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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 30
II CORINTHIANS 4:1-5:9
Now remember in verse 6 we have this treasure, this Light that lighted the whole world. Paul was just as human as the rest of us. But it didn't stop with Paul. II Corinthians 4:7
"But we have this treasure (the light of God) in earthen vessels, (Now Paul wasn't talking about a clay pot, but rather this body of flesh.) that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
Man can never take the credit for anything. Let's turn back to I Corinthians for a moment and look at verse 27, 28, and 29. Why did God see fit to even use me what little ways He does?" I Corinthians 1:27,28
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought (nothing) things that are;"
God uses that which mankind would never dream of using. Now what's the purpose in verse 29? I Corinthians 1:29
"That no flesh should glory in his presence."
It is all of God or is none of God. Paul goes on now and look what he writes.
II Corinthians 4:8
Why was Paul perplexed? Sometimes we're prone to ask, "Well God, why?" Why? But remember God has His own purposes. Even though Paul was perplexed he never gave up. Now verse 9.
II Corinthians 4:9
Absolutely Paul was persecuted. He was driven from city to city, but The Lord didn't forsake him. The Lord promised him what? When he was in Corinth The Lord said, "Paul don't you run from the enemies because I've much people in Corinth." Now verse 10.
II Corinthians 4:10
"Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, (Now upon first reading this I think most people think that Paul is making a reference that when Christ died we died also. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body."
Let's look at that for a moment in II Timothy Chapter 1. So Paul suffered because Satan didn't want the Gospel going to the Gentile world. Satan hated that it was going to Israel throughout the Old Testament. Now continuing on with verse 12.
II Timothy 1:12
Now we'll be studying Timothy some day if The Lord tarries. Now verse 13 and 14.
II Timothy 1:13,14
"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. In other words Paul tells Timothy, "What I have deposited with you keep it. Dividends, interest, a return on it. I made comment on the next verse in a previous program and I'm still getting calls about that verse. What did the apostle Paul mean?" II Timothy 1:15
Now you want to remember that Greece was Europe, and Asia Minor was the Asia of the New Testament. Philippi is still a valid sea port. Corinth is no longer the ancient city, but there's another city right next to it, and much of Greece refers to the journeys and so forth of Paul, but back there in western Turkey not one of these cities are left. Now verse 11 and 12 for example.
II Corinthians 4:11,12
"For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you."
Now verse 13.
II Corinthians 4:13
Up until this chapter it's Peter and the eleven and the Nation of Israel. Now remember Paul didn't go after Gentiles because there were none of them believing yet. Remember at that time the Gospel of the Kingdom was the only Gospel that had been revealed. Jehovah! Lord. Now all the way through the Old Testament when you see the word LORD all in capital letters, it's Jehovah. When Saul of Tarsus addresses God, which he knows this Light and voice is, then in so many words he says, "Who art thou Jehovah?" "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:..."
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?..."
"Who in the world is Jesus Christ?" People do not understand that Jesus Christ of the New Testament is the Jehovah God of the Old Testament. Jesus of the New Testament is the God of Genesis 1:1. John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,"
Well enough for that, now back to II Corinthians. Now verse 14.
II Corinthians 4:14,15
"Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by (that same) Jesus, and shall present us with you. It's always God's glory. We don't elevate Paul to glory. Now verse 16.
II Corinthians 4:16-18
The world today is only set on the temporal. Remember what The Lord said back in His earthly ministry?

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