2 Corinthians 6:1-5 St Paul from the Trenches 1916 (GWC)

1. This reconciliation and salvation is not for some hypothetical future. To think that is so is to take it in vain.

2. It is for now, it is here. “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, in a day of salvation have I helped thee” (Is. xlix. 8). What is that “acceptable time,” that “day” but the day which has now dawned on us?

3. and if we are its servants and ministers, we must show it in our lives.

4. If we are the servants of God, we shall abound in all good at all times, so that that service shall commend itself inevitably to all men. No amount of endurance, troubles, difficulties and dangers,

5. yes, not even punishment, imprisonment, scourging, and riots of the people, no labour, no hunger,

12-13. and shown me yourselves and your destiny in a larger room, in a grand perspective — free from all the cavil and pettiness of the world's slander. Now do the same for me, my brethren. O grasp the secret of my purpose, the breadth of my career and vision; behold its vast import, and do not lay upon yourselves the cruel limitations of the world's misapprehension and deceit and slander. Away with all that!

2 Corinthians 6