PASSIONATE PURSUIT...CONFIRMING THE LOVE

JUST CONFIRMING THE LOVE…
2 CORINTHIANS 1:1-10
BUT I DETERMINED THIS WITH MYSELF, THAT I WOULD NOT COME AGAIN TO YOU IN HEAVINESS.
FOR IF I MAKE YOU SORRY, WHO IS HE THEN MAKETH ME GLAD, BUT THE SAME WHICH IS MADE SORRY BY ME?
AND I WROTE THIS SAME UNTO YOU, LEST, WHEN I CAME, I SHOULD HAVE SORROW FROM THEM OF WHOM I OUGHT TO REJOICE; HAVING CONFIDENCE IN YOU ALL, THAT MY JOY IS THE JOY OF YOU ALL.
FOR OUT OF MUCH AFFLICTION AND ANGUISH OF HEART I WROTE UNTO YOU WITH MANY TEARS; NOT THAT YOU SHOULD BE GRIEVED, BUT THAT YE MIGHT KNOW THE LOVE WHICH I HAVE MORE ABUNDANTLY UNTO YOU.
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF, HE HATH NOT GRIEVED ME, BUT IN PART: THAT I MAY NOT OVERCHARGE YOU ALL.
SUFFICIENT TO SUCH A MAN IS THIS PUNISHMENT, WHICH WAS INFLICTED OF MANY.
SO THAT CONTRARIWISE YE OUGHT RATHER TO FORGIVE HIM, AND COMFORT HIM, LEST PERHAPS SUCH A ONE SHOULD BE SWALLOWED UP WITH OVERMUCH SORROW.
WHEREFORE I BESEECH YOU THAT YE WOULD CONFIRM YOUR LOVE TOWARD HIM.
FOR TO THIS END ALSO DID I WRITE, THAT I MIGHT KNOW THE PROOF OF YOU, WHTHER YE BE OBEDIENT IN ALL THINGS. TO WHOM YE FORGIVE ANY THING, I FORGIVE ALSO: FOR I FORGAVE ANYTHING, TO WHOM I FORGAVE IT, FOR YOUR DAKES FORGAVE I IT IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
Paul writes to the chosen that were in the midst of Corinth after having left the people that were in Macedonia and Achaia. They had blessed him tremendously and he writes to them again to encourage them in the faith. The Christians converts that were located in Corinth had overcome and were continuing to overcome affliction after affliction and were suffering for the sake of righteousness. He was led by the Holy Spirit to comfort them who were no only face with a natural death, also a spiritual death. He says that he had not desire to come to them in heaviness, but their condition does weigh heavily upon him. He only has a desire to comfort them and to assure that he has their best interest at heart. He wants the children of God to be saved and endure the hardness to the end. He wants them to obtain the prize and not to come short of the glory of God. He states that he doesn’t want the children to have the sorrows of the world but if there be any sorrow let them be the sorrows that bring for repentance that they may be saved and experience the abundance of mercy that is given by Christ reconciling them to salvation. We ought to be confident that godly repentance leadeth to the saving of the soul, therefore, even the heavens rejoice at such a matter. We ought to be the joy of one another. Those who make us sorrowful also have us to rejoice because when one member suffer we all suffer as one. Then also we ought to rejoice as one in that same spirit of unity in the fellowship of Christ..
This is the second letter that Paul writes and states that out of much affliction and anguish has he written even in times past so that he could be the example of the abundance of love that Christ has to pour upon his chosen. If there be any grief or offense given by any let us love without dissimulation. Let us forgive quickly remembering our own labors of love and how Christ died to save us from sin just as well. We don’t want anyone to be overwhelmed with attemping to walk in the spirit of love and righteousness. For these reasons did Christ die for us all that we may obtain mercy from on high. Comfort our brethren that come short that they be not swallowed up in sorrow and turn back to the cares of the world. God is faithful to forgive and confirms that love through us all with love toward each other. Therein is the proof and the evidence that Jesus Christ really does reside among us and they we indeed abide in his love. #signs #miracles #wonders #fruits