Absorbed Anxiety Aside Body Burdened Burdens Care Certainly Clothe Clothed Cries Death Desire Desiring Dwelling Free Further Groan Heavenly Indeed Lay Mortal Mortality Ourselves Overcome Seeing Sigh Swallowed Tabernacle Tent Truly Unclothe Unclothed Weariness Weight Wish Yes Yet
5:4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle. This tent dwelling for the journey.
Do groan, being burdened. Groan for deliverance from it, because the burden is so heavy.
Not for that we would be unclothed. It is not that we wish to be freed from a body, but we wish a better one; to lay off the old raiment that we may be
clothed upon with the heavenly raiment, the spiritual body, in order that this mortal shall put on immortality (1Co 15:53).
5:4 We groan being burdened - The apostle speaks with exact propriety. A burden naturally expresses groans. And we are here burdened with numberless afflictions, infirmities, temptations. Not that we would be unclothed - Not that we desire to remain without a body. Faith does not understand that philosophical contempt of what the wise Creator has given. But clothed upon - With the glorious, immortal, incorruptible, spiritual body. That what is mortal - This present mortal body. May be swallowed up of life - Covered with that which lives for ever.
5:1-8 The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place. In our Father's house there are many mansions, whose Builder and Maker is God. The happiness of the future state is what God has prepared for those that love him: everlasting habitations, not like the earthly tabernacles, the poor cottages of clay, in which our souls now dwell; that are mouldering and decaying, whose foundations are in the dust. The body of flesh is a heavy burden, the calamities of life are a heavy load. But believers groan, being burdened with a body of sin, and because of the many corruptions remaining and raging within them. Death will strip us of the clothing of flesh, and all the comforts of life, as well as end all our troubles here below. But believing souls shall be clothed with garments of praise, with robes of righteousness and glory. The present graces and comforts of the Spirit are earnests of everlasting grace and comfort. And though God is with us here, by his Spirit, and in his ordinances, yet we are not with him as we hope to be. Faith is for this world, and sight is for the other world. It is our duty, and it will be our interest, to walk by faith, till we live by sight. This shows clearly the happiness to be enjoyed by the souls of believers when absent from the body, and where Jesus makes known his glorious presence. We are related to the body and to the Lord; each claims a part in us. But how much more powerfully the Lord pleads for having the soul of the believer closely united with himself! Thou art one of the souls I have loved and chosen; one of those given to me. What is death, as an object of fear, compared with being absent from the Lord!
Anxiety Body Burdened Burdens Clothed Cries Death Desire Desiring Dwelling Free Further Groan Heavenly Indeed Life Mortal Mortality New Overcome Sigh Swallowed Tabernacle Tent Unclothed Weariness Weight Wish
Anxiety Body Burdened Burdens Clothed Cries Death Desire Desiring Dwelling Free Further Groan Heavenly Indeed Life Mortal Mortality New Overcome Sigh Swallowed Tabernacle Tent Unclothed Weariness Weight Wish
