2Co 5:1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2Co 5:2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,
2Co 5:3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.
2Co 5:4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
2Co 5:5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
2Co 5:6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
2Co 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
2Co 5:8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins and by faith in him we receive eternal life. Because he overcame death, so shall we.
I met a friend that I knew from the college band that I had not seen in fifteen years. He spoke to me "the Lord is good" and we were as brothers again. The place we were at was at the Veterans cemetery, a beautiful setting for a funeral and a final burial. We were there for a musician friends funeral. It was a military funeral with the traditional honors and the presenting of the flag to the widow. The widow read a poem about bicycling in heaven in meadows of flowers and under a star filled sky. Her husband loved to ride his bicycle in marathons with friends. People get sentimental, but we tend to make up stories about heaven that are not based on truth. Give me the evidence of the Bible. The promise that in Jesus Christ we will be clothed in a new body and be with him forever.
2Co 5:8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
We have life in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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