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2 Corinthians chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  2nd Corinthians chapter 2. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, who's in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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  We thank you, Father, for today. We thank you God, for all that
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  you've already done for us. Father, you're amazing and
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  awesome. God, we worship you in spirit
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  and truth. And Lord, we are asking that
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  you, Lord, will come and get your glory.
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  Father, come and unlock and unleash all the power of the
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  Holy Spirit within us. God, let him break out fresh
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  wind, fresh fire in this house. God, I pray for the daily bread
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  today. God, let the word wash over us,
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  God, and renew our minds. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for a sound mind. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  you'll bind the enemy. Father, I pray against the
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  tempter in the accuser of the brethren.
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  Father, I pray God, you'll keep us from deception.
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  Lord, I pray that you will set the caps free.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, as the blood of Jesus
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  Christ, Christ will come and cover us, Father, and we could
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  walk in our identity. Lord, we love you.
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  Father, we love everything about you.
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  Lord, I pray that your power and your Kingdom and your glory,
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  Father, will come, Lord, and let it exude out of us and into the
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  world, Father, for you are worthy and holy, and Lord, we
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  love you. Father, we love everything about
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  you. Lord, yes and Amen, All of the
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  promises contained in this book. Lord, we love you so much and
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  it's in your holy and precious Son, Jesus Christ name that we
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  pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. But I determined this with
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  myself that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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  So Paul here is referencing the Corinthian church that he
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  established there in Corinth. He's referencing a letter that
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  he had written to them that was heavy.
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  And here he is saying that the reason he did not show up there
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  is because it was going to be detrimental to their
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  relationship if he came and tore them down even further than he
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  had done with the first letter to the Corinthians.
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  It was not going to be good for him or them.
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  So out of wisdom, Paul excused himself.
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  But in the meantime, the Corinthian church started to
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  attach wrong labels to Paul and they said that he was not
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  reliable and that his yes actually meant no and it is no
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  actually meant yes. And so they were actually taking
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  shots at Paul and Paul here is wanting to correct them in their
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  futile thinking and show them the wisdom from God.
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  That is the reason that he did not come to them with heaviness.
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  He wanted to spare them the rod. He wanted to spare them the
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  rebuke and the correction because he knew that it would
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  not end well and it would lead them into a place of feeling as
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  if Paul was not operating in the Spirit of God.
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  And so Paul knew that it was wisdom to keep himself from
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  going in there with the wrong attitude and with the wrong
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  motives. And so he chose to allow them to
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  come to repentance on their own and not go there with another
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  letter of heaviness, which he did with the first letter that
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  he wrote to them, which we just got done studying First
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  Corinthians. So here we are in Second
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  Corinthians and there is a lost letter in here that was not
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  inspired. And that is really all that we
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  need to know. We have the complete authority,
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  the inspired and fallible and errant word of God, nothing
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  added and nothing subtracted. And you need to know if there
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  are any missing letters, any missing epistles.
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  Those are just novelty. Some of them are history, but
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  they are not inspired. We have and we hold and we house
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  and we own and we memorize the entirety of God's infallible and
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  arrant. God breathed inspired word,
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  friends, and we can know that it's trustworthy and true and we
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  can build our lives upon it. Friends, the chief cornerstone.
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  And we do not need to be steeped in mysticism, friends.
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  We do not need to be steeped in new teachings and new doctrines.
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  We need to go and obey the revealed will of God, Friends,
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  from Genesis to Revelation and nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. Verse 2 For if I make you sorry,
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  who is he? Then that makes me glad, but the
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  same which is made sorry by me. So he is wanting to actually
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  build up the Corinthian church, not to tear them down.
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  He is already gone in with his first letter to the Corinthians.
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  He's already rebuked them. He's already corrected them.
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  Now he is desirous to build them up.
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  Verse 3 And I wrote the same unto you, lest when I came I
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  should have sorrow from them, of whom I ought to rejoice, having
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  confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all That
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  is Paul's entire reason here is he is wanting them to know that
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  he wants to be grateful and have joy in the church there in
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  Corinth. And Paul has been very
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  understanding with them, and he knows that they are babes in
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  Christ, and he knows that they are coming into maturation, and
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  he knows that he must be patient with them.
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  Verse 4. For out of much affliction and
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  anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that
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  you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I
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  have more abundantly unto you, this love of God intermingled
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  with the discipline. And that is what you need to
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  know is God disciplines those that he loves.
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  And it sure doesn't feel like it in the moment.
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  It sure feels as if God is mad at you or he's angry.
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  But just remember that our Heavenly Father is nothing like
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  our earthly father, and we need not try to attach wrong feelings
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  and emotions to God. Almighty God is perfect in all
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  of his ways. And God knows that the
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  discipline is going to produce the character and the
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  perseverance, and it's all done out of love.
