Chapter 6

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6:1 As synergeoing [with God], we also encourage you not to receive or welcome the grace of God into emptiness. • 2 For He says: “In an acceptable season of opportunity, I listened to you, and inside a day of salvation, I helped you” (Isaiah 49:8). Behold, now is the season of favor and of good welcome; behold now is the day of salvation.

3 We are placing nothing, no obstacle for anyone, so that the ministry [of reconciliation] should not be faulted. 4 Rather in everything, we are establishing ourselves as God’s servants and ministry, inside of great endurance, inside of the pressures of travail, inside of compelling need, inside of great difficulties, 5 inside of beatings, inside of imprisonments, inside of riots, inside of toil, inside of sleeplessness, inside of fasting; 6 inside of purity, inside of knowledge, inside of longsuffering, inside of kindness; inside of the Devoted Spirit, inside of genuine love; 7 inside of truthful word, inside of the power of God; through the instruments of just approval to the right hand and to the left; 8 through glory and disgrace, through bad report and good report. We are as deceivers leading astray, and yet true; 9 as being not-known and yet being exactly known and acknowledged; as dying, and yet look and see – we live; as being disciplined, and yet not being put in danger of death; 10 as being distressed, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

11 Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged. 12 You are not limited or restrained in us, you are limited and restrained, however, in your own inward parts and emotions. • 13 Now, as if I speak to children: Be enlarged also to the same degree that we are enlarged.

14 Do not become unequally yoked to unbelievers; for what partnership has just approval and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light towards darkness? 15 What harmony or agreement has Christ with vile wickedness, that is, with Satan? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 What alliance has the temple of God together with idols? • For we are the living temple of God, as God has said, “I will dwell inside of them, and I will walk about among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people” (Ezekiel 37:26-27). • 17 Therefore, “Come out from the midst of them and be separate and marked off by boundaries,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing impure, and I will welcome and receive you (Isaiah 52:11). 18 And I will be Father into you, and you will be sons and daughters into Me,” says the Lord All-Carrying (2 Samuel 7:14).

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Definition: What an opportunity we have been given TODAY! Today we are made like Jesus, today we are filled with all of God inside vessels of weakness. Salvation is what happens today. Putting God’s Salvation off to some future day “in heaven” is to “look and see God,” and to REFUSE Him. • The Form for God through Jesus: God fills our vessels of weakness, coming through us now as Salvation into our world. To give thanks inside of and for the sake of all, especially this present moment, is to welcome God as He has welcomed us; it is to be His Highway (see Isaiah 40:3-5). • The Form for God through Jesus: Inside of this season of Good Welcome, God is inviting us to be together His dwelling place, that He might fill us with all of Himself as Love, the Father. Given such a Treasure, we eagerly identify ourselves only with the Lord Jesus, our only Life, separating ourselves from all other identities and attachments in this deceitful world, that we might BELONG only to God..

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Notes

• Definition: What an opportunity we have been given TODAY! Today we are made like Jesus, today we are filled with all of God inside vessels of weakness. Salvation is what happens today. Putting God’s Salvation off to some future day “in heaven” is to “look and see God,” and to REFUSE Him.

• The Form for God through Jesus: God fills our vessels of weakness, coming through us now as Salvation into our world. To give thanks inside of and for the sake of all, especially this present moment, is to welcome God as He has welcomed us; it is to be His Highway (see Isaiah 40:3-5).

• The Form for God through Jesus: Inside of this season of Good Welcome, God is inviting us to be together His dwelling place, that He might fill us with all of Himself as Love, the Father. Given such a Treasure, we eagerly identify ourselves only with the Lord Jesus, our only Life, separating ourselves from all other identities and attachments in this deceitful world, that we might BELONG only to God..