Day 339 (2 Corinthians 5-9)

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- Article: How Can I Have Assurance of My Salvation? (GotQuestions.org)
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[@jennifermorrow9597]

Just found out our church is doing the Bible Recap in 2024! So excited!! This will be my 4th year!

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Yay!!!! ALLELUIA!

[@jeffstoudt3501]

Awesome, just about finished with my first year. Can’t wait for the start of the Old Testament! Wow! Excited for the OT…GLORY ✝️

[@lindacheek8600]

I have come to really dislike that verse about being unevenly yoked. I think of all the spouses who may have never come to Christ if not marred to a believer! Like mine...a man who was abused by the nuns in his church school for 6 yrs and couldn't understand why God would let that happen. But God used me as a vehicle to help him understand and he loves the Lord like no body's business! Praise God...we've been married 53 yrs!❤

[@kenz881]

Praise God for your husband coming to the Lord! As she says, it is not a command to those who are already married but a warning to those who are not. Things are always less painful when we follow his rules. Still, God can always redeem a bad circumstance, even when we fall short!

[@Not2daysatan]

I have many friends married to non believers. That verse does not speak to those married to a non believer. I believe it is a warning us to not be pulled into alignment with non believers. We have all experienced hanging out with someone worldly and finding our behavior to become wobbly. If you have not, that is Fantastic. But most people are not so strong as to not be influenced negatively. Praise God that you were a path back to the Lord for your husband🙌🏼 I pray regularly for my friend's husband to be filled with the holy spirit. God is working on them🙏🏼

[@agobonyoable]

That verse is more like insurance against being drawn away from the Lord by a none believer. Praise God that yours turned out okay. Others are not always that blessed. The emotional/physical abuse the go through is heart breaking. As the saying goes, better safe than sorry...

[@MoJoslin]

I think what you may be missing in your situation is two things. 1. The gratefulness of God working through your unequally yoked marriage even though you disagreed with His word or wasn't a believer yet yourself when you got married. 2. Understanding that God didn't need you to marry your husband in order for him to become a believer. God certainly calls to all and though He may have used your marriage to do His work, He didnt need your marriage to do His work. This is all assuming that you was a believer and following God's word but decided to disagree with the unequally yoked part of His word when you got married. Otherwise, if you were both unbelievers or both not following His word and making it important in your lives then you were actually evenly yoked in your priorities or lack of priority for God’s word but you responded to God’s call first which then made you unequally yoked after you was already married. (That is my situation) Someone who is truly out for the heart of God will have a desire to marry someone with that same desire. Because, as someone who is not equally yoked to a husband with that same desire can tell anyone reading, it is hard! It is hard to be moving forward and feel like you are leaving them behind. It is hard to be all you want to be in God when you have a spouse that doesn't have that same priority. It certainly does hinder! But God! I know He can work through this marriage and bring us to an equal yoke. But even if He doesn't, I will still praise Him with all I have!❤

[@georgeAreynoldsVI]

I believe this is not directed to people already married to unbelievers, but perhaps people contemplating such a union. I believe a person of great faith can, through love and the example of their life, bring a non-believing spouse to the Lord as you have done. Praise the Lord that I have been married to a woman who has grown closer to God as I have. We have been married 45 years, in February.

[@antoinettehereford8180]

2 Corinthians 5: 1-10 is such a great comfort. It reminds me that even though these earthly bodies will fade, and we continue to groan as we walk through this life on earth, we as children of God have an eternal hope and glory to look forward to! This world is not our home. In connection with the God shot from TLC, I think of a few verses from Psalm 119. Verse 67 says that before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I obey Your word. Verse 71 says that it was good to be afflicted in order to learn God's laws. Verse 75 is an acknowledgement of God's word being right and Hebis faithful in His affliction of us. God is faithful, even in our afflictions. Yes and Amen.

[@DonZimmerman52]

Embracing joy from affliction is far easier said than done, especially when that affliction was caused by evil. I do not rejoice in the evil itself, but I do rejoice that God has overcome that evil and perfected what is tragic. I’ll never be happy about what happened, but grateful for God’s healing and restorative power, knowing that it will lead to wholeness and reunion.

