2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER FIVE - Verse-by-verse



2 CORINTHIANS chapter five

JACK

sanctified groaning in the tent

1. BIBLE DOCTRINE TEACHES US THAT THE SOUL HAS TWO DWELLING PLACES.

2. The temporary body comes from genetic engineering and is decaying.

3. The resurrection body from heaven is not subject to decay (eternal).

4. A test of an adjusted believer is his/her longing for the “building from God”.

5. This experience of groaning and longing is the presence of the new or inner man created in Christ's image.

6. This mental attitude perspective is a result of growth and is healthy.

7. We legitimately desire what God has promised.

8. We need a body to enjoy, paragraph SG3 just as we need one now to enjoy this life.

reiteration verse 4

THE DOWN PAYMENT VERSE 5

SUMMARY VERSES 4,5

1. THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLS THE BODY (1 CORINTHIANS 3:16FF).

2. The indwelling Holy Spirit constitutes a down payment on the resurrection body (EPHESIANS 1:4).

3. Also important to this end is the sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.

4. The Holy Spirit will transform the temporary body into a resurrection body.

further explaination of why we need

GOOD COURAGE VERSE 7

SUMMARY VERSES 6,7

1. “THEREFORE” DEMANDS A CONCLUSION FROM THE DOCTRINE OF THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT AS A PLEDGE.

2. And that is to be with the Lord in the resurrection body (verse 8).

3. Only the adjusted believer can rightly make his/her boast.

4. Such a read-out originates with the inner man.

5. This knowledge of Ph3 produces esprit de corps in the suffering believer.

6. He is comforted and made courageous by the doctrine of the normal blessings of heaven and the special blessings.

7. At home in the body, is Ph2 where we prepare for the special blessings.

8. And so we operate on the basis of what we don’t see (SG3) versus what we see.

9. The MPR formula governs his choices.

10. He suffers the loss of all things (Paul) if necessary to stay under MPR.

Summary verse 8

1. BASED ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION BODY, THE ADJUSTED BELIEVER PREFERS PH3 TO PH2.

2. Paul echoes the same sentiment in Philippians 1:23.

3. This is a read-out you grow into where you greatly desire SG3 in a resurrection body over blessing in time.

Summary verse 9

1. ONLY THE ADJUSTED BELIEVER HAS ETERNITY AND TIME IN PERSPECTIVE.

2. He shares God's values.

3. He would much rather be with the Lord than at home in the temporary body.

4. Corollary to this is his/her desire to please the Lord in time (“at home”) so his/her can please the Lord in eternity (“absent”).

5. Colossians 1:10 provides excellent commentary.

6. The MPR formula is the answer.

Summary verse 10

1. THE WORD BEMA COMES FROM THE JUDGES PLATFORM OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES. (IT IS USED IN OTHER WAYS: COMPARE 12X, MATTHEW 27:19; JOHN 19:13;

ACTS 12:21; 18:12,16,17; 25:6,10,17. It is used 2X by Paul of the judgement seat of Christ; ROMANS 14:10 “of God”).

2. All contestants had to appear after their event.

3. This analogy between the Christian way of life and the games is seen in the following New Testament passages: 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27; GALATIANS 2:2; 5:7; PHILIPPIANS 2:16; 3:13,14; 2 TIMOTHY 2:5; 4:7; HEBREWS 12:1,2. (See the doctrine of athletic metaphors.)

4. First Corinthians 3:10-15 tells that the believers production is the issue in terms of reward and the judgement seat isn't to determine his/her salvation (compare verse 15).

5. The time of this awards ceremony is the day of the rapture

(1 CORINTHIANS 3:13; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17 where the word translated “to meet” is a noun; ei=j [eis] with avpa,nthsij [apantesis]; 4X compare MATTHEW 25:1,6; ACTS 28:15 of Paul with Roman believers.)

