BIBLE STUDY Outline helps and questions for personal and group study
Searching the Scriptures
by C hester J. P adgett
2 Corinthians (continued)
The Believer’s Responsibility 1. What great privilege belongs to every Christian? (6:1.) 2. What did it cost Paul to be a faithful minister of the gospel? (w . 3-10.) 3. What plea does Paul make to the Corinthians in verses 11-13? 4. What appeal does he make in verse 14 gnd chapter 7:1? 5. How can a believer be sinfully affiliated with unbelievers? 6. What great privilege and respon sibility rests upon the believer ac cording to verse 16? 7. What action on the part of the believer is necessary if God is to have fellowship with him? (w . 17,18.) 8. What manner of conduct does God expect on the part of His people who have been made the recipients of such wonderful blessings? (7:1.) The Heart of Paul 1. What charges does the Apostle deny in 7:2,3? 2. How is the love of Paul for the believers in Corinth manifested in his words of verse 3? 3. What message had greeted Paul from Corinth through Titus when Paul was on his way to Corinth from Ephesus via Macedonia? (w . 5-7.) 4. What was the effect of Paul’s previous letter to the Corinthians? (w . 8-11.) 5. How had the church in Corinth received Titus? (v. 13.) Christian Giving 1. What action on the part of the Macedonian believers had so encour aged the Apostle? (8:1-5.) 2. In what sense is giving a “fel lowship” ? (v. 4.) 3. What is the beginning of Chris tian generosity? (v. 5.) 4. What was one of the reasons for Titus’ visit to Corinth? (v. 6.) 5. In what sense is giving a “ grace” ? (v. 7.) 6. What is the great incentive for Christian giving? (v. 9.) (To be continued next month.)
to account for the things done by the believer which are “bad” ? (v. 10; cf. 1 Cor. 3:11-15.) Persuading Men 1. Does Paul relate the “ terror of the Lord” to the judgment seat of Christ? (5:11.) 2. How does this truth of the judg ment seat motivate Paul? (v. 11.) 3. Of what did Paul wish to per suade men? (v. 11.) Note that he didn’t have to try to persuade God for He knew what was in Paul’s heart. 4. For what did the Apostle depend upon the Corinthian believers? (v. 12 .) 5. What criticism had some been levelling against Paul? (v. 13.) The Love of Christ 1. What other influence had been brought to bear upon Paul to motivate him in serving Christ? (5:14.) 2. How is the love of Christ dem onstrated? (w . 14,15.) 3. How is love for Christ demon strated? (w . 14,15.) 4. Before Paul came to know Christ as his Saviour and Lord how did he know Him? (v. 16.) 5. What happens to a man when he comes to know Christ, not just as a man, but as his Saviour and Lord? (v. 15.) The Ministry of Reconciliation 1. Who is the author of all spir itual blessings and every spiritual ex perience of the believer? (5:18.) 2. In what sense has the believer been “ reconciled” to God through Christ? (v. 18.) 3. What is the moral obligation resting upon every believer in the light of his understanding of the gos pel? (w . 18-20.) 4. What are the duties of an “ am bassador” ? (v. 20.) 5. Are believers indispensable to God for spreading the gospel? (v. 20.) 6. According to verse 21 was Jesus sinless? 7. How does God look upon the be liever? (v. 21.)
The Ministry: Not Legal 1. How is the sovereignty of God in salvation brought out in 4:6? 2. Why has God entrusted the gospel to men? (v. 7.) 3. What is the attitude of a true servant of God? (w . 8, 9.) 4. Is there a veiled sarcasm in verse 12? Is not the thought that these Co rinthians spend their time criticizing the Apostle while he in turn spends his time suffering and laboring for Christ? This statement is designed to shame the believers in Corinth. 5. What is the confidence of Paul? (w . 13,14.) 6. Although the body is wearing out, what should be the state of the soul? (v. 16.) 7. Why was it that Paul could look so light on the troubles and sufferings of life? (w . 17,18.) Physical Death 1. In what sense do we “ groan” in this present body? (5:2.) 2. What is the believer’s earnest de sire? (v. 2.) 3. What kind of “ clothing” do you think God will give the believer when he sluffs off his present body? (v. 2.) 4. What is the purpose of God re garding His children’s future? (v. 5.) 5. What assurance does God give of future blessing? (v. 5.) 6. Does the believer go immediate ly into the presence of the Lord at death? (w . 6-8.) The Judgment Seat 1. What is the incentive for making our lives count for Christ in this life? (5:9,10.) 2. What group of people is Paul talking about in verse 10? Saints, un believers or both? 3. How many believers will stand before Christ? (v. 10.) 4. What kind of a “ seat” is this? (v. 10.) 5. What will be “judged” at this divine tribunal? (v. 10.) 6. What does it mean to receive the “ things done in the body” ? (v. 10.) 7. What does it mean to be brought
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