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"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates(condemned, disapproved)?"
Paul suggests to believers to examine themselves. If we stand in the faith, if we are still walking on the narrow path of the faith. If we retain our faith and trust in God. If we find ourselves lacking then repentance and return is needed.
"9...most gladly therefore will I rather glory(boast) in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."
Boast in his infirmities? Take pleasure in his necessities and persecutions? Why? Because in that way the power of God was shown to/in him. Certainly Paul had reached a high spiritual level.
"17But he that glorieth(boast), let him glory in the Lord. 18For not he that commendeth(recommends) himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."
"Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed SUBJECTION UNTO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;"
Helping our brothers and sisterd is subjection to the Gospel. The theory is good but the time of the practical subjection to the Gospel is better.
Lord Jesus you know the cries of our hearts and the petitions we have made even here. I continue to ask. Please grant soon breakthrough. I ask for strong protection, deliverance, healing, salvation (those not saved), guidance and all the specific situations and circumstances previously mentioned. Please grant help to all in need on here and everywhere, esp. salvation. Please confront A about her behavior and please stop this relationship and also the New Age practices and comfort K and help her not to obsess about grades. Please also heal M and uncle K. and please help me with job and emotions and also the conflict with KM and S. Thank you. In your holy name I pray. Amen.
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
"14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? "15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat(bema) of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."
As we go to the petrol station to fill our cars with petrol to keep going, we also have to go the Lord with prayers (and not only) to fill ourselves with the grace of God to keep going on our narrow path. If we don't we will eventually run out of fuel some time.
"7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Matthew 6:24-25,
"24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."
Psalms 34:19,
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I (Paul) forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
Doesn't the above remind us of the discussion Peter had with Jesus:
Matthew 16:19,
"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Also when Jesus appeared to his disciples after His resurrection?
John 20:21-23,
"21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
We, the chuech, have the right to forgive or retain the sins of people, only that it has to be done according to God's will.
"7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him."
2 Cor 2:10-11,
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
When God forgives, it is strange that we often don't. But the devil waits at the turn of the corner.
"21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts"
"9. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10.Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;"
It is true that we go go to God when there is no other way out. God often permits such situations in our life in order to teach us to rely on Him, not on ourselves nor on anybody else. The Jews in the dessert had to rely to God to send them the manna each day. It is a lesson of trusting God in our lives. Maybe we fail the exams in the begining but we learn our lesson along the way.
"Who(God) comforteth us(Paul and the rest) in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
It is our "obligation" to comfort our fellow brethren in their tribulations. We receive, hence we have to give.
God never changes. He is always the same in His nature. Therefore we can depend on His character to always remain stable and true. We can depend on what He has revealed of Himself and what He has caused to be recorded of His Words in Scripture. He is the same yesterday, today, and always. (Heb.1:12; 13:3; Ps. 102:27 )
This also means that His attributes never change, never increasing, nor decreasing, never adding any new attribute nor subtracting any. Every attribute of God is infinite, limitless, and absolutely perfect. He is forever this way. ( Mal. 3:6)
"... Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you..."
Have we really understood that we don't belong ourselves any more? Have we really realized that Christ is in us and we belong to Him?
1 Cor 6:19-20,
"19. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
Amen
"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates(condemned, disapproved)?"
Paul suggests to believers to examine themselves. If we stand in the faith, if we are still walking on the narrow path of the faith. If we retain our faith and trust in God. If we find ourselves lacking then repentance and return is needed.
Have a nice day or night.
"... for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children."
"Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds."
The above is for all those who claim that miracles are not necessary. God recommends his ministers, not in words only.
"I am become a fool in glorying(boasting); ..."
What does the one who boasts become?
"9...most gladly therefore will I rather glory(boast) in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."
Boast in his infirmities? Take pleasure in his necessities and persecutions? Why? Because in that way the power of God was shown to/in him. Certainly Paul had reached a high spiritual level.
"17But he that glorieth(boast), let him glory in the Lord. 18For not he that commendeth(recommends) himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."
"4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations(the grk says "thoughts, considerations"), and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"
"Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed SUBJECTION UNTO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;"
Helping our brothers and sisterd is subjection to the Gospel. The theory is good but the time of the practical subjection to the Gospel is better.
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, MAY ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK"
"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
Tiths? No, not.
"But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully."
Do we like to get a lot from God? Then we must be ready to give a lot (to our brothers and sisters).
"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
What is needed for salvation?
Have a blessed day/night.
"Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;"
The grk instead of "that are cast down" says "the humble" (grk tapeinous)
So who are those that God comforts?
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
"14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? "15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech(beg) you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."
Beseech? Beg? God?
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat(bema) of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."
As we go to the petrol station to fill our cars with petrol to keep going, we also have to go the Lord with prayers (and not only) to fill ourselves with the grace of God to keep going on our narrow path. If we don't we will eventually run out of fuel some time.
"7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Matthew 6:24-25,
"24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."
Psalms 34:19,
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I (Paul) forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
Doesn't the above remind us of the discussion Peter had with Jesus:
Matthew 16:19,
"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Also when Jesus appeared to his disciples after His resurrection?
John 20:21-23,
"21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
We, the chuech, have the right to forgive or retain the sins of people, only that it has to be done according to God's will.
"7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him."
2 Cor 2:10-11,
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
When God forgives, it is strange that we often don't. But the devil waits at the turn of the corner.
"21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts"
"And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation."
Christian life without sufferings doesn't exist.
"9. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10.Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;"
It is true that we go go to God when there is no other way out. God often permits such situations in our life in order to teach us to rely on Him, not on ourselves nor on anybody else. The Jews in the dessert had to rely to God to send them the manna each day. It is a lesson of trusting God in our lives. Maybe we fail the exams in the begining but we learn our lesson along the way.
"Who(God) comforteth us(Paul and the rest) in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
It is our "obligation" to comfort our fellow brethren in their tribulations. We receive, hence we have to give.
IMMUTABLE
God never changes. He is always the same in His nature. Therefore we can depend on His character to always remain stable and true. We can depend on what He has revealed of Himself and what He has caused to be recorded of His Words in Scripture. He is the same yesterday, today, and always. (Heb.1:12; 13:3; Ps. 102:27 )
This also means that His attributes never change, never increasing, nor decreasing, never adding any new attribute nor subtracting any. Every attribute of God is infinite, limitless, and absolutely perfect. He is forever this way. ( Mal. 3:6)