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"We spoke all things to you in truth..."

Text: 2 Corinthians 7:14

THE COMMITMENT TO TEACH TRUTH

It was the Lord Jesus Christ who proclaimed that He was the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). All of His Apostles were committed to preaching the truth. Paul did not lag behind in his teaching of truth everywhere he was sent to preach.

“For if in anything I have boasted to him about you,
I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth,
even so our boasting to Titus was found true.”
2 Corinthians 7:14

1. The word “boast”

a) In the modern-day context this word connotes “pride or arrogance”.

b) This word in Biblical usage does not have this negative overtone.

i) It is sometimes translated as “rejoicing”.

ii) This word may thus be translated in a positive manner.

c) Paul’s use of the word “boast” in this context.

i) To speak glowingly.

ii) To speak well and with much joy.

2. “For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed”

a) Paul loved the Corinthian Church.

b) It began so well for the Lord blessed it with many spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 1:4-8).

c) Paul spoke glowingly (“boasted”) of the Corinthians to Titus.

d) He was not ashamed of how he spoke about the Corinthians.

3. “But as we spoke all things to you in truth”

a) Paul remembered how he came to Corinth.

b) He had taught many great truths to the Corinthians.

c) All things that he had taught were “in truth”.

4. “Even so our boasting to Titus was found true”

a) The Corinthians stumbled and faltered for a season.

i) This was due to the influence of false teachers.

ii) They had hurt the church at Corinth badly.

b) Nevertheless, Paul continued to believe that the Corinthians would respond well.

c) When Titus visited the Corinthian Church he found that what Paul had said earlier was true.

d) The foundations of the Corinthian Church had been well-established on truth.