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  And we do not need to be afraid of God's discipline when it
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  comes. And so Paul here is operating in
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  the Spirit of God, and he knows that they are in dire need of
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  encouragement and not to be broken down and dismayed and
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  discouraged. 5 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved
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  me, but in part that I may not overcharge you all.
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  He's saying I do not want to be so stern that it pushes you away
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  from the love of God. And this is the delicate balance
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  that pastors and ministers have. Friends, we cannot just condone
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  sin. And if you look at Christ, he
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  was the perfect example of how we are to operate.
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  He was never afraid to be around the prostitutes and the tax
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  collectors, the drunkards, friends and the thieves.
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  He was never afraid of it, but he never condoned it.
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  He never Co signed on their sin. He was very quick to forgive and
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  tell them to sin no more, less something worse would come upon
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  them. And Paul here is saying he did
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  not want to overburden and over charge them with grief.
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  He's operating in the spirit of God's love, friends, and love
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  covers a multitude of sins. Sick sufficient to such a man is
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  this punishment which was inflicted of many.
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  He's referencing the gentleman who had an incestual
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  relationship in First Corinthians chapter 5, when Paul
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  was rebuking the church and saying that they were doing
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  things that even the pagans did not talk about.
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  And so here Paul is making sure that they reinstitute this man.
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  And it is a call for us not to swing the pendulum too far to
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  one side or the other. They had kicked the man out.
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  They had pushed him out out of the comfort and out of the
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  provision of the church. And they pushed him out back
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  into the world and turned him over to the world.
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  And then here you can see Paul understands that the man is
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  repentant. The man desires to come back
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  into the fold, and they're keeping him out in the cold.
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  And what you need to understand is Paul is bringing them into
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  balance, and he's showing them that the devil doesn't care what
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  side of the road that you wreck on, just as long as you wreck
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  your car. You can wreck on liberality, you
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  can wreck on legalism. But we need to have balanced
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  friends. And Jesus was perfectly
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  balanced. And Jesus never had to ask for
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  an apology. He never had to ask for
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  forgiveness. He meant what he said, and he
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  said what he meant. And the entirety of God's Word,
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  all 66 books, is the perfect harmony of God's heart.
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  And we can understand the mind of Christ in the heart of God if
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  we'll get into the Word of God. Friends, it is our lifeline.
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  It is everything that we need to know, and we just obey it,
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  friends. And if you want to know the
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  unrevealed will of God, you have to start obeying the revealed
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  will of God. And you can see God's heart and
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  mind as you study the Scriptures.
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  And Paul wants these Corinthians to understand and not to leave
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  this man out in the cold. He is repentant.
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  They've given them time and space to come to his senses.
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  He's gotten back right. And now they're trying to keep
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  him out of the church friends, and they're being hard hearted.
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  And that is a great grievous sin unto God is whenever we will not
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  reinstitute those that are truly repentant.
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  So what does he say? 7 So that contrary wise, you
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  ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, unless perhaps such
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  a one should be swallowed up with over much sorrow.
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  You can hear the heart of God here.
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  He's saying, listen, bring him back into the fold.
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  If you leave him out there, he's going to be crushed with sorrow.
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  And this is the call to every blood bought, born again
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  believer and every congregation is to not just leave those that
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  are truly repentant out in the world, bring them back in
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  friends and love on them even if they have committed heinous
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  crimes. And what you need to understand
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  is that God's mercies are new every day and if there's breath
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  in your lungs, it's not too late.
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  Our fate only gets sealed whenever we breathe our last 8.
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  Wherefore I beg you that you would confirm your love towards
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  Him. That is God's heart.
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  His heart is not to leave the sheep out in the cold lost.
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  He'll leave the 99. He'll pursue the one.
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  Friends, you know that God loves and He loves well, and he's
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  saying confirm your love towards him.
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  Do not let him be swallowed up with sorrow.
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  Make sure that you bring him back in 9-4.
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  To this end also did I write that I might know the proof of
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  you, whether you be obedient in all things he's saying.
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  What are you going to do now I'm writing to you.
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  You have to make a decision. Tend to whom you forgive.
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  Anything I forgive also for if I forgave anything to whom I
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  forgave it for your sakes, I forgave it in the person of
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  Christ. All of our sins are under the
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  blood of Jesus Christ, friends, but that does not give us a
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  license to sin. It does not mean that we abuse
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  grace, friends. It doesn't mean that we're above
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  reproof, friends. It doesn't mean that we're above
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  the disciplinary actions of the, of the Apostolic ministry, of
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  the authority that's been placed over our lives.
