Sermon Tone Analysis
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Paul’s calling as an apostle: origins and implications
His calling began with his encounter with the risen Christ
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His calling involved his being sent to the unevangelised Gentile world
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His calling put him under an obligation to preach the gospel
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Paul’s commitment to his apostolic calling
He supported himself in order to present the gospel free of charge
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He put the gospel before everything else
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He boasted in his weaknesses
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He experienced God’s power at work through him
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He had a confident attitude to death
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Paul and the example of Jesus Christ
His appeal to Jesus Christ as an example to the churches
Paul here uses the example of Jesus Christ in order to encourage the Corinthians in their giving.
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His own exemplary imitation of Jesus Christ
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His sharing of Jesus Christ’s sufferings
Paul is not suggesting here that there is any deficiency in Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice.
Rather, there are some aspects of suffering which Christ could not experience because they arose only as a result of people preaching the message of the cross and suffering because of it.
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Paul and the churches
His integrity in dealing with the churches
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His love for the churches
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His prayers for the churches
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His dependence on the prayers of the churches
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Paul’s imagery of apostleship
As Jesus Christ’s ambassador
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As a builder
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As a farmer
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As a mother
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As God’s captive
; Paul portrays God as a victorious Roman general, with himself as a captive, bringing up the rear of the triumphal procession.
As Jesus Christ’s slave
The word translated “servant” in these verses commonly meant “slave”:
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Paul’s successors were to safeguard the truth of the gospel after his death
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