Live 4 The LORD

We suffer abundantly 

We are also abundantly comforted

For and through Christ 

All for His Glory

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

Confidence in how we conduct ourselves

In holiness and Godly sincerity 

Not in worldly wisdom

But in Gods Grace

Toward the world and the church

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

The Father makes us adequate

To serve the New Covenant 

The New covenant is life in the Spirit

Not following rules which kills us

Listening, obeying, being empowered by the Spirit is life. 

2 Corinthians 3:6

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.

The ministry of condemnation (trying to follow rules) had great glory 

The ministry of righteousness (life in the Spirit) excels the glory of condemnation. 

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.

The Lord is Spirit

There is freedom in the Spirit

Freedom to hear, obey, and be empowered to do right!

2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Look at God’s reality 

Don’t worry about temporal things

Temporal things are perishing

Focus on eternity and see what is coming

Eternal focus gives strength for the battle 

2 Corinthians 4:18

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

The New Covenant 

Life in the Spirit

Freedom from Bondage of the Soul. 

To Hear, Listen, Obey, Empowered to do right, is Eternal Life.