Ray Stedman
Who Is Sufficient?
Biblical text: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 Today we begin what I think is one of the greatest passages in the New Testament. It is found in Second Corinthians, beginning in Chapter 2. Here is the clearest explanation in all the Word of God of the secret of the Apostle Paul’s phenomenal ministry. It runs from Chapter…
Read MoreTake Inventory (part 2)
“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you fail to meet the test! (2 Cor. 13:5-6 RSV) An Outer Change That is what Paul says he wants these Corinthians to ask themselves, “Does Christ live in…
Read MoreTake Inventory (part 1)
“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (2 Cor. 13:5-6 RSV) An Inner Change Is Jesus Christ in you? Paul exhorts every individual in the church to ask himself that…
Read MoreThe Believer As God’s Tabernacle (Part 2)
[“Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man …The first covenant had…
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