No Time To Play - Part 4
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No Time to play recap:
Part 1 - We dealt with work while it is day! Night is coming…
Part 2 - God desires to work through me
Part 3 - A clean vessel
Paul is dealing with the Corinthian church about a great treasure that we have been chosen to carry.
Paul is challenging the Corinthian prospective concerning where they should put their confidence in and why.
A major issue was false apostles bringing false teaching to the church.
Also these false teachers carried letters of recommendation to prove they were legit!
Paul had this issue in his first letter and had to address it again! \
You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Sufficient: to qualify (someone) v. — to make fit, prepared, or adequate.
Ministers: servant n. — a person working in the service of another.
The Mosaic Covenant was a written revelation of the righteousness God asked of Israel (e.g., Ex. 19–23). It was accepted with an oath of obedience and a blood sacrifice (Ex. 24). When Israel proved unable and unwilling to remain faithful to that covenant, God graciously intervened and promised a New Covenant
“New Covenant”
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Paul major focus was not trying to live but the law through our own righteousness but to rely on the spirit of God to fulfill his purpose.
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?
The ministry of the spirit…
Is a ministry that we should operate with boldness!
The ministry of the New, by means of the Spirit, leads men to faith in Christ
Church this is “THE MINISTRY”
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
No Time to Play!
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
The ministry is the treasure…
The message of salvation and the results it produces are glorious and divine.
but the treasure is in jars of clay....
I’m human
but this is not a “get out of jail free scripture”
It is a testimony to show…
The surpassing power belongs to God and not to us…
I am a human vessel chosen by God…
Not to do anything from my own ability but God is working through…
Salvation is the work of God not men
The Glory is going to flow through me!
But as jars of clay....
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
The metaphors employed here evoked the same imagery to describe the demands of the ministry, contrasting human helplessness on one hand with divine enablement on the other
Afflicted: to be caused to be distressed v. — to be brought into difficulties or distress or suffering.
Crushed: to be distressed hopelessly v. — to be in a distressing situation without hope of escape, survival, or other positive outcomes;
Perplexed: to be perplexed v. — to be or become filled with confusion resulting from failure to understand.
to be perplexed v. — to be or become filled with confusion resulting from failure to understand.
Despair: to fall apart v. — to lose one’s emotional or mental composure.
Persecuted but not forsaken
Stuck down but not destroyed
But why am I going through this?
always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
It’s not about me!