1. 2 Corinthians The Heart of An Apostle Part 8: “Strengthening our Spiritual Eyes” 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

2. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 2 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

3. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 3

4. Heavenly eclipse2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 4

5. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 5 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

6. Spiritual eyes 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 6

7. Hebrews 12:2 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 7 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

8. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 8

9. 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 1.A Believer’s Hope 2.Live for Christ

10. Verse 1 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 10

11. “Tented” among us 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 11

12. 2 Peter 1:13-15 “I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, because I know that I will soon put is aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things.” 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 12

13. 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 13

14. 2 Corinthians 5:2 2Meanwhile we groan longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 14

15. 2 Corinthians 5:2-3 2Meanwhile we groan longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 15

16. 2 Corinthians 5:4 4For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

17. Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 17

18. 1 Corinthians 15:47-58 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 18

19. Philippians 3:14-15 Philippians 3:14-15 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. And then he challenges all of us to do the same. He says, 15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 19

20. 2 Corinthians 5:5 5Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2/21/10 EBFC Sermon Series: 2 Corinthians 20

21. Philippians 1: 6 We can be confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

22. 2 Corinthians 5:6 6Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

23. 2 Corinthians 5:7 7We live by faith, not by sight.

24. Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

25. Psalm 19:1-3 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.

26. Hebrews 11:13 13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

27. Hebrews 11:14-16 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

28. 2 Corinthians 5:8 8We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

29. 2 Corinthians 5:9 9So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

30. 2 Corinthians 5:10 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.