Calvary Baptist Church - Canyon Texas - David Crump, Pastor

2 Corinthians 12:1-4 Paul is boasting in his ministry because the church in Corinth was listening to false teachers. So Paul has spent the majority of 2 Cor defending his message and ministry. Paul is talking about himself. He had a vision or was taken up to the highest level of heaven and saw visions and heard things that he could not tell. It must have been magnificent. 2 Corinthians 12:5-6 Paul says, he will not boast about it, but will boast in his weakness. We often cover our weaknesses and put our strengths out front. 2 Corinthians 12:7 We don’t know what Paul’s thorn was. Lust, enemies of the gospel, headache, ear ache, blindness – all conjecture. Maybe it’s better that we don’t know. Paul's thorn was given to him to keep him from being conceited. If Paul needed something to keep him from pride, don’t we all? It caused him real suffering. The term means harass, buffet, was used about a blow to the face. It was brought by a messenger of Satan. We struggle with this. The thorn was given to P