Motivation (2) - The future presence of Christ

Tune: Unter Herrscher

('Come ye faithful, raise the anthem')

2 Corinthian 5 v.1-8

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For we know that if this body

Physical should dissolved be

'Tis a tent, for it encloses

Spirit and soul, each one knows

Yet we have from God a building

Our eternal residing

It be a house not made with hands

Nor made up of earthly lands

But a house in heaven eternal

For this we groan, for this call

Desiring to be clothed upon

By that given by God the Son

So being clothed, we shall not be

Disembodies spirits, see

For while in this earthly body

We do groan for liberty

That our mortality might be

Clothed with eternal life free

God has wrought, for He has prepared

Us for this, it shall be shared

With His people, for He also

Gives us His Spirit we know

As down payment, as the earnest

Of our future in Him blest

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Faith shows us His way, His light

So we are confident, willing

To be absent, everything

[Absent] From the body, and present be

With the Lord eternally

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"Living by faith is living by what you believe is the truth.

Living by sight is living by your five senses - 

sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing."