Useless by the cross of jesus

1 Cor 1:17 RV60 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words, not to make vain the cross of Christ.

In the first century was expected that a speaker or someone who spoke publicly produce carefully prepared speeches that attract people's attention to his skill in dealing with the rhetorical conventions. The speech was called "magic" because it was said that those who listened bewitched. The content of the speech was the least important, only the action. Speakers talked to win the adulation of his audiences. Paul did not use any of the tricks of the professional speaker, and not preached with wisdom of words, literally "through the wisdom of the rhetoric." Have adopted the conventions have promoted secular whose actions he believed the public. This would have distracted his attention, removing the cross to focus on the person of Paul, thus robbing the audience the opportunity to hear about the wonderful event by which God rescues individuals. This message of authority is called the gospel and its contents to the cross of Christ. Christ sent him to preach the gospel, not to seek personal followers. Twenty-first Century Biblical Commentary, 1 Corinthians 1:17

  

That the devil would like to prevent that Christ fulfilled his mission is evident from the manner in which he sought to tempt deviation in the desert and the influence Pedro when he advised him not to cross.

  But what the devil does not appear to be able to reach for many of us. Make vain, useless, the cross of Jesus would seem a tremendous calamity, and it is!.

  Paul warns about the danger of neutralizing the infinite power of the cross. Power that has saved millions, at the same healed, freed from the clutches of demons to their prey and a number of other benefits.

  How is this possible?

   Nobody would deny the benefits of a good oratory but when it seeks to exalt the spoken and the message does not then the results are different. 1 Cor 1:17 RV60 ... not with wisdom of words, not to make vain the cross of Christ.

Far from wanting to "spell" to his listeners by presenting a performance, Paul understood that certain principles were that really make a difference and which are worth emulating.

  1 Cor 2:1-5 RV60 So, brethren, when I announce to you the testimony of God with excellence, I was not of words or wisdom. (2) Well I decided not to know anything among you but Jesus Christ, and he crucified. (3) And I was among you, weakness, and much fear and trembling, (4) and my word and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power, (5) so that your faith is not founded in the wisdom of men but in God's power.

  Paul recognized his weakness and incapacity: (3) And I was among you, weakness, and much fear and trembling.

And the Spirit said its unit: (4) and my word and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power.

Do not do today vain the cross of Christ, we recognize our limitations and apoyémonos confidence in the person of the Holy Spirit who will make our messages of a powerful weapon for the power of the cross of Christ is still saying among men.