Assertion: affliction | /r/HasProperty | light
Facets:
value: in the light of the goal
type: OTHER
value: in this present state
type: LOCATION
value: in the light of the glory
type: LOCATION
value: compared to the blessings
type: OTHER
value: paul
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The subject for today, as we continue our study of 2 Corinthians, is “When Affliction is Light.
text: But in the New Testament it is a postulate of faith, and by it the Christian is able to fortify himself in affliction, remembering that his affliction is light and momentary compared with the "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" which is to issue out of it (2 Corinthians 4:17
text: Well Paul, your affliction might be light, but mine isn’t.
text: If Paul could say his affliction was light, then what is ours?
text: Yes, our affliction is light!
text: Our affliction is light compared to what others suffer.
text: Our affliction is light compared to what we deserve.
text: Our affliction is light compared to what Jesus suffered for us.
text: Our affliction is light compared to the blessings we enjoy.
text: Our affliction is light as we experience the sustaining power of God’s grace.
text: Our affliction is light when we see the glory that it leads to.
text: How our affliction, in this present state, is but light, and endures, speaking comparatively, but for a moment.
text: Weigh your deservings against your afflictions– then examine the scale and see whether your afflictions are heavy or light.
text: Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve.
text: They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus.
text: It is not sufficient to say that the affliction was "light" or was a mere trifle; but he says that it was to endure but for a moment.
text: The apostle evidently wished to express two ideas in as emphatic a manner as possible; first, that the affliction was light, and, secondly, that it was transient, momentary, and soon passing away.
text: The affliction was light; but the crown, the robe, the adornings in the glorious world were not trifles, or baubles, but solid, substantial, weighty.
text: Their affliction is represented as "light" which though it is not in itself, but often very grievous and heavy to be borne, especially when any soul trouble is added to it; yet is light, when the saint is supported by the arm of the Lord, indulged with his presence, and favoured with the discoveries of his love.
text: The afflictions of God's people are light, when compared with their deserts, with the sufferings of Christ, the torments of the damned in hell, and the joys of heaven, which are here, by way of opposition thereunto, styled a "weight of glory".
text: Now, when he says that affliction is light, it’s only in comparison, of course, with the glory that he will speak about the eternal weight of glory.
text: In the light of the glory that is to follow, the affliction is light.
text: Well, affliction experienced in that is light in the light of the goal that is before the apostle or his object.
text: That is the affliction is light.