[@Chrisp765]

God’s grace overflows through His blessings. We don’t deserve the grace, but God gives it anyway. It’s what makes Him God

[@karenevans6035]

We are jars of clay and tents. Not very sturdy. But inside these jars and tents lives the mansion maker. Anyone who has the Spirit of God, death is a thing we pass through or step over. There is no greater reward than Jesus Himself. The expulsive power of a greater affection-when we love the right things, we won’t fall pray to loving the wrong things. If we love Jesus the most of all we will listen to what He says. God is sufficient for everything we need. We are to be a conduit of His blessings and allow God to give through us. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way- verse 11. We blessed so we can bless so God can be praised A unique connection between affliction and joy.-Verse 6:10- sorrowful but always rejoicing. 7:4 all our affliction, but but overflowing in joy 8:2 their abundance of joy and extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part Trials have a way of revealing what matters. They also reveal what matters to us and what is in us. The world and its trials may crack all jars of clay, but that is how the light gets out.

[@tpsooner7816]

Love the analogy of light coming out through the cracked jars of clay

[@simonamaurice5192]

Me tooooooo!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@deborahjohnson9962]

After weeks of trying to catch up, I’m finally back on track!😊

[@georgeAreynoldsVI]

I find that doing my reading very first thing helps me to stay on track. Only problem I have is sometimes my reading seems to “jump” to the next day, so I always double check this before starting my reading.

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Congratulations! It feels so wonderful to get caught up! Well done!

[@livinlovinlife1712]

Congratulations! I'm in the process of trying to catch up by the New Year! Unfortunately, life and caring for others wore me down and got behind. Blessed New Year in growing ever closer to our God!🙌🏽

[@valeriewhite2576]

Good morning Bible family 💯👏🏽💕🤗 Have a blessed day in His Presence ❤️

[@jeffandvikipendergrass]

2 Cor 9:8, "And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things and at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." This verse has shown up repeatedly for me recently, so it stood out today. I love the word ABUNDANTLY and the use of the word ALL...IN ALL things, at ALL times, having ALL that you need. 2 Cor 9:10-11, "Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion." Thisnone hit me too because I'm learning about bread and seed and believing God's promise to not only provide for my family's needs, but also for others through us.

[@user-oh8tc2yi9e]

Paul shaped his encouragement around a goal of sacrifice to the Corinthians. It is almost like the Holy Spirit used his words to transform their hearts. Even our own!

[@MarkDanielMiller]

"God is interested in giving to people who give, because the whole is for us to be a conduit of His Blessings" AMEN Tara-Leigh!!

[@patsymonk2959]

When you commented about the crack & the light… my memory jumped to “There is a crack in everything/that’s how the light gets in," memorable lines from Leonard Cohen's Anthem.

[@trinaboyd6998]

God bless all you work so diligently on these lessons as well as all who read them.Smen💯🙏💗

[@KM-lu7nh]

I have notes from a sermon on 5:10 regarding what happens when a Christian dies. 1) We will have an appointment we must keep. Takes place after resurrection of the body. 2) We will stand at the Judgement Seat. Jesus won't judge in anger but truth. 3) This is not to determine if we go to Heaven or Hell. We will be evaluated on how we lived for God in our Christian journey; works service, faithfulness. We will receive a reward(s) based on this.

[@disco9503]

It’s called purgatory

[@angelstinebott]

Good word! I pray to let the light shine through my cracks ❤ The legioner page about salvation leads to a 404 just fyi. Thanks for all you do 🙏

[@TheSteveBOliver]

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:1‭-‬10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ [1] For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. [2] We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. [3] For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. [4] While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. [5] God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit. [6] So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. [7] For we live by believing and not by seeing. [8] Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. [9] So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. [10] For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. [20] So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” bible.com/bible/116/2co.5.20.NLT

[@thatMimosaGrove]

When I was reading 2 Corinthians 6:10 - "as having nothing, yet possessing everything" - I couldn't help thinking of the now infamous words of globalist Klaus Schwab: "You'll own nothing and be happy." (That dude reminds me of a Bond villain! 😂) And later, when I read 2 Corinthians 8:14 - "your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need" - I was reminded of the Marxist slogan: "from each according to his ability to each according to his need." God has wonderful ways of meeting our needs, often through other believers. But globalism and communism are just counterfeits of God's ways. They may SOUND good - I always heard communism "looks good on paper" - but without YWH at the center, they will always FAIL MISERABLY!

[@linacarmelasardo8458]

Hé is where the Joy is; amen

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Amen Tara-Leigh Cobble!

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Hey Bible Readers!

[@elizyates]

2 Cor. 7:14

[@elizyates]

I meant 1 Cor. 7:14

[@rickwarner516]

Would love to see our church join the Bible recap I’d really like to see you at our Christmas party this year that gives me an idea because He is where the joy is.