Flag that allows the protester to burn the flag Lord hold our troops in your loving hands protect them as they protect us bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. And that's never Larsen director of Christian programming for Crawford broadcasting company tomorrow Mr Crawford will have more to say to honor all who have and are continuing to ensure that America is the land of the free because of the brave Hi Bill McCormick. Your body mind and soul are 26 or feel t t k o t h e Commerce City and f. a 95. And spring 670 k l t dot com. What I said yesterday may surprise may have surprised you and so we need to look at this in Romans Chapter 5 because it is an astonishing passage unique in all the Bible. Reveals to us God's far reaching plan for the human race let's look at it it is enormously encouraging and it will enable you to know that God will see you through no matter how difficult the circumstances of life may be calling and how it happens thanks so much for joining me today a listening to the good news of the Gospel the heart of a Father and His Son Jesus Christ whom sacrificed himself for us that we may be in him in the kingdom eternally living with him and all of this is lovingly communicated to us by the Holy Spirit who enables us to believe it's we have we have the Trinity we have the majority in favor even if the world is against us listen to the program if you can Monday through Friday 10 o'clock in the evening repeated at 4 in the morning on k l t t m 670 or catch it on your remote device by downloading a free app either spotted from oil pod being or Sound Cloud and key and how it happens with common code when you get there so we have been looking yesterday looking at Romans Chapter 5 this astonishing passage that reveals Gonds plan. For the world now I'm going to read it this time I didn't yesterday I thought I'd explain it 1st but now let me read it to you. From what is this the revised King James Version I think it is here we are Romans 512221 therefore through one man sin entered the world and death through sin and death spread to men because all sinned. For until the moon was in the world but sin is not for until the sin was in the world but sin is not imputed weather is known now nevertheless death reign from Adam to Moses even over those who have not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam who is a type of the one who is to come but the free gift is not like the offense for if by the one amends offense many died much more the grace of God than the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abounded to many and the gift is not like that which came through the one who send for the judgment which came from one of fence resulted in condemnation but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification for if by the one man's offense death the rain through the one man much of those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ therefore through one man's offense judgment came to a man resulting in condemnation even so through one man's righteous act the free gift came to men resulting in justification of life for by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous Moreover the living ended that the offense is mine to bound but where sin abounded Grace abounded much more. So that reigned in death even so Grace mind rain through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord I know that's a whopper of a quotation and so I want to break it down again today if this sounds a bit repetitive repetitive. In relation to yesterday then so be it because it is such an important passage and then I want to keep explaining and exploring for you want this implies for all of us. This is the peak at the high point of the book of Romans this is the Himalayan summit this is where we see the government's plan revealed in an astonishing from reaching way. Says I said yesterday that that Adam is a type a parallel of Jesus Christ now that is an astonishing idea and statement it sounds outrageous in fact because Adam brought in sin and death Jesus didn't bring in sin and death Jesus wasn't a sinner he brought in righteousness and life soon the law in the world would say that Adam was a type of Jesus Christ he could have avoided that all together and not confused us he could have said Well Adam brought in sin and death but Jesus Christ brought brought in righteousness and life but no he goes on to make this statement about. Him being a type and if you think that's just an isolated verse well remember what I just read because he goes on from that from verse 14 right down to verse 21 repeating this idea constantly of a comparison between Adam and Christ yet also a contrast he allows the contrast he certainly says the gift is not like the offense he says it twice the gift is not that which came through the one man who sinned It's not like that which came to the one man who sinned Nevertheless he makes a sort of comparison of opposites Why does he do this 2 reasons I don't absolutely clear the 1st one is that Adam's sin was unique and yet everybody thereafter suffered the judgment for it because Adam brought in sin and death and everybody experienced that sin and death even though they had not committed Adam's sin in the same way Christ came to the world and he righteousness and lived a righteous life and we. Benefited from it even though we had not shared in his righteousness so we suffer from Adam's sin in which we have no power and we benefit from Christ's righteousness in which we had no part in other words Adam and Christ were like kings and the subjects of the kingdom. Experienced what they experienced and so Adam bequeath to sin and death to the world