Eternal Perspective (2)

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2 Corinthians 4:16–18 ESV
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light 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.
We’ve read about Paul, we hav heard what Paul endured for the sake of gospel ministry.
2 Corinthians 11:23–28 ESV
23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
This is what Paul has endured for the gospel. Many times in prison where it was not a place where you would be comfortable.
5 Times Paul received 39 lashes.

Deut 25:1–3 stipulated that the maximum number of blows in a whipping be limited to forty lashes, and the Jews stopped one short of that to avoid exceeding the limit due to a miscount

Three times he was beaten with rods
Once he was stones.
Three times I was shipwrecked.
How many of you had been on a boat before? If you were on a boat, and something happened causing the ship to start sinking and you make if off the ship alive what is your first thoughts? You would be pretty shook up. Now what if you got on a boat again and somehow something happened again and it was shipwrecked. After this you would say, “I am done with boats, no way am I going on a boat again.”
But not once, not twice, three times this happened to Paul.
It continues,
“a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.”
He finishes,
2 Corinthians 11:28 ESV
28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
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