{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Day","title":"2 Corinthians 6: Now Is the Time","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":955,"description":"(NRSV, 1989)1 As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says,“At an acceptable time I have listened to you,    and on a day of salvation I have helped you.”See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!Paul quotes Isaiah 49:8 from the LXX. Here’s the quote in context:“This is what the LORD who rescues you, the God of Israel, says: ‘Sanctify the one who despises his life, who is abhorred by the nations, the servants of rulers. Kings will see him and arise; rulers will also worship him for the sake of the LORD; because the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.’ This is what the LORD says: ‘I have listened to you at the acceptable time, and I have helped you in the day of salvation. And I have formed you and given you as a covenant for the nations, to establish the land and to allot disserted lots, saying to those in chains, “Come out!” and to those in darkness, “Be revealed!” “’They will be fed in all the ways, and their pasture will be in all their paths. They will not hunger or thirst, and the burning heat and the sun will not strike them, but the one who shows mercy will comfort them, and he will lead them through springs of water. And I will turn every mountain into way and every path into a pasture for them.“’Look! These people will come from afar, these will come from the north and the sea, and others from the land of the Persians.’ Be cheerful, heavens, and let the earth rejoice! Let the mountains burst forth with cheer, because God has shown mercy to his people, and he has comforted the low among his people.” (7-13, The Lexham English Septuagint)These verses from Isaiah are the foundation of Paul’s message to the Corinthians and to the Church. We work together with Christ to bring reconciliation to the world as Christ’s “ambassadors”. Paul tells the Corinthians that God heard their cries and has brought them salvation through Christ from the death of sin, and now they...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QuQW_cZXSsuBMOigLtAJwx1STWkIimOEzRB22DVXWLI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMwOC8xNTM2OTc2/NTk0LWFydHdvcmsu/anBn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}