Second Corinthians Chapter 5
Outline: I.
Our earthly tent, our heavenly building: 5:1-10
II.
The fear of the Lord and the love of Christ: Motives that fuel Paul: 5:11-17
III.
The Word of Reconciliation: 5:18-21
“A belief, in one form or another, in the immortality of the soul is, of course, found in a variety of non-Christian religions and philosophies; but Paul is teaching something which far exceeds any of the tentative aspirations of paganism, for his perspective is enriched by the assurance that the Christian's body is to be redeemed and glorified as well as his soul. He rejoices in the certainty that the frailty, the limitations, and the gravitational pull of sin associated with his present bodily experience will hereafter become entirely a thing of the past. The believer, accordingly, entertains the certain hope of an incomparably better life beyond the grave, in contrast to the unbeliever whose values are all of this world, and for whom consequently death is the personification of uncertainty and the inexorable frustration of all for which he has lived” (Hughes p. 160). 2 Corinthians 5:1 “For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens” 1