2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER SIX - Verse-by-verse



2 CORINTHIANS chapter six

JACK

Summary verses 1,2

1. PAUL STATES THAT WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE LORD.

2. He is always associated with us in our Ph2.

3. He is the guarantee that our labor is not in vain.

4. We can't fail if we “hold fast” to the head.

5. To trust Him completely in our pressures and prosperity.

6. We, however, can receive Ph2 grace in vain by negative volition to Bible doctrine (compare 1 CORINTHIANS 15:2; GALATIANS 2:2; 3:4; 4:11;

1 THESSALONIANS 3:5; PHILIPPIANS 2:6).

7. Being under reversion recovery and the onslaught of the false teachers, the needed the reassurance that the Lord was for them.

8. When you have been through a period of negative volition, you are under pressure and need the comfort that the Lord will honor your new positive volition.

9. That He will both listen and help you out of your circumstances.

10. So Paul quotes Isaiah 49:8 since it so well illustrates the principle that God is for positive volition.

11. Background to Isaiah 49:8:

a. Jews have rejected Christ for some 2,000 years.

b. They additionally find themselves hated and opposed by all nations.

12. Yet the Lord under the various phases of the restoration process acts on their behalf even before there is a spiritual reconciliation.

13. He listens to them even before they ask.

14. During the era of restoration, they experience various deliverances.

15. This quotation is applicable to a variety of situations.

16. Here it is applied to believers in the vulnerable state of reversion recovery who need to be delivered from the circumstances they have got into.

17. “Day” is used for more than twenty-four hours here.

18. With “season” it means the period to dig our of reversionism.

19. Salvation is used of:

a. Spiritual death (SAJG).

b. Life under the STA.

c. Personal testing.

d. Historical crisis.

e. Ultimate sanctification.

20. To the Corinthians it means that now is the time to get with MPR.

Verse 3a gramatically continues the construction of verse 1a; 1b and 2 are a parenthesis

SUMMARY VERSE 3A

1. VERSE THREE RESUMES THE FIRST PHRASE OF VERSE ONE; VERSE 1B AND TWO BEING A PARENTHESIS.

2. Verse three warns pastor-teacher's not to bring discredit on the ministry.

3. To conduct themselves in such a way that the cosmos has legitimate basis for criticism.

4. For Paul to fail would fuel the false teachers’ attack and so upset believers.

5. There exists a variety of things a pastor could do which would so quality: failure to be an example in doctrine, morals, civic responsibility, finances, children, etc.

6. We commend ourselves when we do our job and practice we teach.

7. When a pastor crosses over the line:

a. He must rebound.

b. His ministry is still before him; but may not be with a particular group.

c. Critics are themselves liable for the adjustments.

Summary verses 4-10

1. A PASTOR-TEACHER MUST HAVE GREAT PATIENCE WITH RESPECT TO HIS NICHE.

2. Each pastor-teacher has his share of common human problems, situations he could change but must not, and situations that he can't change, but must mentally adjust to.

3. Then there are some specific items he may never experience like overt abuse, jail, physical exhaustion, lack of sleep, hunger.

4. Paul experienced these things to a greater degree than any other apostle or any since (1 CORINTHIANS 4:9-13; 2 CORINTHIANS 4:7-11; 11:23-30).

5. In verse six and seven, the list shifts to an ethical tone which all pastor-teachers are to actively emulate, such as:

a. Pure motives.

b. Knowledge of Scripture.

c. Patience towards persons.

d. Kindness.

e. Control by the Holy Spirit.

f. Love without hypocrisy and without respect of persons.

g. Making the Bible the only criteria.

h. Resting on the power behind the Word of God.

i. Arming himself with categories of Bible doctrine.

6. In verses eight through ten, the list is a mixture of what all adjusted pastor-teachers will experience and the differences of overt prosperity of each like:

a. Glory from those who are positive and dishonor from those who are negative.

b. The object of verbal maligning as well as praise.

c. Considered deceivers, yet truthful.

d. Unknown by a society which has its own heroes, yet well known by the unseen powers behind the Angelic Conflict.

e. The fact that pastor-teachers do their job makes them special targets and subjects of death, yet they remain alive to finish their course.

f. Sorrow over reversionism is a regular experience, yet we share God's +H as we see doctrine work for us.

g. Our pursuit not being the details and often without the overt of our contemporaries, we paradoxically make rich those who are positive.

h. Having nothing was Paul's niche; yet due to SG3 all things were his, both in time if needed and in Ph3.

7. All is a part of Paul's boast as he is led to commend himself as their spiritual leader.

Paul's appeal to his spiritual children to accord him his rightful place in their affections (verses 11-13)

SUMMARY VERSE 11

1. PAUL MAKES AN APPEAL TO THE CORINTHIANS TO ACCORD THEM THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THEIR HEARTS AND EMOTIONS.

2. The Corinthians have not yet fully disassociated themselves from the false teachers.

3. They are still reticent in regards to their rightful leaders.

4. Whenever a pastor recognizes the influence of pseudo teachers towards his flock, he should follow Paul's example towards the Corinthians.

