The Grace of God (8:1-8) – Sovereign Grace
The Grace of Christ (8:9-15) – Sufficient Grace
The Grace of Christian Love (8:16-24)
Paul begins this chapter with the slightly impersonal:
Grace of God (vs 1 to 8)
A Grace Sovereign…
Read moreMar 18 2018
The Grace of God (8:1-8) – Sovereign Grace
The Grace of Christ (8:9-15) – Sufficient Grace
The Grace of Christian Love (8:16-24)
Paul begins this chapter with the slightly impersonal:
Grace of God (vs 1 to 8)
A Grace Sovereign…
Read moreDec 12 2017
Sorrowing into Gods Wonderful Joy
There is a bitter sweet sorrow which is the gateway into the joy of the Lord.
This is the door opened by sorrow!
Through this door the widow of Zarephath entered carrying her dead son …
Read moreAug 27 2017
2 Corinthians chapter 6 in some ways is Pauls Mt Carmel experience – the proving of the servant of God!
Criticism abounded of the apostle
Some looked at a life, lived wholly to the Glory of God; a life of…
Read moreMar 14 2017
3 Description of the Christian revealing Christ:
Sweet Savour of Christ (2:15)
'savour of His knowledge' (2:14)
Living Letter (3:2-3)
'known and read of all men'
Earthen Vessel (4:7)
'light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the…
Read moreMar 14 2017
An interlude in an epistle of suffering
The subject of 'joy'
This is joy restored by repentance
The endurance of Gods gracious discipline in the life of His people is given not to crush or destroy but to restore joy!
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Read moreFeb 14 2017
'Hidden things of dishonesty'
Adam and Eve hid their disobedience in the garden and their embarrassment under fig leaves.
Cain hid his guilt in an evasive answer: 'Am I my brothers keeper'
Joseph's brothers hid their guilt in a blood…
Feb 7 2017
2 Corinthians addresses the subject of suffering more thoroughly and systematically than any other NT epistle.
Suffering and Spiritual Growth– chps 1 to 5
Suffering and Salvation finding its conclusion in Sanctification – chp 6
Suffering and Sorrow, repentance and…
Read moreJan 29 2017
'Living Letters'
Surely one of the strangest descriptions of Christians?
Many titles given to Christians in the NT:
My sheep – John 10
Little children – John
Flock of God – Peter
Saints Christians
Followers of that way
But here…
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