![]() Let every soul be loved and belong, and may we all be transformed by the amazing grace of our Savior. May we all become His army of grace-drawing to His kingdom the addicted and the clean-living, the grieving and the carefree, the poor and the wealthy, the lonely and the lively. 2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved 3 I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. 2 1 So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. Meanwhile, passive believers will be stirred by the manifestation of God’s grace. 2 Corinthians 2New International Version. You will be changed by your actions, the accused will be changed, and those accusing will be changed. ![]() ![]() Every time you act as Jesus did, extending grace to those marginalized by sin, you take part in a great transformation. He told them very clearly, “You have no say in My Father’s kingdom.”ĭo you want a meaningful, significant role in God’s kingdom? Then be willing to lay down your stones and pick up the cross of His grace. You’re at the very heart of My Father’s kingdom.” Second, Christ revealed that the accusers were not at the center of God’s kingdom. He told them, “You are on center stage now. ![]() First, He transformed the outcasts, bringing them from the farthest margins of society to the very center of God’s love. Jesus answered both questions with His actions. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. The first asks, “Do sinners deserve God’s love?” while the second asks, “Does God want to help me?” See Glory, Be Glorious How Our Holiness Honors God. ![]() The second kind of question came from people bearing the problems of life: “Would You heal my sick daughter? Would You deliver my son who is being thrown into the fire by demons? Would You heal my issue with bleeding, which has plagued me my whole life? Jesus, would You help me?”ĭo you see the difference between the two kinds of questions? Both seek an answer about the nature of God. Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ For the Sake of Making Him Known. Time after time, religious leaders asked Christ, “Why do You eat and drink with sinners? How could You be sent by God with a reputation like that?” 2 Corinthians 3:18 Christian Standard Bible 18 We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at a the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory this is from the Lord who is the Spirit. The first type of question was accusatory. 3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?Ģ Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:ģ Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Ĥ And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:ĥ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of God Ħ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.ħ But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to be done away:Ĩ How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?ĩ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.ġ0 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.ġ1 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.ġ2 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:ġ3 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:ġ4 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament which vail is done away in Christ.ġ5 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.ġ6 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.ġ7 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.ġ8 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.Throughout His ministry, Jesus was asked two kinds of questions by the people He encountered, questions that revealed everything about the hearts of those asking. ![]()
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