Christ bequeath to righteousness and life to the world that's the 1st comparison they face of 1st type the 2nd type is not a lot coming out of bequeath meant. To him and gave to the world but the extant of it the extent of it. They are parallel therefore they. Are the parallelism of that he's speaking about here the type is not the nature of rot and a man Christ gave to the world but the extent of it the extent was universal in both cases. Adam sin and death don't be thrown by this word many by the way and many Christians do they come upon about this word many it doesn't mean on and so on of course it means all Paul is using it in the sense of because he says from one man's offense many don't like it well. Everybody is right and so one man's offense many donated means died and the best thing is like and in the west way I can describe it is that poem is using the word many as the mess and by the way the word they the Greek there is the many and I think that means the mess the mess of the world received a death because of Adam and also the mass of the world receives grace through Jesus Christ. Now remember what poem says in 1st Corinthians 15 it's verse $22.00 for as in Adam done even so in Christ shall be made alive we tend to underrate these verses we've already interpreted them before they got them out of his mouth it doesn't simply mean that people just as people died in Adam they'll be made a life new it says For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall be made a life that means that all shall be made alive in the resurrection life of Christ because they will have received as Paul says in Romans and Romans 5 verse 18 justification let me remind you of verse 18 therefore as through one man's offense judgment came to the man resulting in condemnation even so through one man's righteous acts the free gift came to all men resulting in justification of life this isn't a rising of the whole of the world to judgment and then death it is a rising of the will to judgment and then life now I want to emphasize to you that this message that God will ultimately save mankind is not dismissing the judgment of the Old Testament on the final judgment but what we need to understand is what the nature of the final judgment is remember that. Chapter 45 says that God swears an oath that he will never take back it has gone filth that before him every knee shall bow and every tongue shall acknowledge that in Him alone is righteousness and safety and security or strength that said righteousness and strength know that owns. That has been promised to the every initial bow is quoted by in Romans for teen and the very core of the judgment he says for we shall own stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ for it is written as I live since the moon every knee shall bow down to me and every tongue shall confess to God No I don't think that that's all going to be pretty and rosy because the truth is that the judgment of God is the flu never mention of his glory and greatness and love and mercy at the same time is the full revelation to the world of the sinfulness and brokenness and corruption and that will lead to know how to darkness and gnashing of teeth and yet it will lead to repentance and faith we have received faith now we have the 1st fruits part of our mission in the world is to people to come to him now and not have to go through the wrath to come but the ultimate plan of God is that through his loving wrath he will rescue all and he will undo everything that Adam did and really do it in Christ Christ is the reversing of history. That is what his resurrection means that is what it means in a zone of 25 that God will destroy death forever and remove it from all mankind what I hope we have so whatever you are going through whether it's terrible addictions and deep discouragement and despair. Keep throwing yourself upon God because that throwing of yourself upon God is actually God leading you in faith to trust him because he will never give up on you. May only encourage you to donate as earnestly as you can and an emergency has just risen and I want to tell you about it I had to send 500 dollars this morning to Nigeria because my account spiritually adopted son there was attacked yesterday while at the market selling his tailoring for the week and thugs came up to him and asked him if he had a license to sell he said he had he showed it to them nevertheless they beat him up anyway and he has internal bleeding and the doctor said that he is in a state. 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Dot com His name was born or it was our neighborhood bully and he kept terrorizing us younger kids stole my Chicago White Sox stuff one day I had it I marched out of that apartment where Boomer lived and demanded my stuff back but a brave little guy had well there's one thing I did leave out my father went with me and that made all the difference she brother was bigger than I was but my father was bigger than Bruno was not or know what Boomer you're facing it's bigger than you are it could be medical or family or financial the pain of your past the fears of your future even death well here's the good news whatever you bigger than you are Jesus is bigger than it is how do we know Easter on Good Friday he died to pay for every wrong thing we've ever done on Easter morning he conquered death and now he says Do not be afraid I was dead and now I am alive forever never look don't you want this power and love in your life will contact us and a day they need him or chant about Jesus dot com He can beat what you never could. 