1Corinthians 1:18-31

 18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
 20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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God is a personality! He has emotions and characcteristics. You might wonder where we get our emotions from.
Genesis 1: 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created

may we consider briefly a few of His characteristics:
1. He laughs. (Psalm 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh...:)
2. He grieves.(Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, ...)
3.He gts sick. (Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth)
4. He gets angry. (Psalm 7:11  11God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day)
5 He Hates. (Psalm 5:5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity)

I. It pleased Him to bruise his Son Isaiah 53:3.He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
     and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised
II. It pleased God to reveal Chist to others through his people.
III. it pleased God by the foolishnes of preaching to save sinners