DISCOURSE: 2005 CHRISTIANS ARE EPISTLES OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 3:2. _If are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2006 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S IMPOTENCY 2 Corinthians 3:5. _Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God_. COMMONLY as these words are cited, they are not easy to be satisfactorily explained. There is an evident abruptness in them:... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2007 THE LETTER THAT KILLETH, AND THE SPIRIT THAT GIVETH LIFE 2 Corinthians 3:6. _Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life_. IN the Holy Scriptures there is often incidentally intro... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2009 THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL ABOVE THAT OF THE LAW 2 Corinthians 3:7. _If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done aw... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2010 THE FUTURE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS 2 Corinthians 3:15. _Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away_ [Note: An equally good text for this would be, Exodus 34:33. “Till Moses had done... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2011 CHRIST THE SOUL OF THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURES 2 Corinthians 3:17. _Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty_. THE Scriptures are not sufficiently viewed as a _whole_. We are apt to take detached parts only, and to form opinions from them, when w... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2012 THE EXCELLENCY AND EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL 2 Corinthians 3:18. _But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord_. THE Jews, when compared with the heathen world, were hig... [ Continue Reading ]