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Well come to call to freedom it's so good to have you join me today on this Veterans Day Oh and I want you to thank the Lord for priceless blessings we have today I was just thinking about that this morning and praying to the Lord for it just think of the blessings the friendships you have the family you've been given now I have a family maybe not a blood family but I have a family we had so much fun on Saturday it was a blessing it was not 1000 degrees like it is here today it was beautiful it was 77 and we just had so much such a good time talking about how God is going to take his people to absolutely better place when this world is going to go to scuse the language of hell in a basket and I'll tell you why it's going to be like that during the tribulation but we've had we had a great time and it's fills you with memories of joy when you have a family around you a Christian family around you that love you accept you no matter what and say I have family that accepts me no matter what even with all my flaws and things that have happened to me they accept me praise God so I hope that you will join us on December the 14th we're going to have another meeting 2nd Saturday of every month on. The 14th of December I hope that you will join us then. I want to just give a little recognition to our veterans today because my dad was a veteran he flew 20 missions over Germany they took off from England as many many thousands did during that time and he flew 20 missions I'll tell you when you look at those planes they're really just a tin can. With wings because when Dad came back on his is crew he had a wonderful crew they did not have pressurized cabins No So when you went up the altitudes that they did in order to go over Germany to bomb there they had to wear thick thick jackets flak jackets and when they got up to 2030000 feet without a pressurized cabin they had to come back and get their fillings refilled and their teeth I mean that would happen because there was the so much pressure in the cabin so we don't realize what they went through an end yesterday I was watching a little bit of to hell and back the story of Audie Murphy and he had more medals than any other soldier who fought in World War 2 including the Medal of Honor I mean you saw there was at the end of the movie you saw his jacket and it was just lined with medals upon medals and this guy was not big like Wayne Johnson The Rock No he was short. And he had such courage Oh my goodness if you get a chance to see to hell and back it's a beautiful movie about how they gave their lives I want to remember just a little bit on this Veterans Day because do you ever stop and think about the freedom you enjoy in this country we hear so much junk going on right now oh this is terror it's terrible in this country right now well we have freedom like Saturday we had freedom to come together and talk about the Lord Jesus worship him and there was no knock on the door you can't do this. And I'm so thankful for that have you ever think someone who has fought for that freedom I didn't thank dad enough and this morning I was going through all the memories and enjoying the memories of my dad how he sacrificed sent to send me to college and in California how he accepted John so readily after we eloped how he when we came to Greeley that I enjoyed those 56 years at a Christian bookstore with my dad as owner and how so much so much that I owe to my dad and I hope that you're thinking the same thing we owe a tremendous debt to those men and women who have served in our armed forces so that we might remain free in this country and yet so often we forget their sacrifices all have sacrificed time some have sacrificed limbs or eyesight or hearing just walk around a veteran's hospital one day and look at the permanent wounds of those who have made some kind of sacrifice to this country but so often people take those sacrifices and the reason they were made for granted tragically our country has for sake and bit by bit it's original calling consequently those who have served including those who died in battle might be dismayed at how far we've drifted from being one nation under God one writer asked a disturbing question in his letter to the editor and I'm reading from an article Why would the veterans who died in World War One World War 2 Vietnam and Korea and the Golf War we might add by this by the hundreds of thousands say if they could see the lifestyle in the United States today and the hate Have you ever seen such hate I haven't I haven't would they say is this what I gave my life or was it worth it so many in our country have taken liberty too far using the term to justify whatever they want to do today as we said. Veteran's Day remember those who serve this country phone or text or jot a note to a veteran someone you know that has served in the Army or the Air Force of the Marines or Coast Guard whatever thanking that person for serving our country I forgot the Air Force also I asked you to date to pray earnestly for our nation that we would turn around and read pant so that we may not lose our freedom so that all those who have fought will not have done so in vain God promises clemency for the nation that repents no people and this is Andrew Jackson quote no people ever lost their liberties and lest they themselves 1st became corrupt All right I'm going to say that again from Andrew Jackson no people ever lost their liberties unless they themselves 1st became corrupt so that text someone or or call someone just thank them you know my uncles that you know followed in the Korean War World War 2 They're gone now but I can thank God for them I really can. I have an article from Harold thank you so much