Do you ever feel like losing heart when you try to tell people about Jesus and it just doesn't seem to penetrate at all? Paul felt the same as you. His answer in 2 Cor 4 is that the New Covenant is mighty and does win. God will out. Even if we aren't seeing the results we would like at the moment, it shouldn't shake our confidence, because our confidence is in the Lord not in our visible results.
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that is a great description of the New Covenant to finish on: grace that causes overflowing thanksgiving, for the sake of God's glory.
Read moreHoly Spirit-Empowered Preaching; 2 Cor 3&4
Any preaching friends reading this. Let's have a holy dissatisfaction if we have fallen into the trap of thinking that because we don't see a great deal of supernatural accompanyment to our preaching at the moment that therefore we shouldn't or that God doesn't do that today. Let's not justify our powerlessness on the grounds that we shouldn't expect God's power to be at work. Let's get on our knees - fall on our faces even - and beseech him. So that, like Paul, our preaching of the glorious new covenant in the Spirit might come:
not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction (1 Thes. 1:5)
Read moreThe Glorious New Covenant of the Spirit; 2 Cor.3&4
The New Covenant in Jesus Christ is far more mighty, marvellous, weighty, shining, hope-saturated, spine-tingling and just magnificently beautiful than the language I have to describe it.
Read moreGrace and Glory
All my friends think that I am like a broken gramophone record on the subject of glory and grace. I don't care. There is no other gospel. I search for words to describe the enormity of it and am lost in an ocean of wonder. Like a tiny sailing skiff dwarfed by the immensity of the panorama I am trying to contemplate. My heart was simultaneously filled, expanded, flooded and overwhelmed by seeing God at work.
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