5. Who is the One who will cause our mortality to be swallowed up with eternal life? 2 Corinthians 5:5.
NOTE: ‘With those who comply with the conditions of eternal life, they have a sure promise that they shall have eternal life, if faithful, at the last day. They have eternal life, but it is their wealth in the bank of Heaven, while they have in their possession Heaven’s draft (a sure promise) and the earnest of the Spirit, a witness of their acceptance by the Lord. When pay-day (the coming of Christ) comes, they become possessors of the true heavenly riches, and receive “the crown of life.”’ J. N. Loughborough: The Hope of the Gospel, page 27.
6. Although in this mortal body, we are absent from the Lord, what confidence will walking by faith bring to us? 2 Corinthians 5:6-7.
NOTE: ‘It will not be long till we shall see Him in whom our hopes of eternal life are centred. And in His presence, all the trials and sufferings of this life will be as nothingness. “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” Verses 35-37. Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city of God into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed. “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” James 5:7, 8.’ Testimonies, volume 9, page 287.