Sunday Sermons from Penrith Anglican Church
Aug 30, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
Our gospel partner Michael Clark preaches from 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2.
2 Corinthians 5, this passage is essentially the Apostle Paul's defense of his life and ministry.
It's written to a group of Christian people in Corinth who owed Paul their very lives and yet who seemed to think very little of him and his lifestyle, judging by some of the things that they seemed to be accusing him of in the background.
He was timid when he was present with them and then very bold when he was away.
Paul had already explained back in 2 Corinthians 1 verse 12 that he wasn't trying to live like everybody else.
Instead, you can see here, our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience.
But it seems that people were saying, you are crazy, Paul, to be living the way you do, wandering around, preaching the gospel, getting beaten up, always suffering, getting run out of town.
Why can't you be a bit more like those nice, normal super apostles who kind of know how to speak and behave and much more sensible? So that what Paul is doing in this chapter is basically defending his whole approach to life.
It could be subtitled something like, why I'm not crazy to live the way I do.
And the reason he's doing this is not to justify himself or to get his critics off his back or anything like that.
It's because he wants the Corinthians and us too, who now read this letter, to understand the reasonableness of his lifestyle in light of the coming of Jesus.
So that we too might be persuaded by this example to think about life the way he thinks about it and so that we might actually live differently in light of God's grace.
2 Corinthians 5, this passage is essentially the Apostle Paul's defense of his life and ministry.
It's written to a group of Christian people in Corinth who owed Paul their very lives and yet who seemed to think very little of him and his lifestyle, judging by some of the things that they seemed to be accusing him of in the background.
He was timid when he was present with them and then very bold when he was away.
Paul had already explained back in 2 Corinthians 1 verse 12 that he wasn't trying to live like everybody else.
Instead, you can see here, our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience.
But it seems that people were saying, you are crazy, Paul, to be living the way you do, wandering around, preaching the gospel, getting beaten up, always suffering, getting run out of town.
Why can't you be a bit more like those nice, normal super apostles who kind of know how to speak and behave and much more sensible? So that what Paul is doing in this chapter is basically defending his whole approach to life.
It could be subtitled something like, why I'm not crazy to live the way I do.
And the reason he's doing this is not to justify himself or to get his critics off his back or anything like that.
It's because he wants the Corinthians and us too, who now read this letter, to understand the reasonableness of his lifestyle in light of the coming of Jesus.
So that we too might be persuaded by this example to think about life the way he thinks about it and so that we might actually live differently in light of God's grace.
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