The path to glory is the path of suffering.
Sermon Title: THE PROMISE OF GLORY
Sermon Text: 2 CORINTHIANS 4:17-18
Guest Speaker: PTR TOM TRONO
Sermon Notes:
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17-18 (ESV 2001)
17 For this slight 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.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-9 NIV
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
“treasure in jars of clay.”
(2 Cor. 4:7)
2 CORINTHIANS 4:14 NIV
14 We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us in his presence.
2 CORINTHIANS. 4:16 NLT
16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
The path to glory is the path of suffering.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 ESV
17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
Greek: katergazetai,
“to bring about, to produce, to create”
“Affliction is not something to be endured in order to reach glory. It is the very process which creates the glory.”
G. Campbell Morgan
“desire”
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis
“…at home with the Lord”
(2 Cor. 5:8 NIV)
1 JOHN 3:2 NIV
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
“glory”
Glory means two things:
- fame
- brightness or brilliance
MATTHEW 25:21 NIV
...Well done, good and faithful servant.
MATTHEW 18:3-4 NIV
3 Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
“the pleasure of the inferior”
REVELATION 4:11 NIV
11 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.
“a real ingredient in the divine happiness”
MATTHEW 7:23 NIV
23 I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
“It is a terrible thing to be banished from the presence of Him who is present everywhere and erased from the knowledge of Him who knows all.”
C.S. Lewis
glory: “brightness, splendor, or luminosity”
Daniel 11:3 NIV
3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
Revelation 2:28 NIV
28 I will give [them] the morning star.
Philippians 3:20-21 NIV
20 Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Revelation 2:7 NIV
7 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
“The joy of the saved soul will overflow in the glorified body.”
Augustine of Hippo
“torrents of pleasure”