Let Down - Caught Up

Paul's rivals gloried in the things that made them look better and more important in order to impress those around them. Paul, instead, gloried in the things that made him look weak in the flesh so that the power of God would rest on him, and that God alone would get the glory for what was accomplished through him.-In the passage before us, Paul used two opposing experiences to demonstrate his point. The first at the beginning of his ministry in which he was let down, literally and psychologically, and the second when he was taken into the very throne room of God.