This exposition of 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday evening, June 3, 2018.
Intro:
Everyone has a worldview. A perspective that governs how They understand and interpret the world around them.
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It determines how you act and react. Now, you may not have given it much thought. In fact your worldview my be by default rather than choice. It may be that you’ve not asked yourself how you see the world, how your values shape your understanding and the way your values determine your actions and choices everyday but they do. As the people of God the Scriptures are to shape our worldview. The truth revealed in God’s Word is to determine how we act and react, how we evaluate and determine what is true and beautiful and good. This is what marks us as unique or different. We are to be a “peculiar” people - some of you are pretty good at that! To be Christian is not just to believe certain things but to act a certain way and to think a certain way. Biblical truth is to work its way into every area of our lives and affect everything we do.
There is a principle that keeps showing up in Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth. The one we call Second Corinthians though it is probably the 3rd or 4th letter he wrote to them! It is a principle that shows itself again in our text this evening found in the 5th chapter.
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
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The principle is this…
What you believe about the future determines how you live today.
In our text we discover that…
Thesis: Confidence in future glory creates a sense of longing that produces hope that inspires godly living.
The naturalist worldview, that rejects a personal God, says that this life is all there is. Get all you can and can all you get because this is it. There is nothing beyond the grave. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. That is not the Christian worldview, that is not the perspective of the apostle Paul. In fact he says, For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
This is our first point.
- Believers live in the certainty of the future glorious resurrection of the body. (5:1)
- This certainty of future resurrection create a heavenly longing within the heart of the child of God. (5:2-5)
- This heavenly longing produces a confident hope that infuses the believer’s attitude. (5:6-8)
- This confident hope inspires a definite resolve to live a godly life. (5:9-10)
Conclusion:
What you believe about the future determines how you live today.
Confidence in future glory creates a sense of longing that produces hope that inspires godly living.
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