September 13, 2024
“Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you” (2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV). Paul’s final instructions in his second letter to the Corinthians sought to correct the disharmony he had heard about. They were not submissive to
September 11, 2024
“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise” (2 Corinthians 12:2-3 ESV). In the climax of Paul’s “boastings,” he spoke of
September 5, 2024
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV). The example of Christ’s generosity should inspire and empower our own. He took on the poverty of our separation, sin and
September 2, 2024
“Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV). The apostle Paul quoted Isaiah’s prophecy (Isa. 49:8) concerning the time of salvation that the coming Messiah would bring to both Jew and Gentile alike. Paul declared to the Corinthians that the long awaited for time had come.
September 1, 2024
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV). This is the great exchange: The Righteous One took on our sin, so that we might become His righteousness. The Son took the Father’s wrath that we
August 31, 2024
“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” (2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV). Paul encouraged the Corinthians not to give up, for the present troubles of this world are temporary, but the coming glory
August 30, 2024
“Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart” (2 Corinthians 4:1 ESV). The combined effect of having received both the “mercy” and the “ministry” of the gospel strengthened the apostle Paul, so that he did not “lose heart.” Whenever he felt discouraged, he remembered that, through the gospel, God
August 26, 2024
“But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9 ESV). In his second letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul wrote how the hardships he and his fellow believers had experienced in Asia Minor had nearly crushed them. For their afflictions were so great
April 21, 2024 | 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 |
Do you ever give any thought to what heaven is like? People who have faced death, either personally or among their friends and family, tend to think more about what heaven might be like.
What’s heaven like for the believer when they die? How can we face death and eternity with confident knowledge and expectation of heaven? In the apostle Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, he encouraged believers that they could confidently face death knowing what their heavenly home with the Lord would be like.
September 13, 2023
“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14 NLT). With this beautiful benediction, Paul closed his second letter to the Corinthians. Paul’s great trinitarian doxology bestowed three powerful blessings of the Godhead upon the believers at Corinth.