6. As in 1 Corinthians 3, the issue is the deeds or things done in the body, not works for salvation.

7. Good or worthless is the two-fold classification of one's production.

8. Divine good verse human good.

9. Divine good is that which we accomplish under the filling of the Holy Spirit.

10. Human good is production under the STA.

11. It is called wood, hay, and stubble.

12. And is destined for burning (1 CORINTHIANS 3:13,14).

13. SG3 is called good (compare ROMANS 8:28).

Summary verse 11

1. PAUL AND COMPANY KNOW FROM GAP THE PLAN OF GOD AND THE THREE ADJUSTMENTS.

2. They, therefore, know the consequences for maladjustment.

3. The expression “the rear of the Lord” is a reference to the plan of God with emphasis on the consequences of maladjustment for both the listener and the communicator.

4. Their knowledge of Bible doctrine motivates them to persuade men to get with it now.

5. It must be kept in mind that God has an open book on the one whose job it is to teach the three adjustments.

6. Omniscience reads the mental attitude and function of the pastor-teacher at all times.

7. This moment by moment reading of the pastor-teacher by God is the basis for his Divine discipline and blessing.

8. Paul implies that God is pleased with what He sees in them.

9. The Corinthians are bombarded with derogatory barbs toward their spiritual leaders.

10. Each must evaluate the facts and settle down and follow them to super grace.

11. They must GAP the doctrine of the pastor-teacher while seeing if Paul and company measure up.

12. As you grown and as you observe your pastor-teacher, he becomes manifest in your conscience.

13. You take on very specific norms and standards about his function under the gift.

14. You gradually identify him as your “right pastor”.

15. When you become relaxed about him, you are able to grow much more rapidly.

16. So many false norms and standards must be set aside concerning his gift and function.

Summary verse 12

1. PAUL HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF COMMENDING HIMSELF BY HIS CRITICS AT CORINTH (COMPARE 3:1).

2. Whenever he points out the error of the false teachers, he is accused of wrong standard operating procedure.

3. He denies that his purpose is to sell self under approbation lust.

4. His purpose in recounting his present sufferings is to arm them with a response to the allegations of the false teachers. (They should not be timid but should speak out against the critics charges.)

5. Among other things, they try to impress themselves on the church by emphasizing the overt.

6. They make points by contrasting their overt situation with that of Paul.

7. They claim the overt is a sign of blessing from God and that Paul's miserable condition is Divine discipline.

8. They have prospered by merchandising Bible doctrine and experience little hardship and conflict due to compromise.

9. The criteria for them is the overt.

10. Do not evaluate a ministry by the overt, but by the only criteria—the Word of God.

11. Paul's concern is not with what men think of him but the stability of the church.

12. Paul encourages them to take the opportunity and to speak in his defense.

Summary verse 13

1. PAUL HAS BEEN LABELED A RELIGIOUS NUT WHO SUFFERS BECAUSE OF HIS FANATICISM.

2. Paul admits to a legitimate being out of his mind, namely those times when he was the subject of visions and revelations from the Lord (compare 12:1).

3. During the apostolic era revelations and visions were a regular phenomena before the New Testament Canon was complete.

4. The verb “to be out of one's mind” (evxisthmi existemi) is used negatively in the active voice of a charge of mental illness against Jesus (MARK 3:21).

5. The noun ekstasij (ekstasis) is used of an ecstatic state in Acts 10:10, 11:5, and 22:17. (Paul in the temple)

6. He states that he is operating from a reasonable, consistent, logical mental attitude when ministering to them.

7. Bible doctrine produces spiritual commons sense.

8. Since Bible doctrine is inherently logical and consistent, it outworking in the believer produces a sensible modus operandi.

9. Only to the ignorant does it appear irrational.

10. The label of fanaticism is a reaction to Divine viewpoint based on antagonism and ignorance.

11. The doctrine of Divine Essence clears up much misconception concerning the plan of God.

Summary verses 14,15

1. THE EXPRESSION “LOVE OF CHRIST” REFERS TO:

a. The love resident in the glorified God/man.

b. Including both the mental attitude and the appropriate action.

c. This love is Divine love or God's mental attitude towards man.

