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When you were growing up, did anybody ever

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comment on your posture, good or

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bad? Well, in Second Corinthians

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chapter four, Paul speaks of a posture

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of faith for the living from

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Moody Bible Institute. This is today

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in the word, and I'm John Geiger, doing

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my best to straighten up here and share

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today's devotional reading with you.

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In Second Corinthians chapter four, Paul

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speaks of a posture of faith for the living

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and those who live for Christ. Look forward

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to the life to come, but we don't have to wait

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until then to experience it. The

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apostle's life was marked by vulnerability

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and weakness by which the life of Jesus

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was revealed. Paul's faith

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was grounded in the knowledge that the one

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who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead

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will also raise us with Jesus

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and present us with you to himself.

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His sufferings put God's grace

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on display and caused others to

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glorify God and give thanks for

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his part. Paul was determined to

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go through life facing forward

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by maintaining a kind of double vision.

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Although fully aware of his present and

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often difficult circumstances, faith

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enabled the apostle to see

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the spiritual reality behind

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his experience. Faith enabled

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him to understand how our light

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and momentary troubles are achieving

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for us an eternal glory. Scripture

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says that far outweighs them

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all. Bottom line today

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in the word we read in second Corinthians four, verse

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18. We fix our eyes

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not on what is seen, but

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what is unseen. For what is seen

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is temporary, but what is unseen

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is eternal. Boy, that's a great

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passage. I encourage you to memorize second

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Corinthians four, verses 16 through 18.

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It will come back to comfort you again and

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again and again. Hey, our website

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