2 Corinthians 6:1; Workers Together

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

The Apostle Paul emphasized that the gospel team spared no effort to preach the gospel to the Corinthians as Christ’s ambassadors. It is his prayer and earnest hope that the Word will find fertile ground in their hearts. It is his desire that the Corinthians would be established in the faith. The fruitful heart is good ground, good soil. The heart is basically sinful. The heart that is sanctified by God’s grace, produces fruit. 

The fruit here is spoken to refer to the fruit of the Spirit. Repentance toward God and faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ, the holiness of life and character, prayerfulness, humility, charity, spiritual-mindedness, these are the only satisfactory proofs that the seed of God’s Word is doing its proper work in our souls. 

Indeed, the exhortation is that the grace of God will bear the full extent of work in the lives of God’s people. Thank God for those who care for our soul’s well-being, minding that our faith will be established. Amen.