2 Corinthians 3:5 KJV
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Even the Apostle claimed no sufficiency in himself but only in God.
This chapter is interesting given the times. The Apostle will himself be executed, as were all but one of the Apostles, for the very faith that Paul proclaims here is more glorious than that of Moses and the Old Testament. Its glory rests in something different than outward miracles. Though they existed early on in the New Testament, even before the Apostles were off the scene already those miracles had diminished. Really they had little to do with Christianity even as Paul wrote this epistle. He does not cite his miracles as evidence of his authority.
The glory that exists in the New Testament
• Is a glory of hope
• It is a glory delivered in a promise of eternal life
Nothing this world has ever or could ever offer compares to that.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Even the Apostle claimed no sufficiency in himself but only in God.
This chapter is interesting given the times. The Apostle will himself be executed, as were all but one of the Apostles, for the very faith that Paul proclaims here is more glorious than that of Moses and the Old Testament. Its glory rests in something different than outward miracles. Though they existed early on in the New Testament, even before the Apostles were off the scene already those miracles had diminished. Really they had little to do with Christianity even as Paul wrote this epistle. He does not cite his miracles as evidence of his authority.
The glory that exists in the New Testament
• Is a glory of hope
• It is a glory delivered in a promise of eternal life
Nothing this world has ever or could ever offer compares to that.
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