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Sermon from April 30, 2023

 

[Lori Jane]

Absent from the Body and at Home with the Lord​

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For indeed, in this house we groan, because we* desire to put on our dwelling from heaven,
3 if indeed, even after we* have taken it off, we will not be found naked.
4 For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened ⌊for this reason, that⌋ we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5 Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.
6 Therefore, although we are* always confident and know that while we* are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
7 for we live by faith, not by sight—
8 so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the things through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.


W. Hall Harris III et al., eds., The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), 2 Co 5:1–10.

 

[Lori Jane]

Notes and Scriptures Cites​

• 2 bodies
  • the one we have now
  • the one we will get at the end of the age
    • our resurrection body
• 1 Cor 15:54
  • death swallowed up = victory
• downpayment is holy spirit
• Col 1:27
  • Christ in us is the down payment
• 1 John 3:2
  • we will be like Jesus
  • we will see him as he truly is now
  • we will be able to fully identify with Christ
• Paul did not say he expected to be immediately with the Lord when he died
• 1 Cor 15:52 explains future time
• Matthew 24:31
• 1 Thess 4:16-17
  • dead in Christ will rise first, then those alive
  • caught up to meet Lord in the air
  • instantly changed
• where Jesus will be is on his way to Earth
  • to stand on the Mount of Olives
• 1 Cor 15:52
• 2 Tim 4:7-8
• Paul expected to be clothed in immortality - not immediately upon his death
• Hebrews 11:39-40
  • none of the people of faith has received a resurrection yet
• We live a temporary existense
• We have a hope and prospect of a building from god - a new body
• The ultimate goal is to be present with the Lord
• Acts 4:13
  • we can be bold with this truthh
• So much in this world that

 

[LeeB]

This disproves the idea that our resurrection body is not be glorified flesh.
I have a post about glorified flesh that explains that Jesus was not glorified at his resurrection but at his ascension. Paul knew what Jesus knew, death is like sleep. However when all people die their human spirit, which is what and who we really are, goes to God, in heaven, unconscious and waiting for one of two resurrections. In this sense everyone goes to heaven when they die. I have a post on this topic as well.

 

[Lori Jane]

In this sense everyone goes to heaven when they die.

This is exactly how I explain it to my kids. We don't go literally. Our spirit is held in God's bank in heaven so to speak.

 

[LeeB]

This is exactly how I explain it to my kids. We don't go literally. Our spirit is held in God's bank in heaven so to speak.

Wonderful way to put it Lori Jane. Your children have a good mother.