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Sacred Sunday~II Corinthians Chapter 5/The New Self

Sacred Sunday~II Corinthians Chapter 5/The New Self

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Today we are reading II Corinthians Chapter 5. Join us for our weekly Bible reading!

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Welcome! We are reading II Corinthians Chapter 5. Here's a nice
thought: if the tent we live in was suddenly destroyed (flash
flood?) we would have a nice home with God. In Heaven, there is no
mortgage or rent, either. Right now, we're all sitting here on
earth just waiting to go to our homes in Heaven. On Earth, we're
away from God. But, that's doesn't mean we shouldn't keep doing
everything we can to make him happy. In fact, it probably means we
should be more focused on making God happy. After all, he is going
to judge the heck out of us when we're done with our time on Earth.
Gulp. No worries (if you're Christian, that is)! Believers know God
and try to pass the good news about him onto others. He loves that
stuff, so it's gonna work out pretty well for those guys. Again,
Paul isn't trying to brag. He just wants to give the Corinthians
some ammunition to use against his detractors (those so-called
apostles that have been hanging around Corinth). These guys put a
lot of stock in public displays of religiosity. They're obsessed
with looking holy, Paul thinks. But Paul knows that real authority
doesn't come from how religious you look, but from your devotion to
God's people. After all, Jesus died so that all of us could live.
Now, we don't live for ourselves anymore, but for Jesus. So if
you're truly a believer in Christ, your old self is dead. You're a
new person. You don't see things in a regular old human way
anymore. All this stuff, it's directly from God. Paul urges
everyone to "be reconciled to God." Basically that just means that
people need to work on making things right between themselves and
the Big Guy. This is obviously what God wants from us. After all,
God could have kept a big old score card of our sins, but he threw
it away and sent Jesus instead. God's cool like that.
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