II Corinthians 5:1-11

Mike Focht  WED1182  10/25/2023
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The Intermediate State

Mike and Brian sit down to discuss 2 Corinthians 5 and how it informs our understanding of what is often called "The Intermediate State," which is the time in between Christ's ascension and his return, including the time a believer personally experiences after they die, but before Christ returns.

The Intermediate State

Mike and Brian sit down to discuss 2 Corinthians 5 and how it informs our understanding of what is often called "The Intermediate State," which is the time in between Christ's ascension and his return, including the time a believer personally experiences after they die, but before Christ returns.

The Intermediate State

  1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
  3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
  4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
  5. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  7. (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
  8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  9. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
  10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
  11. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
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