Pastor Vernon Sivage
December 1, 2024
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
II Corinthians
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.