Eternal weight of Glory The Key You Need to Handling Your Problems | Tony Evans Sermon

if you want to make it when the defense

of life is tackling you when the

circumstances are breaking you you’ve

got to reach up you have to be Heavenly

minded spiritually minded the things of

Earth must be second not first the

Unseen God must be more important than

the visible

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men

perhaps there have been situations in

your life where you’ve had to raise the

question is there any

hope where things look so bad so

discouraging so

desperate that hope was

lost perhaps there have been times in

your life or in the lives of people you

know where they wanted to throw in the

towel give up

quit where they

were

disappointed that led to

discouragement that went

into

despair the Bible has a phrase for that

that sense of hopelessness

emptiness it’s

called fainting or losing

heart well I want to try to give you

today

that which will help you to make

it when those times come in my life in

your life and they will come if they

have not

already where you feel like

fainting giving up and losing heart and

it all balls down to your

vision the nature of your

eyesight he says Paul says in 2

Corinthians CH 4:

16 therefore we do not lose

heart therefore we do not lose

heart what was what was some of the

things Paul was dealing with if you back

up a few verses he says in verse 8 we

are afflicted in every

way he says in verse n

persecuted he says in verse 10 carrying

out about in the body the dying of

Jesus in fact it says in verse 12 death

Works in

us he’s going through some very negative

realities and he’s got the audacity to

say but we don’t lose

heart so if you’re here today or one day

and you’re ready to throw in the towel

quit give Up Walk Away whatever level of

Despair discouragement that you may be

facing causing the tears to roll down

your eyes causing you to lose sleep

causing you to live in aggravation

frustration irritation

exacerbation I want to say to you today

so that you can not only use it for

yourself but give it to to somebody

else Paul’s

statement we do not lose

heart well if you want to be in that

position you must improve your spiritual

eyesight you must be able

to look at things

differently as painful as the fainting

may be

he gives three things that involve your

eyesight and he says if we can work on

your eyesight we can change your heart

and you’re fainting quitting giving up

situation or maybe maybe I’m not talking

to anybody today maybe there’s nobody

here that’s F any any fainting here folk

here okay I want to make

sure the first thing he says in verse 16

but though the outer man is decaying yet

the inner man is being renewed day by

day the first thing that youve got to be

able to look at is which man are you

looking

at spiritual endurance during trouble

times means there needs to be a shift in

your perspective

and that means you must

prioritize the spiritual man over the

physical

man

okay he just said while you getting

older on the outside you should be

getting younger on the

inside while you’re growing old you

ought to simultaneously be growing

young if you growing old on the outside

and Growing Old On The Inside you’re in

bad shape cuz you’re getting old

twice he says the inner

man is

renewed day by

day renewing is the concept of making

new making

fresh bringing back to life it’s

springtime coming out of winter it’s a

renewal he says

if you’re going to not lose

heart you must make sure you’re getting

younger

spiritually

renewed God says if you want to hang in

there when the going gets

tough you must be renewed day by day why

because inside of you verse seven says

but we have this TR treasure in Earth

and vessels inside your physical frame

is a treasure

chest and that treasure chest is the

spiritual man if you’ve come to Christ

you have a new nature inside of you that

wants to stay

young doesn’t want to get old in fact it

wants to get younger as you get

older but he says that the way this

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happens is dayby day renewal you see

