The Basis of Christian Encouragement
Audio
Delivered By
Pastor Vernon Sivage
Delivered On
December 1, 2024
Central Passage
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Subject
II Corinthians
Description

 

1.  We Experience Current Physical Decline but

We Daily Have Inner Spiritual Renewal – 4:16

  a. We don’t quit – 16a

  b. We are currently wasting away– 16b

  c. We are renewed daily – 16c

  

2. We Experience Momentary Light Suffering but

We Will Have Eternal Fulness of Glory – 4:17

  a. What do our brief afflictions produce? – 17a

  b. What will the mass of glory weigh? – 17b
 

3. We See the Short-Term Visible but

We Will Have the Yet-to-Be-Seen Eternal Glory - 4:18

  a. So we intentionally focus on the future – 18a

  b. So we wait with tingling hope – 18b

 

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

 

v16For this reason, we are not giving up. On the contrary, even though from the standpoint of our current physical existence we are wasting away, who we are on the inside is being renewed day after day.

v17For our momentary, light bundle of affliction produces for us—in a way both breathtaking and immeasurable—an eternal tonnage of glory.

v18This is why we are not paying special attention to the things that are seen, but rather the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are here today and gone tomorrow, but the things that are unseen are eternal.