Our Future Hope 2 Corinthians 5 1 17

Our Future Hope 2 Corinthians 5: 1 -17

2 Corinthians 4: 16 -18 “Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal”

“The Scriptures are clear: ‘if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together’ (Romans 8: 17). Glory is tied to suffering, and God will accomplish in us a glory far heavier than any affliction we have suffered here.

“Affliction is not something to be endured in order to reach glory. It is the very process which creates the glory. Through travail comes birth. ”

“When we look at the things which are seen, all we see is our light affliction, and then it doesn’t seem very light! But when we look at the things which are not seen, then we see and appreciate the eternal weight of glory. ”

“Paul isn’t saying that all afflictions automatically produce glory. It is possible to allow suffering to destroy us and to let affliction make us bitter, miserable, and self-focused.

However, if we will look to the things which are not seen then our affliction will work in us an eternal weight of glory. ” David Guzik

2 Corinthians 5: 1 -5 “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands. ”

We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.

While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.

God Himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee He has given us His Holy Spirit. ”

1 Corinthians 15: 54 “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’”

2 Corinthians 5: 6 -9 “So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not by seeing. “…we walk by faith, not by sight. ” NKJ

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please Him. ”

“Faith is for this world, and sight is reserved for the other world: and it is our duty, and will be our interest, to walk by faith, till we come to live by sight. ” Matthew Henry

2 Corinthians 5: 10 -11 a “For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord we work hard to persuade others. ”

1 Corinthians 3: 11 -15 “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear;

…for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. ”

2 Corinthians 5: 11 b-16 “God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too. Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart.

If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.

He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. ”

Romans 6: 4 “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ”

2 Corinthians 5: 16 “So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. ” At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know Him now!”

2 Corinthians 5: 17 “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

Ephesians 1: 3 -4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

…just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ”