2 Corinthians 11:19-21

After accepting the gift of salvation we are no longer under bondage to any man. The truth of the grace He gives in Jesus Christ sets us free to be a willing love servant to the Creator. The Holy Spirit who is in all believers seeks to save the lost through our words and our actions. 

We need to share this Good News of the

 salvation He gives in Jesus 

Christ with the world that He so loves. 

Grace can never be earned because it is a gift of God through the death, burial and resurrection of the precious blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus. His Grace alone is sufficient to get us to our heavenly home.

The false apostles were boasting according to the flesh, that is, they measured themselves by their own standards rather than by God’s. 

Unfortunately, the Corinthians were listening to them thinking that they could earn eternal life though their own works and not through God’s grace.

2 Corinthians 11:19-21

¹⁹ For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise! ²⁰ For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. ²¹ To our shame I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 

1 Corinthians 4:10

⁴ And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), 

Galatians 2:4

⁹ But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 

Galatians 4:9

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 

Galatians 5:1