July 1

<p>II Corinthians 5-8 We are in the Church Stream reading from the New King James Version this week. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Lord, we rest all our hope AND build all our faith on your resurrection. We anticipate being raised up ourselves to be with you eternally. Until then we will be a giving people. You gave of yourself and may we be motivated to give - following your graciousness.  Amen</blockquote> <p>5 - The theme of the resurrection gets another strand of truth regarding our resurrection and our understanding of it. In I Cor. 15 and I Thess. 4 our resurrected bodies are a theme linked to the 2nd Coming of Christ. But here Paul teaches that there is a blessedness of being with Christ Jesus upon death and being immediately aware of where we are - with Christ!  There is more coming too following the final Resurrection.  And remember that ALL will face Christ  - [and though this is joy for Believers] --> this will be a terror for those who rejected Him.  This mindset of Resurrection is to overshadow all other thinking for us. People are either in Christ or not in Christ.  Christ makes all things new; he recreates His followers, renews them and transforms them into Ambassadors for Christ who live in His righteousness</p> <div>6 - Paul relays the urgency of the gospel. It isn't something to fit in after we get something together; our thoughts, our lives, our "act" - that's never all together - so receive salvation in Jesus now (Paul urges). He gives a sobering list of what is involved for those in ministry; these difficulties along with the verifications of such ministry are all included for those who serve the Almighty.  And he closes out ch. 6 reminding us - imploring if your will - the Corinthians to be a holy people that have set themselves apart from a worldly culture so to ready themselves to walk