From Tents to Eternity: Embracing Our Heavenly Home
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He shows us the other side of when someone who is in Christ leaves this world and explains what happens. He somehow eases the pain of death because he shows us passing and transitioning from the other side. And when we see it from the other side, Gail, it doesn't seem as bad. [00:04:37]
The pain is there. The sorrow is there. The grief doesn't dissipate. But somehow looking at it from God's point of view, Paul opens it up. And I'm really not sure why he wrote this. Maybe because he was maturing in his life. I don't know what it was as he's writing this that he begins to think about death. Maybe it was the issues in his body, that thorn in the flesh. [00:05:06]
I don't know if it was physical. I don't know if he was getting older. But for some reason, he was thinking about death and dying. He begins to get a revelation shot. And he says that when this earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have another building. Not made by hands, but eternal in the heavens. [00:05:44]
He helps us understand that when those who we love have departed this life who are in Christ, he gives us a different side, a different way to look at it. He says that understand that when this earth. [00:06:08]
house is torn down and torn up and departed that we have we are already having a building not made by human hands but everlasting and eternal in the heavens Leona this this verse is is is exclusive it's inclusive and it's conclusive it's it's it's inclusive because he says for we know that means that there is a we crowd y 'all God certainly reigns on the just and the unjust but some stuff is only for the we crowd this is inclusive it includes those who have accepted Christ as their Savior it includes those who have who have can believe in their heart and confessed with their mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead it includes those who are following the Lord it's inclusive but it's also exclusive it excludes those who continue to reject the grace and love of God it excludes those who will not follow and receive God for forgiveness of sins y 'all this ain't for everybody it's only for the we crowd it's inclusive it's exclusive but then it's also conclusive because he says we [00:06:22]
know he didn't say we think we surmise we we're hoping that it might happen perhaps it could no he says we know we are assured of some things what is it Betty that he says we are assured of we are sure that if and when this earthly tent dissolves gets torn down and take it away we have a building permanent not made by human hands but permanent and eternal in the heavens brother Cordell he he shows us some good news and bad news and I I won't give you some good news but I got to give you the bad news first because if I don't give you the bad news the good news just ain't as good if I don't give you some of the bad news first and so he opens up talking about the disillusion of our house that's the bad news the disillusion of our house is right here in this verse he says that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved he's talking about the dissolution of our house he says that the earthly [00:07:41]
He says that Reverend Gomez, this is a tent. And maybe that's why what Paul was thinking about was that he was a tent maker. In Acts chapter 18, when he got there, he had to find Priscilla and Aquila to help him make tents so he could earn a living. He was a tent maker. Y 'all, they made tents with goat hair. [00:09:06]
And oftentimes in the tent, the tent would get tore up and he'd have to repair the tent. Perhaps he's thinking about the children of Israel. When they were in the wilderness, God told Moses to go down and tell Pharaoh, let my people go. And as they left Egypt, they were not in homes. They had to travel in tents. [00:09:27]
They even had to have a tabernacle where they worshiped. And on their way to the promised land, they would take the tent down and move a little closer to the promised land. Then they'd take the tent down and they'd move a little closer to the promised land and they'd take it down, take the tents down. And y 'all, Jay, as they're going, taking the tents down, they would get wear and tear on the tent. The tents would get ripped. The tents would be torn. And y 'all, he's saying that that's how it is with our bodies. That our bodies always get wear and tear on them. [00:09:45]
you can put designer clothes on these bodies you can put the right food on these bodies but over time the tent gets worn out and sometimes it it it takes a while and that's maybe that's what's going on with the apostle paul maybe he's a mature man at this time he's he's an older man and he's seen over time things happen and that's what happens to us over time our our bodies get rips and tears you go to the doctor they fix us up you go to a specialist they fix us up but over time these bodies began to to get torn get rips on them and that's that's what happens and sometimes it doesn't happen all at once it happens every once in a while over the time when i was in college i worked for a program for uh repeat offending juveniles and we would give them job training and counseling and try to show them an alternative to to the way they were uh living and one of the the activities we did with them is we took them camping and i had only been camping one of [00:10:31]
the time and and i noticed that when we took the tent down we would have to take the tent down one peg at a time and y 'all that's what happens sometimes in life it's it's one thing after another it's this one issue after another but then i also discover sometimes the weather conditions can come and can wipe out the tent all at once and told me that's what happens sometimes in life that it's not one thing at a time but y 'all life can come in and sweep you all at one time look here you don't have to be old to die [00:11:39]
