The Chapel Cleveland's Podcast

2 Corinthians 10:7-11 | Assessing Apostolic Authority -- Slides: Assess:  evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of. calculate the price or value of. VERSE 7 - Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.  1 Corinthians 4:14-16 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to a...

2 Corinthians 10:1-6 | Truth and a Pack of Lies Fighting For Your Soul -- Slides: Ephesians 6:10-17 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against...

Grace, Gifts, and the Gospel (2 Cor 9:12-15) | Let's Get Liberal, The Final Chapter -- Slides: Let’s review: - Generosity is a fruit of grace. (8:1, 6-7) - Our gifts are to be voluntary and according to what we have. (8:3, 12) - Gifts are to be administered wisely in the sight of the Lord and men. (8:18-21) - We sow what we reap. (9:6) - God loves a cheerful giver. (9:7) - Generosity is an act of...

Talking Tithes (2 Cor. 9:6-11) | Let's Get Liberal, pt. 4 -- Slides: Malachi 3:8-10 "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 "You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation [of you!] 10 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LOR...

Proof of Love (2 Cor. 9:1-5) | Let's Get Liberal, pt. 3 -- Slides: Why do we find it hard to give liberally? - A greater need for this grace in our sanctification. (8:1-2) - It feels forced/like legalism (8:3-4, 8-9) - A feeling that our gifts are insignificant. (8:12) - A lack of trust in God as provider. (8:15) - A distrust in leadership/administration of the gift. (8:20-21) Why do we find it ha...

2 Corinthians 8:13-24 | Let's Get Liberal, pt. 2 -- Slides: Getting liberal (from 1 Cor. 16:1-4 & 2 Cor. 8:1-12): - Is of one’s own accord  - Is according to one’s ability  - Was directed to be planned and regular  - Can be measured in ways other than giving money. - Is a “gift” of grace. - Requires understanding what we’ve received.    Romans 15:26-27 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to...

2 Corinthians 8:1-12 | Let's Get Liberal, pt. 1 -- Slides: 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7 You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do...

Easter 2023 | You Are What You Eat -- Slides: Why doesn’t the Gospel move me? Philippians 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is [their] appetite, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 Our mouth has spoken fre...

2 Corinthians 7 | Sorry, Not Sorry -- Slides: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 Now all [these] things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Chr...

Our Triune God -- Slides: We worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being. For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Spirit is still another. But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, equal in glory, coeternal in majesty. What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit. “Our Triune God is...

2 Corinthians 6 | Responsibilities of Grace -- Slides: Responsibility 1: Grace works. Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians...

2 Corinthians 5:11-21 | Compelled by Love -- Slides: 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God [sees] not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." Don’t be surprised when people think you’re a little crazy. Don’t be quick to judge the ones you think a...

Slides: For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, ... 1 Cor. 15:22-23 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:...

2 Corinthians 4 | Don't Lose Heart -- Slides: John 3:19-20 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. Some tools for ministry: - Prayer - The Gospel - A heart of service Don’t lose he...

2 Corinthians 3, Ephesians 5 | Spirit and Truth -- Slides: 1 Corinthians 14:29-33 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment. 30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted; 32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not [...

2 Corinthians 3 | Unveiled Glory -- Slides: The question is not, “Am I called?”, the question is “Where and how am I called?” Romans 7:1-13   Romans 8:1-4 Galatians 2:19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. What is the role of the Old Covenant for those of us in Christ? - The Law communicates our need for a savior. - The Law communicates Jesus’s love for us. - The L...

2 Corinthians 2:12-17 | Smells Like Victory -- Slides: We’re all subject to discouragement, even the apostle Paul. 2 Corinthians 11:24-29 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine [lashes.] 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. 26 [I have been] on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers...

2 Corinthians 1:23-2:11 | Co-Workers for Joy -- Slides: Matthew 18:15-17 "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. 16 "But if he does not listen [to you,] take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. 17 "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he...

2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4 | The Cynical Church -- Slides: Criticism #1: Paul took his word to the Corinthians lightly. Answer #1: Judge the messenger by the message and the one who sent it (and him). Does this mean that it’s wrong to question spiritual authority at all? Acts 17:10-11 The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagog...

Don’t Waste Your Suffering | 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 -- Slides: A little review: - Paul is dealing with being judged in comparison to the “super” apostles. - A major theme of 2 Corinthians: God’s power is perfected in our weakness. - Jesus comforts us in our affliction (suffering and sin) through His presence. Welcome to the priesthood! Philippians 3:8-10 More than that, I count all things to be loss...

2 Corinthians 1:1-4 | God of ALL Comfort -- Slides: Paul’s relationship status with the Corinthians: “It’s complicated” - Paul’s missionary visit to Corinth – Acts 18 - First letter – 1 Cor. 5:9 - Second letter – The book of 1 Corinthians - The sorrowful visit – 2 Cor. 2:1 - Third letter – 2 Cor. 2:3-4 (the “severe” letter) - Fourth letter – The book of 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 11:5 For I consi...

First Things | Ephesians 3:14-19 -- Slides: Absence makes fond hearts wander. 2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Matthew 22:36-38 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in th...

A New Covenant in Christ | New Covenant -- Slides: "The nature of God is to step closer to the sinner and the sufferer." (See Gentle & Lowly by Dane Ortlund) Scripture: Genesis 3:8, 21 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Matthew 1:18-23 1 Corinthians 6:19 Revelation 21:3-4

Jesus is King! | Davidic Covenant -- Slides: Christmas is the celebration of the faithfulness of God, seen in the birth of Jesus Christ. The Davidic Covenant: is unconditional, as is God’s love. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The Davidic Covenant: still holds promises for Israel. Ezekiel 37:24-25 "My servant David will...

Lawfull | Mosaic Covenant -- Slides: Exodus 19:5-6 “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”  Revelation 1:5-6 To him who loves us and has freed us f...