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- In both letters, Paul demonstrates God’s design for weakness in the Christian life, relentlessly returning to God’s power present in the weakness of the cross. For Paul, Christian living requires following Jesus in faith, rejecting the values of the world, and embracing the Christ crucified out of weakness.
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Aug 1, 2010 · In 2 Corinthians 11-12, Paul describes one of the most difficult things for us to grasp and believe about the life of faith: God purposefully blesses us with weaknesses for the sake of our joy. So-called “super-apostles” had found their way to Corinth.
Jun 4, 2024 · Consider these seven ways Paul encourages us to embrace weakness. 1. Believe that the weakness of Christ crucified is God’s power to save. The message of Christ crucified is “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:23–24).
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Paul’s most famous statement on the paradoxical spiritual power of weakness appears in 2 Corinthians 12. He tells us of his ecstatic experience of being “caught up into paradise,” where he received overwhelming and ineffable revelations (2 Corinthians 12:1–4). But as a result, In these few sentences, Paul completely reframes the way Christians are ...
Before we go further, we need to be clear that Paul does not include sin in his description of weakness here. The Greek word Paul uses is astheneia, the most common word for “weakness” in the New Testament. J.I. Packer, in his helpful study on 2 Corinthians, Weakness Is the Way, explains astheneialike this: But when Paul speaks of sin, he has more ...
At this point, you may be thinking, “Whatever Paul’s ‘thorn’ was, my weakness is not like that.” Right. That’s what we all think. I have a thorn-like weakness, known only to those closest to me. If I shared it with you, you might be surprised. It dogs me daily as I seek to carry out my family, vocational, and ministry responsibilities. It makes alm...
Paul said that his weakness, his “thorn . . . in the flesh,” was “given” to him (2 Corinthians 12:7). Given by whom? Whatever role Satan played, in Paul’s mind he was secondary. Paul received this weakness, as well as “insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities” (2 Corinthians 12:10), as assets given to him by his Lord. And as a “[steward] of...
Someday, when our Master returns, he will ask us to give an account of the talents he’s entrusted to us. Some of those talents will be our weaknesses. We don’t want to tell him we buried any of them. It may even be that the most valuable talent in our investment portfolio turns out to be a weakness. Since “it is required of stewards that they be fo...
Jun 23, 2020 · We want to follow in the path of the apostle Paul, who says, “I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Our weaknesses are opportunities for Christ’s power to be revealed through dependence and faith.
Nov 5, 2024 · Paul learns to embrace his weaknesses, knowing that: Weaknesses keep him humble and dependent on God; God’s power is magnified through human frailty; When he is weak, he is strong in Christ; Paul declares, “Hence I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake.
Mar 3, 2020 · Instead, God responded by telling Paul that God’s strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). Because God said this to Paul, Paul found pleasure not only in this particular affliction but in the other difficulties in his life.
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Mar 11, 2024 · In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV), Paul writes, “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
