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Corinthians 15:21-26, 30--42 – Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom
of God
God will provide a new body for life in heaven. Even
Christians can become confused on the matter of the body after death. Is the
body to be preserved at the high cost of burial? Will the body be resurrected
on the last Great day? If there is no body, can we exist as spirits? If there
is a body what is it like? These questions troubled the Corinthian church: ‘How
are the dead raised? With what body do they come? In this lesson Paul helps us
understand the resurrected body.
A New Body for an Old Soul
Even Christians
sometimes become confused on the matter of the body after death. Should the
body simply be discarded? Is the body to be preserved at the high cost of
burial? Will the body be resurrected on the last great day? If there is no
body, can we exist as spirits? If there is a body, what will it be like? These
question troubled the Corinthian church as Paul asks them and us today; “How
are the dead raised? With what body do they come? In this lesson Paul helps us
understand the resurrected body.
1.
We will have a
body after death – V. 38
A.
A body for
identification – related to the physical body. We will recognize each other. –V.37
B.
A body for
communication purposes. We will talk to each other.
2.
The kind of body
God will give us – Vv. 42-44
A.
A spiritual body
God will be us – Vv. 42-44
B.
A body that will
not grow old – V. 42
C.
A glorious body –
V. 43a
D.
A strong body –
V. 43b[2]
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