Beloved saints, I greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I earnestly pray that God will abundantly pour out the grace of the word upon each and every one of you who has taken this book in your hands.
This book is a commentary of the word that explains 2 Corinthians, written by the Apostle Paul, chapter by chapter from the perspective of the ‘gospel of the water and the Spirit.’
Not a single verse of the Bible is recorded in vain, and all the words testify to the gospel of salvation fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Therefore, in order for us to understand the Bible correctly, we must read it with the one gospel that pierces through the entire Bible, that is, the gospel of the water and the Spirit which Jesus fulfilled by receiving baptism from John to have the sins of the world transferred to Him, bearing the judgment of those sins on the Cross, and resurrecting from the dead. Only when we read under the light of this gospel will the word of the Bible be correctly unraveled, and the word will live and work inside our souls.

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The Background of Writing the Letter of 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians is a very personal and pastoral letter written by the Apostle Paul amidst a complex relationship and conflicts with the Corinthian church. To understand this letter, it is first necessary to look at the relationship formed between Paul and the Corinthian church, and the historical situation that led up to the writing of this letter.

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The Apostle’s Love Exhorting with Tears and the Shepherd’s Heart for the Joy of the Saints

“But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you” (2 Corinthians 2:1–4).

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The Letter of Christ Written Within the Saints and the Apostle’s Confidence Coming from God

“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; 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. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Corinthians 3:1–5).

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The Ministry Received by Mercy and the Gospel Ministry that Purely Manifests the Truth

“Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God” (2 Corinthians 4:1–2).

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The Hope of Resurrection that Longs for the Eternal Dwelling in Heaven Beyond the Tent of the Earth

“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee” (2 Corinthians 5:1–5).

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Do Not Receive the Grace of God in Vain, and Believe That Now Is the Day of Salvation

“We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.’ Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:1–2).

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Beloved, let us unite within the gospel of the water and the Spirit!

“Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one. I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:1–4).

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