Harold for sending this article from a Dr of political science and it's on impeachment because we're hearing so much about it right now and I want to read a little bit about what he wrote he wrote a long article but I'm not going to read all of it today. And this is why the Democrats are sky are dragging their feet and just prolonging this prolonging this prolonging this is just ridiculous the Democrats are slow in doing is impeachment process because they know that they will eventually be found out the House can pass articles of impeachment over the objections of the Republicans and refer to the Senate for trial the Senate will conduct a trial there will be a vote and the Republicans will vote unanimously along with a small number of Democrats to not convict the president legally it will be all over at that point however during the trial and this is what no one is thinking about right now the president's attorneys and that's including Jay Sekulow will have the right to subpoena and question anyone they want during this process during the trial that is different than the special counsel investigation which was very one sided so during the impeachment trial if it ever gets to that I hope it doesn't well you know in a way he's right Dr Hiram subtle falafel Can you believe that last name. I'm glad he was a Ph d. I think it would be ridiculous if it wasn't easy said this is different than the special counsel investigation which was so very one sided so during the impeachment trial I want to see these guys I want to see justice we will be hearing testimony from James Komi Peter Struck Lisa Paige Bruce or Glenn Simpson Donna Brazil I don't know why Fox interviews her so much Eric Holder Loretta Lynn Chello Christopher Steele from England. Hillary Clinton John Brennan James Clapper and a whole host of other participants in this whole sordid affair and the ensuing cover up activities a lot of dirt will be dug up a lot of truth will be unveiled finger pointing will occur deals will start being made and suddenly a lot of Democrats will start being charged and going to prison I'm going to agree with that I'm going to agree with this Dr Hiram subtle falafel and that this will happen. All this because boy I don't know if I married somebody with a last name like that I think I'd keep my maiden name. All of this because remember the president's team will now for the 1st time have the right to question all these people under oath and they will turn on each other that is already starting lastly one more thing will happen the Senate will not convict the president nothing will happen to President Trump most Americans are clueless about political processes the law and the Constitution and you know without the lawyers a close to President Trump and the godly counsel I believe that they could just push this thing through but they're not going to because he has great lawyers most Americans believe that being impeached results in removal from office remember Clinton he was impeached he was not removed from office they don't understand that Phase 2 is a trial in and by the Senate where he has 0 chance of conviction Remember the Senate is controlled by Republicans they will determine what testimony is allowed and everything will be allowed including d.n.c. Collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary and the creation of the Trump dossier the coverup and destruction of e-mails that very likely included incriminating information I'm I'm hoping that you have a little more light on the impeachment process because of this man that wrote about this and I want to I want you to think I want Scuse me I want to thank you for praying for President Trump do you know do you realize he's the 1st sitting president who attended a veterans parade today the 1st sitting president I was astounded when I heard that but yes he attended and he spoke I'm glad he's a patriot and he's supporting our troops and veterans like no other president has or you know maybe we'll have. So I appreciate you praying for him so much and washing your hands coming against Islam and coming against these spirits of anger and blasphemy and mockery and lies and deception that are going out against him praise the Lord for godly godly people like you that are praying yes I am I am so thankful for you today our memory verse for this week is John 831 through 32 this is so familiar to you and Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him If you abide in my word then you are truly disciples of mine and you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free all Father God I thank you that your truth is going out in this world and that everything that has been planned in the darkness will be revealed by your light and justice will come hollow Lujan Thank you Lord God my confession for today by Rick Renner. I confess that Satan is unable to distract me from what God has told me to do I'm going to pray that that will that shield that God is around you you know the Lord God is a son and shield he gives grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from those who walk upright leave that Psalm 8411 I confess for you today that Satan is unable to distract you from what God has told you to do praise God Although the enemy tries very hard to knock me off track I will not take my eyes off the goals God has given me nor will I ever stop pursuing those goals until I know they have been achieved some people stop their projects and stop their assignments and stop with their doing right in the middle of it and they miss the part best part of it and I pray that you will finish your projects what ever they are whatever they are the power of God resides in me the