Speaker 1: Just grab our bibles. Thanks, bro.
Speaker 2: Just grab our bibles and turn to Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be in chapter four Versus sixteen and following
Speaker 2: this morning, Second Corinthians four. And if you don't have
Speaker 2: a Bible with you, just raise your hand. We're passing
Speaker 2: those out right now. So just raise your hand and
Speaker 2: keep it up. If you need a bible or a
Speaker 2: bulletin or a pen or anything like that, and if
Speaker 2: you keep your hand up, we'll find you eventually and
Speaker 2: get you what you need. This is also a good
Speaker 2: time for me to remind you to please fill out
Speaker 2: a connection card. We ask that everybody would do that
Speaker 2: every week, whether you're a member or a guest or
Speaker 2: what have you. That you're here by name is a
Speaker 2: really important pastoral thing for us to know as a church.
Speaker 1: You can leave a prayer request.
Speaker 3: We have a whole team of men and women who are.
Speaker 2: Praying for those prayer requests. And if you are new,
Speaker 2: just leave some contact information. We'll follow up with you. Also,
Speaker 2: if you're new and you just have questions or anything
Speaker 2: like that, there's a spot for that. There's a table
Speaker 2: right on the lobby called Step one, and we would
Speaker 2: just invite anybody who's new at all to just go
Speaker 2: to that table and connect with us there. We want
Speaker 2: to welcome you into the life of this church and
Speaker 2: help you understand how to take those steps.
Speaker 3: You might be like, you know, I'm not a Christian.
Speaker 2: I'm here this morning, and I'm not sure what all
Speaker 2: of the things that you sang about or talked about meant.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it means to place my faith
Speaker 2: in Jesus and follow him. Well, we want to have
Speaker 2: that conversation. In fact, tonight over at my house dinner
Speaker 2: six to eight if you want to have the conversation.
Speaker 2: But what does it mean to place my faith in
Speaker 2: Christ and follow him? We're doing that over at my house.
Speaker 2: So just meet me at the Step one table. I'll
Speaker 2: give you my address, come over for dinner, and we'll
Speaker 2: we'll have that conversation. We do that every week almost
Speaker 2: and it's always a really good time. And the food
Speaker 2: is always good because my wife cooks it.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Hi, honey, she's home right now because I got a
Speaker 2: little one that's six, so she told me she'd tune in.
Speaker 1: It's always good.
Speaker 2: Second Corinthians chapter four. I'm going to read I think
Speaker 2: verse seven all the way through verse ten of chapter
Speaker 2: five for the larger context of our verses this morning.
Speaker 2: But my preaching text is going to be just those
Speaker 2: four verses sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and then maybe the first
Speaker 2: verse of chapter five there, and that's kind of where
Speaker 2: we'll focus this morning in this text. But if you
Speaker 2: would just read along as I read aloud from Second
Speaker 2: Corinthians four, starting in seven, Paul writes this, but we
Speaker 2: have this treasure in jars of clay to show that
Speaker 2: the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
Speaker 2: We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed
Speaker 2: but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsake, and
Speaker 2: struck down but not destroyed, always carrying in the body
Speaker 2: the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus
Speaker 2: may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who
Speaker 2: live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake,
Speaker 2: so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested
Speaker 2: in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us,
Speaker 2: but life in you. And since we have the same
Speaker 2: spirit of faith, according to what was written, I believed
Speaker 2: and so I spoke, we also believe, And so we
Speaker 2: also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus
Speaker 2: will raise us also with Jesus, and bring us with
Speaker 2: you into his presence. For it is all for your sake,
Speaker 2: so that as grace extends to more and more people,
Speaker 2: it may increase thanksgiving to the glory of God.
Speaker 1: And here's our preaching text. So we do not lose heart.
Speaker 2: Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self
Speaker 2: is being renewed day by day. For this light, momentary
Speaker 2: affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory
Speaker 2: beyond all comparison. As we look not to the things
Speaker 2: that are seen, but to the things that are unseen.
Speaker 2: For the things that are seen or transient, but the
Speaker 2: things that are unseen are eternal. For we know that
Speaker 2: if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed,
Speaker 2: we have a building from God, a house not made
Speaker 2: with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Speaker 3: And I'll continue on for a few more verses yet, for.
