2 Corinthians 8:8-9
8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
Paul tested the genuineness of the Corinthians’ love by the example set by the Macedonians. This was not to judge or denigrate the Corinthians, but to further ignite a flame under their actions to follow good examples. He then points to the source of sincere love as Christ’s grace and example. The grace puts us all in reliance on Him and not our own ability or worth, and the example shows us real riches come from His infinite resources given to us as poor beggars looking for even one crumb to fall to us. Jesus gave up all as a man while still possessing the entire universe as the Son of God. He became a poor one as we are in order to share His riches through undeserved and unobtainable grace (though obtainable when freely given by Him to us by faith).
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