2 Corinthians, Chapter 5, Continued
The Whole Counsel of God
Fr. Stephen De Young, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God. |
| 0:08.2 | Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest, |
| 0:15.5 | serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana. |
| 0:21.0 | So verse five, |
| 0:22.9 | he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, |
| 0:25.9 | who also has given us the spirit as a guarantee. |
| 0:29.4 | So this is the second time St. Paul has talked about |
| 0:32.0 | the spirit as a seal or a guarantee or a deposit, |
| 0:36.1 | right? |
| 0:36.9 | Which is deposit is sort of the language here again, right? |
| 0:40.5 | Where he's saying, God is preparing us for this, right? |
| 0:45.0 | This isn't just a hope or a dream, right? |
| 0:47.9 | This is something that God is preparing us for in this life, is this destiny. |
| 0:52.6 | And he's given us the Holy Spirit to dwell within us sort of like |
| 0:56.4 | a down payment. Right. That's why you make a down payment to ensure that you're going to come and |
| 1:00.9 | pay the rest. Right. So this is, the Holy Spirit is a down payment to us. Sort of the first taste of being in the presence of God in the age to come. |
| 1:14.3 | And it's sort of a guarantee to us that this is true, that we're going to receive the rest |
| 1:19.6 | in the future. |
| 1:24.9 | Verse six, so we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from |
| 1:30.6 | the lord for we walk by faith not by sight we are confident yes well pleased rather to be absent from |
| 1:38.5 | the body and to be present with the lord okay so right now is so we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the |
| 1:48.6 | body we are absent from the Lord, right? Not meaning like Christ isn't with us, right? That's not |
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