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Intro:
What is your opinion of people who don’t keep their word?
What does your reputation mean to you?
> Story from my debate club
TWO BIG IDEAS
1. Paul recognizes the way his reputation impacts his witness for the gospel.
Paul’s authority as an apostle is being relentlessly assaulted by false teachers (what is the significance of this?— all that Paul has written)
they criticize his
diminutive stature
lack of eloquence
his trials (how can he have the favor of God and suffer)
his doctrine
But now he addresses a more interpersonal attack: Paul said he would come visit, and he did not come!
Therefore, these teacher accuse, he is a liar!
1 Cor.
16:5-
Moreover, Paul addressed this church as though they were his children
1 Cor.
4:
So he claimed to care for them as his children, but he wrote them a harsh letter, promised to come, and reneged on his promise?
The false teachers want to make Paul out as someone who talks a big talk, but whose character is not to be trusted
Paul’s relationship with this church and his witness for the gospel are being threatened by this slander.
“Although the Corinthians were slandering Paul, there remains this salutary truth—the trustworthiness of the messenger affects the trustworthiness of the message.
Preaching is always “truth through personality.”
And if a man cannot trust the preacher, he is not likely to trust the preacher’s message.”
-William Barclay, Commentary on 2 Corinthians
Paul’s frustration with the Corinthian believers come from a place of love, not self-righteous judgement.
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