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🗓️ 5 December 2020
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:07.0 | Yesterday, Paul compared our bodies to jars of clay. |
0:16.3 | And today he continues his third letter to the Corinthians by comparing them to tents, |
0:20.6 | which are not very sturdy. |
0:22.4 | What they need is for someone to build an eternal mansion around them, our resurrection bodies. |
0:27.2 | Because right now, our tent bodies still suffer from the elements and from attackers. |
0:31.7 | God says that will happen someday. |
0:33.5 | In fact, inside these tents, lives the mansion maker, the spirit, and he is preparing |
0:38.7 | us for the mansion. |
0:40.3 | Remember how Jesus said he is going to prepare a place for us? |
0:43.6 | God also says he is working to prepare us for it. |
0:47.2 | God is the one who does all the prep work. |
0:49.0 | And part of that preparation is giving us his spirit, his guarantee. |
0:52.8 | In the midst of all Paul's trials, it's not death he's wishing for. |
0:56.7 | It's eternal life. |
0:58.2 | He says he'll either be alive here or be alive with Christ. |
1:01.7 | Because for anyone with the spirit, death is the thing we kind of step through or pass |
1:06.0 | over. |
1:07.0 | It's not really clear in Scripture. |
1:08.9 | But here's one thing Paul says is true of those who died before Christ return, which |
1:12.7 | might also apply to us someday. |
1:14.9 | In 5-4, he says they live in this unclothed state where their spirits are disembodied and |
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