Making sense of the ressurection factor2 Cor 4:14-18

What difference does Easter make?

Barabbas and Peter

The Resurrection

• (ESV) 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

1 Cor 4

• (ESV) 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

• Eternal life starts now

• Pain becomes a life building process

• Suffering for Him multiplies our glory

What difference does Easter make?

• 2 Cor 4: 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.

1. Eternal life starts now

Tied to historical event

Fear of death

“Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel just makes him a

gardener.” George Herbert

Lives of disciples

• (ESV) 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

2. Pain becomes a life building process

"The more the marble wastes the more the

statue grows"

Michaelangelo

SimultaneousReciprocalProportional

I have no regrets. I have spent my life so much of it ,building up this country. There is nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got ? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

Focus on the statue not the

marble

• (ESV) 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

3. Suffering for Him multiplies our glory

Glory

• (ESV) 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,.

Process

• (ESV) 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,.

Seek eternal glory

Our glory is in our pain

Defects are your glory

• Eternal life starts now

• Pain becomes a life building process

• Suffering for Him multiplies our glory

What difference does Easter make?

Barabbas or Peter?

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,

1 Peter 1:3-9