Seeing The Big Picture

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Seeing The Big Picture
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
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. 2
Corinthians 416-18
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
STEWARDSHIP
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LUKE 1216-20

• And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many
  goods laid up for many years take your ease
  eat, drink, and be merry. But God said to him,
  'Fool! This night your soul will be required of
  you then whose will those things be which you
  have provided?

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Mark 836-37

• For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
  the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what
  shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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I Timothy 66-10

• But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is
  certain we can carry nothing out
• For the love of money is the root of all evil
  which while some coveted after, they have erred
  from the faith, and pierced themselves through
  with many sorrows.

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2 Peter 310-11

• But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
  the night in the which the heavens shall pass
  away with a great noise, and the elements shall
  melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
  works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing
  then that all these things shall be dissolved,
  what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
  conversation and godliness

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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
STEWARDSHIP
SERVICE
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Ecclesiastes 1213

• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
  Fear God, and keep his commandments for this is
  the whole duty of man.

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Ecclesiastes 1214

• For God shall bring every work into judgment,
  with every secret thing, whether it be good, or
  whether it be evil.

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2 Corinthians 510

• Wherefore we labour.For we must all appear
  before the judgment seat of Christ that every
  one may receive the things done in his body,
  according to that he hath done, whether it be
  good or bad.

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See the long range results!

• Attending the Services
• Serving Others
• Giving Liberally
• Good works

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1 Corinthians 1558

• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
  the Lord. (NKJV)

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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
STEWARDSHIP
SERVICE
SUFFERING
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James 12-4

• My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into
  various trials

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James 12-4

• My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into
  various trials, knowing that the testing of your
  faith produces patience. But let patience have
  its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
  complete, lacking nothing. (NKJV)

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2 Corinthians 517

• For our light affliction, which is but for a
  moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
  and eternal weight of glory

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2 CORINTHIANS 417

• LIGHT
• AFFLICTION
• MOMENT

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2 CORINTHIANS 417

• LIGHT
• AFFLICTION
• MOMENT

• WEIGHT
• GLORY
• ETERNAL

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2 CORINTHIANS 417

• LIGHT
• AFFLICTION
• MOMENT

• WEIGHT
• GLORY
• ETERNAL

WORKETH
No Affliction No Glory!
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Romans 818

• For I consider that the sufferings of this
  present time are not worthy to be compared with
  the glory which shall be revealed in us.

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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
STEWARDSHIP
SERVICE
SUFFERING
SACRIFICE
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Luke 1426

• If any man come to me, and hate not his father,
  and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren,
  and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he
  cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not
  bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
  disciple.

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Matthew 529-30

• And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,
  and cast it from thee for it is profitable for
  thee that one of thy members should perish, and
  not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off,
  and cast it from thee for it is profitable for
  thee that one of thy members should perish, and
  not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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Mark 1029-30

• Jesus answered and said, Assuredly, I say to
  you, there is no one who has left house or
  brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife
  or children or lands, for My sake and the
  gospel's, who shall not receive a hundredfold now
  in this time houses and brothers and sisters and
  mothers and children and lands, with
  persecutions and in the age to come, eternal
  life.

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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
WHAT ENABLES ONE TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE? FAITH
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
HEBREWS 11 Vs. 1 - Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
HEBREWS 11 NOAH - by faith Noah, being warned of
God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of his house vs.
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
HEBREWS 11 ABRAHAM - by faithwhen he was called
to go out.obeyed and he went out, not knowing
whither he went. vs. 8 For he looked for a
city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. vs. 10
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
HEBREWS 11 MOSES - by faithRefused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughterChoosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of
GodHe forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of
the king for he endured seeing him who is
invisible. vs. 24-27
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
HEBREWS 122 JESUS - by faith endured the
cross, despising the shame for the JOY that was
set before Himat the right hand of the throne
of God.
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Seeing The Big Picture
Your life
ETERNITY