2 Corinthians 3 Contents

2 Corinthians 3 Contents 2 Corinthians 3 is about the workers of the new covenant.Is the spiritual ministry received from God important?Is the status that has gone through a certain process important?The Bible says that the ministry received from God becomes the status that bears fruit.However, in this world today, the status of a seminary diploma becomes the position of ministry. Paul's defense is, Do we begin again to commend ourselves?In other words, is there a need to submit my resume to you?Verse 1 "Do we begin again to commend ourselves ? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?"Paul has no external conditions.The Damascus incident is also a subjective experience, so it cannot be explained to others.There is nothing else but the assurance that Christ is in him.If you ask the Jerusalem Council about Paul's status, no one know.In 2 Corinthians 2, it is called a savour, and in chapter 3, it is a letter.It is a letter of commendation.It is not a letter of commendation about a status that can be read by reading the letters, but a profile that can be read at a glance.The Bible guarantees status by the results of a certain position.However, the world puts forward position.In an attempt to hide heresy or fakes, it ends up being elementary leveling. Verse 2 “You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:” Paul says that the results of my ministry are written in you, known and read.They know the content of the gospel that Paul testified and are repeatedly reflecting on it.In the early days of his ministry, he was troubled because the biblical results were not shown to the believers.But now, through the Gospel of John, Romans, and Hebrews, it is written in the hearts of many people as a letter and is read by many people on the spot, so I give thanks to God. Verse 3 “Forasmuch as you 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 fleshy tables of the heart.”Paul tells them that they are a letter of Christ manifested.It means that it must be revealed as a copy of Christ and become a translation of the Bible.If we acknowledge that Jesus’ salvation and Paul’s salvation are true, we must follow this purity.This is what we can call true conservative theology.However, the preaching technique is full of pedagogy, and it is full of rhetorical techniques, but the truth is not spread.The word “not ink” means that it is not a fight with letters.The new covenant is the covenant engraved on the table of human hearts by the Spirit of God, that is in the singular , Spirit of life.There are the first stone tablets on Mount Sinai and the second stone tablets on the plains of Moab.The first stone tablets were broken and the second (Deuteronomy) stone tablets were given, which is a shadow of the new covenant. Verse 4 “And such trust have we  through Christ to God-ward ”This means that we have trust in the Spirit of God engraved on the table of our hearts, and this is true faith.No matter how well the law on the stone tablets given by angels is taught, it will not be engraved on the table of our hearts.Unless it is the gospel of truth inspired by the Spirit of the Son, the Holy Spirit, it will never penetrate our hearts.Nevertheless, there are many who say that the words are the truth.This is like saying, “Look at head of rice and see the rice.”If you say no, the head of rice becomes rice, and if you cook rice, it becomes rice, so why isn’t it rice?The Holy Spirit of truth must be present until the Bible becomes the truth, and we can have fellowship with the true God, and Christ becomes life, and as those who have eternal life, we know the Father and the Son, and we advance toward holiness, glory, oneness, perfection, and love. Verse 5 “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think  any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.”Only those who have the sufficiency that comes from God can have the ministry of the new covenant.Verse 6 “Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”Only those who have the Spirit of Christ become ministers of the new testament.These people do not do it by the letter of the law.This kills and causes worldly worries.Only the Spirit who gives life (John 6:63) causes us to have sorrow toward God.Some pastors say that we who believe in Jesus must obey the word of God to be blessed and live well.While testifying to the word of God in heaven, they constantly talk about the blessing of living well on earth.The important thing to note here is that the letter of the law is defined as flesh, not spirit.The flesh becomes an enemy of God, whether it does well or not (Romans 8:7). Verse 7 “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.”Those who follow only the letter of the law, that is, the letter of the Bible, are the ministry of death and the ministry of killing the spirit. There are many people who memorize the Bible these days. Don’t try to memorize the Word.The Jews memorized the Pentateuch (Torah) of Moses. However, they rejected Jesus Christ.The Word must be engraved on the spirit. Only when you are immersed in the Holy Spirit by being baptized in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ can you become one spirit with Christ and be permeated. He also did not allow anyone to notice the glory of Moses' face that would disappear.This means that he did not let them see it in detail.The Jews say that the law should not be interpreted.They just heard it repeatedly as the Shema.However, the great men of faith who succeeded in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11 all interpreted it as Christ.So, they