Different eschatologies, however, produce different responses to mortality. Ideas and worldviews have changed over time, but everyone—both in Paul’s day and in our own day—is dealing with the same basic problem. 

We are dying. 

And we are stuck with corrupt bodies inclined toward selfishness and evil. Paul’s answer to the problem is the hope of the resurrection of the body. And the means of perseverance to that end is Spirit infused faith in the death of the Messiah (cf. Rom. 5:9; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:9). Of course, the negative aspects of Jewish apocalypticism are also part of Paul’s discipleship—the judgment is coming, so wake up (cf. 1 Cor. 5:5; Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5; 1 Thess. 5:6). But generally speaking it is the positive aspects of Jewish eschatology that Paul emphasizes, because as seen in the passage above from Romans 8, we are saved into hope. - John P. Harrigan