power of Christ's resurrection operates in my life I want you to stay with me the power of God resides in me the power of God resides in me how a lujah I keep pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus and Rick general Rick Jenner scuse me Rick ran or always ends his his wonderful confessions with I declare this by faith in Jesus name praise God for years I had not known the full extent of the difference between the old and the New Testaments I knew in the New Testaments Jesus came I knew that beyond a shadow of a doubt I knew the miracles came the power of God came on earth but it also did in the Old Testament so I'm I was realizing just a few years ago as I was reading e.w. Canyon that the Old Covenant and the new covenant are very different I've been reading so long that I knew that it was God who created and planned this great escape route for his people because without the new covenant we'd be dead in the water we would be we. Be headed for hell because no one could be born again in the Old Covenant and it was Jesus who went down and took captivity captive and preached to those who had died in the Old Testament and brought them up with him so I've I realize that he was coming in the flesh and bringing freedom to a lost and dying world was the best thing God could've ever planned for us 1st John I mean scuse me John $114.00 not 1st John but John St John $114.00 tells us that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we be held his glory glory as of the only gotten of the Father full of grace and truth our scripture for this week explains that when you abide in the word the truth will be revealed to you you cannot get the truth anywhere else that you can't you can go to college for 15 years you can't you won't get the truth there no the word of God is the only source of truth in your life I did not realize that the operation of the 2 covenants was so different and this is what I mean when you live by the Old Covenant works is what makes you acceptable to God in the Old Covenant they had to bring a sacrifice they had to do good deeds if you do all these commandments then I will do this that's the old covenant and you can read that in Deuteronomy 8 well who can keep all the commandments I can't and I know you can't so that was the the. Area of redemption that occurred in the Old Testament that you do something and God will do another thing now when you live by the New Covenant praise God It is the grace of God in the blood of Jesus that gives you full membership into the family of God God's part is grace in the New Testament and you're part of all this is faith you can't do anything for grace no god is the one that covers you with his. Grace and it is grace that shows the glory of God on this earth it's manifested on this earth through you but you don't have anything to do with Grace God's God's a part in all this is grace your part in all this is to build up your faith for without faith it is impossible to please God that's Hebrews 116 for he who comes to the Father must believe that he is and and I like to interject when to believe that he is I like to interject this little phrase that he is the I Am That I am that's who God is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him praise God Well sometimes Christians get the buggy before the horse Yeah they do and I suppose if you lived in the country a 100 years ago when horses and buggies were common one day you would come into the city and discover that most people reporting the buggy and from the horse and saying Gay up horse push push and somehow they couldn't get the horse to push the buggy at all you would think to yourself how incredibly stupid can the city folk be and you would be right yet the vast majority of people in America today have the gospel just that much backwards the Bible contains 2 basic elements like a horse and a buggy It contains the law and the Gospel and unless we get these in the proper relationship it will never work the proper relationship between the 2 as taught by the early church and by Augustine is the great rediscovery that Martin Luther made and proclaimed to the world on October 31st 1517 that it was by faith that we live praise God for these godly men it was dramatically changed and it has dramatically changed the world d.t. Niall's said that in other religions good works are in order all the time other religions in other religions you have to do the good works. But not with being born again by. Leave or Oh praise God you're not saved by good works but when you're truly saved good works will naturally follow you so good I find a scripture in Romans 6 to have have some freedom even when we sin and it is a wonderful scripture that says for let me look that up. I want to look up Romans 6 before we hear from Dallas Romans 6. It is so good to know that it is by faith that we live and we present ourselves to God as those who are life from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God for sin shall not master over you for you are not under the law but under grace you are no longer under the law and you have to work your head your way to heaven Praise God you don't have to work your way to God and His throne the blood of Jesus covers you and cleanses you from all unrighteousness today it's so important to remember that friend you are slaves of the one whom you obey either of sin resulting in death or of obedience resulting in righteousness but thanks be to God that although you were slaves to sin now because come obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were committed and that's the new covenant if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your savior Dallas has a wonderful home he's never seen the righteous for saken or his seed begging for bread Let's listen to him. Never seen the righteous for saken seed beggin for bread you know and if we die in this body you know where you're gone immediately to be with Jesus I mean it gets better and better it gets better and better you can say I was crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ lives in me and the life that I live in the flesh I live by the faith of God who loved me a Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me he saw me at my worst and he still died on that cross for me and friend if you are the only one he would have died for you if you were the only one on this earth he would have died for you. That wonderful to know that so when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin Ok so if you're like John in 1st John 2 he says if you say you don't sin and you're a liar Ok so that we sin but it's not a practice that we do we're learning to be holy as God is holy he told us that the whole is I am holy So we're learning the things of God the ways of God by the commandments that we read in the New Covenant yout the New Covenant and so we are becoming free of sin that doesn't mean we don't sin but when we do sin we have an Advocate with Jesus Christ he's our lawyer and we go to him and we say I'm so sorry I really goofed I messed up he says that's Ok my blood has cleansed you from all unrighteousness That's 1st John 19 so we are free from that power of sin when you are living for the devil before you've accepted Jesus you are under his the Satan's power but now Jesus has become your Savior and Lord and you are no longer under the power of sin is that wonderful praise God Well God bless you it's been a wonderful time being with you stay warm have a cup of cocoa or something and I'll see you tomorrow. 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The preceding program is sponsored by fire and rain ministries your to get am 6 of tail t t t t h d comma city down. At 951 and St It was 670 k l t t dot com. Welcome to knowing they were I'm Connie packing It's so great to join you each week day to say the God's word line by line in verse by verse we're going to enjoy our study and 2nd chapter 5 today it's one of those portions of Scripture that always brings hope everyone is interested in what the future holds we. Whan we dream we wonder we think about what will heaven be like we imagine what our heavenly bodies will do gives us a glimpse into this subject today God is in control Christian friend ready for a breakthrough tonight aren't you we're going to look to him expecting to receive what we need from the word tonight the Living Word of God 2nd Printing and the 5th chapter starts with this now we know that if this earthly tent we live in is destroyed we have a building from God an eternal house in heaven not built by human hands as you remember last week we concluded chapter 4 with the contrast where Paul is giving the idea of how that we struggle in this present body with light afflictions the afflictions that were going through our light compared with the exceeding glory of the things that are eternal So tonight when we continue on with this thought in Chapter 5 he is continuing to compare the earthly where we are right now compared to the Eternal Now this is a message of hope we sometimes use the word hope like it so weak wishy washy wishful thinking type of word for example I hope I get a raise I hope I don't get the flu I hope I get a good grade is just like oh that would be nice if but this is not the hope this used in the Greek word when Paul talks about earnestly expecting he is fully counting on us to be able to see the fulfillment of what God has promised in his word this hope then. Anticipates complete fulfillment Christians we have hope for the future many people wonder can we really know what eternity is like but Christians we have the inside track we can know what the future holds for us Christians are given the truth inside God's Word the facts are contained in God's word this is not piety in the sky thinking this is something that we can bank on we can make practical application in our life right now living our life in view of what we know is certain in the future that eternal hope now this world is filled with pressure problems pain despair darkness that's why we have to focus our hope on something that is incredibly wonderful and it is just ahead that is Haven't even if on the outside it looks like we're falling apart that this frail tant that we live in here is a detainee is going back to the dust God is making new life on the inside of us every day he provides for us new grace for the day you know when we're young the message from 1st Corinthians 5 doesn't seem to hold all the tender comfort that it does as we age but as we age the message takes on greater meaning Paul was ageing think of all the things that Paul had been through in his physical body of to this time he had been beaten he had been stoned he had been put in prison. And he had been shipwrecked he had all these difficulties that take its toll on the physical body and now don't you know that he's longing to express even though I have suffered this even though my body might be showing the pressure or the signs of aging that I've gone through in my body but in spite of that fact I want to give you a comparison this is nothing compared to what is ahead so he has this strong conviction that life was being renewed on a daily basis so he compares our earthly physical body to a tent Eugene Peterson has a modern paraphrase of the Bible called the message and I want to tell you how he puts it in our modern English