The World's Only Path to Peace

God has united you with Christ Jesus.  For our benefit God made Him to be wisdom itself. (1 Corinthians 1:30)

• Wisdom could be defined as the best means to the best goal.
• Christ is the best (and only) means to the goal of my salvation.
• Over against the wisdom of the world, Christ is my wisdom.

The world 

• rejects the idea of the crucified Christ as a means of escaping the misery that characterizes this present world and seeks its own means of healing the brokenness of life.
• regards as foolish the idea that the crucified Christ is the way of escaping the misery of this present world.

Instead

• the world seeks its own way of healing this brokenness.
• But what is foolish in the eyes of the world is the wisdom of God.

Christ made us right with God. (1 Corinthians 1:30)

Christ is my righteousness.

• Righteousness is the absence of the guilt of sin; perfect obedience to God.
• Through His suffering and death, Christ has removed my guilt and acquitted me (declared me 'Not Guilty') before God.
• He has also rendered for me full and perfect obedience to God's law.
• He has borne the curse of the covenant and fulfilled its demands on my behalf.
• As a result, the Father looks at me as though I had never commited any sin and as though I kept His law perfectly.

He has made us pure and holy... (1Corinthians 1:30)

Christ is also my sanctification.

• Sanctification means purity, holiness.  Christ is my holiness.
• He not only makes me holy; He is my holiness.
• Instead of looking at how impure and unholy my affections are, God looks past me and looks at the purity and holiness of my Representative, Christ.
• Furthermore, through the working of His Spirit, He also causes me to be holy.
• He renews me by His Spirit and cleanses me from my sinful inclinations so that I walk in holiness.

...and He freed us from sin. (1 Corinthians 1:30)

Christ is also my redemption.

• Redeem means to buy back, to restore something to its previous owner.
• Having given Himself as the ransom for sin, offering the price of His precious blood, more precious than gold or silver, Christ has redeemed me.
• He bought me so that I might once again be a child of God.

Therefore, as the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:31)

Adapted Excerpt from Only by True Faith by VanDelden

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 6