Sunday Sermon | The Stubborn Joy of Paul in the Corinthian's Repentance | 2 Corinthians | Part 12
Episode notes
Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 7:2-16. What we have here is a look into the apostolic ministry and the corresponding need of the church.
Apostolic ministry was unique and had a unique authority. Were the Corinthian church to reject Paul, they would reject Christ.
What the apostle Paul is doing with the Corinthian church is applicable to our churches today. As we involve ourselves in the concept of relational ministry, we grow in our love, intimacy, and friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Corinthians needed to repent. If at any point they stopped repenting, they would have ceased to exist as a church. A churches vitality depends upon repentance, which is only made possible through union with Christ. We cannot rightly repent until we are made alive in the Lord Jesus.
When the recognition of my sin causes me horror in that I have grieved a holy God and fallen away from His friendship, this is repentance.