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NASB | 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as Christ's sufferings are ours in abundance [as they overflow to His followers], so also our comfort [our reassurance, our encouragement, our consolation] is abundant through Christ [it is truly more than enough to endure what we must]. |
Subject: 2 Corinthians- What is 'suffering' |
Bible Note: "affliction" Where do you see the word 'affliction' in 2 Corinthians 12? I see 'messenger(angel) from Satan).'affliction' and 'messenger' are not synominous. Again...affliction as in 2 Corinthians 2:1 means persecutions, hardships and trouble. Messenger is interpreted (angel) and in this cas Satanic angel. "Now that was Paul’s estimate of the situation. God didn’t tell him that He gave him that to keep him humble, but Paul was a man who was prone to brag and boast. Therefore he took it upon himself to believe all of this that was coming upon him was going to help him to stay humble.”[3] Scripture does not bear this out either... Scripture says God allowed the messenger(angel) from Satan to stay to keep Paul humble. "'Paul learned to be content with this abiding affliction, for the Lord taught him that at the very moment that he was weakest in himself, the power of the Lord would be most evident through him, bringing glory to God rather than Paul (verses 9, 10). This lesson desperately needs to be learned by many who are being influenced by the false unlimited healing/prosperity doctrines today." Again you use the word 'afliction' and it is not in this context and to take it a step further, it can't BE used in this context. As for the rest of your statement, this truth is bore out in the scriptures where Paul said "I die daily" meaning his will diminishes as He allows God's will to dominate and is a predominate teaching with some of the attacked teachers. "JESUS IS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD. GOD'S WORD MUST BE FINAL AUTHORITY. GOD'S WORD IS IS WILL. GOD'S WORD MUST BE ACTED ON BY FAITH IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM GOD". In order to receive healing one must first believe it is His will to heal you. The subject is 'Does God make us sick to teach us?" "Is it God's will for me to be sick or deseased". And 2 Corinthians has been used to promote this doctrine...By inserting sickness with our little doctrinal pencil into the list Paul listed. And by penciling in 'affliction' in place of "MESSENGER (ANGEL) OF SATAN'. And by erasing the protion of the statement in 2 Corinthians 1...share in MESSIAH'S SUFFERINGS. Messiah's sufferings was NOT sickness and desease. And erasing the statement...share in MESSIAH'S comfort and deliverance. My prayer is that someone passing through will hear the truth of 2 Corinthians and see the falacy of using these scriptures to promote the teaching that God makes us sick to teach us and that sickness and the word 'suffering' used in 2 Corinthans 2:1 are not synominous! God bless |