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 […]

We do experience a variety of afflictions, and Paul teaches that God uses those afflictions to work a weight of glory in us. The first opposites that Paul brings together are an outward man and an inward man. Paul says that our outward man is perishing but the inward man is being renewed. We don’t lose heart because we know […]