 1:26
Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that FEW of
you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or
wealthy when God called you.

11. KINGDOM PRINCIPLES
Paradoxical
^
1. Foolish but Chosen
2. Weak but Strong

13. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
7 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me.8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from
me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my
power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power
may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

14. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
7 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me.8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from
me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my
power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power
may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

15. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
7 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me.8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from
me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my
power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power
may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

17. A man on top of a mountain, saying to himself:
“I breathe so many cubic feet of air every year I
fear I shall exhaust the oxygen in the atmosphere.”
But the earth might say: “Breathe away, O man,
and fill thy lungs ever; my atmosphere is sufficient
for thee.”

19. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
7 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me.8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from
me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my
power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power
may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

21. On the cross,
Christ embodied
strength in
weakness

27. KINGDOM PRINCIPLES
Paradoxical
^
1. Foolish but Chosen
2. Weak but Strong

28. Kingdom Math
Trust in God
STRENGTH
x
Our Weakness
=

31. My grace
is sufficient
for you

34. KINGDOM PRINCIPLES
Paradoxical
^
1. Foolish but Chosen
2. Weak but Strong