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This is what God put on my heart last night.  It’s like buried treasure.  Why did I never see this before?

…clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written…by
the

Spirit of the Living God…on tablets of flesh…of the heart.



And we have such trust through Christ toward God.



Not that we are sufficient of ourselves…but our sufficiency is from
God, who
made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant…



…how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?



Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—

unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face…For until this day the
same veil remains unlifted

in the reading of the Old Testament,
because the veil is taken away in Christ.  But even to

this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart.  Nevertheless when one turns to

the Lord, the veil is taken away.



Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.



But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of
the Lord,

are being transformed into the same image from glory to
glory,

just as by the Spirit of the Lord.



Therefore, since we have this ministry,
as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.



But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence

of the power may be of God and not of us.



We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed;

we are perplexed,
but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken;

struck down, but not
destroyed–


For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake,

that the
life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.



..we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He

who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus…



Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet

the inward man is being renewed day by day.


(from 2 Corinthians 3 & 4)