Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host.

I'm here with John, by the way. Hey, John, we've been studying first Corinthians and second

Corinthians for a while now. What have you learned from Paul and these Corinthians saints?

Well, I actually got to go to Corinth once and it was so fun to hear kind of the backstory of

that place on the isthmus that had so much commerce and travel and everything and you kind

of get a sense of this was a real gathering place for a lot of people and for travelers and a lot

of worldliness there. And so when you read what Paul's addressing, you're like, yep, yep,

when you see that. So I'm excited to see how he finishes in this second letter.

I've noticed that Paul has a lot of interaction with these Corinthians saints. He spent 18 months

with them as we learned in the book of Acts. And then the back and forth with these letters,

there's a letter that we're told is there, but we don't have. There's also what Paul calls a

painful visit. This back and forth seems to me like a friendship almost it has ups and downs.

It's, I love you. What are you doing? I love you. I got a, we got to address some problems.

John, we have a Bible expert here with us today. He wouldn't call himself a Bible

expert, but I think he is. His name is Dr. Joseph Spencer. I like to call him Joe. Joe,

what are we looking forward to today with the last lesson here in Corinthians?

There's a lot here. We'll be looking at really kind of two blocks of text,

a couple of chapters in which Paul is talking about a collection that's being gathered for

the saints in Jerusalem. There's some interesting things to dig into there. But then especially

the last four chapters here, kind of Paul's parting words to the Corinthians saints, at least

by way of letter and some really beautiful teachings about weakness and grace. So lots,

lots we can play around with today. This sounds fantastic. Sounds like we're going to learn a lot.

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