Boast in the Lord

2 Corinthians 10:1-18
Paul is "timid" when face to face with them, but "bold" when away!
Paul begs them when he comes he may not have to be as bold as he expect to be toward some people who think that Paul live by the standards of this world.
We live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does, The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.
People should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent we will be in our actions when we are present.
When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
"Let him who boasts boast in the Lord". For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Why?
Comparison among people is not wise, we boast should in the Lord, for we boast for the one whom the Lord commends am be approved by the Lord. Human's honor is temporary and nothing.
Paul turns his attention to the hostile minority at Corinth who have challenged his authority and criticized his behavior.
They have attacked Paul on a number of counts:
1)He may be a brave letter-writer, but meet him face to face and he's coward.
2)He is a second-rate apostle
Paul answers every charge, showing the hollowness of their standards of judgement:
1)When he comes, they will discover he is as ready to act as the is to write: but he would much rather use his authority to build up the church.
2)Their boasting counts for nothing: it is God's commendation which is all important.
3)Apostles does not consist in oratory and lording it over the church(Chap11)
How?
Don't measure me with others, for I am the servant of the Lord, I am doing the commends of the Lord. Always humble myself but I boast in the Lord, I have the authority from God, I am not coward or week as this world.