that in verse 16 he says our inner man

is being renewed day by

day if the inner man is not daily fed

the renewal doesn’t take place and if

the renewal doesn’t take place you’re

not getting

younger on the inside which means you

lose the capacity to handle the problems

on the outside

so if you do not see the spiritual man

he spins the first nine verses of

chapter 5 we won’t go into it I’ll read

verse one for we know that this Earthly

tent which is our house our body is torn

down we have a building from God a house

not made with hands Eternal in the

heavens he says this building is going

to tear down and one day it’s going to

close up but you have another building

that will keep you young your Eternal

Body that God is preparing for you in

glory but it wants to be connected to a

young

spirit and he says that only happens if

there is a day by day

perspective so the question is what did

you spiritually eat

today or do you not remember eating

since last

week then you’re not being renewed

because you’re not giving the Holy

Spirit what he needs to feed on in order

to

renew your human soul and human

spirit so the first thing he says is if

you’re going to cope with

chaos if you’re going to cope with the

confusion if you’re going to cope with

the

difficulties that’s going to happen

because day by day you are feeding the

spiritual man with the word with prayer

with with bringing God in on the

decisions of the day in informally in

other words it’s this daily mindset

orientation

Viewpoint that you’re operating

by he says day by day it’s it’s there’s

got to be a consistency to

it if you’re going to stay young

spiritually the second thing he says is

in verse

17 for momentary light Affliction is

producing for us an eternal weight of

Glory far beyond all

comprehension he says for

momentary light Affliction now I know

what you’re saying Paul you don’t know

what you talking about cuz what I’m

dealing with is not

light and it sure not momentary cuz I’ve

been dealing with it for a

minute he

says what you’re going through whatever

that happens to be is both

momentary and

light why because it’s measured against

an eternal weight of

Glory

it’s measured not against

your

clock is measured against

eternity in other

words unless you develop an eternal

perspective time will mess you

up because what time does is it boxes

you in what he is saying is you must

learn to live thinking in terms of

Eternity while not ignoring the

realities of time you’re not skipping

what you’re going through you’re not

pretending it’s not real but you’re

bringing Heaven’s point of view an

eternal perspective on it what he says

is if you learn to have a Heavenly

orientation if you look toward eternity

while you are functioning in

time you will be participating in what

he calls in verse 17 an eternal weight

of Glory what does he mean Heaven going

to help you

out in Eternal weight of Glory the glory

the manifestation of God will help you

out in history if you don’t make history

bigger than it

is if all you live for is now now is all

you

get now you can get now and there’s some

good things in now but if all you live

for is now now is all you get he calls

it in the Eternal weight of Glory that

that Heavens Be Heaven begins to enter

into whatever is causing you to lose

heart because you’re looking at it from

God’s

perspective and when you change what

you’re staring at When Heaven becomes a

big deal not because you’re trying to

leave Earth before your time but because

you need Heaven’s help in your

time

you need heaven so you make a big deal

about the weight of Glory

there while you are working it out down

here it’s called an eternal weight of

Glory if we become

heavenbound will be Earthly

benefited he is saying to you and

me that our spiritual sight must be

adjusted we must understand that the

spiritual internal is more important

than the physical external we must

understand that the problems we have

here must be measured against eternity

not

merely

time and then Verse 18 notice what his

words are while we look see that has to

do with your eyesight while we look

not at the things that are

seen But at the things which are not

seen for the things which we which are

seen are

temporal the things which are not seen

are

Eternal job has said in

job 57 he says that life is full of

trouble like the Sparks Fly upward Jesus

Jesus said in John 16:33 in this world

you’re going to have

tribulation he say you need to look I

need to look at the things that are not

seen well wait a minute how do you look

at something that you can’t see he says

you look at the things that are not seen

you look at the things

that are not seen not the things that

are seen in other words he is calling on

us to

shift our perspective

spiritually he’s calling on us to

prioritize here it is the Eternal over

the

temporal the spiritual over the

physical now we live in a physical

world we have the five senses that help

us

out but he he

says when you are losing heart the thing

that’s going to keep you from losing

heart is not staring at the

physical you’ve got to see him who is

invisible to

see you’ve got to see spiritual truth

not only limit yourself to physical

reality and that physical reality is

called in the Bible here it is the

world 1 John 2: 15-1 17 love not the

world neither the things that are in the

world for any man who loves the world

the love of the father is not in

him what is the world it’s that system

headed by Satan that leaves God

out the Bible says in 1 John 5:19 that

this world lies in the hands of the evil

one this world order belongs to the

devil so when when you live for the

physical you live for the

devil he says all that’s in the world in

first John 2 the lust of the

flesh physical desires the lust of the

eyes desire to accumulate the pride of

life the pursuit to be

significant that’s what everybody

wants the pleasures of the flesh the

accumulation of the

stuff and the significant recognition of

others

now what he is saying is don’t he’s not

condemning you being in the world he’s

not condemning you benefiting from the