Speaker 2: In this tent we grown longing to put on our
Speaker 2: heavenly dwelling, if indeed, by putting it on, we may
Speaker 2: be not found naked. For while we're still in this tent,
Speaker 2: we grown being burdened, not that we would be unclothed,
Speaker 2: but that we would be further clothed, so that what
Speaker 2: is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who
Speaker 2: has prepared us for this very thing, as God, who
Speaker 2: has given us the spirit as a guarantee.
Speaker 1: So we are always of good courage.
Speaker 2: We know that while we are at home in the body,
Speaker 2: we're away from the Lord, for we walk by faith,
Speaker 2: not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and
Speaker 2: we would rather be away from the body and at
Speaker 2: home with the Lord. So whether we're at home or away,
Speaker 2: we make it our aim to please Him. For we
Speaker 2: must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so
Speaker 2: that each one may receive what is due for what
Speaker 2: he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Speaker 2: This is the word of the Lord. I I almost
Speaker 2: put our family's tent out of its misery this past week.
Speaker 2: I was cleaning the garage. I am very proud of
Speaker 2: the work that I did in the garage.
Speaker 3: I even installed some lighting.
Speaker 2: And then when I did, I saw what a mess
Speaker 2: we had, and I started cleaning up.
Speaker 3: I mean this. I set some spring break.
Speaker 2: Time aside for this and I had clean it up
Speaker 2: and get it out fever, you know, and the tent.
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: This is enough.
Speaker 2: But this thing, I mean, I bought this thing when
Speaker 2: Karen I first got married.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I thought we were gonna be
Speaker 1: a camping family. Did not happen.
Speaker 2: I could count on my fingers the number of times
Speaker 2: this thing has gotten set up. Last time was in
Speaker 2: the backyard. Turns out my nine year old also not
Speaker 2: a camper. And I thought we would throw it out,
Speaker 2: but Kara's like, nah, keep it, you know, and will
Speaker 2: never use it again. Why should we throw it away?
Speaker 2: You know how that is? And the thing about this
Speaker 2: tent is it is sad.
Speaker 1: It is sad.
Speaker 2: One of the poles is just duct taped together so
Speaker 2: it doesn't slide through the sleeve like it's supposed to.
Speaker 2: It smells funny. I'm sure the rainfly is gone. I
Speaker 2: found a rain fly, but I don't think it goes
Speaker 2: with that tent. The seams of the tent are all
Speaker 2: leaky now, so when there's dew, it just like it
Speaker 2: just drips in the thing. It is falling apart. It
Speaker 2: is wasting away. It is a torn up tent. And
Speaker 2: I only bring that up because this is the metaphor
Speaker 2: that Paul uses in verse one of chapter five.
Speaker 1: For our bodies.
Speaker 3: Wearing out.
Speaker 1: Until eventually.
Speaker 3: Thrown out.
Speaker 2: Happens to us all, every single one of us, no
Speaker 2: no matter how fine your tent might be, falls apart,
Speaker 2: including turns out.
Speaker 1: This week.
Speaker 2: We lost Chuck Norris. I mean, I'm serious, like he
Speaker 2: passed away this week. It's a it's a meeting death
Speaker 2: has been dreading for a long time. I did not
Speaker 2: pick this tent, this preaching text because Chuck Norris died.
Speaker 3: But it's just sit there.
Speaker 2: So for twenty one verses, Paul just circles this idea
Speaker 2: of death, of death, of suffering and wearing out until death.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Across these twenty one verses, Paul also continues to repeat this,
Speaker 2: So we are of good courage, so we do not
Speaker 2: lose heart. We live courageous about death. That's what he says.
Speaker 1: Do you do you live courageously about death?
Speaker 3: Most of us don't.
Speaker 2: Live courageously about death so much as we live like
Speaker 2: an ostrich about death. Right, and stick my head in
Speaker 2: the sand. If I can't see it, it can't see me.
Speaker 2: And don't think about it. And if you're here this
Speaker 2: morning as a non Christian thrilled the you're here, I
Speaker 2: do wonder how much you consider what the Bible calls
Speaker 2: the way of all flesh.
