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2 Corinthians 1:1-4 | God of ALL Comfort

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Slides:

Paul’s relationship status with the Corinthians: “It’s complicated”

- Paul’s missionary visit to Corinth – Acts 18

- First letter – 1 Cor. 5:9

- Second letter – The book of 1 Corinthians

- The sorrowful visit – 2 Cor. 2:1

- Third letter – 2 Cor. 2:3-4 (the “severe” letter)

- Fourth letter – The book of 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 11:5

For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles. 

A major theme of 2 Corinthians: God’s power is perfected in our weakness.

The idea of comfort is to strengthen one in grief, suffering, and weakness through nearness.

John 14:16-17

"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 [that is] the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, [but] you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

Does “affliction” include both our circumstances and our sins?

Hebrews 4:15-16

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as [we are, yet] without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 5:1

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

Jeremiah 2:13

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

Psalm 51:11

Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

“He sides with you against your sin, not against you because of your sin.” Dane Ortlund