Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Preaching Commentary

Inexpressible Things

This chapter of Paul’s Corinthian correspondence is rich indeed, revealing so much about Paul and his relationship to the Corinthian church, a church which he himself founded. But the importance of the gospel is the paramount theme that underwrites this entire chapter. At the top of his arguments was his highly credentialed apostleship that was reaffirmed and established by the overwhelming revelation he had received fourteen years before—it was fixed on his spiritual calendar! And he could talk about the event but not the “inexpressible things, things no one is permitted to tell” (v. 4).

The things were “inexpressible” either because the human mind cannot comprehend…