The Power Of Your Witness

You must know that your witness for Christ Jesus is powerful.

If you live in Him and for Him your witness is POWERFUL.

Eternity, for some, will depend on your witness.

In this day when so few stand for Christ, you stand out like a light on a hill.

You do not even need to speak, because your life speaks for you.

Listen to the apostle Paul:

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?

Or do we need, like some people,

Letters of recommendation to you or from you?

You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts,

Known and read by everybody.

You show that you are a letter from Christ,

The result of our ministry, written not with ink

But with the Spirit of the Living God,

Not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.

Not that we are competent to claim anything for ourselves,

But our competence comes from God.

He has made us competent—not of the letter but of the Spirit;

For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives LIFE.

Now if the ministry that brought death,

Which was engraved in letters on stone, came with Glory,

So that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses

Because of its Glory, fading though it was,

Will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more Glorious?

If the ministry that condemns men is Glorious,

How much more Glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!

For what was Glorious has no Glory now in comparison

With THE SURPASSING GLORY.

And if what was fading away came with Glory,

How much greater is the Glory that lasts!

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face

To keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away.

But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains

When the Old Covenant is read.

It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.

Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Now the Lord is the Spirit,

And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's Glory,

Are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing Glory,

Which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3)

Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry,

We do not lose heart.

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways;

We do not use deception, nor do we distort the Word of God.

On the contrary, by setting fourth the TRUTH plainly

We commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

The god of this age [Satan] has blinded the minds of unbelievers

So that they cannot see the light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ,

Who is the Image of God.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord,

And ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

For God, Who said, 'Let Light shine out of darkness,'

Made His Light shine in our hearts

To give us the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God

In the face of Christ.

But we have this Treasure in jars of clay

To show that this All-Surpassing POWER is from God and not from us.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed,

Perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned,

Struck down, but not destroyed.

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,

So that the LIFE of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake,

So that His LIFE may be revealed in our mortal body.

So then, death is at work in us, but LIFE is at work in you.

It is written: 'I believe; therefore I have spoken.'

With that same spirit of Faith we also believe and therefor speak,

Because we know that the One Who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead

Will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His Presence.

All this is for your benefit,

So that the grace that is reaching more and more people

May cause thanksgiving to overflow to the Glory of God.

Therefore we do not lose heart.

Though outwardly we are wasting away,

Yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an Eternal Glory

That far outweighs them all.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is Eternal.

(2 Corinthians 4)

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!