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2 Corinthians 5 · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that our body, the tent we live here on earth, will be destroyed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will not be the kind of home people build here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now we are tired of this body.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want God to give us our heavenly home.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will clothe us and we will not be naked.
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  SPEAKER_00: While we live in this tent, we have burdens, and so we complain.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't mean that we want to remove this tent, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then this body that dies will be covered with life.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what God Himself made us for, and He has given us a spirit as the first payment to guarantee the life to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we always have the confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that we live in this body, we are away from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I can say that we have confidence, and we really want to be away from this body and to be at home with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our only goal is to always please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether we are living here in this body or there with him, we must all stand before Christ to be judged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone will get what they should.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will be paid for whatever they did, good or bad when they lived in this earthly body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Helping people become God's friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know what it means to fear the Lord, so we try to help people accept the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: God knows what we really are, and I hope that in your hearts you know us too.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are trying not to prove ourselves to you again, but we are telling you about ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are giving you reasons to be proud of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you will have an answer for those who are proud about what can be seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't care about what is in a person's heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we are crazy, it is for God.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we have our right mind, it is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The love of Christ controls us because we know that one person died for everyone, so all have died.
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  SPEAKER_00: He died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: He died for them and was raised from death so that they would live for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: From this time on we don't think of anyone as the world thinks of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is true that in the past we thought of Christ as the world thinks, but we don't think that way now.
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  SPEAKER_00: When anyone is in Christ, it is a whole new world.
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  SPEAKER_00: The old things are gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly everything is new.
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  SPEAKER_00: All this is from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through Christ, God made peace between Himself and us, and God gave us the work of bringing people into peace with Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean that God was in Christ, making peace between the world and Himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Christ God did not hold people guilty for their sins, and He gave us this message of peace to tell people, so we have been sent to speak for Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is like God is calling to people through us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could be right with God.