I Will Meet You In Eternity.

 2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory

Every awful, heavy weight designed by evil to crush our very existence is a LIGHT affliction.

Every pain, heartache, devastation meant to steal all our hope now and through eternity's endless time- is but a MOMENT in light of the infinity of life.

All the horrors of life ARE WORTH the eternal weight…the glory of our God, our Lord, our Savior. 

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for 

the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Unseen eternity- let us look to the unseen.

Unseen eternity- life beyond this life.

Unseen eternity- our hope.

Unseen eternity- we will meet in eternity when that very last trump sounds. When my Lord appears in the sky! When He calls us to meet Him in the air! Then… then I will meet you in eternity.

That which is unseen will be seen.

I'm not looking at what is seen.

I'm looking for the unseen.

The hope of my Savior, Jesus Christ.

The hope of the unseen you.

The day you awake from death's sleep.

The day we meet our Lord together.

The day our eternity is realized.

Hope is unseen.

Hope is reality.

I know hope, I know Jesus my Savior.

I know you.

I will see my Savior.

I will see you again, Jerry.

Sleep my love, our Lord is awake.

Our Lord will return.

Our Lord will wake all the dead.

Our Lord will change all the living.

I will meet you in eternity, whether I'm living or dead when that glorious day arrives.

All by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever! Amen!

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2Co 4:1  Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not

Mercy. I faint not.

2Co 4:2  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

In the sight of God. 

2Co 4:3  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost

Hidden to the lost.

2Co 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 

Blinded from, not by, the light of the glorious gospel of Christ!

2Co 4:5  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 

Preach Christ Jesus.

2Co 4:6  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 

God commands light into our dark hearts.

2Co 4:7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 

We CANNOT put the treasure in ourselves, we have no power to do so.

2Co 4:8  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair

Troubled- so many troubles.

Perplexed- so much perplexity.

No distress, no despair- trust in God.

2Co 4:9  Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed

Persecuted.

Cast down.

Not forsaken, not destroyed- trust in God.

2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 

Willing to suffer - to believe.

2Co 4:11  For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 

Willing to die-  to believe.

2Co 4:12  So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 

Sharing Christ, willing to die to give the knowledge of life everlasting. 

2Co 4:13  We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak

We believe-we speak.

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 

God raised His Son! God will raise us up- by His Son! 

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 

Grace given! Thanksgiving raised up loud! All to the GLORY of GOD!

2Co 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 

We perish now… but we will be renewed in Christ every day!