You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
Past, present and future interweave in these chapters. As for the past, the old covenant has been replaced by a new life-giving one. The present is an anomaly: on the one hand the apostle is appointed ambassador of God himself, charged with his amazing message to humanity.
Why?
In the early days, Christians moving to a new town often took with them such letters from the old church to the new. Paul has no need of such a letter - the very existence of the Corinthian church is sufficient testimony.
The letter is written with the Spirit of the living God, it is written on tablets of human hearts. This is new covenant Jesus Christ made for us.
Moses announced the covenant had glory, but now the ministry of the Spirit is more glorious then before.
How?
Does my behavior could be a letter to show the glory of the Lord before others? I can't but through Jesus Christ I can make it.
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