Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?

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0:00.0	Father, the greatest thing in the world is to be a Christian. We are so
0:06.7	thankful to be saved. And now Lord I pray that you would pour out your Holy Spirit on this moment of the word and that I would be kept from error and speak the truth in the power of your might and that
0:25.0	the power of your might and that ears would be granted
0:26.0	and that unbelievers in this room
0:29.0	would be brought out of darkness into light
0:32.0	and that saints would be made strong and that pastors would be made to not lose heart.
0:40.0	But that they would be refreshed and able to hold fast to the word without tampering with it
0:48.6	and that as their outer nature is wasting away, hastened by the battles of ministry, they would be renewed day by day
0:57.7	looking to the things that are unseen.
1:00.4	So God do this in a thousand more things that none of us in this room can think to ask right now because that's just the way your word works.
1:11.0	I pray for this in Jesus name. Amen.
1:15.6	Open your Bibles please if you have one to 2 Corinthians 4.
1:20.9	We're gonna read the whole chapter and I going to do my best to trace Paul's thought
1:26.1	through the entire chapter.
1:31.1	2 Corinthians, chapter 4. Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God we do not lose heart, but we have renounced disgraceful underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or
1:47.2	tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth, we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
1:57.0	And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
2:04.0	In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing
2:09.0	the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
2:15.0	For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus sake.
2:29.2	For God who said that light shone out of darkness has shown in our hearts to give the light of the
2:36.9	knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
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