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SLIDE 2
2 Cor 5:1-
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SLIDE 3
2 cor
2 cor 5.4-
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SLIDE 4
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SLIDE 5
2 cor 5.
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INTRO:
2 cor 5.6-7
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The Apostle Paul knew how to relate to every day, common people.
He explained incredibly complex, spiritual concepts… with every day, ordinary things.
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In the previous study… he talks about clay pots.
Everybody had clay pots in their house.
They used them for common things… for food, for water, to clean with, to mix contents together with… everyone had them.
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In this study, he’s talking about a tent.
This was easy for people to relate to.
Some folks actually lived in tents.
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They knew how common and how fragile these every day items were..
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And Paul used these common things… to declare an uncommon message.
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You, Christian… are like this clay pot… But, though common and fragile on the outside… the inside is holds a treasure great, the mind cannot comprehend..
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You, Christian… are like a tent… Yes, it is common and fragile…but take heart… it’s only temporary.
You will soon leave it behind and be transformed and glorified into something wonderful, heavenly, and eternal.
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Paul is constantly calling us to find reason.
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Look at yourself.
Consider your circumstances.
Think about the stuff you are going through.
Think about the reaction that occurs in the world around you when your faith acts as a catalyst to both good and tragic results.
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Look at the big picture… there’s a reason for what we see here in the small and in the temporary.. and that reason reaches up and beyond to something much bigger…
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So yes, we are pressed on every side and not crushed.
But there is a reason for that.
So yes… we are perplexed but not driven to great despair… and there’s a reason for that…
Yes we are persecuted but not forsaken… but there’s a reason...
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Yes, we are struck down but not destroyed… but… look at the big picture.
It’s a picture that gives… even in the midst of hardship, rejection, pain and depression… - it’s a picture that gives hope..
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So now, as Paul transitions from talking about clay pots… and moves on to tents… he does it to instill in his readers… this very message of hope.
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So… today as we look at these 10 verses, we will consider them with three points..
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SLIDE 6
THE REASON FOR CONFLICT (1-4)
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SLIDE 7
THE REASON FOR CONFLICT (1-4)
THE REASON FOR COURAGE (5-8)
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SLIDE 8
THE REASON FOR CONFLICT (1-4)
THE REASON FOR COURAGE (5-8)
THE REASON FOR CHARACTER (9-10)
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(bring up slide 6 again) THE REASON FOR CONFLICT (1-4)
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Look again at the first four verses…
THE FIRST THING WE SEE… in verse one… is that our body is being compared to a tent.
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As a tent… it comes with limitation.
It is EASILY DAMAGED… it is PRONE TO WEAR AND TEAR… it requires frequent REPAIR AND UPKEEP… It’s not very STURDY.
It’s not resilient in the presence of HARSH CIRCUMSTANCES.
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Some storms are too much for it to bear.
It only provides shelter and warmth, in a small window of environment circumstance.
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No matter how much care and repair you bring to it… with daily use, it’s just not going to last very long.
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The first thing we learn about this tent in verse one… is that it’s going to be destroyed.
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Well… that’s encouraging.
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This earthly habitation… is temporary, fragile, disposable… and slated for destruction.
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And yet, as we are about to see… Paul gives us this info to set up a case for hope.
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This is not… a flattering description of our bodies.
And yet, as Paul opens our eyes to see w/o bias the reality of our condition… he does it, so we can be in a place to see something greater than ourselves.
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Here’s a cold hard reality… if we are unable to be honest with our own tent-like condition… if we are unable to see our own frailty… our own brokenness… our failures… our weakness… the places where we fall short…
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If we can’t take criticism with humility and an intent for change...
If our opinion of ourselves is so high, that any reflection of fragility or insufficiency sparks a reaction of pride, offense, counter attack or blame shifting…
If the problem is ALWAYS… someone elses’
If it’s never our fault...
If we are right, and everyone else is a moron
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Then we are deceived… and we are not in a place where we will truly be able to live out the hope that Paul is about to show us.
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This hope is revealed in the second half of verse one.
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“when this earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, “a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
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Folks… this might sound weird… but there is hope, in the awareness of our pending destruction.
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Why?
Because we truly believe… that God is going to replace this broken and ratty tent… with a building from God… eternal in the heavens.
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Paul spoke of this contrast a few times… In , in … but most prominently.. in .
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SLIDE 9
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This is another way of saying: “I consider that this fragile tent is not worth comparing, to the building from God, eternal in the Heavens.
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In vs. 19 he goes on to say that creation waits with eager longing ....
WHY IS IT LONGING?
because it was subjected to futility…
WHY DOES CREATION SUFFER THE FEELING OF FUTILITY?
So that is would realize… in the midst of the futility… it was also, subjected in hope.
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WHAT DOES THIS HOPE REVEAL?
… it reveals… the promise… that it will one day be set free from the bondage of corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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But for now… look at Rom.8.22
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SLIDE 10
Rom 18.22
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ROM 18.22
Creation is groaning.
Why?
Because it too feels the conflict.
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Creation groans in … and in … it’s us… His children… His church… His redeemed family living down here in tents… WE TOO ARE GROANING.
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SLIDE 11
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AND THEN… verse 4… more groaning… and being burdened… - Because this conflict leaves us in a place… where, because of hope… we desire to be further clothed.
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We desire, in the recognition of our current state… to have something better.
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In previous studies from this letter, we have talked about the conflict that arrises when we, as spiritual being seek to live spiritually in this broken world..
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Often times… it creates a problem.
A contrast.
A conflict.
It serves as a catalyst.
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And we see… that God’s Spirit and the spirit of this world… don’t mix.
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