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The Ambassadors (1533)
Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve
The Ambassadors of Francis I of France
Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543)
Northern Renaissance Style
National Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom
Image Source: Wikimedia
Explanation: In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul encourages his readers with the thought that if our bodily house dissolves in death we have an eternal house in the heavens. We won't be left naked. In this body we groan, but life will swallow up mortality because God has prepared us for this very thing and has given us the Holy Spirit as a guarantee (1-5).
So we should always be of good courage, and we should make it our aim to please Christ because we must all appear before him to be judged (6-10).
Knowing the fear of the Lord, Paul and his fellow ministers persuade others. They seek to be judged, not by external things, but by what is in their heart which is controlled by the love of Christ. They encourage the Corinthians to have a similar mind-set by informing them that if Christ died for all, then all who are in Christ are dead, and they should no longer live for themselves, but for Christ (11-15).
If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. God, through Christ, reconciled us to himself, and he made Paul and his fellow ministers ambassadors of Christ who preach the message of reconciliation. For our sake God made Christ to be sin, though he knew no sin, and in Christ we become the righteousness of God (16-21).
[Sermons: J Ligon Duncan III. Leonard Ravenhill. Maurice Roberts. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting depicts ambassadors, which is what Paul called himself and his fellow ministers on behalf of Christ in today's chapter. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:5: Romans 8:18-25; 1 Corinthians 15:51-58; Ephesians 3:14-19; Philippians 3:17-21; Colossians 3:1-4; Colossians 3:5-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
2 Corinthians 5:6-10: Romans 2:6-16; Philippians 1:19-26.
2 Corinthians 5:11-13: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Ephesians 3:1-13; Colossians 1:24 - 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8.
2 Corinthians 5:14-21: Romans 5:6-11; Romans 6:1-10; Romans 6:11-14; Romans 11:13-16; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 2 Corinthians 3:7-11; Galatians 2:15-21; Ephesians 3:1-13; Ephesians 4:17-24; Colossians 1:15-20; Colossians 1:21-23; Colossians 2:8-15; Colossians 3:5-11. ]
NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
2 Corinthians 5
2. Paul's Struggles in the World (2 Corinthians 4:1 - 2 Corinthians 6:18) - 55 A.D. Philippi
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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