The Lord is Looking for Cosigners

God desires his children’s to live lives that Cosign His Son Jesus

I remember when my mother cosigned for my loan I took out for college. I remember it being an issue because I didn’t pay it. They started putting knocks on her credit. She would call me and say “Pay that loan!”

Each of us knows what it means to either have cosigned for someone or been looking for someone to cosign for us. To cosign means that you are standing behind someone or something and saying its official. This man or woman is the real things. Official Tissue. The real deal.

The Lord is looking or Cosigners. People who with their lives say that Jesus is real. He is looking for you. Let’s look at the text:

2 Corinthians 6:3–10 ESV

3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 7 by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

ENDURING Hard Things

2 Corinthians 6:4–5 ESV

4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

longsuffering for the sake of those he was serving.

”I got in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble." John Lewis

EXERCISING Christlike Character

2 Corinthians 6:6–7 ESV

6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 7 by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

EMBRACING the Mystery of Your Life

2 Corinthians 6:8–10 ESV

8 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

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