and it lets us know that you can't stay here we want to stay here but you can't stay here because the earthly house of this tabernacle is deserving he shows us the disillusion of our house then he gives us some good news later angela he tells us then about the possession of god's house he says that at that time when this earthly house of this tabernacle be desired we have another building [00:12:23]
Now, now, now, now he's moving, David, he's moving from the temporal to the eternal. He's comparing the fragile to the permanent. [00:12:55]
And he's saying that there is a difference, that we will possess. Really, he breaks the grammar. He says as if we're already possessing an eternal house, another house, another building. And he's saying that this building is not made by human hands. [00:13:25]
he says there is another building he's really picking up deacon harvey the argument that he gives the explanation i should say the exposition he gives in first corinthians 15 when he talks about the resurrection of jesus christ and he says that because of the resurrection of jesus christ john he's saying that the resurrection of jesus changed death he's saying now because jesus has risen and has conquered death he's taken the sting out of death he's taking the victory out of the grave he's saying that now when we go down in the grave we go down in corruption but we are raised in incorruption we are put down in weakness but we are raised in power we go down in dishonor why dishonor because the graffiti of death has written is [00:14:31]
itself against the image of God but it is now raised in glory and watch the final thing he says in 1st Corinthians 15 verse 42 he says we go down in a natural body a body that's fit to live in natural things and we are raised with the supernatural body that is faced to live that is poised to live in a supernatural existence y 'all in other words the resurrection of Jesus has changed death y 'all for the believer before the resurrection death used to be a stepping down now it's a rising up [00:15:27]
death used to be a deep sleep now it's a great awakening death used to be destruction now it is deliverance death used to be a loss now it's a gain because to live with Christ is to live is Christ but to die is gain and I'm telling you your loved one your mother your father your grandpa your friend if they died in Jesus y 'all they are in a place of a heavenly building with no issues no problem no pain no trouble because they they have another building ah you [00:16:03]
They took off mortality, and they put on immortality. They took off the terrestrial, and they put on the celestial. They took off sickness, and they put on strength. They took off pain, and they put on power. They took off tragedy, and they put on triumph. They took off an old life, and put on a new life. All they did was change clothes, and I don't know about you, but I'm glad [00:16:54]
who's making you what are you made of because because if you got to be careful who makes you that's why psalm 100 verse 4 says it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture because listen whoever makes you you are directed by dependent on and devoted to and if people make you people can tear you down but if God makes you no demon in hell can turn you around because what God makes is built to last [00:19:18]
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The pain is there. The sorrow is there. The grief doesn't dissipate. But somehow looking at it from God's point of view, Paul opens it up. And I'm really not sure why he wrote this. Maybe because he was maturing in his life. I don't know what it was as he's writing this that he begins to think about death. Maybe it was the issues in his body, that thorn in the flesh. [00:05:06]
I don't know if it was physical. I don't know if he was getting older. But for some reason, he was thinking about death and dying. He begins to get a revelation shot. And he says that when this earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have another building. Not made by hands, but eternal in the heavens. [00:05:44]
He helps us understand that when those who we love have departed this life who are in Christ, he gives us a different side, a different way to look at it. He says that understand that when this earth. [00:06:08]
house is torn down and torn up and departed that we have we are already having a building not made by human hands but everlasting and eternal in the heavens Leona this this verse is is is exclusive it's inclusive and it's conclusive it's it's it's inclusive because he says for we know that means that there is a we crowd y 'all God certainly reigns on the just and the unjust but some stuff is only for the we crowd this is inclusive it includes those who have accepted Christ as their Savior it includes those who have who have can believe in their heart and confessed with their mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead it includes those who are following the Lord it's inclusive but it's also exclusive it excludes those who continue to reject the grace and love of God it excludes those who will not follow and receive God for forgiveness of sins y 'all this ain't for everybody it's only for the we crowd it's inclusive it's exclusive but then it's also conclusive because he says we [00:06:22]
know he didn't say we think we surmise we we're hoping that it might happen perhaps it could no he says we know we are assured of some things what is it Betty that he says we are assured of we are sure that if and when this earthly tent dissolves gets torn down and take it away we have a building permanent not made by human hands but permanent and eternal in the heavens brother Cordell he he shows us some good news and bad news and I I won't give you some good news but I got to give you the bad news first because if I don't give you the bad news the good news just ain't as good if I don't give you some of the bad news first and so he opens up talking about the disillusion of our house that's the bad news the disillusion of our house is right here in this verse he says that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved he's talking about the dissolution of our house he says that the earthly [00:07:41]
