1 We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, YAHUSHA will have a home for us to live in. It will not be the kind of home people build here. It will be a home in the heaven that will continue forever. 2 But now we grain and are tired of this body. We want YAHUSHA to give us our heavenly home now. 3 It will clothe us and we will not be naked. 4 For while we live in this earthly tent, we have groanings and burdens. I don’t mean that we want to remove this tent, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home. Then this body that dies will be covered with life. 5 This is what YAHUSHA Himself made us for. And He has given us the Spirit as the first payment to guarantee the life to come.
6 So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Master. 7 We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see. 8 So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Master. 9 Our only goal is to always please the Master, whether we are living here in this body or there with Him. 10 We must all stand before Messiah to be judged. Everyone will get what they should. They will be paid for whatever they did—good or bad—when they lived in this earthly body.
11 We know what it means to fear the Master, so we try to help people accept the truth. YAHUSHA knows what we really are, and I hope that in your hearts you know us too. 12 We are not trying to prove ourselves to you again. But we are telling you about ourselves. We are giving you reasons to be proud of us. Then you will have an answer for those who are proud about what can be seen. They don’t care about what is in a person’s heart. 13 If we are crazy, it is for YAHUSHA. If we have our right mind, it’s for you. 14 The love of Messiah controls us, because we know that one person died for everyone. So all have died. 15 He died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves. He died for them and was raised from death so that they would live for Him.
16 From this time on we don’t think of anyone as the world thinks of people. It is true that in the past we thought of Messiah as the world thinks. But we don’t think that way now. 17 When anyone is in Messiah, it is a whole new world. The old things are gone and suddenly, everything is new! 18 All this is through YAHUSHA. For YAHUAH made peace between Himself and us. And He gave us the work of bringing people into peace with Him. 19 I mean YAHUAH was in Messiah, making peace between the world and Himself. In Messiah, YAHUAH did not hold people guilty for their sins. And He gave us this message of peace to tell people. 20 So we have been sent to speak for Messiah. It is like YAHUAH is calling to people through us. We speak for Messiah when we beg you to be at peace with YAHUAH. 21 Messiah had no sin, but YAHUAH made him become sin so that in Messiah we could be right with YAHUAH.
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