The Road to Contentment // The Road to Contentment, Part 2

<p>Who doesn’t want that? Problem is that we all have stuff going on in our lives that seems to rob us of contentment. Okay, so perhaps God wants you and me to be content. But some days, that just feels like mission impossible.</p> <div id="transcript33302-2" class="" data-toggler="is-hidden" aria-expanded="false"> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>MISSION IMPOSSIBLE</strong></span></h4> <p>Today we’re going to head off on a journey with the Apostle Paul that’s a bit of a mission impossible. Paul was a guy who, in the first century had persecuted Christians. That was, until he encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus. That meeting totally changed his life. To the point, where he went out and started sharing the Good News of Jesus with the rest of the world … a complete turnaround.</p> <p>We’re going to pick up some of the story today as he recounts it to his friends in Corinth. Now, Corinth was a racy place, a busy city at the intersection of a couple of major trade routes from east to west. It was a city full of immorality and so even though there was a church there in Corinth, a large, thriving church, they were into a lot of stuff – reflective of the culture in which they lived, which was far from godly.</p> <p>So the Apostle Paul wrote them a letter, we call it 1st Corinthians, these day’s it’s one of the books in the New Testament of the Bible. And it’s a pretty harsh document. A tough going over for the Corinthians.</p> <p>But we’re going to pick up the story in the second letter that he wrote to them, 2nd Corinthians, because in it, he shares much of the story of his journey thus far. And I have to tell you, it was seriously a case of mission impossible, or so it seemed from a human perspective. Especially when it comes to experiencing contentment, which is what we’re talking about in this series of messages <em>The Road to Contentment</em>.</p> <p>So, let’s join the apostle Paul. We’re going to read 2 Corinthians, chapter 4 from beginning to end. Paul writes:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><e