Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:1-3
A. The Gospel: Transformed into Christ’s Image: 2 Corinthians 3:16-18
– One Time Work is being born again (justification): 1 Peter 1:22-25, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Peter 1:3-4
– Ongoing work is being conformed to His image (sanctification): Philippians 2:12-13, 2 Corinthians 3:16-18
B. The Gospel: Granting Life’s Greatest Privilege: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, 2 Peter 3:18, John 17:1-3, Phil. 3:8-11
C. The Gospel: Living controlled by Christ’s Love: 2 Corinthians 5:11-14, John 13:34-35, 1 John 3:16-18
D. The Gospel: Establishing Life’s Chief Purpose: 2 Corinthians 5:15-21, Acts 1:8, 1 Thess. 1:6-8, Philemon 4-7