Sunday, May 13, 2012

Start moaning and groaning

Today, I was at church and Bishop Horace Smith preached on the verses from 2 Corinthians 5:1 - 5.

2 Corinthians 5:1-5

Amplified Bible (AMP)
For we know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Here indeed, in this [present abode, body], we sigh and groan inwardly, because we yearn to be clothed over [we yearn to put on our celestial body like a garment, to be fitted out] with our heavenly dwelling,
So that by putting it on we may not be found naked (without a body).
For while we are still in this tent, we groan under the burden and sigh deeply (weighed down, depressed, oppressed)—not that we want to put off the body (the clothing of the spirit), but rather that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life [[a]after the resurrection].
Now He Who has fashioned us [preparing and making us fit] for this very thing is God, Who also has given us the [Holy] Spirit as a guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise].
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This means that if there was a picture then somebody must have drawn the picture, and if there was a house then somebody must have built the house. So if there was a human being like you and me then there must have been a Creator which is the Lord Jesus Christ. 
And, when we want something really bad then we moan and groan for it so much that we cry, "Abba, Father," which is in Romans 8:14-17. When we cry Abba then he has to respond to us because He loves us so much! Well, this was only a small excerpt from the preaching today, so I hope this really encourages you to pray to God and call him, "Abba."

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