Category: 2 Corinthians
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A Contrast in Destinies
2 Corinthians 5:1-2 “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. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling.” As the years go by, I become more and more aware of the frailty of…
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More Than Meets the Eye
2 Corinthians 4:16 “Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.” The Bible would have us to know that things are rarely as they seem for we are so limited by what we can physically see. However, God isn’t like this, and wonderfully, He has let us who know Him…
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Seeing Unseen Things
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things…
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The Things We Say
2 Corinthians 4:13 “I believed, and so I spoke.” Our words reveal the truth about our faith. Put another way, it’s not what we say about our faith that matters, but how our faith influences what we say about everything else. In James 2:18, James puts it this way: “But someone will say, ‘You have…
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Thanksgiving
2 Corinthians 4:14-15 “He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.” Thanksgiving: it’s a time to reflect on all the blessings of life…
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Jars of Clay
2 Corinthians 4:7 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” When the glory of God is manifested in the life of a person, it is radically different from the glory of man. When we think of the glory, i.e., the greatness, of…
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An Oral Exam
2 Corinthians 4:5 “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” One of the best tests of our own Christian maturity (and authenticity, for that matter) is an examination of what we talk about. In the verse above Paul was addressing accusations that…
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Life in the Shadows
2 Corinthians 4:2 “We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.” So often it is not the things that people do in public that define them, but what they do when…
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Wanting and Getting
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” Sometimes the very worst thing that can ever happen to…
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Be Bold!
2 Corinthians 3:12 “Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.” If you are a Christian, do you share the gospel with others? Is it something you struggle with? Indeed, it is a rare thing if you don’t. Even the apostle Paul struggled with this at times. Thus his request to the Ephesian church…
To Encourage You 