2. God's love explained:

a. It is a Divine attribute possessed by all three members of the Godhead.

b. Prior to angels and men, all three persons had this perfect love toward each other (and still do).

c. This same love now includes man in a fallen state (enemy) and was the basis for a grace plan.

d. This love prompted God to provide a Savior for all men.

e. So God has both thought love and done love for all.

f. The love of God for fallen man necessitated a grace policy.

g. Grace exists due to love.

3. God's love and His other attributes:

a. God's love never changes (I: Immutability).

b. God's love is capable to provide for love’s objects (O: Omnipotence).

c. God's love is aware of all objects (O: Omniscience).

d. God's love is always available in terms of blessing.

e. God's love is always existing (E.L.: Eternal life).

f. God's love does not compromise His righteousness.

g. God's love is no respector of persons (J: Justice).

h. God's love is tied to His decision to establish volition (S: Sovereign).

4. God's love is:

a. His mental attitude to provide all three adjustments on a grace basis for all men.

b. His provision of a Savior.

c. Not going to be partial.

d. Not going to provide the blessings of the three adjustments apart from volition.

e. Consistent with His judgement for failure to adjust.

5. “The love of Christ” is the love which Christ has for man.

6. Paul is aware of the surpassing nature of this love.

7. This love sustains and absorbs them in all their circumstances.

8. It isn't Paul's love for Christ that is in view, but Christ's love for him (compare GALATIANS 2:20).

9. And his awareness of the extent of that love.

10. From which love he concludes that Christ had to have died “for all”.

11. What Christ did absorbs him and causes him to once again consider the doctrine of unlimited atonement.

12. The doctrine of the love of Christ naturally fits with the doctrine of unlimited atonement.

13. For the doctrine of limited atonement is incompatible with the doctrine of Divine love.

14. Verse fourteen argues for the doctrine of the spiritual death of Christ based on universal death.

15. All men died in Adam equals positional death.

16. Each man dies as a result of the imputation of Adam's original sin to the indwelling STA at physical birth.

17. Verse fifteen restates the doctrine of unlimited atonement and makes a Ph2 statement concerning those who live—i.e. those who have indwelling eternal life.

the flesh cannot impress God verse 16

SUMMARY VERSE 16

1. THE FALSE TEACHERS PLACE GREAT EMPHASIS ON THE FLESH WITH ITS ACHIEVEMENTS, ATTRACTIVENESS, AND PROSPERITY.

2. From the point of spiritual enlightenment (Paul's conversion), Paul's appraisal and acknowledgement of persons is no longer as it once was: after the flesh.

3. In other words, the estimate formed of people by human viewpoint.

4. The world’s standard is the overt.

5. Such distinctions as race, social status, wealth, talent, I.Q., etc. should not govern the believers dealings with other believers.

6. The second part of the verse deals with knowing Christ according to the flesh.

7. Paul affirms that even if he (and others) had known Christ according to the flesh, yet now he no longer knows him this way.

8. In the Greek, the construction indicates that he concedes as a fact what he states in hypothetical form.

9. If Paul knew Christ in the flesh as this verse seems to indicate, he makes nothing out of it.

10. Whether he had known Christ by personal contact, his knowledge was strictly according to the flesh.

11. His adjustments led to a completely new viewpoint concerning Christ.

12. At Corinth, there was a Christ faction claiming to have clout because they had personally seen Jesus.

13. Which formed the overt of the false teachers.

14. We relate to Him as He now is at the right hand.

Summary verse 17

1. “THEREFORE” STATES POSITIVELY WHAT THE “THEREFORE” STATES NEGATIVELY (W[STJ HOSTE).

2. Which is an observation and conclusion drawn from the context dealing with God's impartial universal love.

3. The issue for the believer is not who and what people are after the flesh.

4. But what they are in God's eyes before grace.

5. It is not that we don’t acknowledge differences among men; we don’t let that dictate our attitudes.

6. We don’t treat a rich believer differently from a poor one.

7. Both are new creatures, which is a synonym for positional reality.

8. Other verses stating that we are a part of a new creation as of the SAJG (EPHESIANS 2:10,15).

9. Salvation brings into existence a new creature positionally.

10. The new positional reality is the basis for deliverance from “the old things” which accompany position in Adam.

11. Position in Adam comes to each of us via physical birth, while position in Christ comes via the new birth.

12. “Old things” involves spiritual death and its “fall-out”.

