2 Peter 2:12a and Jude 1:10 & 19 speak of those who are like brute beasts, unable to process rational thought and only able to respond to their five senses because they don’t listen to the Holy Spirit.
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Our natural, brute-beast minds would like to draw us into speculation. However, as we join our minds to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will teach us all things.
“For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’” (1 Corinthians 15:53-54 Berean Study Bible)
In the following verse, we read about an earthly tent, and God is referring to our natural bodies. However, God promises us a building, a heavenly dwelling. We can’t imagine a spiritual body, but God will see to it.
“Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life. And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.” (2 Corinthians 5:1-5 Berean Study Bible)
We groan for this change. Life on earth is often hard. The fallen world stresses us, and our natural desires try to pull us into evil. We battle sin, sickness, and death every day. But God didn’t set this futility as our destiny. We suffer for a little while, but He’ll reveal His glory in us.
“I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?” (Romans 8:18-24 Berean Study Bible)
This hope mentioned here isn’t “I hope so.” God gives us this vision of hope, and He wants us to live in His hope and to focus our attention on the hope He’s giving us.
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