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February 26, 1989
Does placing our faith in Jesus mean that we will be protected from trials and discouragements? The apostle Paul certainly didn’t think so! Instead, in writing to the Corinthian church, he provided a blueprint for remaining faithful in the face of adversity. In examining Paul’s bold claims of hopefulness, Alistair Begg unpacks the paradox of God’s choice to use frail, broken vessels like us to showcase His abundant love and power.
7But we have this treasure in pjars of clay, qto show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8We are rafflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9persecuted, but snot forsaken; tstruck down, but not destroyed; 10ualways carrying in the body the death of Jesus, vso that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12So wdeath is at work in us, but life in you.
13Since we have xthe same spirit of faith according to what has been written, y“I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14knowing that zhe who raised the Lord Jesus awill raise us also with Jesus and bbring us with you into his presence. 15For cit is all for your sake, so that as dgrace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, eto the glory of God.
16So we do not lose heart. fThough our outer self4 is wasting away, gour inner self his being renewed day by day. 17For ithis light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18jas 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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