Second Corinthians Chapter 1:1-11
Outline: I.
Greeting: 1:1-2
II.
Gratitude for God's comfort in affliction: 1:3-7
III.
Deliverance from the affliction In Asia: 1:8-11
IV.
Paul's sincerity: 1:12-14
V.
Change of plans explained: 1:15-24
2 Corinthians 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia” “Through the will of God”: “Paul's apostleship is not something vague and mystically ill-defined. Further, Paul's apostleship is not something derived from man. The apostolate, as K.H. Rengstorf says, ‘Is not an office created by the community or a synonym for its leaders, but an appointment of Jesus’” (Hughes pp. 2-3). See Galatians 1:1,11-12; Acts 9:15-16; 22:14-15; 26:16-18. This first phrase gets to the heart of the epistle, because there existed in Corinth a minority who rejected Paul's status as a legitimate apostle. 1