world he is condemning you falling in

love with it one of the reasons we lose

the ability to cope is that we’re living

for the wrong world you and I are

supposed to be living in this world not

for this

world in it but not for it because he

says you lose the love of the father

that that is that intimate relationship

and one of the reasons we thinkt is

because we don’t feel the Father’s

love you ever seen them you ever seen a

fish that’s been caught and pulled up

flipping and flopping twisting and

jerking trying to trying to make it you

know that fish is trying to make it it

was not created for that and because it

wasn’t created for that it can try to

make it all day long and all it’s doing

is quickening its

demise cuz he’s trying to make it in the

wrong

environment so let’s flip it let’s send

you into the water to hang

out and try to make the ocean your

home try to make it your home go down

there have a good

time it will be clear you weren’t built

for that that you were not created to be

able to make it in that environment cuz

that’s not how you were

made but wait a minute but but but wait

minute if you put on an oxygen

tank and you go into the water and hang

out

there you going to make

it in a foreign

environment because you brought

something with you from your real world

Amen you see you put oxygen tank on

which is your real world you went into a

foreign World which wasn’t that you

weren’t made for that world but you can

make it in that world because you

brought something from the world that

you really belong to when you accepted

Christ you transferred out of the

kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of

Light you now have a tank that you ought

to wear in this

world but far too many of of us take

that tank off and still try to make it

in this world and wonder why this world

is wiping us out killing us knocking us

for loops and we faint and we lose heart

to a world that’s passing away because

we

refuse to breathe Heaven’s

air this world is real but it is

temporary this world is real but it is

limited this world is

real but the affliction is limited you

and I are supposed to be in this

world drawing life from that

world and he says when you do that you

will not lose heart you’ll get

discouraged you’ll cry you’ll be lonely

you’ll be

afraid but what you won’t do is throw in

the

towel you won’t have

to

live in a way that every day is

desperation and defeat because you

refuse to look at this world alone you

don’t ignore

it but you refuse to be limited by it in

Super Bowl

43 Santano Holmes caught the touchdown

pass and it caught the touchdown pass

for the winning team and when the pass

was thrown to him the Steelers he he

went to the edge he went to the edge of

the end zone and he got all the way at

the

edge and he reached up and caught it

with less than a minute left for them to

win the

game two things happened for that

wind he touched low while reaching

High his feet were firmly planted on the

ground but but now if he reached up and

his feet went on the ground it’s

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incomplete but if his feet were on the

ground but he didn’t reach up it’s

incomplete in order for him to do what

he did he had to be living in reality

his feet had to be on the ground but he

had to be reaching

up to catch the

ball if you want to make it when the de

defense of life is tackling you when the

circumstances are breaking

you you’ve got to reach

up you have to be Heavenly

minded spiritually

minded otherworldly minded amen the

things of Earth must be second not

first the Unseen God must be more

important than the visible men amen amen

see because what we’ve done is we’ve

made visible men bigger than invisible

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God and therefore we insult the Almighty

we must look on the things you cannot

see when you and I develop this

perspective we’ll get clearer eyesight

we’ll be growing

younger while we’re getting

older and most importantly we won’t quit

that Eternal

perspective will

change your trajectory of your

eyesight you could bring me the

Rope I just want to show you

something now here’s a long

rope and you will see on the end of the

Rope it’s wrapped in

red and

this this is life makes you want to

faint

yeah this

red we will call this your

life and this is

um

this is 70

years this red is 70

years but this rope is

forever but this rope this red is 70

years the rest of this rope is eternity

sir why you going to spend all your life

on

this when you got all of this to

come so he says if you want to make it

with this this look at all this cuz

you’ll bring this in proper

perspective I can’t see where this rope

ends and that’s how eternity ends it has

no place to end this place ends and it’s

going to come to a

conclusion When Death knocks on your

door and this comes to a conclusion you

better be hanging on to all of this cuz

this determines where things will wind

up so I want all of you to look at life

from an eternal

perspective and begin to live it that

way and as you do you won’t faint you’ll

struggle there’ll be trials

tribulations but you’ll make it because

you’ll be walking with an eternal weight

of

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Glory

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on a clear day like today here in the

Rocky Mountains you can see a long way

because there are no obstructions

there’s nothing blocking The View when

you get a clear view of Heaven you can

see much better how to maneuver on Earth

because you’re seeing things as they

really are but the enemy he wants to

obscure that he wants to take away the

Son of God and turn it into the

cloudiness of man so keep your view on

heaven and you’ll be able to make sense

of what you’re looking at on Earth lose

the view of Heaven and Earth will become

very confusing what heaven offers us is

a clear sky so that as we navigate life

on Earth we be able to make the best

possible decisions to guide us in the

way God would have us

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