Fifteen Reasons God Chooses Babes

1. That God might use them to defeat the enemy and the avenger by preaching and by testimony (Psalm 8:2; Romans 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:18-24; 1 Cor. 2:1-4).
2. That He through perfected praise might honor Himself and quiet the avenger (Matthew 21:15-16).
3. That truth in all its purity and simplicity might be revealed to men (Matthew 11:25-27).
4. That growth might be experienced through the sincere milk of the Word (1 Peter 2:1-2; Hebrews 5:11-14).
5. That souls might be saved through the foolishness or simplicity of preaching (1 Cor. 1:18-24).
6. That God may bring to nothing the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of the prudent (1 Cor. 1:19).
7. That the wisdom of the world might be exposed as foolishness (1 Cor. 1:20).
8. That God’s least wisdom might be shown to excel man’s greatest (1 Cor. 1:25).
9. That His least power might be manifested to be greater than man’s strength (1 Cor. 1:25).
10. That the wise may be confounded (1 Cor. 1:27).
11. That the mighty man may be humbled (1 Cor. 1:27).
12. That the things which are might become as nothing (1 Cor. 1:28).
13. That God’s plan of choosing the base and despised of the world in preference to the high and honored might be known to all (1 Cor. 1:28).
14. That no flesh should glory in God’s presence (1 Cor. 1:29-31).
15. That the wisdom and power of God might be demonstrated in simple believers before both men and angels (1 Cor. 1:30-31; 1 Cor. 4:9-14; Ephes. 3:8-11).

Finis J. Dake, Dake Topical Index, WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “Babes, God Chooses”.