1. An Honorable Ministry
2 Corinthians 8:18-9:5
Cornel Rasor, Pastor

2. 2Ti_4:12 But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
Act_20:4  And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Eph_6:21  But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.
Col_4:7  As to all my affairs, Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond- servant in the Lord, will bring you information.
Col 4:9  and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your number. They will inform you about the whole situation here.
2Ti_4:12  But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
Tit_3:12  When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.
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3. Trophimus:
Act_20:4  And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Act_21:29  For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
2Ti_4:20  Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.
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5. 1) to vote by stretching out the hand
appointed
Original Word: χειροτονέω Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: cheirotoneó Phonetic Spelling: (khi-rot-on-eh'-o) Definition: to vote by stretching out the hand, to appoint Usage: I elect by show of hands, choose by vote, appoint.
χειροτονέω
cheirotoneō
1) to vote by stretching out the hand
5500 xeirotonéō – properly, stretch out the hands to commission (send forth).
2) to create or appoint by vote: one to have charge of some office or duty
[5500 (xeirotonéō) literally means, "'I stretch out the hand,' thus expressing agreement with a motion, then, 'I elect by show of hands' [of popular vote]), 'I elect' " (Souter); properly, 'to vote by stretching out the hand' (practised in the assembly, so Athenian, Lucian, Plutarch)" (Abbott-Smith).]
3) to elect, create, appoint
cheirotoneó: to vote by stretching out the hand, to appoint
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6. 1) bountiful collection, great abundance NAS Exhaustive Concordance
generous
Original Word: ἁδρότης, τητος, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hadrotés Phonetic Spelling: (had-rot'-ace) Definition: thickness, abundance Usage: lavishness, lavish generosity, abundance, bounty.
ἁδρότης
hadrotēs
1) bountiful collection, great abundance
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin from hadros (thick, well-grown) Definition thickness, abundance NASB Translation generous gift (1).
2) thickness, ripeness, fulness, especially of the body
hadrotés: thickness, abundance
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7. Why did Paul not mention Titus’ two companions by name
Why did Paul not mention Titus’ two companions by name? Perhaps the Corinthians already knew who they were, or Paul may have wanted to heighten anticipation for their arrival by keeping their identities a secret. Paul may have sent three delegates to Corinth rather than one or two since his credibility there had been under attack. The anticipated arrival of three visitors would have also provided additional motivation for these previously slack Christians to complete the collection. One writer speculated that they may have been Jason of Thessalonica (Acts 17:5) and Sopater of Berea (Acts 20:4; cf. Rom 16:21).
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9. 1) praise, laudation, panegyric: of Christ or God
εὐλογία
Original Word: εὐλογία, ας, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eulogia Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-log-ee'-ah) Definition: praise, blessing Usage: adulation, praise, blessing, gift.
eulogia
1) praise, laudation, panegyric: of Christ or God
2) fine discourse, polished language
2a) in a bad sense, language artfully adapted to captivate the hearer: fair speaking, fine speeches
Cognate: 2129 eulogía – blessing. See (eulogeō).
Word Origin from the same as eulogeó Definition praise, blessing blessing (11), bountiful gift (2), bountifully (2), flattering speech (1).
3) an invocation of blessing, benediction
4) consecration
5) a (concrete) blessing, benefit
eulogia: praise, blessing
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10. He may give as a duty. He may discharge the claims of generosity but do so as one pays an account or sends a remittance to a tax-collector. It may be done as a grim duty and with such a bad grace that it would be almost better not to do it at all.
He may give simply to find self-satisfaction. He thinks far more of the pleasant feeling that he has when he makes the gift than of the feelings of the person who receives it. There are people who will give a penny to a beggar rather because of the glow of satisfaction they get than from any real desire to help. Such giving is in essence selfish; people who give like that give to themselves rather than to the recipient.
He may give from motives of prestige. The real source of such giving is not love but pride. The gift is given not to help but to glorify the giver. In fact the chances are that it would not be given at all if it were not seen and praised. It may even be that the giving is done in order to pile up credit with God--as if any man could put God in his debt.
None of these ways of giving are wholly bad, for at least the gift is made. But the real way to give is under love's compulsion, to give because one cannot help giving, to give because the sight of a soul in need wakens a desire that cannot be stilled. This is in fact to give in God's way; it was because he so loved the world that he gave his Son.
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