EFFECTUAL IN THE ENDURING
2 Corinthians 1: 6: And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. 7: And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
Focus on the phrase “which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.” God causes his preachers to suffer affliction and consolation. Also, God causes his children to suffer the same afflictions and consolation as his preachers. Our one consolation is Christ. So both the affliction, as well as the consolation and salvation, are made effectual in us by us each enduring the same affliction then being consoled by the same Lord Jesus Christ. What is the fruit wrought in us by this? God unites us all in a blessed oneness in Christ where, with one voice, we glorify God for Christ Jesus his Son through whom we behold God’s everlasting love, mercy and comfort toward helpless sinners such as we are. (v11)