Good morning. Continuing with “our adequacy is from God“: who
also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of
the Spirit; for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Now the 10
Commandments were written by God on tablets of stone; but the law of Moses was
written with ink on parchment. Throughout the centuries, the priests’ job was
to make sure that everyone obeyed “the letter of the law“. One can obey the law
outwardly while despising it inwardly. The law does not invoke life in the doer
of the law. But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stone, came
with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of
Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will the ministry
of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? The law in itself could not give
life, but could only show you how you did not measure up. Father help us to
allow Your Spirit to control all that we say or do.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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