because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Death is not perdition but departure to the Lord. Peter calls the body a tabernacle, fading and temporary; we dread death only because we forget how brief this life is and how eternal the life to come. He put off a covering, nothing more, to remove elsewhere.
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Ministers must be remembrancers: they put God's people in mind of His precepts and doctrines so they will do them. You may know the truth and be established in it, yet you need to be reminded, lest you forget and fail to act. A sluggish pastor makes a sluggish flock.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:12-15
Peter speaks of death without terror, as easily as removing a garment or striking a tent. We are pilgrims dwelling in temporary shelters; at death the soul moves to another realm, the body merely set aside like a tent to be reassembled in glory.
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