13. The root source of the old things is the imputation of Adam's original sin to the indwelling STA at birth, leading to spiritual death.

14. The old things, founded on spiritual death, include E1, physical death, the curse on all creation.

15. While “the new things” constitute the blessings of being in Christ, both actual and potential.

16. Actual blessings are those items the Word of God promises.

17. Potential are those blessings contingent on the RAJG and the MAJG.

18. The foundation of the “new things” is the cancellation of spiritual death at the new birth.

19. Position in Christ is potential for all, but is only actualized at the SAJG.

20. The “new things” for the “new creature” come under two headings:

a. Those blessings that are both positional and experiential.

b. Those blessings which are positional only, yet to be experiential.

21. Of the former we can list eternal life, the indwelling Holy Spirit, the human spirit, royalty.

22. Of the latter we have two classifications:

a. Blessings in time, both spiritual and physical, based on rebound and the MAJG.

b. Blessing in heaven, like the resurrection body, SG3, the new heavens and earth.

23. Error exists when the above distinctions are not maintained.

the source and foundation of “the all things”

SUMMARY VERSES 18,19

1. GOD IS THE SOURCE OF THE ALL THINGS.

2. The foundation is the doctrine of reconciliation.

3. The person and work of Christ is the substance of reconciliation.

4. Apart from reconciliation, there would be no all things.

5. God alone dictates the terms of reconciliation since it was man who is guilty of a breach of contract and since God is perfect and immutable and could in no way be guilty of misconduct.

6. So God, party of the first part, provides the removal of the enmity between Himself and man.

7. The enmity consisted of personal sins of the STA.

8. Christ removed the enmity.

9. And so provided the basis of reconciliation and that for all men.

10. To be delivered, man must accept the terms of the reconciliation (i.e. must believer in Christ).

11. Or else he faces the reality of imputation of the sin of unbelief.

12. CONCLUSION: God IS NOT RECONCILED TO MAN, BUT MAN TO God.

13. “God was in Christ reconciling the cosmos to Himself” refers to the first advent and the cross.

14. The whole world has reconciliation provided.

15. God has committed to believers the ministry and message of reconciliation.

Summary verse 20

1. AS AMBASSADORS, WE ARE NOT HERE TO REPRESENT OURSELVES.

2. We are to faithfully represent the plan to anyone who will listen.

3. We are God's chosen vessels in which to make His plan known to potential positive volition.

4. We are to avoid false issues.

5. Those with specialized gifts of communication have a special role as ambassadors.

6. Each ambassador has his/her own assignment.

7. Each ambassador must first be briefed—that is to know doctrine in order to be effective and accurate.

8. There is a Ph2 reconciliation: a synonym for the MAJG.

9. See the doctrine of peace and the point about Ph2 peace.

mechanics of God's part in providing reconciliation

SUMMARY VERSE 21

1. THIS VERSE DEALS WITH THE MECHANICS OF RECONCILIATION AS PER GOD'S PART.

2. The one thing that stood between God and man was personal sins (see COLOSSIANS 2:13,14).

3. So God the Father imputed all personal sins to the body of God the Son on the cross (ROMANS 8:3; GALATIANS 3:13; 1 PETER 2:24; ISAIAH 53:6).

4. The humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ had to be free from personal sin, therefore +R to be qualified.

5. Other Scripture on His sinlessness (HEBREWS 4:15; 7:26; 1 PETER 2:22;

1 JOHN 3:5).

6. Now that personal sins have been judged, God is free to impute +R to man.

7. Upon the first condition of personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

8. Man needs to be +R to live with God forever. (See the doctrine of imputation of +R.)

9. God's part is complete; it is up to man (individually) to make the next step!

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