2 Corinthians 4:16-18

In this lecture on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Fr. Gabriel reflects on Great Lent as the "Lenten spring": we prepare the soil of our hearts through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, but new life comes in God's time, not ours. He walks through Paul's words "we do not lose heart" and the outward man perishing while the inward man is renewed day by day. The class talks about why true Christians are the ones who struggle, why God so often works in the part of us we cannot see, and what it means that our light affliction is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. He closes on the difference between the things which are seen and temporary and the things which are not seen and eternal.