2 Corinthians 2:5-17 | Captives to Grace

Sermon Notes

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe

04 | 2 Corinthians 2:5-17 | Captives to Grace

**1. DISCIPLINE IS GRACE AT WORK IN THE BODY

1. CAPTIVES TO GRACE**

2 Corinthians 7:5–7
For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

1 Corinthians 12:26
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

Hebrews 12:7–8
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

NIV App
Satan’s “schemes” revolve around destroying the mutual acceptance and forgiveness that is to characterize God’s people, since they are the evidence of God’s redeeming work in Christ and of the unity of the Spirit that it creates.

David Garland
Paul pictures himself as a previously defeated enemy of God being led in a triumph that reveals and heralds God’s majesty and power.