Title: Do not receive grace in vain
Contents ? Do not receive grace in vain
This is not the Age of Law, but the Age of Grace, so if you work hard, you can receive as much grace as you put in your efforts. You can receive grace through singing, praying, reading the Bible and preaching. Even if you receive grace in abundance like the mountain, like the sea, pouring it out is like catching a crab and throwing it into the water.
Verse 2: After receiving grace, we must use that strength to accomplish salvation through sanctification.
Verses 3-6: Paul shares in the sufferings of Christ.
When Christ died on the cross, He did a great and great work of saving all people. Paul also shared in the sufferings of Christ. The Lord said that if anyone would come after me, he must take up his cross and follow him, 2 Corinthians 4:10, what he carried on Jesus, he said, take up his cross, and Galatians 6:14, saying that I bear the cross to the world and the world to me bear the cross. You must take up the cross and die. All the flesh must be completely killed on the cross. Paul died daily on the cross at 1 Corinthians 15:31. Galatians 4:14, like Christ Jesus, and as an angel, we were received like an angel. I hope that all of us will die and wherever we go, we will be treated like Christ and angels.
Verses 8-10: As a deceiver, yet sincere; as unknown, yet famous; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich.
The rich can make rich. How can a poor man make many rich? However, it is the word of God that cannot be abolished, even if it destroys heaven and earth. Jacob crossed the Jordan with his staff only, but he went home to his uncle Laban and made him rich. Joseph served as a servant to Pharaoh's guard Potiphar's house, but he became rich because of Joseph. The reality proves that it is a first-class paradise country that has become a rich country with the help of God, and even though Paul wanted to go from Mysia to Bithynia during his mission, the Lord's God did not allow him, so he went to Macedonia. At that time, Bithynia was the East. There are Buddhism, Buddhism, and missions in the East, and because the culture is splendid and rich, I wished to go there and evangelize, but God did not allow me, so I went to the West and preached the Gospel. Even if we receive the blessing, we receive it purely, so that our spirit and everything will go well, and we will live a better life than in the East, and we have become a richer country.
And Paul himself, as one who has nothing, is one who has everything. Even though Paul had nothing, he had God, so I am in God, and God is in me, so that God's things are Paul's. Paul is like nothing, yet he has everything. Even if we are poor and have nothing, we pray that you will become the first and richest people in the world by serving God who is the source of all things and having only one God like Paul, even if you have nothing.
tidy up. Let us receive grace and do not pour it out, achieve sanctification and salvation, let our old self die like Christ and become like Christ and angels.