This Tent and Our Permanent Home

I. Observations on “This Tent” v. 1

1. “This Tent” can be destroyed.

   2. “This Tent” is Temporary – but we have an Eternal Permanent Home.

2. “This Tent” puts this world into proper perspective. 4:16-18

II. The Natural “Groaning” of the Child of God. v. 2

See Romans 8:18-23

III. How do we Know there is a Heaven and an Afterlife? v. 1, 3, 6-8

IV. This World is not our Final Existence v. 2-5

1.  Our longing is for our final resurrection body  -- v. 2
    

2. Paul's Conflict -- Phillipians 1:22-24

   3. Our goal is not death and the throwing off of the body. v. 3-4

Augustine, “We are burdened with this corruptible body, but knowing that the
cause of this burdensomeness is not the nature and substance of the body, but it's corruption, we do not desire to be deprived of the body, but to be clothed with immortality

4.  What is the guarantee that all this is true, and not a myth?  v. 5

V. Our Chief Goal v. 9