Our ambition should always be to be pleasing to the Lord. That was Paul's ambition. Paul preferred heaven to earth.

We walk by faith and not by what we see in this temporal world. Faith is a walk. It starts with a decision.

He prepared a way for every person to go to heaven. God has purposed that every person would go to heaven. He gave every person who trusts in His way the Holy Spirit as a down payment for what is to come, eternity in heaven.

In this temporary house we groan, not in despair but in hope of our eternal dwelling.

Paul talks about three different dwelling places. The first is a temporary place that he calls it a tent. The second is building built by God and third is a house that is eternal.

Our mortal man is decaying but our inward man is renewed day by day. The afflictions that we go through are producing an immeasurable amount of glory in us!

The spirit of faith gives us a knowledge that we will be raised to be with Jesus and that we will be present to Him.

What is the spirit of faith? What does it do? Because we believe we speak.

Paul tells us why he continues on. So that the life of Jesus could be manifested in us.

The treasure inside of us causes us to not be crushed, to not despair, to not be forsaken, and not be destroyed.