Sermon Tone Analysis

Review

Our Salvation is Our Encouragement

Not Referring to Initial Salvation

Salvation from Situation We Face in Life

Encouragement Works Our Patience

Patience is an Aspect of Godliness

Trusting God, Not Ourselves

The Troubles Paul Faces for Speaking the Truth

The Jews Seeking to Kill Paul

The Gentiles Seeking to Kill Paul

God Delivering Paul

We Do Not Know What Tomorrow Brings So Let’s Us Live Today To the Will of God, Not Our Own

How We Conduct Ourselves, 2 Corinthians 1:12

Our Conduct, 2 Corinthians 1:12

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness and sincerity of God, not by fleshly wisdom, but by grace from God we conducted our lives in the world, indeed abundantly towards you.

The Conscience

It Accuses or Excuses, Romans 2:15

Subjection to Authority for Conscience Sake, Romans 13:5

Those with a Weak Conscience, 1 Corinthians 8:7

Keeping the Faith with a Good Conscience, 1 Timothy 1:19

Those who have a seared Conscience, 1 Timothy 4:1-3

Keeping a Good Conscience in Our Actions, 1 Peter 3:16

Singleness - Have A Pure Motive

Giving with Singleness of Motive, Romans 12:8

Satan seeks to Lead us Away from the Singleness in Heart, 2 Corinthians 11:3

Serving with Singleness of Heart, Ephesians 6:5

Sincerity - Unmixed

The Unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth, 1 Corinthians 5:8

A Godly Sincerity, 2 Corinthians 1:12

Not Peddling the Word of God, 2 Corinthians 2:17

Not in Fleshly Wisdom

Because of Bitter Jealousy and selfish ambition it lies against the truth, James 3:14

It is a demonic wisdom, James 3:15

James 3:15 (NASB95)

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, soulish (ψυχικός), demonic.

Where Jealous and Selfish Ambition are there is disorder and all fallow accomplished deeds, James 3:16

James 3:16 (NASB95)

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil (φαῦλον) thing (πρᾶγμα).

It is a wisdom that relates to the soul

Soul is our emotional part

Our soul is not yet saved, 1 Peter 1:9

Through the Soul is How the Sin Nature Attacks us, 1 Peter 2:11

A Soulish Man Cannot Receive the Things from God, 1 Corinthians 2:14

Those of the last times that are mockers as soulish and devoid of spirit, Jude 18-19

Jude 18–19 (NASB95)

that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.”

These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded (ψυχικοί), devoid of the spirit (πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντες).

By the Grace of God

God’s Attitude by Which We are Given a Benefit Without Consideration of Merit

It instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires, Titus 2:11-12

Titus 2:11–12 (NASB95)

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

instructing (παιδεύουσα) us to deny (ἀρνησάμενοι) ungodliness (ἀσέβειαν) and worldly desires (κοσμικὰς ἐπιθυμίας ) and to live sensibly (σωφρόνως), righteously and godly in the present age (ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι),

Paul is Not Adding to What They Were Already Taught, 2 Corinthians 1:13

2 Corinthians 1:13

For we are writing nothing else to you, but either that which you read or also you fully experientially know, but I hope that until the end you will fully experientially know

He wants them to Experientially know

Experiential Knowledge Requires Using Salvation

Produces Fruit, Colossians 1:6

Colossians 1:6 (NASB95)

the one that came to you, just as also in all the world, bearing fruit and growing even as also among you from that day you heard and have come to fully experientially know the grace from God in truth,

One Who Has Full Experiential Knowledge Can Turn From the Truth, 2 Peter 2:21

2 Peter 2:21 (NASB95)

For it would be better for them not to have known (ἐπεγνωκέναι ) the way of righteousness (τῆς δικαιοσύνης), than having known it (ἐπιγνοῦσιν), to turn away (ὑποστρέψαι) from the holy commandment ( ἁγίας ἐντολῆς) handed on to them.

Impacted by False Teachers, 2 Peter 2:1

They forsake the right way, 2 Peter 2:15

Promising Freedom while being slaves to corruption, 2 Peter 2:19

Being again defiled by the world, 2 Peter 2:20

Conclusion

How We Conduct Ourselves

Our Conscience

Having Pure Motives

Being Unmixed

Not in Fleshly Wisdom

By the Grace of God

Maintaining a Full Experiential Knowledge