Taste and See Challenge Day 30 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, Revelation 21:1-4

[00:00:01] The body that we have now gets weary, but the body that will have an eternity will never be weary.

[00:00:10] I'm Alnesha, the host of this show, Glory Bites. Glory Bites is a short podcast that

[00:00:27] encourage women to taste and see that the Lord is good and blessed are you as you take refuge in him.

[00:00:33] Today is day 30 of our Taste and See Challenge. We have made it 30 days in the word. If you have

[00:00:51] been with me the whole entire 30 days, I am so proud of you for pushing through and truly getting

[00:00:58] to know the Lord more through reading his word during this challenge. If you're just now joining,

[00:01:03] welcome, stick with us. We will continue to go through different courses of scripture as I encourage

[00:01:10] you to taste and see the Lord is good for yourself.

[00:01:17] So today we look at two portions of scripture. As we started out this journey in Genesis and we saw

[00:01:26] how God created everything we have seen our need for our sin to be dealt with and Jesus came to

[00:01:36] deal with that for us and now we get to look at the reward of our salvation in 2 Corinthians 5, 1

[00:01:45] through 10 in Revelation 21, verse 1 through 4. We're going to have to have a new body for the

[00:01:51] New Jerusalem. So Paul is talking about our bodies which he identifies as and compares it to a tent

[00:02:01] and how we were going to get an upgraded body when we die or when we're raptured to have an

[00:02:08] eternal body because this physical body is not yet ready for the kingdom. It has to be transformed

[00:02:15] into a spiritual body. The tent that we are in right now it is raggly. I was thinking about a

[00:02:23] physical tent and know your girl ain't been camping and I don't plan to go camping unless it's on

[00:02:30] on some type of RV, with AC or--

[00:02:34] He or something but I thought about when you pitch a tent you gotta keep that thing

[00:02:40] secure somehow so it does not blow away and it gets ragily from the wind and that is

[00:02:46] like our bodies.

[00:02:48] We have to have those pegs down in this word and have our faith grounded in Jesus so that

[00:02:53] the world when the wind starts to blow that we don't get torn apart by our circumstances

[00:03:01] and so this body that we have now was made by our parents but the body that we're going

[00:03:07] to have in eternity it says it was made by God.

[00:03:11] This body that we have now gets very weary worn down and we long for a change and that

[00:03:18] changes to have a heavenly body where there is no pain in it and no aches to be transformed

[00:03:25] to have a spiritual body.

[00:03:27] We will put on these heavenly bodies and we will not be spirits without a bodies in their

[00:03:34] body in the way that they look but honey the ultimate BBL is going to be the word that

[00:03:40] you get in heaven because it is going to be like Christ and totally transformed so we

[00:03:48] just nothing I mean nothing against what you choose to do with your body but the body that

[00:03:52] is awaiting me I would prefer that any day over spending by money trying to batch up

[00:03:57] this body somehow and he says that God has prepared this for us and security through

[00:04:04] the Holy Spirit.

[00:04:06] Some translations say that it is a down payment when you become a believer you receive the

[00:04:11] Holy Spirit who is your teacher the word says the Holy Spirit will teach you all things

[00:04:16] will be your helper to get through this journey.

[00:04:21] So he has left us the Holy Spirit as a down payment but we still will have that spirit

[00:04:27] when we get to heaven.

[00:04:30] The next portion I titled almost home he repeated multiple times about being in not at home

[00:04:39] with the Lord yet so he said that we can be confident although we are not home yet we

[00:04:45] will one day be home with the Lord right now we are in Christ and then when we go to be

[00:04:54] with Jesus we will be with Christ.

[00:04:58] He said in verse 7 that we believe and so basically our faith our faith is by believing

[00:05:04] in.

[00:05:05] seeing, um, that no matter where we are in this body, whether it's in this body or away

[00:05:12] from the body, the goal is to please God. I found that so encouraging that no matter where

[00:05:18] we are, whether we don't earth or in heaven, the goal is to still please God. And then he

[00:05:24] talks about the believer standing before Christ to receive what is deserved. This is not your

[00:05:30] eternal destination. You are secure if you are his, but he's talking about the rewards that you

[00:05:36] receive based on your faith or their lack of in your eternal rewards, um, for obedience and things

[00:05:45] like that. So the final point is heaven comes down for us. The old heaven and earth, as we know it,

[00:05:53] what we can see on this earth will disappear. And as the sea will be gone, the holy city of the

[00:06:01] New Jerusalem will come down like a bright, beautiful dress for her husband. He will live with them.

[00:06:08] The word became flesh and dwelt among us because just like Jesus came to be among the people and

[00:06:18] live with them. It is saying that he will come down to be with his people, his people who are his

[00:06:25] people. This is reserved for believers. Believers are the ones who will be experiencing the presence

[00:06:32] of God. And it's the next line says he would be with his people and God will personally be with

[00:06:38] them. So his people are those who are his. It does not say he would be with the whole world. He's

[00:06:43] going to be with the creation. He's going to be with those who are his says he will wipe away tears,

[00:06:50] death, sorrow, crying and pain, and all of these things will be forever gone. I don't think we can

[00:06:57] fathom a life without tears, a life without death and sorrow and crying and pain because there's so

[00:07:05] much of that in our daily life today. I've heard some sorrowful news that brought me grief. And that

[00:07:13] people are really, really hurting. And you know, the things that people are dealing with or myself

[00:07:21] dealing with you, it makes you want to cry. So how does the eyes not cry anymore? But God says he's

[00:07:27] going to wipe him away. These two does ain't going to work no more. So hallelujah for that. And these

[00:07:32] things will be gone forever. So death will not have a final say we will eat.

[00:07:38] we will definitely be in eternity. If you are in Him, in Him, you will be with Him. So the words

[00:07:46] begin. When we started this journey, we started out looking at the creation and the fall with,

[00:07:53] you know, Eve and all the things as life as we know it, just this beautiful world he created that

[00:07:59] had been cursed by sin. But then we leave off our challenge with the word showing us that there

[00:08:06] is a new heaven and earth that is reserved for those who accept the gift of salvation.

[00:08:12] So I ask you this today to close out this journey. Will you experience the new heaven and earth?

[00:08:18] I thank you for taking part in this challenge and I hope you have grown to know the Lord

[00:08:27] deeper and closer no matter what day you came on or what day you missed. He is still on her every

[00:08:33] time you open up the pages of his book. I love you and I hope you have a blessed evening.

[00:08:39] So since you have taken this challenge and now I want to hear a feedback from you. If you have a

[00:08:52] testimony or a praise that you would like to share with other women who are trying to grow closer

[00:08:59] to the Lord, would you please send them to glorybites.com, the contact us button or you can send it

[00:09:07] directly to me at glorybites@gmail. I would love to be able to praise the Lord for your progress

[00:09:16] in the word and what he has done in your life. Thank you so much again for taking this challenge

[00:09:21] with me. And as we walk along this side each other to just get to know the Lord more in this new year,

[00:09:28] have a blessed, blessed day.

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