Lamoille Valley Grace Brethren Church
April 21, 2024

      • Hebrews 13:15NASB95

  • Forever
  • As The Deer

      • Matthew 5:2–12NASB95

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    Lying
    A pastor challenged his congregation to read Mark chapter 17 in preparation for his sermon the following Sunday. When he stepped into the pulpit a week later, he asked his congregation to raise their hand if they had done what he asked and read Mark 17. Almost the whole congregation raised their hand. After seeing the number of hands raised, he said that his sermon topic for today is about lying and that he was speaking especially to all those who raised their hand because, he said, there is no Mark 17 in the Bible.
    4 Actions

    I. Have a Clear Conscience (12)

    2 Corinthians 1:12 NASB95
    12 For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
    sincerity - sun//judge. Judge by the sun. When buying an item, customers would take it out into the sun to judge it more closely before they bought it. clay water pot. might have crack that the craftsman would fill with was. Only by looking in the light of the sun could you see the cracks.

    II. Be Transparent (13)

    2 Corinthians 1:13 NASB95
    13 For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;
    The church didn’t have to “read between the lines” in order to understand his other letters to them. His letters did not have a double meaning nor were they written in vague language. They were exactly what they appeared to be on the surface. He wasn’t saying one thing out of one side of his mouth and another thing out the other side of his mouth. When he told the Corinthians, “Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,” he wasn’t laughingly saying to Timothy, Sothenes, and Titus, “ha, ha, they need all the grace and peace they can get cause they are like the worst church that I have ever planted.”
    Paul wasn’t like that. Paul hoped that they would recognize that he really did care about and was proud of the Corinthians and that they would understand it completely. That is what the he means when he says understand until the end.
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    III. Think Eternally (14)

    2 Corinthians 1:14 NASB95
    14 just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
    One day when the Lord Jesus returns, we are going to understand how important we are to each other here on this earth. Here and now it is not as apparent to us that these relationships we have on earth are crucial to our relationship with Jesus. When we are in glory, we are going to be proud of the work that each of us has done for the Lord. You will be proud of me, I will be proud of you, we will all be proud of each other for how God has used us. Sunday school teachers will be proud of the students that they taught and how they ministered for Jesus. You will thank the Lord for the Sunday school teacher that faithfully taught you the scriptures.
    I have told you all before that it was my Sunday school teacher at the Grace Brethren church in Sterling, OH that led me to place my faith in Jesus. Her name was Mary and she was an older woman, who I am almost certain has gone on to be with the Lord. I don’t know any more about her than that. I don’t know that she lived to see me become a pastor and at 8 years old, I didn’t appreciate the truth that she was teaching me. But I can imagine that in heaven when meet Mary and hear of all the faithful years of sincere service that she had teaching me and other children Bible stories, that I will be so thankful and quite proud of her. And I believe that she will be very proud that one of her students went on to become a pastor and plant a church in Morrisville, VT. And if you have been blessed by my ministry as your pastor, I believe that you will be proud of Mary too since she played an important part in making me the pastor I am today.
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    IV. Be Confident (15-16)

    2 Corinthians 1:15 NASB95
    15 In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;
    2 Corinthians 1:16 NASB95
    16 that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea.
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    The accusation against Paul was that he said he was going to travel to Corinth but he changed his plans.
    1 Corinthians 16:5–6 NASB95
    5 But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia; 6 and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.
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    Whoever this group was that was trying to discredit Paul was laying a serious charge against him. You can hear, through Paul’s defence, them complaining against Paul saying that if he was really an apostle and was in God’s will, he wouldn’t need to change his plans. So, because he is untrustworthy in his word about this, he must not be an apostle and his message that he preaches is not true either. Whoa!
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      • 2 Corinthians 1:12NASB95

      • 2 Corinthians 1:13NASB95

      • 2 Corinthians 1:14NASB95

      • 2 Corinthians 1:15NASB95

      • 2 Corinthians 1:16NASB95

      • 1 Corinthians 16:5–6NASB95

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Lamoille Valley Grace Brethren Church
pastorethan@lvgbc.net
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http://www.lvgbc.net
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