Shield of Faith Attitude!

(2 Corinthians 4:5 AMP) For what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your servants (slaves) for Jesus' sake.

(2 Corinthians 4:6a AMP) For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty

(2 Corinthians 4:6b AMP) and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.]

Paul’s Belief & Motivation He wanted: To beam forth the Light The knowledge of God’s majesty and glory can be seen People to see it in the Jesus Christ (the Messiah)

(2 Corinthians 4:7 AMP) However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.

Believe God for the Spiritual Use your faith to believe this: That people will know that the power at work in you came from God and not you!

(2 Corinthians 4:8a AMP) We are hedged in (pressed) on every side [troubled and oppressed in every way], but not cramped or crushed;

(2 Corinthians 4:8b AMP) We suffer embarrassments and are perplexed and unable to find a way out, but not driven to despair;

(2 Corinthians 4:9 AMP) We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;

(2 Corinthians 4:10 AMP) Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies.

(2 Corinthians 4:11 AMP) For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.

Keep your shield up so “that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.”

(2 Corinthians 4:12 AMP) Thus death is actively at work in us, but [it is in order that our] life [may be actively at work] in you.

(2 Corinthians 4:13 AMP) Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak, [Ps. 116:10.]

(Psalms 116:10 AMP) I believed (trusted in, relied on, and clung to my God), and therefore have I spoken [even when I said], I am greatly afflicted. [II Cor. 4:13.]

(2 Corinthians 4:14 AMP) Assured that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and bring us [along] with you into His presence.

Shield of Faith: Assured and confident that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus He bring us [along] with you into His presence

(2 Corinthians 4:15a AMP) For all [these] things are [taking place] for your sake, so that the more grace (divine favor and spiritual blessing) extends to more and more people and multiplies through the many,

the more thanksgiving may increase [and redound] to the glory of God. (2 Corinthians 4:15b AMP) the more thanksgiving may increase [and redound] to the glory of God.

His shield was that he believed he will enter into His presence by the One who raised Jesus. It would help him to live and stay focused and remain confident so that (Two things)

Paul endured - he wanted: More grace will extend to more and more people and multiplies More thanksgiving may increase to God’s glory!!

(2 Corinthians 4:16a AMP) Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear).

(2 Corinthians 4:16b AMP) Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.

It is because of our shield (confidence in God doing what He said, that He who raised Jesus will bring us into His presence) that We do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear)

Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.

Our actions are responses to our confidence, assurance and evidence!!

(2 Corinthians 4:17a AMP) For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure,

(2 Corinthians 4:17b AMP) [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],

excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, Paul can call them light because of the extended & everlasting glory that is beyond all measure excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent (superior, excellent, supreme, great, unequalled, unmatched) glory and blessedness never to cease!],

(2 Corinthians 4:18 AMP) Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

He focused on the invisible evidence obtained from God He kept his shield on He focused on the invisible evidence obtained from God Those things are deathless and everlasting!!!! Hallelujah!! All these will come in automatically.