The apostle Paul begins this chapter by highlighting the following words "our letters are you", written in our hearts, known and read by all men
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Certainly Jesus always tried to encourage in his disciples the attitude of the heart because He knew that the actions of men depended on the heart
In the heart is marked the fruits of man are good or bad and that is where all attitudes, determination and behavior that can be reflected in the world as open letters are settled
"Our letters are you" unlike the intruders who tried to discredit Paul and elevate themselves, Paul did not need a letter of introduction or recommendation, his legitimacy as minister of the gospel was tested with the change in the lives of the believers Corinthians
the Corinthian church was a sick church and with many spiritual problems of which Paul through the Holy Spirit could change
The apostle Paul did not need to make efforts to show the world and his enemies that Jesus was in him because with his testimony and life behavior was more than enough
We must be determined to grow spiritually and in the course of growth will come problems and there will be pain because we are contreñidos, modeled and educated by the holy spirit but we will be victorious as children of light
I want to make it clear that Paul's confidence was not self-sufficiency, but security in the sufficiency of the spirit of God, who floods life and ministry with power in the context of the new covenant
For this reason Paul makes the Corinthians see that we ourselves are letters of Christ issued by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stones, but on tables of flesh of the heart
In that way the leaders and men of God must depend on the spirit as the only source of wisdom and avoid building our ministry on the basis of preparation and human skills exclusively.
Similarly he talks about "the dead letter" means that the legal code of the old covenant causes spiritual death, because the law puts our limitations in the open without giving us the means to overcome them and only the spirit vivifies
That is why the apostle Paul warns about the danger that the word of God is literally ministered, and not as a life-giving word
The word of God is the one that gives life
The word of God is that it vivifies us, transforms us and converts us into open letters to the world and light of the world for the glory of God
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@mildreduh, that is the Christian's attitude to be light of the world through his actions, it is evident that we are "open letters to the world" we do not need to presume or say this or that because our actions and fruits speak for themselves.
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