Text: Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:4-6)
Intro:
I. Paul’s reputation
First Criticism: 2 Corinthians 10:1
Second Criticism: 2 Corinthians 10:10; 11:6
Third Criticism: 2 Corinthians 10:8
Fourth Criticism: 2 Corinthians 11:5, 7–12; 12:13
Fifth Criticism: 1 Corinthians 16:1; 2 Corinthians 12:16–19; 8:20–23
II. Paul’s defense
Call & provision
Results
III. Paul’s message
The new covenant and our sanctification
Law without the Spirit
Law with the Spirit
Application 1: Competence
God’s call & God’s provision: Isaiah 42:6; 43:1; 1 Peter 5:10
Application 2: Remember the message
Boasting in our…