Community Bible Chapel

 

1.  A Confident Outlook – 5:1

  a. Striking our tent (our earthly residence) – v1s

  b. Inheriting an eternal tent (our future residence) -1b

 

2. Groaning and Desiring a Heavenly Residence – 5:2-5

  a. Agonizing for a new body – v2

  b. A new body that is appropriate for heaven – v3

  c. A earthly body produces a desire for a heavenly one – v4

  d. God’s plan for His people: a new body guaranteed – v5 

 

2 Corinthians 5:1-5

 

v1For we know that if our earthly residence, a tent, is torn down, we have a building from God, a residence not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

v2Moreover, in this tent we groan, greatly desiring to put on our habitation from heaven,

v3⌜assuming that⌝, ⌜putting it on⌝, we will not be found inadequately dressed.

v4For indeed, while we are in this tent we groan because we are burdened; it is not that we want to be undressed, but rather to be fully clothed, in order that what is mortal might be swallowed up by life.

v5Now God is the One who has prepared us for this very event and given to us the down payment of the Spirit.