2 Corinthians 3:1-6
CHAPTER 3
Ministers of a New Covenant
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
6 who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Introduction:
Theme: Four important insights into the New Covenant Ministry
I. Standard commendation is of minimal value vs.1
Two kinds of commendation:
A. Self commendation
B. Letters of commendation
II. Supernatural
- transformation
is a work of the Spirit of God vv. 2-3
Seven features of this letter:
A. A letter written in Paul’s heart
B. A letter of Christ
C. Cared for by us
D. Not written in ink
E. Written in the Spirit
F. Not on tablets of stone
G. Written on hearts
III. Sufficiency for the
- servants
of this covenant is granted by God vv.4-6a
IV. Supremacy of the
- New Covenant
is evident in that it gives life vs. 6b
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