The document discusses several key Christian concepts and beliefs: - Christ's resurrection and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. - It instructs believers to walk by faith, not by sight, and to please God by living fruitful lives of accountability and service. - It addresses the intermediate state between death and resurrection, rejecting ideas of soul sleep and purgatory.

1. “So we do not lose heart” 4:1,16
“So we are always of good
courage” 5:6,8

2. Christ – His glorious resurrection
Spirit – His transforming power
Scripture – It instructs faith
Service – A life of fruitful accountability

3. “The tent” v. 1; Acts 18:3 “We have…..”
“I go to prepare a place” Jn 14:2; 2 Cor 4:14
“The Resurrection and the life” Jn 11:25; 2:19-22
“Home with the Lord… we will be like Him”
1 Jn 3:2; 1 Cor 15:36-49
No soul sleep. No purgatory.

4. “Prepared us” The new creation 2 Cor 5:16-17;
3:3,6,8
“Guarantee” Present yet future 2 Cor 1:22;
Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 6:19-20; Philp 1:6
“Groan” Frustrations and limitations (Rom 8:18-
27); longing for glorification (Jn 6:37-40);
Intermediate state of soul without body until
second coming (1 Thess 4:16; Rev 6:9-11)

5. “We walk” – in the ways of God. Prov 3:5-6;
Rom 10:14; Gal 5:16-25; Eph 4,5
“By Faith” – our minds are set on things
above. 2 Cor 4:18; Col 3; Heb 11; Titus
2:11-15
“Not by sight” – not this evil age, but the
spirit. 1 Pet 4; 2 Pet 3:10-13

6. “Our aim is to please him” – A fruitful
life. John 15:8; Eph 2:10; 4:30; 5:10
“Judgment seat” – Accountability.
Bema seat (Rom 14:10-12; 1 Cor 4:3-
5), (not Rev 20:11-15). Rewards (Heb
6:10; 11:6; MT 25) and losses (1 Cor
3:12-15).

7. Intellectual integrity – Christ’s
resurrection and Scripture
From the inside out - Transforming
Power of Holy Spirit
Don’t waste your life – Be fruitful!

8. I have been crucified with
Christ. It is no longer I who live,
but Christ who lives in me. And
the life I now live in the flesh I
live by faith in the son of God,
who loved me and gave himself
for me. Gal 2:20 (ESV)

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