for instance we know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away they will be replaced by resurrected bodies in heaven made by God And we'll never have to relocate our town again sometimes we can hardly wait to move and we cry out in frustration compared to what's coming living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack and we're tired of it we've been given a glimpse of the real thing our true home our resurrected bodies the Spirit of God where sorrow appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead he puts a little bit of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less We've been camping Have you ever had a pup tent Ok let's compare this little pup tent to a fine home out in Del Rio The tent is temporary it's very fresh. Compared to a house but Paul compares this physical house that we're in to a tent a temporary structure and he uses the very 1st word we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed destroyed that's the Greek word for striking down a tent for folding up the tent putting the tent away one day God is going to strike down this little pup tent that I live in and he's going to move me on to a new permanent building that I will call home 7 throughout all eternity God is preparing this dwelling place my new resurrected body it's perfectly designed for the environment of heaven and eternity John 142-4142 says In my Father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you this mansion this place it is building this eternal home this is going to be home to me for ever 1st 2 through for me while we groan longing to be close with our heavenly dwelling because when we're close will not be found naked for while we're in this tent we groan in our burden because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be close with our heavenly dwelling so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life are you tired tonight this building is limited everyone in this building whether we're wearing glasses or may be in tours or. Other of things to help us here better we're all feeling. The effects of aging why we're limited and God is designing something preparing something for us with his own hands for that new environment life principle I should not get so comfortable in my pup tent that I forget that I have a mansion being prepared for me by God's own hands Paul teaches us that we're going to be closed with a new body in eternity you see we're not going to be just spirit without bodies right now we feel it home in these physical bodies it's not strange to us but lists follow Paul's thinking he says when we leave this earthly body we're going to put on a new heavenly body that God Himself has designed and prepared for us for the new environment and we're going to feel right at home and that new body it will feel natural to us so this is not something that we fear this is not something that we dread we are going to be completely at home in the presence of God as we see him face to face now because we really believe that this is our hope it is our future we live right now with a heart that's determined to please the Lord you see we're not just always fixed on what's way out there but because we're sure of what's out there we want to live right now in a way that pleases the Lord Paul teaches us that this life we're right now is our time of preparation for the eternal life verse. 5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the spirit you see that kept the last the Holy Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come because we really believe in the hope of our future he gives us a deposit a down payment you see he knew you and I are going to struggle right now some of you are going through a long physical battles where we are struggling in this physical body and he says I know that's going to be hard but you know what I'm just going to give you a taste I'm going to give you a deposit a down payment and you know what that's going to be the Holy Spirit have you ever felt so fresh and up and revived in the Holy Spirit that is the deposit that is the down payment of what's to come is are a surety of the future the freshening the reviving of the Holy Spirit that's our deposit Paul teaches us then that even though we're going through a trial pressure stress problems you can have the refreshing of the Holy Spirit as your down payment to show you what is coming this is the way that Paul connects the ideas of the last chapter he tells us now look the situation that you're in right now is preparing you for eternity when we're really going through something tough it's hard to take comfort in the future that seemed so far out there that's why does the Holy Spirit even now to say it's not always going to be like this. Yes Well right now you see we are walking by faith not by sight our belief in the future in Heaven is a matter of face right now you and I are still clothed in this temporal temporary fragile chants and we have to keep walking by faith. Prince I hope this daily study is really blessing your life would you help us take this program to others who may never have heard the good news we need new partners who are willing to give and pray for this ministry you can give online with your credit card on our website knowing the word dot com mail your response and prayer request to knowing the word heal bot spied 766 poor one Modesto California 95357 us a little is truly much when God is in. Full coverage of the Rocky Mountain region with the good news here to a m 67 calle t t u k o t g h d commerce should be done for. 95 point one and streaming worldwide at 670 calle t.t. Dot com. 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