Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,

enjoy the message.

I want to continue to look at something from Paul's life this week and I want to talk to you for a few moments

about pressure points.

This message is only if you've been experiencing some stress or maybe a considerable amount of uncertainty about some things or life has seemed

a little too much for you.

That's the only people that's going to bless today. So if you need to leave now,

because that's not applicable to you, feel free. But the rest of us, we're going to go over to

2 Corinthians, chapter 4. I think I want to do verse 5. I was trying to decide how much to read. You understand

that's the issue every week. It's all so good and I want to eat it all but you know I know you can only

digest so much and so I want to talk about pressure points but let's kind of get

into it here from 2 Corinthians 4 or 5, where Paul is talking to a church

that he has authority and responsibility for.

He says, for what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake

for God who said let the light shine out of darkness made his light shine in our hearts

to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this

treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

We are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not into spare, persecuted, but not a band.

Don't touch somebody say, I'm not alone.

I'm never alone. So if you want to roll up on me you need to know before you

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