The Devotional – 1084 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

The Devotional – 1084 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

Our very brief overview of 1 and 2 Corinthians has and is for me, personally convicting. It is like looking into the soul of any church or into the congregational soul of people. The apostle reveals the condition of the souls of each person in that family of Christ. My cousin Robert sent me an email he receives that parallels some of the things we have looked at in these two epistles. All churches must express a personal intimate relationship with God. If this is not true and ongoing then Jesus is not in the church, but He is nearby. Jesus knows the condition of all churches with His Name. In that; even as He stands at the door of the church to come in and dine with those inside. As this may be enough to satisfy most of the membership, it falls short of being personal with Jesus. You see that Revelation 3:20 is not an invitation to receive the LORD Jesus Christ for the first time personally as some teach, But that through time reveals churches that have grown cold and indifferent to a personal intimate relationship with the LORD by placing His Spirit in the parking lot. 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 2 Corinthians 3:7-18

I believe that one of our biggest problems is that we still try to hold tightly to the “ministry of death” I like how the apostle describes the attributes of the old covenant. Yes the stones of the Covenant Law were glorious, so glorious that Moses had to put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could look at him.

Moses was not glorious, but Moses had been with God on the mountain – that was glorious. This awesome connection with God revealed the Glory of God, this glory was revealed from generation to generation, even to this day people still get caught up with the glory of the Old Covenant Law, but what does the apostle call this covenant, let me remind us again; he calls it the “ministry of death”. Why?

Everything about the Law which cannot be obeyed by any human except “ONE” points to death. Even the One who had no sin perished because of sin, but praise God; this ONE rose again three days later “The soul who sins, shall die” Ezekiel 18:4b. Now all of this is just a brief overview of God’s Plan of Grace through Faith, His Glory is revealed in every church who expresses TRUE fellowship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This mirror (faith) will express the fullness of Christ – 2 Corinthians 3:8. Why?

When the LORD Jesus is inside the church with the church family there is liberty, because Jesus is the SPIRIT. Notice 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, let’s read it together – Now the LORD is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. But we all, with and unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror (by the way this word “mirror” is the same word for FAITH that the apostle uses throughout his epistles PISTIS) the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image, from the LORD the Spirit.

So I see that the New Covenant has a dual purpose, one is to reveal Jesus through the body of Christ, which is the church and two to conform each individual of the body through the Spirit to be intimately and personally transformed into the likeness of Christ.