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| Farewell xanga.
This does not convey honesty. Or glorify God the way I wanted it to.
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| 2nd Corinthians 3:1-10
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendations to you or letters of commendation from you? Again Paul is stressing faith in Christ alone and nothing else.
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; Paul goes by the fruit of his actions, which is the fruit that the Corinthian people produce.
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spriit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. We are all testimonies of flesh and blood! Able to go beyond any ink and writing through the power of our actions.
And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Faith in Christ > from Christ to God.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God. We are not able to do anything by ourselves > all is through God.
who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kils, but the Spirit gives life. Paul gives from the life-giving Spirit (message of Christ) and not from the letter(message of the law that condemns).
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away. Paul is saying that Moses' countenance had great glory even from the ministry of death.
how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? If Moses is glorious than that which comes after should be even more glorious.
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. Yep.
For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. Everything pales in comparison to God's glory.
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| 2nd Corinthians 2:11-17
lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. A lack of forgiveness can cause a break in unity.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord. The Lord gave Paul the opportunity to preach.
I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia. Paul had no rest because he did not find his brother Titus there. He went to Macedonia afterwards.
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. Paul thanks God who always leads them to triumph and gives us knowledge.
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. We give the fragrance of Christ and are mediums of his love.
To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? The aroma of death > unpleasant and unpleasing. Probably to unbelievers? The aroma of life > to believers, we refresh and renew one another.
For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ. They are not selling God's word, but sincerely preaching it.
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know if I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the watermain.
Listen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the ground
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
but it’s plain to see evil inside of me
is on the rise.
Look around
We’re living with the lost and found
Just when you feel you’ve almost drowned
You find yourself on solid ground
And you believe there’s good in everybody’s heart
Keep it safe and sound
With hope you can do your part
To turn a life around
I cannot believe my eyes
Is the world finally growing wise
Because it seems to me some kind of harmony
Is on the rise
H: Anyone with half a brain
P: Take it slow
H: Could spend their whole life howling in pain
P: He looks at me and seems to know
H: Because the dark is everywhere and
P: The things that I’m afraid to show
H: Penny doesn’t seem to care that soon the dark in me is all that will remain
P: and suddenly I feel this glow
H: Listen close to everybody’s heart
P: And I believe there’s good in everybody’s heart
H: and hear that breaking sound
P: keep it safe and sound
H: Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
P: With hope you can do your part
H: And crashing to the ground
P: To turn a life around
H: I cannot believe my eyes how the world’s filled with filth and lies
P:I cannot believe my eyes how the world’s finally growing wise
H: But it’s plain to see evil inside of me is on the rise
P: And it’s plain to see rapture inside of me is on the rise
two sides of me. Hope and Hate.
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