Something Greater - "A Letter from Christ"

Something Greater – “A Letter From Christ”

2Corinthians 3:1-18

Vs 2: “You yourselves are our letter written on our hearts known and read by everyone”

A Letter from Christ (Effective Ministers of New Covenant)

Vs 1-3: “You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by

everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry…”

#1: The testimony of a transformed life is meant to be our g                         witness.

• 2Corinthians 3:18 “And we all, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory”
• God is more concerned with who I am than what I can do for him!  

Vs 4-6: “Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit.”

#2: The competency of the Holy Spirit to equip us for the w                   of ministry.

• Zechariah 4:6 “not by might, nor by power but by my Spirit says the Lord

Almighty”

• This witness can only be obtained by the indwelling Holy Spirit. 2Cor. 5:5
• No other and no greater power than the Holy Spirit to: empower, enable, and equip us;

Vs 8-10: “Will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!  For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the

surpassing glory.”

#3: The will of the Holy Spirit is to always lead us in the w                   of ministry.

• Philippians 2:13 “for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.”
• The culmination of God’s glory comes in the fulfillment of first being filled with and then led by the Spirit. Galatians 5:25

Vs 17-18: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is

freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being

transformed into his likeness with increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

#4: The Holy Spirit ever leads us in one purpose, to reflect the g                 of God.”

• God’s responsible to bear the fruit – my responsibility is to abide: John 15:8
• John 17:4 “I have brought you glory by completing the work you gave me to do”
• The first and the final chapter! 1Corinthians 10:31

The best possible life, the most glorifying life we can live is as a letter sent from Christ.