Speaker 3: That we are all on our way.
Speaker 1: To death.
Speaker 2: And if you are here as a Christian, I wonder
Speaker 2: how skilled, how skilled are you in living courageously about death?
Speaker 2: Because Paul gives us in this passage these four verses
Speaker 2: here three ways that they overlap quite a bit, but
Speaker 2: there's some slight shifts in emphasis about these ways to
Speaker 2: live courageously regarding death, and we'll jump into it. So
Speaker 2: what ways are Christians courageous about death? Here's the first way. First,
Speaker 2: we're courageous. We are called to courage even as you
Speaker 2: watch the wasting. That would be our first way. You
Speaker 2: can jot that in your notes if you like. Even
Speaker 2: as we watch the wasting, be courageous, he says in
Speaker 2: verse sixteen, right, so we do not lose heart, right,
Speaker 2: And that so points back.
Speaker 3: To verse fourteen, right.
Speaker 2: He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also
Speaker 2: raise us. Yet that also points forward to this. We're
Speaker 2: courageous even though our outer self is wasting away and
Speaker 2: our inner self is being renewed day by day. One's
Speaker 2: going down, one's going up.
Speaker 3: And what strikes me.
Speaker 2: Is just how matter of fact it stated. Our outer
Speaker 2: self is wasting away. It is wasting away. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: you're young here this morning and you're like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like I'm wasting away. It speeds up.
Speaker 2: It is. It is a fact. I was at the doctor.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago and the fact was just
Speaker 1: on display.
Speaker 2: I was there in the waiting room kind of first
Speaker 2: thing in the morning. The waiting room was packed, and
Speaker 2: I was just looking around, just observing all of the
Speaker 2: patients in this waiting room, and at about two thirds
Speaker 2: of us, our skin was pink.
Speaker 1: And some energy, some weight, maybe too much weight to us.
Speaker 3: Call that group A.
Speaker 2: But another third of the folks that were in the
Speaker 2: waiting room Group B.
Speaker 3: Their skin was.
Speaker 2: Seemed brittle, yellowed, not as much weight, not as much energy.
Speaker 2: I mean, some of us were there for preventative reasons.
Speaker 2: And then group B they were there looking for a
Speaker 2: cure for something. And at first I thought, man, how
Speaker 2: do I stay in group A? And then I realized,
Speaker 2: you don't. Nobody stays in group A. Everyone graduates to
Speaker 2: Group B. Everyone, unless you're taken suddenly in an accident
Speaker 2: in some way or another, every single one of us,
Speaker 2: at some point in this life will graduate from Group
Speaker 2: A to Group B. It's inevitable. The outer self is
Speaker 2: wasting away. And if you're if you're not trusting in
Speaker 2: crime who has promised eternal life to those who would
Speaker 2: place their life in his hands, I wonder if you
Speaker 2: are considering carefully the inevitability of what the Bible says
Speaker 2: here is the wasting away of the outer self.
Speaker 3: It is coming.
Speaker 1: And then you.
Speaker 2: Appear before him, it says later in chapter five, and
Speaker 2: then appear before him this one that maybe you've been resisting,
Speaker 2: Maybe you've been resisting his work.
Speaker 1: Maybe he you've been resisting.
Speaker 2: His call and his promise and his what he has
Speaker 2: offered to you is as this outer self wastes away,
Speaker 2: what I have for you is eternal, it's renewal, it's
Speaker 2: life in me, it's forgiveness. It is granted to you,
Speaker 2: not on your merit, but on mine. And if you're
Speaker 2: a Christian this morning, I also wonder whether or not
Speaker 2: you are grasping the inevitability of this outer wasting away.
Speaker 2: It's coming, it accelerates, and then you will appear before him,
Speaker 2: this Christ who has been renewing you day by day.
Speaker 2: You are sooner than you think you are going to
Speaker 2: appear before him, and you will appear before him.
