Combatting Ideologies of the world
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· 10 viewsThe ideals of the world are in the church. The destruction which we see occurring in the world are what will happen in the church.
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Introduction
Introduction
1 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
Paul’s opponents began to dismantle the faith of the disciples by introducing speculations into the “faith.”
2 I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
History:
History:
Paul ministered to this church in Acts 18.
His ministry there was for around 18 months:
1 After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them, 3 and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers. 4 And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks. 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent; 10 for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.” 11 And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
After being assaulted, he was accused of contriving worship contrary to Moses (v.13).
The Roman pro-consul would not hear of it, even if they began to commit a civil crime, assault and battery (v.17).
When Paul left, those who remained continued to infiltrate the church with their teachings, primarily from a Jewish standpoint.
False Apostles:
False Apostles:
3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully. 5 For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles. 6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things. 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
12 But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
The point is that the church was being infiltrated with men who established themselves to be teachers greater than Paul.
19 For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly. 20 For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.
It did not matter to these Corinthians that those to whom they gave their trust was, in reality, damaging them.
It did not matter, like children, that the false teachers were willing to publicly accuse Paul, who gave his life for them for a year and six months.
Therefore, Paul was bold towards those who claimed to be true teachers.
How?
By asserting his doctrine:
By asserting his doctrine:
4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully. 5 For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles. 6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.
By asserting his life of service:
By asserting his life of service:
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. 24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. 26 I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren; 27 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28 Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? 30 If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, 33 and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.
3 giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited, 4 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger, 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left, 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true; 9 as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death, 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
Therefore, Paul’s experience with the Corinthians is a crucible for what he is saying in this passage.
v.2
v.2
2 I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 δέομαι δὲ τὸ μὴ παρὼν θαρρῆσαι τῇ πεποιθήσει ᾗ λογίζομαι τολμῆσαι ἐπί τινας τοὺς λογιζομένους ἡμᾶς ὡς κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦντας.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update 2 Corinthians 10:2
2 I ask that awhen I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against bsome, who regard us as if we walked caccording to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:2 (UBS5)
2
δέομαι 1s paind I wish
δὲ conj but
τὸ article msnom that which
μὴ negative not
παρὼν mplgen paptcple coming alongside
θαρρῆσαι painf be confident
θαρρέω 1aor. ἐθάρρησα; (1) of an attitude be confident (in), be cheerful (about), rely (on) (2C 7:16); (2) of a manner of approach be bold or courageous (HE 13:6); see θαρσέω for the imperative1
1 Timothy Friberg, Barbara Friberg, and Neva F. Miller, Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Baker’s Greek New Testament Library (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), 194.
τῇ πεποιθήσει msdat pfpassptcple having been placed
ᾗ λογίζομαι fsdat the reason/logic/thoughts
τολμῆσαι painf to dare to be bold
ἐπί prep upon
τινας relative pronoun someone
τοὺς λογιζομένους mplacc pmid/passptcple while reasoning
ἡμᾶς mplacc us
ὡς relative pronoun as
κατὰ prep according
σάρκα msacc flesh
περιπατοῦντας mplacc paptcple
v.3
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
3 ἐν σαρκὶ γὰρ περιπατοῦντες οὐ κατὰ σάρκα στρατευόμεθα,
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update 2 Corinthians 10:3
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war aaccording to the flesh,
2 Corinthians 10:3 (UBS5)
3
ἐν prep/instrumental by
σαρκὶ msdat flesh
γὰρ prep by
περιπατοῦντες msgen paptcple walking
οὐ negative not
κατὰ prep according to
σάρκα msnom flesh
στρατευόμεθα 1pl paind we war
v.4
v.4
4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
4 τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες
The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Strong’s Greek #3049
In 2 C. 10:4, on the other hand, there is no longer any common ground. Both materially and metaphorically (v. 3, 5) there is open conflict against the λογισμοί, which are again to be taken in the very special sense, i.e., in the first instance the unfavourable judgments of Paul`s opponents mentioned in v. 2. Since this λογίζεσθαι is not only hostile to Paul (an echo of the LXX) but also presupposes an overestimation of the rational mind (cf. the particular situation in Corinth), the philosophical term is in view.11 When the metaphor of the fortress and ὕψωμα is also taken into account, we have a view of λογισμοί similar to that found in Wis. They are the thoughts of a reason which in its self-vaunting shuts itself off from God.
These thoughts are not destroyed by carnal weapons. The ground of reason has to be abandoned. The apostle`s weapons are δυνατὰ τῷ θεῷ. To reason he opposes the reality of God as this is manifested at the cross. That λογίζεσθαι grounded in reason will fall when confronted by this reality is stated in Lk. 22:37 in a quotation from Is. 53:12: καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθη.12 The purely conceptual transcending of the Gk. sense of λογίζεσθαι as an apprehension of truth is here a picture of the collapse of heaven-storming reason before the revelation of this heaven.
2 Corinthians 10:4 (UBS5)
4
τὰ nplacc the things
γὰρ conj for
ὅπλα nplacc weapons/implements
τῆς στρατείας fsgen the strategies
ἡμῶν mplgen of us
οὐ negative not
σαρκικὰ nplacc fleshly adjective
ἀλλὰ conj contrastive but rather
δυνατὰ nplacc powers
τῷ θεῷ msdat by God
πρὸς prep rowards
καθαίρεσιν 3s paind raised up against
ὀχυρωμάτων, mplgen fortified place/stronghold
λογισμοὺς mplacc reasonings/speculations/teachings/irrational rationality
καθαιροῦντες mplgen paptcple while bringing down
v.5
v.5
5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
5 καὶ πᾶν ὕψωμα ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντες πᾶν νόημα εἰς τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ,
v.6
v.6
6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
6 καὶ ἐν ἑτοίμῳ ἔχοντες ἐκδικῆσαι πᾶσαν παρακοήν, ὅταν πληρωθῇ ὑμῶν ἡ ὑπακοή.