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The Promises of God: Part CCLXXVII
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Aug 08, 2025
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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men. II Corinthians 3:1,2
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men. II Corinthians 3:1,2
The word “epistle” comes from the Greek word epistolé, which means “letter,” “message,” or “dispatch.” In Hebrew, the word is iggerah, also meaning “letter” and mainly used for missives—long, official, formal letters, usually from someone in an important capacity.
The apostle Paul explains how we are epistles and how we are read by all people. Before salvation we are blank canvases with nothing to see or read, a blank sheet of paper, but as the Spirit works within us producing the nature and character of God, men begin to see a letter written in our flesh, illustrating the works of God in us.
Jesus took twelve men and wrote much in them to be seen by men, and for three and a half years, He gave the world a divine novel to be read and to be duplicated in those whom they had written their epistles. The result was the church of the living God and the New Testament!
Clearly, you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. II Corinthians 3:3
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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