Compared to everyone else, it's easy to see what we don't have, where we're lacking, and how we don't measure up. We protect ourselves from vulnerability by projecting a flimsy, false perfection to the world around us. But what do we miss when we choose to hide our true selves? In the final part of our series The Hope of Glory, Mark Pomery shows us the pain comparison can cause, and teaches us to redirect that attention towards a far more beneficial pursuit. Follow along with our podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-church/id634597356?mt=2

2. MARK
POMERY
Senior Leader
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3. The PROBLEM
WITH PINTEREST
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4. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage
images
content through collections known as
pinboards.
others on the main page. Users can then save
individual pins to one of their own boards
using the
typically organized by a central topic or
theme.
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6. A visually driven social media platform
strategically designed for non-stop, 24 hour
a day, seven day a week reminders that your
kids are not as well dressed as your
neighbour’s kids, your home is decorated like
crap, the pictures you take on your phone
are comparatively artless, you did a terrible
job planning your own wedding, and that
you live a generally tedious, monotonous,
painfully dull existence that is slowly
draining the life out of you, unlike everyone
else in your life whose lives are
categorically awesome at all times..
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11. With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing
holds us back. Unlike Moses, we have nothing
to hide. Everything is out in the open with us.
He wore a veil so the children of Israel
wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading
away
notice it then and they don’t notice it now,
don’t notice that there’s nothing left behind
that veil
Paul
2 Corinthians Chapter 3 Verses 12 - 18
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12. Even today when the proclamations of that
old, bankrupt government are read out, they
can’t see through it.
of the veil
that there’s nothing there.e that there’s
nothing left behind that veil
Paul
2 Corinthians Chapter 3 Verses 12 - 18
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13. ‘You should
‘Me too.’
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14. Whenever, though, they turn to face God as
Moses did, God removes the veil and there
they are
recognize that God is a living, personal
presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And
when God is personally present, a living
Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is
recognized as obsolete.
Paul
2 Corinthians Chapter 3 Verses 12 - 18
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15. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between
us and God, our faces shining with the
brightness of his face. And so we are
transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives
gradually becoming brighter and more
beautiful as God enters our lives and we
become like him.
Paul
2 Corinthians Chapter 3 Verses 12 - 18
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