Raynette K. Weiss Ministries invites you to this bible study for your spiritual growth and your enjoyment.
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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
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Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
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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 of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
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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.
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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
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Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
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And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
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But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
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But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
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Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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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.
Summary chapter 3;
Discussing false teachers who have introduced themselves through letters of recommendations. Paul was saying that he did not need any letter of recommendation because God had blessed him due to his labors. As a result, Paul himself could appeal to them as the best proof of the God’s Word.
Closing Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, thank You that there is nothing I can do to commend myself to You because Jesus did it all on the cross, on my behalf. Thank You that by faith in His death and resurrection I have been declared righteous and have been brought into the family of God. Keep me from any legalistic leanings and give me discernment to identify and reject teachers and teachings that are not from You. I pray that my life may be a sweet aroma to my fellow believers and to You, and help me to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus day by day. This I ask in His precious name, AMEN.
Salvation Prayer for those who are already children of God and want a stronger faith, and those that wish to become children of god.
“Dear God, I want to be a part of your family. You said in Your Word that if I acknowledge that You raised Jesus from the dead, and that I accept Him as my Lord and Savior, I would be saved. So God, I now say that I believe You raised Jesus from the dead and that He is alive and well. I accept Him now as my personal Lord and Savior. I accept my salvation from sin right now.
I am now saved. Jesus is my Lord. Jesus is my Savior. Thank you, Father God, for forgiving me, saving me, and giving me eternal life with You. Amen!”
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