Introduction: 2 Corinthians is the Apostle Paul's second epistle (letter) to the carnal church of Corinth. Within it, Paul defends his apostleship against accusations of its illegitimacy by so-called super apostles who were attempting to undermine his spiritual authority and leadership of the Corinthian Christians.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 — One reason bad things happen to God’s people is to equip them to comfort others afterward, who will go through what they've been through, with the very same comfort they themselves were comforted with by the God of all comfort!
Christ doesn’t comfort Christians to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
2 Corinthians 1:3-11 — The God of all comfort let’s bad things happen to His people for two reasons. First, so we’ll learn to depend on Him. Second, so we’ll learn how to comfort others as God comforted us, when they’re going through what we’ve been through.
2 Corinthians 1:18-20 —There are no "maybes" in the promises of God. All of them can be yours in Christ. If you will only say "Amen" to them, Christ will fulfill them in your life for God's glory!
2 Corinthians 1:18-20 — God has said "yes" to all of His promises in Christ, He now waits for those in Christ to say "Amen!"
2 Corinthians 1:18-20 — All the covenant promises God ever made are fulfilled in Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:19-20 — Jesus Christ, as the Living Word of God, came into this world to fulfill every promise God has ever made.
2 Corinthians 1:21 — It is God who both establishes us in Christ, so that we are inseparable from Christ, and who empowers us in Christ, so that we are useful to Christ. In Christ, the Christian is always accompanying Him in His ways and anointed by Him to do His work.
2 Corinthians 2:14-16 — True Christians, as trophies of God’s grace in Christ’s triumphant train, are an irrepressible fragrance wherever they go. They are the sweet smell of salvation (life) to all who know Christ, but the strong stench of condemnation (death) to all who do not.
2 Corinthians 3:18 — By daily gazing at God we are glorified by degree.
It is by being daily transfixed on Christ that we are transformed into Christlikeness!
2 Corinthians 4:3-6 — Before the Spirit moves and God commands light, both God’s works and Word remain meaningless and empty. (see also Genesis 1:2-3)
2 Corinthians 4:7-11 — As proof of God's power and in order to display to the world the indestructible life of our resurrected Lord, we Christians are often surrounded and attacked from every direction, but never distressed, often perplexed, but never panicked, often in the dark, but never in despair, often persecuted, but never prevailed over, often afflicted by the godless, but never abandoned by God, often knocked down, but never knocked out, often overrun, but never overcome, and often appearing to be done for, but never actually done in.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 — Many Christians are disillusioned by their own delusion. They have a fairy tale notion that the Christian is invulnerable from hard knocks and being temporarily knocked down rather than just invincible from being knocked out and forever knocked off.
2 Corinthians 4:8-11 — We Christians are frequently brought to the end of ourselves, so that we will let go and let Christ show His life to others through us.
2 Corinthians 4:12 — To be used by Christ to minister life to others requires us to die to ourselves. As long as we’re holding on to our own lives, we can’t hold out to others Christ’s life. Others cannot be recipients of life from us until we’ve relinquished our own lives and become receptacles of Christ’s life.
2 Corinthians 4:14 — Christ’s resurrection is the guarantee of the Christian’s resurrection. Since God raised His Firstborn from the dead, all born again children of God can be assured of their resurrection from the dead.
2 Corinthians 4:17 — Our temporal earthly trials are preparing us for our eternal heavenly reward, in the light of which all earthly troubles are trivialized.
2 Corinthians 4:18 — Every Christian needs x-ray vision so that he or she can see through the physical, visible, temporal surface of things into the spiritual, invisible, and eternal substance of things.
2 Corinthians 4:18 — We must see through secondary reality—visible, physical, and temporal things—to primary realty—invisible, spiritual, and eternal things—to stay spiritually sane in today's insane physical world.
2 Corinthians 5:1-5 — We've been both miraculously born and miraculously indwelt by God's Holy Spirit as a divine guarantee that our earthly mortal bodies will someday be swallowed up by immortal heavenly ones.
2 Corinthians 5:7 — Christians are to live by faith, by what God says on the sacred pages of Scripture and through the still small voice of the Spirt in their hearts. They’re not to live in the flesh, by what they emotionally feel or intellectually figure out for themselves!
2 Corinthians 5:7 — To walk by faith, one must focus on following the Scripture and the Spirit, not one’s own poor perceptions, fickle feelings, and faulty figuring. It is trust in our Redeemer, Emmanuel, not in our reason and emotions that is prerequisite to the life of faith.
2 Corinthians 5:8 — The grave is but a passage way for the Christian into the presence of God.
2 Corinthians 5:15 — The cross is a big I with a minus mark through it, since Jesus died on it to save us from living for ourselves.
