2 Corinthians (Program #51) – Paul’s Vindication of His Apostolic Authority (6)
The church in Corinth was born directly out of the ministry and care of the apostle Paul. Yet later, many of the believers there were affected negatively towards him because the accusations of false prophets that had come into Corinth, in an effort to draw the church away from their enjoyment of Christ and back to the Old Testament practice of law-keeping. These ones claimed that they were the real apostles and that their knowledge and gifts far surpassed those of Paul’s. So because many in the church were confused and no one stood up for Paul to make his case, Paul himself was compelled in the final chapters of this book to make his own “boast ” and to defend his own apostolic authority. What he revealed to the church in Corinth in chapter 12 is some of the most remarkable speaking in all of the New Testament, for Paul himself tells of the incredible and mysterious vision that the Lord had permitted him to see in an effort to rescue the Corinthians.
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