5. Second Corinthians is the book in which Paul speaks most personally about his motives, feelings, experiences, etc.

6. Not that this tact is absent from his other letters.

7. Whenever, and to the extent that, a pastor is under attack by detractors, he must follow Paul's lead.

8. The first perfect tense is fulfilled in his baring of his soul and the detailing of his experiences.

9. This is done, not to brag, but to be a contrast to the pseudo pastors.

10. The second perfect is realized in the love he has for them under the circumstances.

11. Bible doctrine says you are to minister to people who are not responding to you as they should.

12. To believers who tend to be reticent in their attitude.

13. PRINCIPLE: A PASTOR’S LOVE FOR HIS FLOCK IS AT ITS HIGHEST EXPRESSION WHEN HE MINISTERS TO BELIEVERS WHO TREAT HIM SHABBILY.

14. The heart opened wide means to have a place in your ministry for Corinthians types (past and present).

15. They have not shown the loyalty Paul and company deserve.

they are held back spiritually

SUMMARY VERSE 12

1. PAUL TELLS THEM THEY ARE STILL HELD BACK SPIRITUALLY, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF ANY FAILURE OF THEIR TEACHERS.

2. When a pastor jams those who jammed him, by not encouraging them, he fails.

3. The Corinthians were held back because they failed their rightful teachers in their affections.

4. Even though they were under reversion recovery, they hadn't yet fully accorded Paul a place in their affections.

5. Their affections were divided and so they were restrained in their spiritual progress.

Summary verses 14-16a

1. PAUL INTRODUCES A PARAGRAPH ON SEPARATION AGAINST HE BACKGROUND OF THE CORINTHIANS ASSOCIATION WITH FALSE TEACHERS AND CORINTHIAN SOCIETY IN GENERAL, BASED ON MISAPPLICATION OF 1 CORINTHIANS 5:9,10.

2. Continued involvement with these individuals will lead to reversionism.

3. He begins by exhorting believers to sever all ties with unbelievers which qualify as “being unequally yoked”.

4. The challenge is to identify those relationships and to sever them (where appropriate).

5. Believers are to separate from reversionistic believers who fall under the purview of 1 Corinthians 5:9-11.

6. In a series of rhetorical questions Paul levels the notion that believers can freely associate with unbelievers without there being any spiritual consequences.

7. This is one of the great statements on the doctrine of separation in the New Testament.

8. Paul makes the failure to separate appear incongruous.

9. His purpose is not to cite examples but to illustrate, by a series of pairs of opposites, the absolute and ultimate antithesis that exists between believers and unbelievers.

10. Righteousness is place in antithesis to lawlessness.

11. This antithesis is found in Hebrews 1:9 (PSALM 47:7 “You (the Messiah) have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.”).

12. We are positionally +R; they are positionally lawless (in Adam, there are all kinds); we are to be experientially righteous; they follow lawlessness (see MATTHEW 7:23 “Depart from Me you who practice lawlessness.”).

13. We pursue right; they follow the path of least resistance.

14. There is no situation in which the two should ever be partners:

a. Marriage.

b. Business where both parties are equal.

15. No antithesis in the daily experience of man is more fundamental than light and darkness.

16. When put with the word “fellowship”, we see that all fellowship with unbelievers is wrong.

17. As lights, we were delivered out of the power of darkness

(COLOSSIANS 1:13).

18. Christ is the light of the world; we are light in the Lord.

19. Be in us makes us lights in the world.

20. Men love darkness rather than light.

21. Believers should not participate in the deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

22. All social relationships where we can't make the Divine viewpoint the basis for rapport, fun, etc., we should shun (office party, fraternities, etc.).

23. The third question contrasts Christ with Satan as the respective heads of each side of the Angelic Conflict.

24. When you fail to separation, you ignore the fact that there is no ground of compromise between the two.

25. Christ remains the same and Satan is incorrigible; so don’t side with the loser when you are unequally yoked.

26. PRINCIPLE: THERE IS NO TOLERATION OF OR COMPROMISE WITH EVIL.

27. The fourth question looks to Ph3 where the believer and unbeliever are eternally separated.

28. They have totally different destinies.

29. The unbeliever’s part is in the lake of fire (MATTHEW 24:51; REVELATION 21:8), while the believer has heaven with the potential of SG3 (COLOSSIANS 1:12 compare JOHN 13:8).

30. Therefore, the incongruity of being unequally yoked with unbelievers.

31. The fifth question points out that failure to separate leads to Ph2 neutralization.

32. Your temple (of the Holy Spirit) can't coexist with idols and remain a place of glory to God.

33. If you associate with people (idols) who have placed other STA factors in the place of Bible doctrine, you will become like them.

34. So separate your temple from their “idols” (compare

1 CORINTHIANS 3:16,17).

35. Idols in the Most Holy Place leads to loss of SG3 and to Divine discipline.

Summary verses 16b-18

1. THE VERSES QUOTED BY PAUL EQUALLY APPLY IN PRINCIPLE TO THE CHURCH, ALTHOUGH WRITTEN FOR ISRAEL.

2. The verses cited deal with Israel eschatologically.

3. Regenerate Jews of the tribulation will be challenged to separate from the nations, including the U.S.A., and to dissociate from unclean elements within these nations.

4. As Jews all over the world turn to the Lord, they will be challenged in the first half to exit.

5. American Jews present a special case (ISAIAH 52:11; JEREMIAH 50:8; JEREMIAH 51:6,9,45; REVELATION 18:4).

6. Furthermore, they are to stop association in every way from the uncleanness of their former ways (see EZEKIEL 36:16-36 especially verse 29).

7. The Lord promises to do certain things for those who separate.

8. To bless their return effort, to indwell them (EZEKIEL 36:27), to walk among them in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, to act toward them as a parent towards obedient children.

Though the mechanics vary, the royal family is equally blessed by applying separation to their niche.

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