2 Corinthians 7:2-16 | Joy in Proclamation and Repentance

SERMON NOTES

2 Corinthians 7:2-16 | Joy in Proclamation and Repentance
Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe

1. v5 - JOY IN GOSPEL PROCLAMATION
2. v8 - JOY IN GRIEF AND REPENTANCE
3. v13b - JOY IN THE COMMUNITY

Scott Hafemann
love is often painful and costly, full of risk and filled with self-denial.

John Piper
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Scott Hafemann
In our pluralistic, therapeutic, and privatistic culture, this kind of intervention is uncomfortable and increasingly uncommon.

Scott Hafemann
Worldly sorrow is the grief that comes about because one’s actions result in missing out on something the world has to offer. Worldly sorrow feels bad because it wants more of the world.

Mark 8:35–36
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

John Piper
… we should let this joy [of edifying others] free us from bondage to private pleasures that make us indifferent to the good of others. Love does not seek its own private, limited joy, but instead seeks its own joy in the good—the salvation and edification—of others.