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2 Corinthians 3Corinthians 3:7 ¶ Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets,n came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,* We're in a bigger…1 note · 1 sermon2 Corinthians 4"outer nature" / "inner nature" — not Platonic dualism. Paul acknowledges the body wastes away while the soul is renewed. Both are real; both matter.4 notes2 Corinthians 5the tent/building metaphor. The earthly body is a tent (skēnos — temporary shelter); the resurrection body is a building from God, permanent. Key: the desire is not to be "unclothed" (disembodied) but to be "further clothed"…7 notes2 Corinthians 8Now, a couple of key words in these first nine verses. Key word number one is charis. Charis is where we get the word charismatic. And charis is the Greek word for grace and gift. And it threads throughout the entirety of these two…4 notes · 1 sermon2 Corinthians 9Which is why God loves a cheerful giver. The word is hilaros—that's where, of course, we get the word hilarious. And it means cheerful, glad, ungrudging, giving with delight. Generosity is supposed to produce joy. But a village of one is…2 notes · 1 sermon2 Corinthians 13This is the third time I am coming to you. “Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.” I warned those who sinned previously and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my…1 note