The Great Exchange

St. Paul’s ministry among the Corinthians has been compelled by Christ’s love. He has died for all so that those who live would now live not for themselves but for Christ. We regard Christ and others, no longer according to the flesh, but in the light of the new creation Christ has brought. This is God’s work of reconciliation which comes now in the ministry of preaching, by which God makes His appeal to sinners. That reconciliation happens in the great exhcange that God works in Jesus. God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that we sinners would become God’s righteousness in Christ. Rev. Philip Hoppe, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Colby, KS, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study 2 Corinthians 5:11-21. “A Letter of Comfort” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the epistle of 2 Corinthians. St. Paul writes again to the Christians in Corinth to bring them the ongoing comfort of the Gospel in the midst of the attacks of false doctrine from so-called “super apostles.” He seeks to give confidence to the Corinthians—and to us—that the good news of Christ crucified and risen proclaimed by His called ministers will accomplish all that He intends.