2 Corinthians 5:15 — No more tragic fate can befall a human being than to be so nearsighted as to be unable to see beyond oneself.
2 Corinthians 5:17 — In the work of creation, the Creator breathed His life into man, making man a living soul. Likewise, in the work of recreation, Christ breathes His resurrected life⏤the Holy Spirit⏤into Christians, making us a new creation in Him. (Genesis 2:7; John 20:22)
2 Corinthians 5:20 — Christians are Christ’s ambassadors, His representatives on earth, who have been appointed by Him to appeal to all men to be reconciled to God.
As ambassadors of Christ, we should stand in His stead at Hell's gates to redirect all traffic to Heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:21 — Christ, who knew no sin, bore our sin and became our sin on the cross, so that sinners like us might become righteous before God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 — Our offenses against God were imputed to Christ on the cross so that His obedience to God can be imputed to us at conversion. In other words, the one who is righteous and never sinned, became sin, so that unrighteousness sinners can become right with God.
Jesus Christ became what we are so that we can become what He is!
2 Corinthians 6:2 — Christ doesn't come to you whenever you call Him, but you must come to Christ whenever He calls you. The day you hear His voice is the day of your salvation, so don't harden your heart, lest you forfeit your soul. (Hebrews 3:7-8)
2 Corinthians 6:10 ⏤ It is the Savior residing in us that enables us to always rejoice, in spite of all the sorrows all around us.
2 Corinthians 6:14 — There is no possibility of a partnership between a righteous cause and a criminal riot, because lawlessness and righteousness are mutually exclusive and totally incompatible.
2 Corinthians 6:14 — When the Bible warns us about being unequally yoked together, it’s talking about the redeemed being unequally yoked with the unredeemed, not recyclers be unequally yoked with non-recyclers.
2 Corinthians 6:14 —Christians should not enter into covenant relationships, like a marriage or a business merger, with non-Christians, lest Christians find themselves perpetually put into one compromising situation after another by their non-Christian spouse or business partner.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 — The Bible does not forbid the saints from having contact with sinners, but from entering into contracts or covenants with sinners.
No Christian should ever be caught between their devotion and dedication to Christ and the unChristian desires and demands of a non-Christian spouse or business partner.
2 Corinthians 6:16 — Christians are corporately and individually the temple of God in the world today. Corporately, as the church, we are God’s holy habitation, but individually, each of us is a temple of God ourself, within whom God’s Spirit dwells. (1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:19-22)
As God’s temple in Christ’s day ceased to be a building and became the physical body of Christ, so in our day it has ceased to be the physical body of Christ and become the spiritual body of Christ—His church!
2 Corinthians 7:1 — No one who fears God and has faith in His promises will settle for sinning less in life, but strive instead for a sinless life!
While sinless perfection is not attainable, it should be every Christian’s aspiration, since no other aim is acceptable.
2 Corinthians 7:9-10 — Repentance is neither remorse, reform, nor religion. It's a lifelong turning from sin with a broken heart and to Christ with all of your heart, which results in you getting further and further away from sin each day and closer and closer to Christ each day.
2 Corinthians 8:9 — In this, the enriching of earthly paupers by the impoverishing of Heaven’s Prince, we find the Gospel succinctly summarized and grace empirically epitomized.
Christ left the wealth of Heaven for the want of this world, in order to raise us from the rags of sin to the riches of salvation.
2 Corinthians 10:5 — Random and rabid thoughts must not be reeled in and obsessed over, but reigned in and made obedient to Christ, for if Christ is to be in control of me, I must make sure He is in control of my mind.
2 Corinthians 10:12 — For us to compare ourselves with anyone else besides Christ is to unwisely judge ourselves by an imperfect standard.
2 Corinthians 11:4 — Rather than the true Jesus, who is revealed to us in the Scripture and through the Spirit, are you following another Jesus, one of your own choosing concocted by another or conjured up in your own imagination?
2 Corinthians 12:1-10 — With his inspired pen the Apostle Paul wrote about his experience of the sufficiency of God’s grace in the infirmities of this world, not about his experience of unimaginable things in God’s Heaven. While Heaven certainly awaits us, it’s grace that currently sustains us.
2 Corinthians 12:6 — No saint should be a self-promoter, but depend on the evidence of the indwelling Holy Spirit in their lives to serve as their personal press agent.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 — When Christians are confronted with their weakness, they are compelled to put their confidence in Christ, which results in His grace being proven sufficient for us, His strength being perfected in us, and our faith in Him being greatly strengthening.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 — We may pray for God to rid us of our thorns in the flesh and the messengers of Satan who buffet us over them, but instead God may give us sufficient grace to rejoice in these weaknesses as the means by which He perfects His strength in our lives!
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 — Many a time suffering from thorns makes one a mightier servant of God than sitting on a throne.
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