Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you're doing our New Testament plan, you finished your 10th book today, and if you're doing the whole Bible, you just crossed off book number 49. And it's hard to believe, but we'll finish 17 more books

in the next 25 days. In chapter 10, Paul lets the Corinthians know that he's coming to visit.

He pulls a dad move and basically says, when I come back in here, your bed better be made. Don't

make me ground you. Paul doesn't want to ground the Corinthians, so he's like,

please, you guys, deal with your

stuff before I get there so we don't have to have any hard conversations. As if Paul's life isn't hard

enough already. Fortunately, he's not living in his own strength. In light of all the lies that

have been circulating about him in the community and with the other itinerant ministers,

Paul reminds the Corinthians that while he's not going to fight back

with actual weapons, he will absolutely wage spiritual war against those lies. Spiritual warfare is

waged with prayer and faith and truth and obedience. Through the power of the spirit,

Paul will bring the truth to light, punish disobedience, and even tear down the enemy's lies

about him and his ministry.

The enemy is accusing him of being all bark and no bite, because his letters are forceful,

but he's a big softy when he shows up in person. Paul's philosophy seems to be more along the lines of, I bark in order to avoid biting. And he's not barking in vain, he's speaking the truth,

which he lives out in front of them.

He hopes they'll all be changed by it, that their faith will grow as a result.

Because when a person's faith grows, the spread of the gospel grows.

As believers grow in depth, the gospel grows in width.

In chapter 11, Paul says something beautiful.

Remember, he's talking to Corinth, the most wicked

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