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Jan 9, 2015 · 2 Timothy 2v7-13. No pains, no gains! No cross no crown! Introduction. Over the past few months we have returned a number of times to the theme of achieving a goal – esp. with the Olympic games in mind and now the Sydney 2000 Paralympics. Last week we saw how Paul writing to his young friend and protege Timothy urges him to be like:-.
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Think especially of the horrors of dying. It’s not too uncommon for those final minutes to be terrible. And that’s an understatement. And when the moments (or months) of dying are finally over, what good might it have served this world? You’re dead. No strengthened faith. No increased sanctification. Perhaps no sterling testimony to friends and fam...
First, let’s note how gloriously understated in our English is this phrase “beyond all comparison.” Paul puts together a stunning string of language here in an effort to communicate how mind-numbingly great is the fullness of our reward to come. “Beyond all comparison” translates the Greek kath huperbolēn eis huperbolēn which we might render litera...
We don’t know the half of all that will be included in this stunning glory to come, but even the sketch of it we do have is indeed “beyond all compare” — extraordinary degree, to extraordinary degree. First, we will see the risen, glorified Christ (1 John 3:2; Revelation 1:13–16; Matthew 17:2). And as if that alone weren’t enough, “we shall be like...
But how is it that our present sufferings relate to this coming glory that human language stammers to even give a glimpse? This is the unique contribution of 2 Corinthians 4:17. Paul says that our affliction in this age prepares for us this coming glory which is beyond comprehension and compare. The verb prepares (katergazomai) here means to work o...
Dear brother or sister in Christ, your afflictions are never wasted. Your pain is never in vain. Empty as our sufferings may seem in this world, they are working — they are producing for us — glory in the life to come, and glory so great that not even the apostle Paul can grab enough human language to do it justice. As John Piper declares on the ba...
These twin glorious truths indeed are grounds to “not lose heart.” Which is precisely what Paul says in the verse immediately preceding 2 Corinthians 4:17: Which doesn’t mean that we pretend that afflictions are not afflictions. Trouble is trouble. Pain is pain. Hurt is hurt. Bringing eternity into view doesn’t make our sufferings themselves any le...
Jan 1, 2005 · Like Paul with his thorn, by considering trials as part of our faith in God, we display His strength through our weaknesses. “No pain no gain” is true not just of muscle mass but of our spiritual maturity, our Christian character, and somehow, it seems, even of God’s glory. For God to try us and to display His strength through our ...
Galatians 6:9. ESV And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. NIV Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. NASB Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.
1 Peter 2:19. ESV For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. NIV For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. NASB For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person endures grief when suffering unjustly.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. The word “pain” or some form of it appears over 70 times in Scripture. The word’s first usage explains the origin of pain in childbirth: “To the woman He said, ‘I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you ...