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  We do not get to just do whatever we want and be a law
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  unto ourselves. We have to operate within the
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  confines of what the Holy Bible tells us, friends, And whenever
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  we sin, not if but whenever we sin, we need to confess and we
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  need to repent and we need to not only accept God's
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  forgiveness, but we need to forgive ourselves as well.
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  And So what is he going to say about it?
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  That Christ is the one who covers all of our sins?
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  11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not
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  ignorance of his devices. So that is what you need to
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  understand is that when we are operating in liberalism or if we
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  are operating in legalism, Satan will get a foothold, friends,
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  and if he can stick his foot in the door jamb, his whole body is
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  coming in. And we need to understand that
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  his devices in the way that he works is to steal, kill and
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  destroy. It's worked since the beginning
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  in the garden and it still works today.
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  It always looks pretty and perfect in the beginning.
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  It always looks as if we can skirt around God and that
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  perhaps God is too heavy with all of His requirements upon us.
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  Oh man. But you need to understand that
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  all the little trickeries and the devices and the deception of
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  Satan always leads to death. It always leads to theft.
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  It always leads to killing and destroying.
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  Friends, that is all that you need to know and we do not need
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  to be ignorant of that fact. Friends, it does not matter if
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  he masquerades as an Angel of light.
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  It is like a viper's bite in the end. 12 Furthermore, when I came
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  to Tro, asked to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened
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  unto me of the Lord, that is what we all need to be looking
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  for. We do not need to manufacture
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  our destiny, friends. What we need to do is wait for
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  God to open doors that no man can close, and we need to wait
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  for God to close the doors that no man can open.
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  And that is how we operate every day.
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  We stay fluid. We stay ready to be poured out,
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  friends. We do not try and make
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  everything about us and make it all about our preferences and
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  make it all about what we want, friends.
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  We wait on God, and we wait well, and when God opens the
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  door, we go running, friends. And Paul here was smart enough
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  to wait on the Lord, and when the Lord opened the door, he ran
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  through it. 13 I had no rest in my spirit because I found not
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  Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went on from
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  there into Macedonia. So we're going to see Paul go
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  from Troas to Macedonia, and over the next few chapters or so
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  he's going to show you how his Apostolic degree in all of his
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  credentials, friends, on his way from Choras to Macedonia. 14 Now
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  thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ
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  and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every
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  place. So what you need to understand
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  is that Paul has in mind this parade, this triumphant parade
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  of a victor whenever someone would come back from war.
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  And he's saying that God causes us to be paraded in front of all
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  the evil in the world. And he shows that we are
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  victorious even unto death, even unto the ones that are
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  persecuted and martyred. Friends, that God always parades
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  us and shows the people who are Boston in bondage that we are
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  victorious by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  And here he's saying that we thank God, that he always causes
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  us to triumph. And it's through Christ and
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  Christ alone that we can put the heel on the head of the serpent.
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  And we need to know that this pleasing aroma of the knowledge
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  of God in every place, in the darkest places.
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  And he's going to tell us in verse 15.
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  For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that
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  are saved, and in them that perish. 16 To the one we are a
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  savour of death unto death, and to another we are the savour of
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  life unto life. And who is sufficient for these
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  things? So he's saying here that for the
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  for those that are predestined, and those that are called, and
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  those that are chosen, and those that are saved, and those that
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  will be saved, we are a pleasing aroma unto them.
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  Friends, as we come in, we bring light into the darkness.
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  As we come in, we are salt to a bland world.
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  We purge and purify all of the disease, all of the bacteria,
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  all of the pus, all of the death and the stink friends, the
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  infection. As the salt goes in, it cures,
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  it cleans, it purifies Friends, and it gets it to where there is
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  life again. The dead things come back to
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  life whenever we step into the room because we're bringing the
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  Triune God, we're bringing the Holy Spirit that lives within us
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  into a situation. And we are more than conquerors
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  and we do not need to shrink back in cowardice, even if our
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  very lives are demanded from us. Friends 17 We'll end here, for
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  we are not as many which corrupt the word of God, but as of
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  sincerity, but as of God. In the sight of God, we speak in
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  Christ. So who is sufficient for these
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  things? It's the sold out, laid down
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  lover who has let go of every single thing in this world.
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  They're not being held back by any relationship, by any amount
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  of money. They're not being held back by
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  fear of man or fear of loss of life and limb and job loss.
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  They're not held back by any specific denomination.
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  They're not held back by a certain version.
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  Of the Bible, they're not held back by all of the heresy and
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  all of the wicked schemes of the enemy to try to get us to shut
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  up and to be quiet. But they have a fire within
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  their bones that they must preach the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ. They've counted the cost before
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  they stepped up to the plate and they're running into the fire,
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  friends. They're running in and snatching
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  those out of the fire. And I pray that is the calling
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  that has been placed on your life because he is worthy, He is
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  holy, and he's lovely. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter here in Second Corinthians.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.