Chapter 4

2 Corinthians: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- -10- -11- -12- -13-

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4:1 Because of this, as this ministry belongs to us, just as we received mercy, so we do not become weary. 2 But we have renounced the secrets of shame, not walking inside of selfish or evil works nor ensnaring or corrupting the word of God. We are making the truth visible and are establishing ourselves towards all the consciousness of men inside the presence of God. 3 If our gospel is veiled, however, it is veiled to those who are perishing. • 4 The god of this age has blinded the inward minds of those who will not believe so that they do not shine forth the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. • 6 For the God who said, “Out of darkness light shall shine” (Genesis 1:3), this same God shines inside our hearts towards the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God as the face and presence of Jesus Christ. • 7 For we have this treasure inside of earthen vessels, so that the surpassing beyond-ness of the power may be of God and not of us [e].

8 We are being hard pressed in every way, but not restricted; being at a loss, but not being utterly at a loss. 9 We are always being put to flight, but not being left behind; being cast down, but not being utterly cast down. • 10 We are always carrying the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus should also become visible inside of our body. 11 For we the living are always being traded into death through Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be made visible inside of our dying flesh. 12 So then, death [the one death of Jesus] energeoes inside of us, but life energeoes inside of you.

• 13 Possessing the same Spirit of faith, then, according to what was written: “I believed, therefore I have spoken” (Psalm 116:10), we also believe and therefore speak, 14 recognizing that the One who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up together with Jesus and will prove us and cause us to stand together with you. • 15 For all things are through you, so that grace having abounded more and more through the Eucharist, the thanksgiving, the speaking of good grace, may increase and abound into the glory of God.

• 16 Therefore we do not become weary or lose heart; but if our outward man is decaying, yet our inner man [our inner self] is being renewed as the completing of a process, day by day. • 17 For our momentary and easy to bear pressure of travail within and without is working out for us a far surpassing beyond-ness into far surpassing beyond-ness [d]. • 18 We are not looking at or regarding the things that are seen [by outward appearance], but we are looking at and regarding the things that are not being seen [the substance of God]. For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are age-unfolding.

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Definition: Image means the visible representation and dwelling place of an invisible spirit. Jesus as a human was that Image of the Father inside of creation, and He makes us to be like Himself. But the Church together is God’s dwelling place, for to see Christians loving one another is to see God. • Kingdom: The Glory of Christ Jesus is His greatest achievement, rendering sin and death inoperative, restoring us to the Father, and making us like Himself. We celebrate that Glory as the Triumphus by believing that God through Jesus is telling us the Truth. We are the face and presence of Jesus Christ. • Ruling Verse 10: We know the Father, for He has sent Jesus into us, that we might live inside of Him even as He is inside of us. For this reason, we enclothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, for we are His face and presence made known. • Ruling Verse 2: The Treasure is Christ Jesus inside our hearts; the Treasure is being filled with all the fulness of God our Father. Yet we contain this Treasure inside vessels of weakness, for our earthly humanity is our glory. This is the only way God can be known inside of creation, that the power would be out from God and not of us. • Ruling Verse 5: Jesus initiates all that is Salvation towards us; it is He who comes into union with us first. Inside of intimate fellowship, Jesus trades His death for our death and His Life for our life. His goal is that we share with Him as the image and revelation of the Father. • Ruling Verse 1: God has already symmorphosed us together with Jesus as the image and revelation of the Father. Life made visible inside of and out from our dying bodies is the Father made known, for LIFE is knowing God (see John 17:3). • Speak Christ: We believe that God is telling us the Truth, therefore we speak Christ made personal as us. As we speak the sane Words that are Jesus (see Romans 10:8), so we know the Father through the same Spirit of faith. • Speak Christ: Eucharist, thanksgiving, and speaking good grace are the same Greek word – eucharis. The Eucharist is our sharing with Jesus in giving ourselves to the Father. Thanksgiving is bringing the Father into every moment and circumstance of our lives. And speaking good grace is Christ Jesus in our mouths through which the goodness of God enters our world. • Ruling Verse 2: Our human weakness is designed by God to be perfectly compatible with His unceasing power and divine personalness. We are made brand new inside as we know God our Father filling us with all of Himself every single day. This is why we are not distressed over our bodies tending towards death. • Definition: Death and all of its affects are visible outwardly. God our Father filling us with all of Himself is not visible to us or anyone else. The “invisible” to us is not something murky or esoteric, such as “divinity,” etc., but rather the Person of our Father. “Age-unfolding” then means our every next moment filled brand new with God, without regard to any outward difficulty or lack.	d. Paul is always exuberantly expressive, but we take his beyond-all, beyond-all, hyper, hyper-abundance, for Paul is seeing far beyond our present ability to see. - An unending excessiveness of the weight and substance of glory.

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Notes

• Definition: Image means the visible representation and dwelling place of an invisible spirit. Jesus as a human was that Image of the Father inside of creation, and He makes us to be like Himself. But the Church together is God’s dwelling place, for to see Christians loving one another is to see God.

• Kingdom: The Glory of Christ Jesus is His greatest achievement, rendering sin and death inoperative, restoring us to the Father, and making us like Himself. We celebrate that Glory as the Triumphus by believing that God through Jesus is telling us the Truth. We are the face and presence of Jesus Christ.

• Ruling Verse 10: We know the Father, for He has sent Jesus into us, that we might live inside of Him even as He is inside of us. For this reason, we enclothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, for we are His face and presence made known.

• Ruling Verse 2: The Treasure is Christ Jesus inside our hearts; the Treasure is being filled with all the fulness of God our Father. Yet we contain this Treasure inside vessels of weakness, for our earthly humanity is our glory. This is the only way God can be known inside of creation, that the power would be out from God and not of us.

• Ruling Verse 5: Jesus initiates all that is Salvation towards us; it is He who comes into union with us first. Inside of intimate fellowship, Jesus trades His death for our death and His Life for our life. His goal is that we share with Him as the image and revelation of the Father.

• Ruling Verse 1: God has already symmorphosed us together with Jesus as the image and revelation of the Father. Life made visible inside of and out from our dying bodies is the Father made known, for LIFE is knowing God (see John 17:3).

• Speak Christ: We believe that God is telling us the Truth, therefore we speak Christ made personal as us. As we speak the sane Words that are Jesus (see Romans 10:8), so we know the Father through the same Spirit of faith.

• Speak Christ: Eucharist, thanksgiving, and speaking good grace are the same Greek word – eucharis. The Eucharist is our sharing with Jesus in giving ourselves to the Father. Thanksgiving is bringing the Father into every moment and circumstance of our lives. And speaking good grace is Christ Jesus in our mouths through which the goodness of God enters our world.

• Ruling Verse 2: Our human weakness is designed by God to be perfectly compatible with His unceasing power and divine personalness. We are made brand new inside as we know God our Father filling us with all of Himself every single day. This is why we are not distressed over our bodies tending towards death.

• Definition: Death and all of its affects are visible outwardly. God our Father filling us with all of Himself is not visible to us or anyone else. The “invisible” to us is not something murky or esoteric, such as “divinity,” etc., but rather the Person of our Father. “Age-unfolding” then means our every next moment filled brand new with God, without regard to any outward difficulty or lack.

d. Paul is always exuberantly expressive, but we take his beyond-all, beyond-all, hyper, hyper-abundance, for Paul is seeing far beyond our present ability to see. - An unending excessiveness of the weight and substance of glory.