I Corinthians 3:1 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.
As we saw yesterday, Paul did not want this letter to be like his previous one to the Corinthian church: pointing out all the problems in the church. He also was not coming to them with a high and heavy hand, making them feel inferior. He wanted to celebrate with them all the goodness of the Gospel. So, rather than come in and flaunt his credentials, he pointed out what really mattered: the souls of people. Paul wanted to focus on how God can and does change people through the Gospel, just like He had them. Paul goes on to focus on the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, doing what the Law of Moses could never do: free them (and us) from our sin and transform us into the people He intends us to be. When we focus on this we will never feel like we are being bullied into doing something.
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