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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
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Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
December 4, 2022
Don’t Lose Heart
Courage for the Conflict
2 Corinthians 4: 7-18
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power
may be of God and not of us.
8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not
crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken;
struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the
dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
body.
11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the
life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death is
working in us, but life in you.
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I
believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14
knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus,
and will present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace,
having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the
glory of God.
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Seeing the Invisible
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Therefore we do not lose heart.
Even though our outward man is perishing,
yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen.
For the things which are seen are temporary, but
the things which are not seen are eternal.
START Here . . .
This morning, I want to encourage a number of our church family members who
are going through. . .
a tough season.
I sense that some in our church family and the body of Christ at large are
experiencing pandemic fatigue . . .
and some other stress.
Some folks are
experiencing just the nagging cares of everyday hard life . . . the stuff that
consumes your thoughts, requires money you ain’t got, and just drains your energy
and mental and physical health.
You’re not alone.
Of course, Jesus is with you, but what I mean is: you got plenty
of company.
There are a lot of people who are feeling the weight of life and the
present times.
I was talking with someone the other day and they exasperated that 2022 has been
a doosie – a trying year for them, but they hoped they had obeyed God in hopes
that everything that belonged in 2022 would not carry over into 2023.
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In the way of encouragement, I want to give you some pain medicine from God’s
medicine cabinet known as the Bible.
Too often, we have a sense of what God has
promised and instructed us in regarding Scripture, but we rarely practice, or apply
what we should know well that God has provided and promised us for every trial,
temptation, or aggravation.
So, in today’s message entitled: Don’t Lose Heart, I want to provide you one or
two remedies of hope and encouragement.
I first want to say, “please don’t be too
down on yourself”.
Start now, moving toward the exit of your “pity party”.
Turn to our core Scripture passage found in 2 Corinthians Chapter 4, verses 1618.
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Therefore we do not lose heart.
Even though our outward man is perishing,
yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen.
For the things which are seen are temporary, but
the things which are not seen are eternal.
It is true that we in the church, and out of the church, are experiencing some
exhausting times.
Even more so, since the pandemic – there seems to be little
structure or continuity to anything – jobs, home, church, social, business and on
and on.
It seems there’s very little care or sacredness to anything.
On some level,
it appears that everyone is doing their own thing – whatever fits . . .
do it.
But it’s this mindset that has caused even Believers to lean to their own
understanding and in fewer and fewer things “acknowledge God so He will
direct our path”.
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But the Bible is still right according to Proverbs 3:5-7 NKJV
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
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In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
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Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
Admittedly, “These are the times that try men and women’s souls”.
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