There are four things associated with the tabernacle that had a crown of gold.  The interesting thing about the crown of gold on each of these is that they are all representations of Jesus Christ. Ex 39:30-31, the priest that ministers to the Lord was to have a crown of...

Notice in 2 Cor 2:1-16 the balance of: Sorrow and joy – 2 Cor 2:1-3 – when Paul wrote to the Corinthians about what to do with the fornicator in 1 Cor 5, he was “in heaviness.”  He didn’t want to come to them in heaviness [v.1]; rather, he wanted...