Facing Trials, Finding God’s Glory! 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 2

When You Value God’s Glory Above All Else!

1. Never Lose Heart! 17

Even as the Body Decays, because Your Inner Man, Your soul is being renewed day by day!

2 Corinthians 4:1

We Have This Ministry of Life! From Glory to Glory!

We Have Mercy! Ephesians 2:1-12

Romans 9:16 So Then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

We Have the Gospel of Jesus!

We Have the Light of His Glory!

We Have this Treasure in Earthen Vessels!

2. You Will Know that Our Afflictions are Momentary and Light!

We Are: 7-10

• Afflicted (Pressed) in every way, but not crushed;
• Perplexed, (No Human Way Out) but not despairing;
• Persecuted, (Pursued) but not forsaken;
• Struck down, (Thrown Down) but not destroyed

We are Carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, Galatians 2:20

2 Corinthians 11:22-33 – The Trials of Paul!

1 Corinthians 4:16 I exhort you therefore, be imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Paul is at War: And yet His Perspective Is Great!

Finding Eternal Perspective In Our Life and Afflictions!

3. And You Will Embrace Affliction’s Purpose –To Produce an Eternal Weight of Glory far beyond All Comparison!

1 Thessalonians 3:3 so that no man may be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this. 4 For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know.

Romans 8:26-39 – Whom He Justified, He Glorified!

5. We Always Focus On the Eternal!

Prepare to Face the Final Trial! Your Death! Acts 20:22-27 “And now, behold, bound in spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. 24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God. 25 “And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more. 26 “Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 “For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

The Purpose of Your Life is the Course of Your Life, Finding the Course of Your Life is Finding the Ministry of Your Life!