2 Corinthians 3:4-6

Trust God. He is able to accomplish His will in your life. He is able to do abundantly more than you could ever imagine. His desire is to draw others to Him by your faith in Jesus. We are empowered by Holy Spirit to be doers of the will of God.

Salvation is a gift it was born out of Gods’ love for us. It was not free. it cost God the life of His only begotten Son, Jesus, to save ours. Grace is unmerited and underserved, having nothing to do with us but everything to do with  JESUS!! 

In receiving Communion we remember the sacrifice that  He made for you and  for me.

Matthew 26:28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Luke 22:20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

Jesus had come for sinners in need of a Savior… we also marvel at how Jesus came for people like us. Oh, what a Savior He is! First5 

So. Today.
I choose to speak the language of the heart.
To create. One choice at a time.
What about tomorrow? We can't control that.
What about reaction or public opinion? We can't control that.
What about acceptance? We can't control that.
There is no technique here. An invitation maybe.
Of course, in the end, we want to know... will this work? 

Sabbath Moments

“It is a risk to love
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does?”
(Thank you Peter McWilliams)

God, please release living water upon and through your children. Let us be sources of life and love everywhere we go. Max Lucado

2 Corinthians 3:4-6

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. The New King James Version

Paul contrasts the stone tablets, a reference to the law of Moses (Exodus 24:12), with the new covenant promised by Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Christ did away with the old covenant of the law (2 Corinthians 3:14) and brought in the new covenant with freedom. 

The coming of the Spirit is evidence of this new covenant and legitimizes Paul as a minister of the new covenant. Both of the passages Paul alludes to here include the covenant formula, “I will be their God and they will be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 11:20). At the end of his defense of his apostolic ministry, Paul quotes this formula as he encourages the Corinthian believers to separate themselves from anything unclean because they are reconciled to God. 

Paul answers a question he was asked. He points to God as the source of his qualifications; his confidence does not come from his own abilities, but from the power of God.

The law does not justify people; it only identifies sin and condemns (Romans 3:20; 8:2). Instead, people are justified by faith. Faithlife Study Bible

The Greek word for trust means “confidence”. Paul was convinced that Christ would make his ministry effective. 

Sufficient means “adequate,” or “competent.” Paul placed his confidence not in himself or his own abilities but in the Lord. This is the answer to the question asked, Who is sufficient? 

The letter is a reference to the old covenant—that is, the Ten Commandments written on stone. The letter kills because all break the law, and the penalty is death.  The NKJV Study Bible

The law of Christ was written in their hearts, and the love of Christ shed abroad there. Nor was it written in tables of stone, as the law of God given to Moses, but on the fleshy. 

Their hearts were humbled and softened to receive this impression, by the new-creating power of the Holy Spirit. He ascribes all the glory to God. And remember, as our whole dependence is upon the Lord, so the whole glory belongs to him alone. 

The letter killeth: the letter of the law is the ministration of death; and if we rest only in the letter of the gospel, we shall not be the better for so doing: but the Holy Spirit gives life spiritual, and life eternal. The Old Testament dispensation was the ministration of death, but the New Testament of life. The law made known sin, and the wrath and curse of God; it showed us a God above us, and a God against us; but the gospel makes known grace, and Emmanuel, God with us. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.