Study 10 From The Book of 2 Corinthians Is: 2
Corinthians 10
In his third section of the letter Paul has
specially in view the disaffected minority, who were being led astray by
visiting preachers, who were enemies of Paul and of the gospel. His desire is to destroy the influence of
these men, so that his visit, when it comes may not be one of strife and
conflict. In this chapter he twice refers to a charge, which his enemies made
against him (10:1b, 10), that while he might be able to write vigorous letters
from a distance, he was weak and ineffective when present in person. Paul
answers that he has powerful weapons at his command, and that the church in
Corinth falls within sphere of his God-given authority.
1. Consider Paul’s description of
his ministry as a warfare (verses 3:6).
What is the aim he has in view? What fortresses have to be captured, and
how is victory achieved? Have you known in your own experience (a) of lawless
elements in your own thought-life brought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, and (b) of winning such victories for Christ in the thought-life of
others?
2. What does Paul claim for himself
in verses 7:16, and what hope for future service does express? Cf. Rom. 12:3;
15:18-24. What is the only form of
commendation in which he is interested?
Note. Verse 16. ‘Done in another’s field’: an
allusion to those who came to a church already founded by someone else, to make
mischief there.
