How do heavenly habitation, judgment and reconciliation connect?

Paul says if their earthly habitation dissolves, they have God’s eternal heavenly building, not made by hands. They groan desiring clothing with heavenly habitation, found clothed rather than naked. Burdened in the tabernacle, they want clothing upon, not unclothing, so mortality is swallowed by life. God made them for this and gave the Spirit’s pledge. They are confident, knowing bodily presence means absence from the Lord, walking by faith not sight. They prefer bodily absence and presence with the Lord, and labour absent or present to please him. No human-wide design mechanism or actual choice of death is narrated.

All must appear before Christ’s judgment seat to receive according to bodily deeds, good or evil. The printed note explains particular judgment immediately after death, reward or punishment according to bodily conduct; it does not add that every punishment at that judgment is eternal. Knowing the Lord’s fear, they persuade men, manifest to God and, Paul trusts, readers’ consciences. They offer an occasion to glory and answer those glorying in face rather than heart, not renewed self-commendation. Whether transported in mind to God or sober for readers, Christ’s charity presses them: if one died for all, all were dead, and Christ died so the living no longer live for themselves but for him who died and rose. An ecstasy diagnosis, exact opponents’ identity and inevitable collapse of prestige-driven ministry are not supplied.

They know no man according to flesh, even if Christ was once known that way. The printed note explains disregarding nation, family, kindred and natural advantages in favour of relation to Christ under divine charity, and describes Paul’s affection for Christ purified of satisfaction in shared countrymanship. It is commentary rather than a new description of every believer’s social evaluation. If someone is in Christ a new creature, old things pass and all become new.

All is of God who reconciled them through Christ and gave reconciliation’s ministry. God in Christ reconciled the world, not imputing sins, and placed reconciliation’s word in them. As ambassadors for Christ, God as it were exhorts through them; they beseech readers to be reconciled to God. The sinless one was made sin for them so they might be God’s justice in him; the printed note identifies sin as a sin offering or victim. This chapter does not separately specify a penitential procedure or narrate every person accepting reconciliation.