2 Cor 1:7 ¶ and our hope is steadfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.
Steadfast or confirmed; is an adjective that modifies the noun, hope or expectation. Much of the work of the Lord comes through our expectation. Expectation is a knowing that something is going to happen. Our expectations must be of such a nature that they are confirmed by us in the Spirit. Or conversely, our expectation in the Lord is always confirmed or settled once and for all. What we ask from the Lord we know that we get.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
This is the boldness of liberty that we have in Him…that anything we request according to His will, He hears ( present active ) God is continually hearing and acting
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;
were exceedingly burdened above our power/ transcendentally burdened beyond our ability in the flesh to do anything despaired even of life/ explicitly left without a way to go forward; no resources or abilities.
9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
A sentence: The official pronouncement, edict or decree or verdict of death that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, Trusting is in the perfect active. The perfect tense is an event which has been fulfilled or accomplished with ongoing results or impact. Our trust in God must always be in the perfect tense. So must be our expectation in God. This is how we receive from Him. but on God, who is raising the dead; who is raising the nekrous from where necromancy comes from. God is the master of raising the corpses who have died from the sentence of death.
10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
in whom we have hoped: into whom or into what we have hoped. Hoped is in the perfect tense. Whatever we expect from the Lord, the expectation must be in the perfect tense. The perfect tense is an event which has been fulfilled or accomplished with ongoing eternal results or impact.
11 ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
ye working together…by your supplication ( sun/ hupo/ ergo) together coming under for support in order to work.. by your petition. Our prayers come under a situation to offer support and to work in that situation. Hence the vitalness of our prayers.
that the gift ; the charisma or charismatic gift. What comes from the Lord as the result of our petitions is His work through charismas or charismatic gifts.
12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
For our boasting is this: the witness given by our conscience, which is; that in simple and singleness of devotion and in such purity that we become like clear window panes through which the sun can shine; not in wisdom which comes out of our fleshly efforts..but by the charismatic gifts of God; we have behaved ourselves in this world system
13 for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,
Acknowledge/ full and accurate recognition of a thing. This is how spiritual knowledge should operate. It should strive to recognize fully the Person of the Lord Jesus and recognize fully His will.
15 and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
and in this confidence I was purposing ; confidence, is a noun that is in the dative case. The dative is the case of location or instrumentality. Wherever an object is located at, or lives in, that environment will influence or be instrumental back upon that object. A cucumber located in vinegar becomes a pickle. The vinegar is instrumental in its changing it. Paul operates in this environment of confidence or hope.
I was purposing; I was counseling or deliberating. In the world of confidence, Paul deliberates. That a second grace or charismatic gifting…
17 This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?
Lightness; fickleness, instability, double mindedness and not following through in obedience.
18 and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached — through me and Silvanus and Timotheus — did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;
For the Person of the Son of God, Jesus the Anointed amongst you, and now through us having been proclaimed , did not become yes and no , but yes in Him has become ( perfect tense). This is a highly important verse. The Person of the Anointed who is proclaimed through our lives, as He is proclaimed, everything pertaining to God is always Yes in Him. This is an anointing coming out of the anointed. As we minister, our expectation is that Yes will be everything which God accomplishes through Christ as we minister Him. He has become the Yes of God. The perfect tense; The perfect tense is an event which has been fulfilled or accomplished with ongoing eternal results or impact.
20 for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
In Christ (The dative case) ; The dative is the case of location or instrumentality. Wherever an object is located at or lives in, that environment will influence or be instrumental upon that object. A cucumber located in vinegar becomes a pickle. The vinegar is instrumental in its changing it.
In Christ…. The Yes; In Christ …. The Amen or the “so be it”. This is the anointing carried by the anointed. This must be our level of confidence.
21 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, is God,
Making you steadfast, grounded and settled INTO your union with Christ; and from that union having anointed you. Two things here; God is continually through our obedience giving us a greater revelation of our union INTO Christ. Out of that union comes our anointing. Our union and the anointing of our ministry are from the One who has become the Yes and the Amen. Our ministering must come out of a faith level in which everything is Yes and Amen to the glory of God.
22 who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Having sealed us in the aorist tense. This is something like our past tense. A seal is a stamp of authenticity. I believe that Paul might have been referring that we have been approved to operate in the Yes and Amen anointing.
The earnest or the arrabon of the Spirit, is a down payment of something that legally belongs to us, but with the fact that there will be more deposits in the future. I can read this like this. Because God has given us a down payment of the things of the Spirit and has stamped us with the seal of authenticity we can now operate in the Yes and Amen anointing.
23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
And I call God to be a witness upon my soul… Complicated verse! The word call is really “ upon the calling”. This is the way to call upon God.. It is a focused calling upon God and for Him to show up as a witness on our behalf.
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