Speaker 4: As one who has been renewed by Him in the
Speaker 4: ongoing repentance that we so often resist, and the ongoing
Speaker 4: sacrifice that he continues to call you forward in, and
Speaker 4: the ongoing obedience that he calls you in, in those
Speaker 4: steps of grace and recommitment that we that we struggle,
Speaker 4: but yet he calls us forward growth, step by growth, step,
Speaker 4: renewing us day by day in some ways that we
Speaker 4: quit our teeth about.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: One day we will stand before him and his work
Speaker 2: will be on display, and that unwrapping will.
Speaker 1: Happen sooner than you think that.
Speaker 2: That is how we live courageously about death, even as
Speaker 2: we watch the wasting, because we know that we are
Speaker 2: being renewed internally by Jesus, and He even now is
Speaker 2: welcoming us.
Speaker 3: Home on a law long journey, not as long for
Speaker 3: all of.
Speaker 2: Us, into his presence. Even as we watch the wasting,
Speaker 2: we realize the renewing and the welcome of Christ. That's
Speaker 2: how we live courageous about death.
Speaker 3: There's another way.
Speaker 1: That Paul gives us.
Speaker 2: It's very similar, but that the emphasis shifts slightly. It's
Speaker 2: not just as we watch the wasting. Even though we
Speaker 2: watch the wasting, there's also this we're courageous about death
Speaker 2: as we lean into the comparing and the preparing. That's
Speaker 2: the second way you could jot that down. If you're
Speaker 2: taking notes, as we lean in to the comparing and
Speaker 2: the preparing, see what's wasting away and what's being renewed,
Speaker 2: they are not of similar value. What we're losing hardly
Speaker 2: compares to what we're winning. This is what he says
Speaker 2: in verse seventeen. For this light momentary affliction is preparing
Speaker 2: for us an eternal weight of glory, beyond all comparison,
Speaker 2: beyond all comparison. He says, it's beyond all comparison. But
Speaker 2: of course what he's doing is comparing, right, He's comparing
Speaker 2: the incomparable.
Speaker 3: Light momentary weighty eternal, and he's.
Speaker 2: Comparing these two, and he calls us that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's calling us.
Speaker 2: To compare, to lean in to the comparing between this
Speaker 2: affliction now.
Speaker 3: And that glory. Then how does it compare.
Speaker 1: How does it compare?
Speaker 3: Well, I think about my tent. My tent.
Speaker 2: It's like ten pounds, which I know some of you
Speaker 2: are like backpackers. You're like ten pounds. That's really heavy.
Speaker 2: I've never carried this thing. It belongs in the car.
Speaker 2: It's a car camping tent. It's the taj Mahal. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: You can put all my kids in it, which has
Speaker 2: never happened. But it's ten pounds. I mean I could.
Speaker 2: I could lift it up and put it up on
Speaker 2: the very top shelf of the storage you know, shelves
Speaker 2: in my garage, which is exactly what I did, never
Speaker 2: to be seen again, and not hard to put up there.
Speaker 2: Ten pounds. I did the math, thanks cha, GPT. I
Speaker 2: did the math for how much my house weighs. We're
Speaker 2: thinking six hundred thousand pounds brick house, concrete slab. Six
Speaker 2: hundred thousand pounds is how much my house weighs. And
Speaker 2: I'm thinking this is a pretty good analogy between light
Speaker 2: and weighty. This is the analogy actually that Paul is
Speaker 2: using the difference between a tabernacle and a temple. That's
Speaker 2: the difference between a tent and a house. That's the
Speaker 2: difference between the lightness of the affliction that we are
Speaker 2: going through. And we are going through it, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. We feel it, and he says, but what
Speaker 2: I want you to realize is the comparison between the
Speaker 2: affliction and the glory is that between a tent and
Speaker 2: a house. It's weight. It's beyond comparison. It's beyond comparison,
Speaker 2: and it's eternal. If you want to compare timelines, just
Speaker 2: think of your life.
Speaker 1: Think of your life as like.
Speaker 2: Five or six sheets of paper. Right, consider them chapters.
