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The Promises of God: Part CCLXXXI
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Aug 14, 2025
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body, for we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So, then death is working in us, but life in you. II Corinthians 4:7-12
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body, for we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So, then death is working in us, but life in you. II Corinthians 4:7-12
The life of an apostle is hated by the devil, who constantly tries to defeat their purpose to build the church of the living God. All but one of the Lord's apostles were martyred, including Paul, and only John was left to write the book of Revelation.
Being the examples to the flock, the death of Jesus is illustrated in their lives so that the life of Jesus may be manifest in ours. When one is born again, he becomes a new creature, a spirit being with a human body that must die. Death to all sin and iniquity and death to the world and the things of the world.
Our natural human bodies, the outward man, are dying, put to death by trials and tribulations, light afflictions, but render for us an eternal weight of glory!
Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. II Corinthians 4:16-18
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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