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Hey, hey, friends, Greg Koukel here on Standarisen, and it's a pleasure to be with you today and to talk with you about things that really matter and

think through some issues or challenges that relate to those things that really matter.

The eternal issues, I think right now of this passage that has meant so much to me in,

I would say the last 10 years, really, I've focused in on it a lot.

It's been an encouragement to me.

It's in 2nd, Corinthians chapter 4, the last two verses, 16 through 18.

And the part of this that I remember, Paul is talking about, is body wasting away.

Okay. The tent, right? talking about, is body wasting away, okay?

The tent, right?

But there's something else that is arising or being built up and enduring.

And he says that momentary light afflictions are producing.

Of course, they weren't momentary or light for Paul in one sense, the way we usually consider it, but he's making a comparison. And these afflictions are producing for us an eternal

weight of glory, all right? That by itself is significant, but then he offers the MO that allows

him to focus on that truth, that helps him through the hard times, which in the moment don't feel momentary, nor light.

But he says that so that we look at the things, not the things that are temporal, but the things that are eternal.

Because the things that are temporal are passing away.

But the things that...

Oh, now I think I've quoted it wrong.

The things that... Oh, now I think I've quoted it wrong. The things that are physical...

Now we've got to look at it.

Yep. One of my favorite verses, I'm leaning on it all the time,

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