How Can We Be Comforted By God?

(2nd Corinthians chapter 7)

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When we finished chapter 6 last week, I closed by recounting how God had always promised us, even in ancient times, that He would gladly receive us as his children. The apostle Paul quoted from the book of Leviticus, and then from Isaiah, as he closed out what would later become the ending verses of chapter 6, when he wrote, “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people” (Leviticus chapter 26, verse 12), followed by, “Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you” (Isaiah chapter 52, verse 11). Paul ends with a third and similar quote, “I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty” (2 Samuel, chapter 7, verse 8).

God Picked the Apostle Paul for Some Good Reasons

See how the apostle Paul blended those three separate scripture quotes together, even though they were from 3 different books in the Bible written by three different authors? That’s because Paul, before his encounter with the Lord on the road to Damascus (from the book of Acts chapter 9), was a soldier of the Temple at Jerusalem, a member of the Sanhedrin (the Roman…