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Free­dom 2 — Life Behind the Veil (; 2 Cor­inthi­ans 3:1 – 18)

John Robertson, June 19, 2011

Part of the Free­dom — Liv­ing in the Spirit series, preached at a Sunday Morn­ing ser­vice

Pas­tor John Robertson con­tin­ues the new ser­mon series “Free­dom — Liv­ing in the Spirit” with this mes­sage from 2 Cor­inthi­ans 3 — Life Behind the Veil.

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2 Cor­inthi­ans 3 

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.

4 Such is the con­fid­ence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are suf­fi­cient in ourselves to claim any­thing as com­ing from us, but our suf­fi­ciency is from God, 6 who has made us com­pet­ent to be min­is­ters of a new cov­en­ant, not of the let­ter but of the Spirit. For the let­ter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

7 Now if the min­istry of death, carved in let­ters on stone, came with such glory that the Israel­ites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8 will not the min­istry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9 For if there was glory in the min­istry of con­dem­na­tion, the min­istry of right­eous­ness must far exceed it in glory. 10 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that sur­passes it. 11 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is per­man­ent have glory.

12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israel­ites might not gaze at the out­come of what was being brought to an end. 14 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old cov­en­ant, that same veil remains unlif­ted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is free­dom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, behold­ing the glory of the Lord, are being trans­formed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (ESV)