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September 12, 2021 | Dr. Jim Bradford | 2 Corinthians: Gritty Spirituality - Living Between Two Worlds
Tents, Houses, and Two Worlds . . .
2 Corinthians 5:1, 5 NIV
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 NIV
How do we live between these two worlds?
LIVE TO PLEASE JESUS . . .
2 Corinthians 5:8-9 NIV
2 Corinthians 5:10 NIV
John Piper, “Don’t Waste Your Life”
"I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.
* Do I listen to and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit?
* Is character more important to me than charisma?
* Am I on a mission to proclaim Jesus?
LIVE TO PROCLAIM JESUS . . .
2 Corinthians 5:10-11a
10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 11Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others….
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NIV
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
> In Jesus, the future breaks in on the present!
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 NIV
2 Corinthians 5:20 NIV
> In Jesus, we are ambassadors of the world to come!
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV