For our boasting is
this:
the testimony of our
conscience that we
conducted ourselves
in the world
in the simplicity and
godly sincerity,
not with fleshly
wisdom but by the grace of God,
and more abundantly
toward you.
For we are not
writing any other thing
to you than what you
read or understand.
Now I trust you will
understand,
even to the end (as
also you have understood
us and part), that we
are your post as you also
are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:12 --
14
Paul the apostle faced prejudice, and yet throughout all his
trials he was constantly joyful and had consolation in the testimony of his
conscience. Paul knew that he was a
sinner and then he could only rejoice in glory and Jesus Christ. Furthermore, Paul as a believer that his
rejoicing in glory was in the inward consciousness of being really what he
professed. We must notice this fact:
Paul conducted himself in simplicity; and so often we, especially today, try to
have all the success in the trappings of this world when we are actually called
to live a simple life. Paul also lived
by godly sincerity and this would mean that he did not live by worldly wisdom
or wisdom of his flesh. Paul makes notion
for the Corinthians and for us and that we live by the grace of God. Paul also makes mention that they were doing
exactly what they had written and spoken about and he hopes that they
understand when you wrote or spoke. In
the last day when the Lord Jesus Christ returns for His church and all of the
brothers and sisters, the bride of Christ join Him for eternity we will
experience redemption and salvation.
I got
called away to take someone to a clinic about 40 miles one way so I had to stop
so this blog is late.
By knowledge a person hears the word of God, and also reads
the word of God so a Christian grows in their faith. But, this is where
problems enter into our lives and that is that we begin to think that thinking
is of the first importance; but this is not true; it is life that is of the
first importance. Thinking is not the
beginning of our natural or spiritual life, rather Christian thinking means
that were thinking on the basis of things, not thinking in pious terms. This was a problem with the Corinthian
church and is a problem in many churches existing today whereby they think more
of pious terms, doing certain acts, or speak in some unknown gibberish tongue
and all they have done is stepped aside in regards to the basis of things. There are often many experiences that or write
in the life of God is in the air, but here is where a problem exists that there
has been no thinking on the basis of thing, therefore when circumstances arise,
there is confusion. Christians need to
think along Christian lines and know where to place our personal and individual
experiences. Yes we must exercise
ourselves intellectually as well as spiritually but we are not to place the
intellectual thinking above spiritual thinking. On the day of the Lord which is the Last Day, a day for the
church that is reading to enter into living eternally with God, His Son, and
the Holy Spirit, that is with the Godhead.
Those who are called to be leaders in the church as was Paul may then
have the right to boast, that is, when we see those who have heard us, and see
how we lived out the gospel in our lives and have become Authentic Christians,
then there is reason to boast.
Redemption: the great facts of Christian faith that stands outside of
Christianity that has not only to do with man's experience of salvation, but
with the basis of his thinking. Paul
had reminded the Corinthian Christians that redemption, the very revelation of
redemption, stands upon this fact that Jesus Christ's came to this earth that
by means of His death on the cross He might put the whole human race on a
redemptive basis. By this act upon the
cross, this redemptive act, this made it possible for every man to get into
perfect communion with God. Why do they
not do so? Let us be reminded as Paul
reminded the Corinthian church that the work on the cross by Jesus Christ finished
all the work that God the Father had given Him to do. What was finished? The
redemption of the world! Therefore men
are not going to be redeemed, they are redeemed. I don't go a huff and say this writer has fallen prey to
Arminianism whereby man by his own at can save himself: this is not the meaning
of redemption of the world. Jesus
Christ died upon the cross and that salvation by means of the cross was not the
salvation of individual men and women, the whole human race was put on the
basis of redemption. The key word here
is "basis." And this we will
build upon salute you can come to a clear understanding of what it means that
by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross human race was put on the basis of
redemption. By the redemptive power of
Jesus Christ's dying upon the cross, His resurrection, and ascension into
heaven makes a way for even the meanest of men to be presented perfect in
Christ. Not just those who have maybe
done some small sin, or even lived a moral life who will be saved: no if we
understand that our beginning of Christian thinking we then can think of any
kind of man have been presented to Jesus Christ perfect in Him.
The next
blogs will build upon this thinking for Paul said to the Corinthians that he
had preached to them and taught them and was trusting that they would
understand what was preached and understood.
And that they would hold to the very end, the last day would Jesus
Christ come to stand in the knowledge and thinking and know that they were
really redeemed on the basis of Redemption by the work of Jesus Christ upon the
cross.
The Gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Being the man I am, being full of lust and pride
and envy and malice and hatred and false good,
and all accumulated exaggerated misery -- to me
the Gospel of the grace of God, and the Redemption
of Christ, and the regeneration and sanctification
of the Holy Ghost, that Gospel is to me simply irresistible,
and I cannot understand why it is not equally irresistible
to every mortal man of women.
Blaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623)
You may have had a similar question: do not fear our study
of Scripture will ease your fears!
Read and study God's Word daily
Richard L. Crumb
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