Chapter 7

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7: • 1 Possessing now these promises, beloved, we should cleanse ourselves from every lack and defilement of flesh and spirit, completing devotion, bringing devotion to completion, inside of the fear of God.

2 Make room for us; we have wronged no one; we have corrupted no one; we have taken advantage of no one. 3 I do not speak towards condemnation; I have said before that you are in our hearts, into dying together and living together [shared symmorphy]. 4 Much is my bold speaking towards you; much is my boasting for your sake; I have been filled with encouragement; I hyper-abound, that is, I abound more exceedingly to overflowing with joy regarding all of our pressures [within and without].

5 Since we have come into Macedonia, our flesh has had no rest; but we are being pressed inside of all, conflicts on the outside and fears within. 6 But God, the One who comforts and encourages the downcast, comforted us by the presence of Titus, 7 yet not only by his presence, but also by the comfort and encouragement with which he was comforted concerning you, as he related to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

8 For if I have also grieved you in the letter [I sent], I do not regret it. Even though I did regret it, for I see that the letter did grieve you, if only for a brief time. 9 But now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved into changing your minds; you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer no loss from us. • 10 For grief according to God works [by exchange], changing the mind into salvation without regret [g]. The grief of the world, on the other hand, produces only death. 11 Be aware that this very thing, being grieved according to God, how much earnestness it has produced in you, and reasoned defense and indignation, much fear and longing, much zeal and vindication! You have established yourselves in all things to be pure and devoted in this matter. 12 So, even if I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered wrong, but rather for the sake of your earnestness to be made visible, which is for us towards you inside the presence of God.

13 Through this, we have been comforted and encouraged. For our comfort, or I should say, we have rejoiced even more abundantly at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. 14 For If I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not put to shame; but as we have spoken truth to you in all, so also our boasting to Titus became truth. 15 And his inward parts [emotions] are more abundantly into you, remembering all of your submission to hearing, how you received him with fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice that I am confident in you in everything.

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Kingdom: Completion is God having entered into appearance, now known by all, that is, the Kingdom. God has given us Jesus, written upon our hearts, Jesus, who makes us just like Himself, and with Him – Life swallowing up death. Our return to the Father is the devotion of our lives, cleansing ourselves from all else, that we might be wholly His. • Definition: The fear of God is the recognition that we do not use what God has given us for our own agenda, that we might control others. Because we fear God, we are not afraid of Him. • Definition: Repentance means to change one’s mind. Grief that fits God means going silent about self and entering immediately into all that is Christ (see Romans 3:19 & 12:2). To “weep over sin,” “before the cross,” is to remain in death.	g. The Greek word means “a change of thinking.” As such it refers to thinking by the mind of Christ, Christ as every Word God speaks, now our only life, versus the thinking of the mind of the flesh, good and evil, the “great struggle against sin.” Thus the modern concept of “repentance,” is often just a continuation of the false mind, weeping over sin, and not the mind of Christ, being led always in the celebration of completed Victory.

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• Kingdom: Completion is God having entered into appearance, now known by all, that is, the Kingdom. God has given us Jesus, written upon our hearts, Jesus, who makes us just like Himself, and with Him – Life swallowing up death. Our return to the Father is the devotion of our lives, cleansing ourselves from all else, that we might be wholly His.

• Definition: The fear of God is the recognition that we do not use what God has given us for our own agenda, that we might control others. Because we fear God, we are not afraid of Him.

• Definition: Repentance means to change one’s mind. Grief that fits God means going silent about self and entering immediately into all that is Christ (see Romans 3:19 & 12:2). To “weep over sin,” “before the cross,” is to remain in death.

g. The Greek word means “a change of thinking.” As such it refers to thinking by the mind of Christ, Christ as every Word God speaks, now our only life, versus the thinking of the mind of the flesh, good and evil, the “great struggle against sin.” Thus the modern concept of “repentance,” is often just a continuation of the false mind, weeping over sin, and not the mind of Christ, being led always in the celebration of completed Victory.