Ministry Of The Weight Of Glory (2 Corinthians 4:13-18)
Rev. William L. Barron, October 11, 2020Part of the Morning Worship at North Greenville Church series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
There are three dimensions in our lives: past, present and future. Change takes place through our present. Even with physical decline through our brief life, we have a growing weight of glory. We see the certainty of eternal life, or resurrection life. We have hope in the glorious truth as the Holy Spirit testifies to our future resurrection. It is not a fuzzy event; it grows in clarity and impresses us with its cosmic certainty. We should focus not on our earthly retirement apart from practical factors; rather, we should focus on eternal treasures in heaven. We focus on the promise of the resurrection to the glory of God. As Isaiah teaches, this blessed hope renews our strength. Otherwise, we can become grumpy if we focus on the difficulties of this world, which are transient. We focus on the permanent, living now for the future and glorifying God today.
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| « The Ministry of the Death and Life of Jesus Christ | None | To Die to Self is to Live to Christ » |
2 Corinthians 4:13–18 (Listen)
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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