Peter Roselle: Walk by Faith – Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (2 Cor 5:7 MSG)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-04-18

Peter Roselle: Walk by Faith – Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (2 Cor 5:7 MSG)
Corinthians 5:7 in the Message translation says, “It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going.” This sermon, spoken two weeks after Easter Sunday, lingers on the topic of the resurrection of Jesus and the biblical doctrine that all Christians receive a resurrected body at the final return of Jesus. Holy Spirit transforms believers so they are conformed to the image of Jesus. This change means believers embody Jesus’ death through suffering and participate in His present, risen life - ultimately experienced through the resurrection of the body in the future. But it also consists of an inward renewal in the midst of the challenges and troubles of daily existence. Our hope is, therefore, not a release from our bodies but a resurrection of our bodies so that the life inside us now will show outside as well. While we still suffer, this hope of bodily resurrection is a matter of faith (not sight).

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Walk by Faith, not by Sight
2 Corinthians 5:7 (MSG) 
It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going.

Philippians 3:13-14 
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5
1 We know that if our “earthly house”—a mere tent that can easily be taken down—is destroyed, we will then live in an “eternal home” in the heavens, a “building” crafted by divine—not human—hands. 
2-3 Currently, in this “tent of a house,” we continue to groan and ache with a deep desire to be sheltered in our “permanent home” because then we will be truly clothed and comfortable, protected by a covering for our current nakedness. 
4 The fact is that in this “tent” we anxiously moan, fearing the naked truth of our reality. What we crave above all is to be clothed so that what is temporary and mortal can be wrapped completely in life. 
5 (TPT) …this is no empty hope, for God Himself is the one who has prepared us for this wonderful destiny. And to confirm this promise, He has given us the Holy Spirit, like an engagement ring, as a guarantee.
6 In light of this, we live with a daring passion and know that our time spent in this body is also time we are not present with the Lord. 
7 The path we walk is charted by faith, not by what we see with our eyes.
8 There is no doubt that we live with a daring passion, 
but in the end, we prefer to be gone from this body so that we can be at home with the Lord. 

Holy Spirit transforms believers so they are conformed to the image of Jesus. This change means believers embody Jesus’ death through suffering and participate in His present, risen life - ultimately experienced through the resurrection of the body in the future. 

But it also consists of an inward renewal in the midst of the challenges and troubles of daily existence. Our hope is, therefore, not a release from our bodies but a resurrection of our bodies so that the life inside us now will show outside as well...this hope of bodily resurrection is a matter of faith (not sight).

1 Corinthians 15:44 (MSG)
The seed sown is natural; the seed grown is supernatural— same seed, same body, but what a difference… from when it goes down in physical mortality to when it is raised up in spiritual immortality!

Song of Songs 2 (TPT)
10 Come away with me! I have come as you have asked to draw you to my heart and lead you out. For now is the time, my beautiful one.
11-12 The season has changed, the bondage of your barren winter has ended, and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing…. has arrived.

What was finished at the cross? Cycle of Death – Sinless life of Jesus could not die – no sin = no death
Winter has passed and the springtime has come (SOS 2:11)
Living a Hopeless existence – He has a plan for me (Jer 29:11)
No longer Separated from a Loving Father by sin
No longer stumbling in the Dark without Holy Spirit’s GPS
No longer falling prey to destructive behavior / self-loathing
No longer an orphan living on counterfeit affections & gruel
No longer Denied Access to the Kingdom of God in the earth
No longer living in moral bankruptcy destroying lives of others
No longer living under the slavery and bondage of addictions
No longer hating myself – I KNOW that I am loveable & loved