{"id":3847,"date":"2022-02-26T22:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2022-02-26T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:05:26","slug":"absent-from-the-body-present-with-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3847","title":{"rendered":"Absent From the Body &#8211; Present with the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0I Corinthians 15:55-57<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>For we know that if our earthly house of\u00a0this\u00a0tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>For we that are in\u00a0this\u00a0tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing\u00a0is\u00a0God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Therefore\u00a0we are\u00a0always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>We are confident,\u00a0I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.\u00a0 <\/em>II Corinthians 5:1-8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The second best thing that can happen to the believer in Christ is physical death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The best thing is that can happen to the believer is The Rapture.\u00a0 This is when Christ returns to remove all believers from this world.\u00a0 I Thessalonians 4:13-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.\u00a0\u00a0But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I Corinthians 15:55-57 For we know that if our earthly house of\u00a0this\u00a0tabernacle were dissolved, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Absent From the Body &#8211; Present with the Lord<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}