Background: Sent from northern Greece to the saints in Corinth, fall 57 AD (3-4 months after 1st Corinthians)
Calling & Election
READ 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
What is an earnest?
What is an earnest promise for a sealing
to come later at the hand of God, refer to?
Saints Under Condemnation
READ 2 Corinthians 3:13-16 and D&C
84:23-27
Why was the veil placed over the minds of
the Children of Israel?
READ 2 Corinthians 4:4 and D&C
84:49-58
What effect does this veil have over the
minds and hearts of those who have it?
What is the antidote for this
condemnation?
READ 2 Corinthians 3:18
Different from the “dark glass” Paul
referred to in 1 Corinthians, what does this “glass” let us see into?
How can we endure His presence in glory?
Souls in Heaven
READ 2 Corinthians 5:1-4, D&C
88:15-16, D&C 93:29-30, 33-36, D&C 131:7-8, and Abraham 3:22-23
What is a soul?
What is a spirit?
Why did God refer to the noble and great
ones in Abraham’s vision as “souls” if they had yet to be born on this earth?
What is Paul talking about when he refers
to a “building of God” waiting for us in the heavens that we desire to be
clothed with again?
Reconciled to God Through Christ
READ 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 (including
JST)
What does reconcile mean?
What does reconcile imply?
What does it mean to be “in” Christ?
How do we make this covenant with Christ?
How do we know that we have met and are
living our part of the terms of the covenant?
What does it mean to be a “new creature”?
How can we be righteous enough to make
this covenant with Christ?
The real question should be: What does
the Lord ask me to sacrifice in this covenant with Him to become a new
creature?
What does it mean that God made Christ
“to be sin for us” that we “might be made the righteousness of God in Him”?
Feeling Godly Sorrow for our Sins
READ 2 Corinthians 7:9-10
What is Godly Sorrow?
What is the difference between Godly
Sorrow and remorse?
What is repentance without Godly Sorrow
and is this a problem?
Receiving Visions
READ 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
What does it mean to be not “in the
body”?
Why is it hard to tell whether or not he
was “in the body” or not?
Why are the words heard in Heaven
“unspeakable”?
Why does Paul share this experience if he
isn’t trying to boast?
The Thorn in the Flesh
READ 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Why was Paul given this “thorn in the
flesh”?
Why did the Lord not answer Paul’s
fervent and repeated prayer?
What is the connection between the “thorn
in the flesh” and being spiritually “gifted”?
READ TPJS 156:3
“The things of God are of deep import;
and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can
only find them out. Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation,
must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the
darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity—thou must commune with God.
How much more dignified and noble are the thoughts of God, than the vain
imaginations of the human heart! None but fools will trifle with the souls of
men.”
What is the big difference between
scholarly knowledge and divine insight?
