Let us look at yet
MORE context concerning Pauls writing that he was willing to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8-11
5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
5:10 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.
5:11 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.
Note the word
WHEREFORE in verse nine. That means the thought from verse eight is being carried over into verse nine.
As to the statement we are willing to be absent from
THIS PRESENT BODY and to be present with Jesus Christ the very next Holy Spirit inspired thought Paul brought was the day of judgment!
He tied the two thoughts together!
Being present with Jesus and getting a new body and
LABORING TO BE ACCEPTED BY HIM AT JUDGMENT! Obviously if (not so dead) saints had went to be with Lord at their death in conscious bliss and happiness they would have
ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED BY HIM would they not?
And yet Paul ties the two things together. We must labor now to be
ACCEPTED by Jesus Christ
THEN! WHEN?
At the judgment day.
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