The Work of God in the Believer's Suffering

We return again this morning to our study in the letter of 2 Corinthians. And in our opening studies of 2 Corinthians, we’ve learned that the Apostle Paul is writing this letter in the midst of a severe controversy. The Corinthian church is under attack. False teachers have come from Jerusalem, claiming to be apostles of Christ, and they have infiltrated the church at Corinth. And in effort to undermine the Gospel that Paul preached in order to make room for their own false teaching, they launched a full-scale assault on the character of the Apostle Paul.

And they just lobbed accusation after accusation against him. They accused him of harboring secret sin; they accused him of “purposing according to the flesh;” they accused him of embezzling the money he collected as church offerings; they accused him of lacking true apostolic credentials since he wasn’t an original apostle from the original Jerusalem church. The list just went on and on...

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