sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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Do you have a conception, indeed, do you have an experience of joy that can account for 2 Corinthians 6.10? Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. Sorrowful, yet always. Not after the sorrow, in, under, through the sorrow. Always rejoicing. category for that. You have an experience of that. If you don't, you will not be able to make sense out of this church or the Bible. do you have a category that makes sense? Do you have a conception of enjoying Jesus that makes sense out of 2 Corinthians 7, 4, where Paul says, in all our afflictions. Now, you've got to pause there and remember chapter 11, chapter 6, where he lists 26 horrors that he walks through. Paul lived a life of continual threat and sorrow and grief and pain in and out of prison, in and out of beatings, in and out of lacerations on his back, in and out of conflicts. He lived a life of continual weeping, I would dare say. And he says, in all our afflictions, we are overflowing with joy. …
… I'm not saying we have to suppress our emotions or not think things. But what I'm saying is, according to Scripture, the Bible tells us, 2 Corinthians 6.10, that as sorrowful, yet still rejoicing. That I can have emotions and feelings, but yet let me still rejoice. I can have the world around me going crazy, but yet let me still rejoice. we need consistent joy and we need to talk about joy more so can we talk about joy this morning i said can we talk about joy this morning And I want us to look at a unique place in Scripture as we unpack this idea of joy. And I want us to go to Genesis 21. And what you will find here in Genesis 21, and it'll be up on the screen, we find here a type and shadow of New Testament Scripture and a type and shadow of this picture of protecting your joy. And we'll start with verse 1. It says, male. Keep that in mind. Hold that note. But here it tells us whom Sarah bore to him. They're making a distinction. Isaac. We see here that Abraham and Sarah was given a promise in the form of a seed. …
… and good report, regarded as deceivers and yet true, as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold we live, as punished yet not put to death, as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, yet possessing all things." He sees his calling as a deprivation. He had to give up virtually everything to be this servant of the Lord, not glamorous. And going back to 1 Corinthians chapter 4, Paul adds a second description in verse 1, and stewards of the mysteries of God. What is a steward? Really it's a house manager, somebody who manages a house, oikonomos. Oikos is the word for house, and the verb for manage is connected to it. So what he is saying is, I don't own the house, I just manage the house for the owner. I'm a steward, and what are the responsibilities I have? to make sure that I manage well the mysteries of God. That is the role that the servant of the Lord plays. …