Whether we live or sleep no man has yet gone to be with the Lord but our hope is nonetheless that we will one day be with the Lord - Our eternal dwelling.
2 Corinthians 5
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. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4For 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. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5
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. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4For 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. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6Therefore 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:) 8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10For 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.
This passage from 2 Corinthians 5 is a passage usually used to say that when we die we immediately go to be with the Lord. However, this view of the passage is not warranted. For one thing this passage is about the believer's hope. We are home in the body - so we are absent from the Lord who is in Heaven. Our confidence and will is to be absent from the body and so be present with the Lord. This verse does not say that once we die we go immediately to the state of eternal bliss.
This passage from 2 Corinthians 5 is a passage usually used to say that when we die we immediately go to be with the Lord. However, this view of the passage is not warranted. For one thing this passage is about the believer's hope. We are home in the body - so we are absent from the Lord who is in Heaven. Our confidence and will is to be absent from the body and so be present with the Lord. This verse does not say that once we die we go immediately to the state of eternal bliss.
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