2 CORINTHIANS ~ Chapter 3
“Are we beginning to recommend
ourselves again? Do we need letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You
are our letter. The writing is in your heart, read and understood by everyone.
It is plain that you are a letter from Mashiach (Christ), because of our work,
written not with ink, but with The Ruach of the Living God, and not on stone
tablets, but on tablets of human hearts. We have such a confidence in Elohei
through Mashiach. It is not that we are competent of ourselves to think that we
ourselves can do anything good. No, our competency comes from Elohei. He has
made us competent to serve as ministers of the New Covenant. It is a covenant,
not of the letter (aka: of the Law), but of The Ruach (aka: the Holy Spirit);
for the letter kills – but the Spirit gives life.
The Law, engraved on
stone, served to bring death penalties, yet it came with such splendor that the
children of Israel could not look on the face of Moshe (Moses) because of its
brightness, a glory that soon faded away. Why should not the service rendered
by the Spirit have a much greater glory? For if the service of the Law,
resulting in condemnation, had its glory, how much greater and more glorious is
the service of The Ruach, causing justification? Truly, in this respect, that
which once had been considered glorious no longer seems to be glorious, because
of the new glory that surpasses it. For if what has been annulled came in
glory, how much more glorious is the present Plan, which is to remain!
And because we have
such a hope we speak with much boldness. We are not like Moshe, who covered his
face with a veil, which prevented the Israelites from gazing at the end of
something that was to fade. Their minds were hardened, so that to this day,
whenever the Old Covenant is being read, the same veil is still there, still
unlifted, for only through Mashiach can it be taken away. Yes, it is true that
to this day, whenever Moshe is read, that veil lies over their hearts. But if
one turns to Adonai (the Lord) the veil is removed. Now Adonai is The Ruach,
and where The Ruach of Adonai is, there is freedom. And then with unveiled
faces we can behold, as in a mirror, the glory of Adonai Yeshua. And we become
changed into His likeness, from glory to glory, through The Ruach of Adonai
Yeshua Ha’Mashiach working in us.”
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