Speaker 2: Let me go chapter one. We'll take these chapters in
Speaker 2: fifteen year increments. Right, we got five or six sheets
Speaker 2: of paper sitting on the desk. Chapter one, ages zero
Speaker 2: through fifteen, childhood, ages fifteen through thirty, okay, youth, Chapter three,
Speaker 2: ages thirty through forty five, adulthood. We're halfway done, Ages
Speaker 2: forty five through sixty. Call that maturity. That's chapter four.
Speaker 2: Chapter five, age sixty through seventy five. Call that finishing.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have chapter six, seventy five and forward.
Speaker 3: Call that bonus. Five or six sheets.
Speaker 1: That's it, just.
Speaker 2: Hardly perceptible on the table, and eternity.
Speaker 1: Is pages to the sky pages to the sky.
Speaker 2: It's incomparable the lightness of our affliction and the momentary
Speaker 2: nature of our affliction compared to the weightiness and the
Speaker 2: eternity of our glory. The way of courage while your
Speaker 2: tent is falling apart is recognizing that you're moving into
Speaker 2: a house.
Speaker 3: The way of.
Speaker 2: Courage while your tent is falling apart is recognizing you're
Speaker 2: moving into a house. Lean in to the comparing, and
Speaker 2: he says, and the preparing, he says, this black, momentary
Speaker 2: affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory.
Speaker 2: And part of this preparing is just knowing the renewal
Speaker 2: of Christ. Christ is at work in all of our
Speaker 2: afflictions in every way, and it is preparing for us.
Speaker 3: He is preparing for.
Speaker 1: Us an eternal weight of glory.
Speaker 2: But also a big part of this is that he
Speaker 2: knows how he's investing his afflictions.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: He is persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed.
Speaker 2: He knows how he's investing his afflictions. He's not just
Speaker 2: letting them run, He's not just limping along. He's taking
Speaker 2: all of his affliction as the throwing them into the
Speaker 2: work that Christ has given us. Church, Let's invest our afflictions.
Speaker 2: Let's lean into our preparation. There's something to be done
Speaker 2: with our afflictions that actually helps us to live with
Speaker 2: courage about death. We're investing them. Lean into the preparing,
Speaker 2: lean into the comparing. That's how you are courageous about death.
Speaker 2: You lean into those things even as you watch the wasting.
Speaker 2: You lean into the comparing and the preparing, and you
Speaker 2: live courageously about death. That's what God has given to us.
Speaker 2: Here's the third way. Here's the third way.
Speaker 1: You're courageous.
Speaker 2: As you point your sight, as you point your sight,
Speaker 2: as you direct your gaze, as you consider your vision.
Speaker 2: This is how puts it exactly in verse eighteen. As
Speaker 2: we look not to the things that are seen, but
Speaker 2: to the things that are unseen. For the things that
Speaker 2: are seen or transient, but the things that are unseen
Speaker 2: are eternal. So he says, we look, there's something that
Speaker 2: we don't look to right, not this, but that, And
Speaker 2: there's a reason transient versus eternal.
Speaker 3: In other words, we're.
Speaker 2: Not focused on the tent poles that are snapping, and
Speaker 2: the cords that are fraying, and the pegs that are
Speaker 2: going missing. We're focused on our solid home. We're focused
Speaker 2: on being with the people in our home, like it
Speaker 2: says in verse two of chapter five, like we've grown
Speaker 2: to be home. That's how I camp, groaning to be home,
Speaker 2: not focus on the fact that this thing is leaking,
Speaker 2: but actually directing my gaze, pointing my vision.
Speaker 1: Home.
Speaker 2: I think that's actually the value of camping for a
Speaker 2: person like me.
Speaker 1: Is a greater appreciation for my home and the people
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: That's what I told a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: This past week.
Speaker 2: Pastor friend of mine was visiting from Mexico City. We
Speaker 2: were driving down the road, had a little time, a
Speaker 2: little windshield time to kill, and we're just kind of
Speaker 2: catching up with each other and.
Speaker 1: My friend from Mexico City.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there was some cultural things that neither he
Speaker 2: nor I appreciated, because he just came right out and
Speaker 2: said it. He's like forty, right, and so he looks
Speaker 2: over at me, He's like, so, fifty two, what's that like?
