2 Corinthians 1:9, “…we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” May every support in our lives that does not have the risen Jesus at its heart be transformed or cut away so that […]
2 Corinthians 5:14-15, “For the love of Christ compels us, because we have judged that one died for all, therefore all have died, and He died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who for their sakes died and was raised.” We might see Paul’s logical
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2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who said ’Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” At creation, God’s Spirit hovered over the abyss and His Word gave form to chaos. So too at our
2 Corinthians 3:16-17, “But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” “The Lord is the Spirit” means—I think—that, post-ascension, the Lord (typically Christ in Paul’s writings) is seen and known and received and communed
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2 Corinthians 5:1, “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” We had a prayer meeting at our local church last night and, after prayer, I was talking with some of the
2 Corinthians 10:4-5, “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.” Strongholds seems to be a term Paul is using for any invisible
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2 Corinthians 5:14-15, “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised.” Paul was constrained,
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2 Corinthians 3:3,”…you are a letter from Christ…written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone it on tablets of human hearts.” What does Paul mean here? In the immediate context he’s talking about “letters of recommendation” (that is, letters proving him to be a trustworthy
2 Corinthians 1:5 (my translation), “For just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, in the same way through Christ abounds also our comfort.” What is Paul saying here? He’s just finished asserting that his comfort in the face of affliction is to the end that he might be able to comfort those
