2 Corinthians 6:1-10
In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” (Isaiah 49:8) Now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
Through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine(真正), yet regarded as impostors(騙子);
Known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Why?
Through Jesus Christ, now it is the time of God's favor and the day of salvation. God will help us and listen to my prayer.
Good and bad, glory and dishonor, genuine and impostor, we served others but got bad response, God knows these.
But for the Jesus Christ's favor, poor making many rich; having nothing and yet possessing everything. The rich in Spirit and God's grace.
How?
Rejoice and rich in Jesus Christ. God is my portion.
Monday, August 7, 2017
Sunday, August 6, 2017
If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come
1 Corinthians 5:11-21
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Why?
Plain to God,so as plain to our consciousness.
No matter out of our mind or in our mind, we are for the Christ.
In Christ: obey his word and follow his commandment. In his mind and with his love.
Out of our mind is for Christ, in our mind is good for men. But if inverse it would be disaster.
How?
Plain to my consciousness.
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Why?
Plain to God,so as plain to our consciousness.
No matter out of our mind or in our mind, we are for the Christ.
In Christ: obey his word and follow his commandment. In his mind and with his love.
Out of our mind is for Christ, in our mind is good for men. But if inverse it would be disaster.
How?
Plain to my consciousness.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Make goal to please God
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
The dead body and Heavenly Dwelling.
Dead body
1. wasting away
2. the earthly tent we live in is destroyed.
3. What is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
4. Make goal to please him, weather we are at home in the body or away from it.
We longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Our physical body. Paul uses an ordinary Greek expression, which at the same tie reminds us of the body's impermanence.
Why?
We are longing for the heavenly dwelling instead of body in the earth. But we have to face the judgment of Christ due to what we have done in our body.
Do the good things and live with the faith, obey God's commendament.
How?
Make goal to please God.
The dead body and Heavenly Dwelling.
Dead body
1. wasting away
2. the earthly tent we live in is destroyed.
3. What is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
4. Make goal to please him, weather we are at home in the body or away from it.
We longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Our physical body. Paul uses an ordinary Greek expression, which at the same tie reminds us of the body's impermanence.
Why?
We are longing for the heavenly dwelling instead of body in the earth. But we have to face the judgment of Christ due to what we have done in our body.
Do the good things and live with the faith, obey God's commendament.
How?
Make goal to please God.
Friday, August 4, 2017
Fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen
2 Corinthians 4:1-18
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
He is subjected to(受到了) every kind of human weakness, persecution and suffering. But the future, in all its glorious certainty, eclipses(蝕) any suffering the present can hold.
Why?
Jesus Christ is the light shine out of darkness. shine in out hearts to know the glory of the Lord.
What we can suffering is the Jesus Christ in my heart and my faith, so we can hold on.
The life of Jesus can revealed in out body, even y body is decaying.
Paul encouraged us fix out eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
How?
Fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
Why?
Jesus Christ is over the Moses, for the glory is fading, but with the glory of Jesus is increasing glory, which comes from the Lord.
The Lord is the Spirit, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So do not made our minds dull, turn to the Lord. He is full of mercy and grace and glory forever.
How?
Do I have any veil remains in my heart? May my heart turn to the Lord and only in Christ the veil is taken away.
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate
the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with
ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
The glass or mirror, being made of polished metal, gave only an imperfect reflection.Why?
Jesus Christ is over the Moses, for the glory is fading, but with the glory of Jesus is increasing glory, which comes from the Lord.
The Lord is the Spirit, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So do not made our minds dull, turn to the Lord. He is full of mercy and grace and glory forever.
How?
Do I have any veil remains in my heart? May my heart turn to the Lord and only in Christ the veil is taken away.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
A letter from Christ
2 Corinthians 3:1-11
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ
2 Corinthians 2:1-17
For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
The trouble seems to have been personal antagonism to Paul on the part of one man. Now that the church has dealt with him, Paul urges his forgiveness.
After writing the letter, Paul could not rest. He went to Troas hoping to meet Titus on his way back from Corinth with news of the church's reaction. Not finding him there, he crossed the Aegean Sea to Macedonia. The reason for the thanks-giving of verses 14-17 becomes clear in chapter 7. In Macedonia he met Titus, and the news from Corinth was good.
Why?
The victor was followed by his captives and the spoils of war. Paul sees himself as Christ's slave.
For the captives, the smell of incense had the scent of death about it, as the aroma of CHrist foes for Paul. In the end he will suffer a death like Christ's.
Forgiving is healing and comfort among brothers. In order that Satan might not outwit us.
How?
Be a pleasing aroma of Christ, and speak before God with sincerity in Christ.
For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
The trouble seems to have been personal antagonism to Paul on the part of one man. Now that the church has dealt with him, Paul urges his forgiveness.
After writing the letter, Paul could not rest. He went to Troas hoping to meet Titus on his way back from Corinth with news of the church's reaction. Not finding him there, he crossed the Aegean Sea to Macedonia. The reason for the thanks-giving of verses 14-17 becomes clear in chapter 7. In Macedonia he met Titus, and the news from Corinth was good.
Why?
The victor was followed by his captives and the spoils of war. Paul sees himself as Christ's slave.
For the captives, the smell of incense had the scent of death about it, as the aroma of CHrist foes for Paul. In the end he will suffer a death like Christ's.
Forgiving is healing and comfort among brothers. In order that Satan might not outwit us.
How?
Be a pleasing aroma of Christ, and speak before God with sincerity in Christ.
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