Calvary Church
2nd Corinthians: Correction of the Letter
In our text we’ll see that Paul wrote to produce pain in the Corinthian believers. It was painful to him to write it, but he knew it was the right thing to do and he obeyed the Lord. The result was good. Read 2 Corinthians 7:8-12
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Calvary Church
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Wednesday 6:30 PM
Paul did not take his actions lightly. It gave him no personal pleasure to show this church that he was displeased.
Paul was an inspired man and what he had said was proper and right, but he was a man of deep feeling and tender affections.
When God inspires, His Spirit mixes with the spirit of man in the form of thought, but not without struggles and apprehension of the human element. Otherwise it would not be inspiration at all, but simply a Divine echo through the man.
The essence of Gospel repentance is not the sorrow it produces over our sin, though it should do that, but the change it makes in us.
No person suffers loss by being told of their sins if they truly repent.
A person who has grief for sin only because it leads them to disgrace or shame, or because it leads to poverty or pain, will not necessarily break off from it and truly reform.
It’s only when it is seen that sin is committed against God and is evil in His sight that it leads to a changed life.
The sorrow of the worldly has a tendency to end in death—not only mortal, but spiritual.
This Church finally joined together to remove the evil which existed among them. They did not sit down to merely mourn over them, or wait for God to remove them, but they labored together and got the right job accomplished.
May we never deny the reality of sin, or lessen its power by defending it. When we simply confess it, true repentance happens.
When Paul wrote, it was with a larger purpose; to show them how much he cared for his disciples at Corinth, how anxious he was to clear away any stains that affected their reputation as a Church.