Speaker 2: And I said, what it's like is that some part
Speaker 2: of this tent is always breaking. Now this scene is
Speaker 2: becoming more obviously transient. I should have also said that
Speaker 2: now at fifty two I'm more convinced than ever that
Speaker 2: Christ is not going to give up on me. I've
Speaker 2: just we've been together for a while, and he has
Speaker 2: held me every step of the way, and He has
Speaker 2: continued to renew me day by day, calling me forward
Speaker 2: in repentance and obedience and re commitment and growth and affection.
Speaker 1: And he does it.
Speaker 2: Man, he doesn't give up on me. But also some
Speaker 2: part of this tent is always breaking. And Paul says
Speaker 2: to that we don't look at those things. We might
Speaker 2: maybe make glance at those things, but we gaze at
Speaker 2: the eternal right, we look not to the scene. And
Speaker 2: what does it mean to look not to the scene?
Speaker 2: Because I think this has been used out of context
Speaker 2: at some points, like to look not to the scene
Speaker 2: does not mean don't enjoy anything in this world because
Speaker 2: you can see it.
Speaker 1: Don't look at it.
Speaker 2: That's not what Paul is saying. We enjoy these blessings
Speaker 2: with real gratitude.
Speaker 3: We enjoy these.
Speaker 2: Blessings with real generosity and with worship, even if we
Speaker 2: don't don't fix our affection on the things of this world.
Speaker 2: It's actually the point is worship the blessings that God
Speaker 2: has given us. Just become the context in which to
Speaker 2: actually enjoy our relationship with him.
Speaker 1: That's what it's for.
Speaker 2: Just like playing a game with your kids is just
Speaker 2: a context in which to enjoy your relationship with them.
Speaker 2: It's not about the game, right, You're not dunking on
Speaker 2: your six year old daughter and talking trash and then
Speaker 2: you go inside and she's.
Speaker 3: Crying, and your wife's like, I.
Speaker 2: Think you miss the point of basketball with your six
Speaker 2: year old girl. It's not the point. The game is
Speaker 2: not the point. The relationship is the point. The same
Speaker 2: thing is true of the earthly blessings that God has
Speaker 2: given us. They're not the point. They're the context in
Speaker 2: which we enjoy our relationship with him.
Speaker 1: Enjoying the food, food, or the lake.
Speaker 2: Or the stars, it's just the setting for enjoying the
Speaker 2: creator of the food and the lake and the stars.
Speaker 2: So when we look not to the scene, we look
Speaker 2: not to the scene, it's not that we don't enjoy anything.
Speaker 2: When Paul says we look not to the scene, what's
Speaker 2: on his mind here is actually not blessings. It's suffering
Speaker 2: and sacrifice and death. What's on his mind is a
Speaker 2: torn up tent. And he says these things don't have
Speaker 2: our gaze. They don't have our vision. They don't have
Speaker 2: our fixed sight. What has our fixed sight is a
Speaker 2: solid home and the Lord in it. This is an intentional,
Speaker 2: willful step, he says.
Speaker 3: We look not to this.
Speaker 2: We point our vision this way because the scene draws
Speaker 2: our attention so easily, especially when it hurts. It draws
Speaker 2: our attention. He says, we look not to the scene,
Speaker 2: We look to the unseen. The way of courage while
Speaker 2: your tent is falling apart, is recognizing you're moving in
Speaker 2: that house.
Speaker 1: That's the way of courage.
Speaker 2: This is what gives us courage and heart because we see.
Speaker 2: We see without seeing, we see reward. We see without seeing,
Speaker 2: we are going to live with sinlessness. We see that
Speaker 2: Christ is welcoming, welcoming us into this home with without
Speaker 2: our merit, with his merit, that his arms are open wide,
Speaker 2: not because of what we have done, but because of
Speaker 2: what he has done.
Speaker 1: And then he rewards.
Speaker 3: Us based on what we've done in him.
Speaker 1: That's how we live courageously.
Speaker 2: We might glance at what's being torn up, but we
Speaker 2: gaze at what's eternal. We might glance at declining health.
Speaker 2: We might glance at declining wealth because of even gospel
Speaker 2: choices that we're making. But we gaze at Christ home,
Speaker 2: home with him.