What Kind of Bodies Will Christ-Followers Have in the New Heaven and Earth?

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What Kind of Bodies Will Christ-Followers Have in the New Heaven and Earth?

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

NOTES:

A. How Are the Dead Raised?

“But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised?

With what kind of body will they come?’ How foolish! What you sow does not come to life

unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed,

perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined,

and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.”

1. As a tree from a seed, so our future bodies will from our present bodies.

“Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another

and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies;

but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies

is another. The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another;

and star differs from star in splendor.”

2. God gives different to different bodies.

“So it will be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable,

it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness,

it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”

3. The bodies that will be provided for us in the future will be a over the bodies

that we have in the present.

“If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body… The first man (Adam) was of the dust of the earth; the second man (Jesus) is of heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of

the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.”

4. What is placed in the ground is modelled after body. What is raised from the ground

is modelled after body.

B. When and How Will All of this Take Place?

“I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,

nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye,

at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable,

and we will all be changed.”

1. It will happen in a way…

2. It will happen in a way that has been seen in human history…

3. For it will take place in the grave, for , it will take place while they are still living…

4. It will be a , supernatural, eternal transformation…

5. It will take place at the of Christ…

“For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,

then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’

‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

6. It will be the stage in God’s process…

“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”

7. It inspires us to in life…

Today’s “Life Hack”…

When the trials of your today you, let the truth of God’s tomorrow you.