The Bible Study Podcast, episode 726. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the

book of 2 Corinthians with Chapter 11. Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We continue on with chapter 11 as

Paul talks about false apostles and then also talks about a little bit more about what has

happened to him. Chapter 11, I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes,

please put up with me. I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I'm afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and

preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the

spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it

easily enough. I do not think I am in the least inferior to those super apostles.

I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you

in every way. Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel

of God to you free of charge.

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you.

And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed.

I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any

way, and will continue to do so. As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the region of

Achaea will stop this boasting of mine. Why? Because I do not love you. God knows I do. I will keep on

doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under

those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ,

and no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

It is not surprising then that if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness,

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