Lesson 294

2 Corinthians 10:5  We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.  Paul’s powerful mind was saturated with God’s word, and he was ready to...

Lesson 293

2 Corinthians 6:2  I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.  The gospel is not just a matter of life and death, but of heaven and hell. Since tomorrow is not guaranteed (or even the next half hour) the call to believe is...

Lesson 292

2 Corinthians 5:1  For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven.  Paul was a tentmaker by trade (Acts 18:3), and compared our bodies to a tent that will be destroyed. The...

Lesson 291

2 Corinthians 3:18   And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory.  Paul compared the believer’s glory to the glory of Moses, when he received the Ten Commandments at the...

Lesson 290

2 Corinthians 1:1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God . . . To the church of God in Corinth.  Paul’s second letter to the church in Corinth was probably written in AD 55, just several months after his first letter. In addition to what we...