3/25/2023 0 Comments Judgment seat of christ kjv(2-4) Our longing for the heavenly body.įor in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. They go there with the furrowed brow, the hollowed cheek, the wrinkled skin they shall wake up in beauty and glory.” (Spurgeon) 2. “The righteous are put into their graves all weary and worn but as such they will not rise. Resurrection is how God saves our bodies. Salvation isn’t just for the soul or spirit, but for the body also. ![]() After all, Jesus has been preparing that place for us since He ascended into heaven. ![]() According to the literal wording of the ancient Greek, the word for mansions is better translated “dwelling place” or “a place to stay.” But in light of God’s character, it is better translated mansions! This building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens will be a glorious place to stay, a mansion for all eternity. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2). Jesus said, “In My Father’s house are many mansions if it were not so, I would have told you. ![]() God specially makes them to suit the environment of eternity and heaven they are eternal in the heavens. A house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: Our future bodies are not made with hands. There is much more to me than this body.Ĭ. It is a mistake to say, “My body isn’t me.” In truth, my body is me, but only part of me. This means that we are more than our bodies and explains why Paul could consider all the pain and discomfort in his body a light affliction compared to the eternal weight of glory to come. “Many people are in a great fright about the future, yet here is Paul viewing the worst thing that could happen to him with such complacency that he likens it to nothing worse than the pulling down of tent in which he was making shift to reside for a little season.” (Spurgeon) Destroyed is the very same word used for “striking down a tent.” One day, God will “strike the tent,” and we will each receive a new building from God, a place to live in through all eternity. If the tent is destroyed, we still have an eternal hope: a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Our earthly house, this tent: Paul thinks of our bodies as tents – temporary structures that cannot be thought of as the whole person. There are other dainty dishes in this feast, but this is the banquet.” (Trapp)ī. ![]() “Not we think, or hope only this is the top-gallant of faith, the triumph of trust this is, as Latimer calls it, the sweet-meats of the feast of a good conscience. In this discussion, Paul is bold enough to say, “ We know.” Christians can know what the world beyond this one is like because we know what God’s eternal word says. Now, Paul will write more about this contrast between the earthly and the eternal. For we know: Paul has just contrasted our light affliction with a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, and things which are seen and temporary with things that are not seen and eternal (2 Corinthians 4:17-18). (1) Our existence in the world to come.įor we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.Ī. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.ġ1 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men but we are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.ġ2 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.ġ3 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.ġ4 For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:ġ5 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.ġ6 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.ġ7 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away behold, all things are become new.ġ8 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ġ9 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.Ģ0 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.Ģ1 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.A.
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