In verse 5, Paul says that God has given us the Holy Spirit as a guarantee. If you were to purchase something and put a down payment on that purchase, you would say, ‘I hereby promise that I will pay in full the price of this item, and here is my down payment.’ And God has given us a down […]

Paul compares the body to a house in which the soul lives in verse 1. He’s focusing on that state of our souls right at the point of death. What happens when we die? And his point is that when our physical bodies die, that our souls aren’t just homeless. Paul says that upon our deaths, our souls are immediately […]

The third set of polar opposites that Paul brings together in this passage are the visible and the invisible. We may say, ‘I know that God works together all things for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. I know rationally that affliction is real. And I know that God is working through it […]