covered the revelation of God just as they covered the radiance of Moses' face.This is the Old Testament.However, the successful men of faith in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were all united in the suffering and resurrection of Christ, and they were born again, repented, and received righteousness and holiness, so they always kept God before them, and they were people of faith whom God placed at his right hand, on the side of righteousness. Verses 8-9 “How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”The ministry of condemnation is a ministry of separation and a function of judgment.The ministry of righteousness is a ministry of the Spirit, a ministry that gives life.However, just as the prosecutor is more powerful than the defense attorney, even now the ministry of condemnation is more powerful than the ministry of giving life through the Spirit. In Romans 5, Adam and Christ are compared symmetrically.Those who criticize the Apostle Paul accuse him of being an extremist and a black-and-white thinker.However, sin and righteousness, death and life, darkness and light, the devil and God, hell and heaven are polar opposites through the cross of Christ.Therefore, Christianity is an extreme because it has different end, and since only God is good, it cannot help but be self-righteous.Is dawn on the dark side or on the light side? Is sunset on the dark side or on the light side?This judgment can be made by looking at whether light is driving out darkness or whether light is being pushed out by darkness.Therefore, the Bible says, “And the evening and the morning,” and it is an affirmation that light drives out darkness. 12-13 “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. 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.”The reason Paul is bold is because he does not put a veil over his face, but shows it.Jesus’ parables were meant to hide at the time.At that time, it was a top secret of heaven that was not to be noticed.The fact that the Lord was the Christ was also a confidential matter.However, the Lord said, You will know when the time comes, and it was when the Spirit of truth came. Verse 14 “But their minds were blinded, for until this day remaines the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ.”The phrase ‘when the Old Testament is read’ means ‘repeating and reciting’.They covered it with a veil, put the word on their lips, put it on their forehead, and wore it around their neck.However, this veil is taken away in Christ.When revelation comes, the veil becomes void.The letter of the law is made real and embodied in Christ through grace and truth.Until ‘this day’, it is Semeron.It is  this day when we say, Give us this day our daily bread.It is this day when the spiritual bread from above is given through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.In John 6, we ate manna in the wilderness, but the bread the Lord gives us now is the bread of life. The word this day appears a lot in Hebrews.Hebrews 1:5 this day, Hebrews this day is the day of the birth of the sons, the day of the many-begotten through the only-begotten Son, Christ.Hebrews 3:7 ‘To day’ If you will hear his voice, this very day is the day of revelation.The time when the Scriptures speak not only in letter, as in the law, but also through the Son.Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same the Word from the beginning to eternity.Yesterday (Old Testament), today (New Covenant), and tomorrow are the eternal world.Revelation this day refers to the day when the kingdom of God is realized among Christians.This is the day that is coming to completion.So, those who advocate amillennialism see this church age of the Holy Spirit as a thousand-year period. 15-17 “But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it  shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”The Lord is the Spirit...present verb. He always exists as the Holy Spirit in terms of state.God is Spirit, and the Son is Spirit.Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.The Spirit has no limitations.There is no need for the law. There is no law of sin and death.Galatians 5:1 Christ has given us freedom and given us the Holy Spirit, so he tells us not to return to the flesh.The Spirit is freedom, but the flesh is law.We teach children the law, so that they know sin and come to Christ, but now it is time for them to become full age. Verse 18 “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.”We see the glory with unveiled face.John 17 says that the Lord has given us the glory of before the creation of the world (John 17:22) in order to become one with the Father in the Son.So now we can love one another with the new commandment in John 13 (John 14:21).In the old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant was covered and carried.When sinners went to that glory, they died.But now there is no need for that anymore.The Lord, the reality of the Ark of the Covenant, has opened up in us.God allows us to be changed into the ‘same image’ (copy) and to go from glory to glory.Because God has called us into Christ and made us in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ and found us in him.From glory to glory. Here, we who are in Christ are changed.Our bodies are changed.We become the odor of Christ and the letter expressing Christ.As Romans 1:17 says, ‘from faith to faith,’ it speaks of the growth of faith through the gospel. Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.Translated by  Nancy Chung COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION To God be the glory.