He says that Reverend Gomez, this is a tent. And maybe that's why what Paul was thinking about was that he was a tent maker. In Acts chapter 18, when he got there, he had to find Priscilla and Aquila to help him make tents so he could earn a living. He was a tent maker. Y 'all, they made tents with goat hair. [00:09:06]
And oftentimes in the tent, the tent would get tore up and he'd have to repair the tent. Perhaps he's thinking about the children of Israel. When they were in the wilderness, God told Moses to go down and tell Pharaoh, let my people go. And as they left Egypt, they were not in homes. They had to travel in tents. [00:09:27]
They even had to have a tabernacle where they worshiped. And on their way to the promised land, they would take the tent down and move a little closer to the promised land. Then they'd take the tent down and they'd move a little closer to the promised land and they'd take it down, take the tents down. And y 'all, Jay, as they're going, taking the tents down, they would get wear and tear on the tent. The tents would get ripped. The tents would be torn. And y 'all, he's saying that that's how it is with our bodies. That our bodies always get wear and tear on them. [00:09:45]
you can put designer clothes on these bodies you can put the right food on these bodies but over time the tent gets worn out and sometimes it it it takes a while and that's maybe that's what's going on with the apostle paul maybe he's a mature man at this time he's he's an older man and he's seen over time things happen and that's what happens to us over time our our bodies get rips and tears you go to the doctor they fix us up you go to a specialist they fix us up but over time these bodies began to to get torn get rips on them and that's that's what happens and sometimes it doesn't happen all at once it happens every once in a while over the time when i was in college i worked for a program for uh repeat offending juveniles and we would give them job training and counseling and try to show them an alternative to to the way they were uh living and one of the the activities we did with them is we took them camping and i had only been camping one of [00:10:31]
the time and and i noticed that when we took the tent down we would have to take the tent down one peg at a time and y 'all that's what happens sometimes in life it's it's one thing after another it's this one issue after another but then i also discover sometimes the weather conditions can come and can wipe out the tent all at once and told me that's what happens sometimes in life that it's not one thing at a time but y 'all life can come in and sweep you all at one time look here you don't have to be old to die [00:11:39]
and it lets us know that you can't stay here we want to stay here but you can't stay here because the earthly house of this tabernacle is deserving he shows us the disillusion of our house then he gives us some good news later angela he tells us then about the possession of god's house he says that at that time when this earthly house of this tabernacle be desired we have another building [00:12:23]
Now, now, now, now he's moving, David, he's moving from the temporal to the eternal. He's comparing the fragile to the permanent. [00:12:55]
And he's saying that there is a difference, that we will possess. Really, he breaks the grammar. He says as if we're already possessing an eternal house, another house, another building. And he's saying that this building is not made by human hands. [00:13:25]
he says there is another building he's really picking up deacon harvey the argument that he gives the explanation i should say the exposition he gives in first corinthians 15 when he talks about the resurrection of jesus christ and he says that because of the resurrection of jesus christ john he's saying that the resurrection of jesus changed death he's saying now because jesus has risen and has conquered death he's taken the sting out of death he's taking the victory out of the grave he's saying that now when we go down in the grave we go down in corruption but we are raised in incorruption we are put down in weakness but we are raised in power we go down in dishonor why dishonor because the graffiti of death has written is [00:14:31]
itself against the image of God but it is now raised in glory and watch the final thing he says in 1st Corinthians 15 verse 42 he says we go down in a natural body a body that's fit to live in natural things and we are raised with the supernatural body that is faced to live that is poised to live in a supernatural existence y 'all in other words the resurrection of Jesus has changed death y 'all for the believer before the resurrection death used to be a stepping down now it's a rising up [00:15:27]
death used to be a deep sleep now it's a great awakening death used to be destruction now it is deliverance death used to be a loss now it's a gain because to live with Christ is to live is Christ but to die is gain and I'm telling you your loved one your mother your father your grandpa your friend if they died in Jesus y 'all they are in a place of a heavenly building with no issues no problem no pain no trouble because they they have another building ah you [00:16:03]
They took off mortality, and they put on immortality. They took off the terrestrial, and they put on the celestial. They took off sickness, and they put on strength. They took off pain, and they put on power. They took off tragedy, and they put on triumph. They took off an old life, and put on a new life. All they did was change clothes, and I don't know about you, but I'm glad [00:16:54]
who's making you what are you made of because because if you got to be careful who makes you that's why psalm 100 verse 4 says it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture because listen whoever makes you you are directed by dependent on and devoted to and if people make you people can tear you down but if God makes you no demon in hell can turn you around because what God makes is built to last [00:19:18]
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