March 7, 2010 Pastor David King Part 31
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March 7, 2010 Pastor David King Part 31 | THE RESURRECTION: There Is a Spiritual Body | 1 Corinthians 15:35-50 First Corinthians…Sinners Yet Saints But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 1 Corinthians 15:35 After discussing the resurrection of the dead the natural question arises, “So what does this resurrected body look like?” Paul addresses this question by exposing the Corinthian believers to a few truths about our resurrected body. Let us examine together these glorious mysteries concerning our resurrected bodies! Truth #1--Physical Death Proceeds a Resurrected Body (35-36) “What you sow is not made alive unless it dies” In order to receive a new body, one must first put to rest the old physical body. In order to do this one must either die or as the end of 1 Corinthians shows, one must be raptured and transformed. Either way, the physical body is just a temporary shell for a better body to come. The seed illustration Paul uses also helps us get our minds around both the continuity and the difference of the two bodies. Our physical body is linked to the resurrected body, but they are both very different from one another. Just like a seed is linked to the tree their forms bear little to no resemblance.
Consider the following Verses: 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. I want to remind and encourage you again this morning that our hope does not rest in this life, we are just pilgrims passing through. Make sure you aren’t putting your tent stakes in to deep. Truth #2--Physical Death Precipitates a Different Body (37-41) “And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be…” Different Bodies are evident in the animal kingdom God has created a variety of animals in the animal kingdom. Take a look at the following pictures! Different Bodies are evident in the planetary realm Just how big is the universe anyway? Alot bigger than you might think…  The universe is huge, bet you already knew that. But, perhaps you didn’t know exactly how huge it really is. Consider the following facts:
That’s big. But consider another model which helps us to grasp the size of our universe…it’s called the Paper-Stack Model. Consider the thickness of a standard sheet of paper. Pretty thin, right? Now, imagine that that thickness equals 93 million miles which is the distance from the earth to the sun. Remember, not the length or width, but merely the thickness, 93 million miles. Okay, how many sheets of paper (stacked on top of one another) would it take to represent the distance to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri? To represent that distance it would take a stack of paper 70 feet high. Now, our solar system resides within the galaxy known as the Milky Way galaxy. Let’s say we just wanted to get out of our own backyard, how many sheets of paper would it take to represent the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy? (Remember, each sheet represents 93 million miles) You would have to have a stack of paper 310 miles high to represent that distance. Finally, let’s say we wanted to get to the edge of the known universe (and who knows how far it goes beyond that?) – as far as we can see with our most powerful telescope. How many sheets of paper would it take to represent that distance? It would take a stack of paper 31 million miles high! And just think, God holds it all in the palm of His hand… “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” (Psalm 8:3-4). Different Bodes are evident in the resurrected body Our resurrected body will be different from our physical body. Consider the third truth which unpacks the differences in the resurrected body. Truth #3--Physical Death Promises a Better Body (42-49) Corruption Incorruption Dishonor Glory The resurrected bodies compared with stars: Daniel 12:3 3 Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever. Matthew 13:43 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! I personally speculate that part of our resurrected body will be the capacity to reflect the glory of God. With this in view it is possible in my estimation that the crowns we cast back at the Lord’s feet is analogous to the glory we are able to reflect back to God. Each one will be given differing capacities to reflect God’s glory in connection with their service for God in this life. Weakness Power Natural Spiritual Living being life-giving Spirit From the Earth From the Heavens PAPA JOHN’S-BETTER INGREDIENTS…BETTER PIZZA —They were actually sued by Pizza Hut for this slogan in 1997. Pizza Hut initially won the lawsuit, but in 2000 the lawsuit was appealed and overturned!
-without sin -able to move through walls -not limited by space? -not limited by time? -able to be distinguished from others (v. 41) And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.” 1 Corinthians 15:50 Wrapping it up… 2 Corinthians 5 Paul deals with the temporary nature of our earthly bodies and he concludes the following: 2 Corinthians 5:6-9 6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. Small Group Study Questions Reread together 1 Corinthians 15:1-49 Case Study: A new believer comes to you and begins to ask you about what happens after we die. She knows that we will go to heaven, but she believes we will become angels with harps and float around on clouds for all eternity. How might you help her understand what really happens after death? What do we learn about Jesus’ resurrected body from the following verses:
Share as a group the questions you have about the resurrected body: Examples: Will the resurrected body be able to travel through space? Will we remember our family members? Now go through that list and see what questions you can answer from the Bible? Commentary of 1 Corinthians 15:35-50 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 Verse 35-37 One of the objections to the resurrection may have been the inability of a person to comprehend the resurrected body. This was not the response of a wise person, but rather a fool. Paul’s reply calls the reader to examine the basic reproduction of plant life whereby a seed must in a sense die in order to become a tree. Both are linked, the seed and the tree, but both are very different. So also the physical and resurrected body are linked! Being philosophers, the Greeks reasoned that the resurrection of the human body was an impossibility. After all, when the body turned to dust, it became soil from which other bodies derived nourishment. In short, the food that we eat is a part of the elements of the bodies of generations long gone. When the body of the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, was disinterred, it was discovered that the roots of a nearby apple tree had grown through the coffin. To some degree, the people who ate the apples partook of his body. At the resurrection, then, who will claim the various elements? Paul’s reply to this kind of reasoning was very blunt: “You fool!” Then he made the important point that resurrection is not reconstruction. Nowhere does the Bible teach that, at the resurrection, God will “put together the pieces” and return to us our former bodies. There is continuity (it is our body), but there is not identity (it is not the same body).1 Verse 38-49 There are different glories of related items.
I Corinthians 15:35 But some one will say (ἀλλα ἐρει τις [alla erei tis]). Paul knows what the skeptics were saying. He is a master at putting the standpoint of the imaginary adversary. How (πως [pōs]). This is still the great objection to the resurrection of our bodies. Granted that Jesus rose from the dead, for the sake of argument, these sceptics refuse to believe in the possibility of our resurrection. It is the attitude of Matthew Arnold who said, “Miracles do not happen.” Scientifically we know the “how” of few things. Paul has an astounding answer to this objection. Death itself is the way of resurrection as in the death of the seed for the new plant (verses 36f.). With what manner of body (ποιῳ σωματι [poiōi sōmati]). This is the second question which makes plainer the difficulty of the first. The first body perishes. Will that body be raised? Paul treats this problem more at length (verses 38 to 54) and by analogy of nature (Cf. Butler’s famous Analogy). It is a spiritual, not a natural, body that is raised. Σωμα [Sōma] here is an organism. Flesh (σαρξ [sarx]) is the σωμα [sōma] for the natural man, but there is spiritual (πνευματικον [pneumatikon]) σωμα [sōma] for the resurrection. I Corinthians 15:36 Thou foolish one (ἀφρων [aphrōn]). Old word (α [a] privative, φρην [phrēn]), lack of sense. It is a severe term and justified by the implication “that the objector plumes himself on his acuteness” (Robertson and Plummer). Proleptic position of συ [su] (thou) sharpens the point. Sceptics (agnostics) pose as unusually intellectual (the intelligentsia), but the pose does not make one intelligent. Except it die (ἐαν μη ἀποθανῃ [ean mē apothanēi]). Condition of third class, possibility assumed. This is the answer to the “how” question. In plant life death precedes life, death of the seed and then the new plant. I Corinthians 15:37 Not the body which shall be (οὐ το σωμα το γενησομενον [ou to sōma to genēsomenon]). Articular future participle of γινομαι [ginomai], literally, “not the body that will become.” The new body (σωμα [sōma]) is not yet in existence, but only the seed (κοκκος [kokkos], grain, old word, as in Matt. 13:31). It may chance (εἰ τυχοι [ei tuchoi]). Fourth class condition as in 14:10 which see. Paul is rich in metaphors here, though usually not so (Howson, Metaphors of St. Paul). Paul was a city man. We sow seeds, not plants (bodies). The butterfly comes out of the dying worm. I Corinthians 15:38 A body of its own (ἰδιον σωμα [idion sōma]). Even under the microscope the life cells or germ plasm may seem almost identical, but the plant is quite distinct. On σπερμα [sperma], seed, old word from σπειρω [speirō], to sow, see on Matt. 13:24f. I Corinthians 15:39 The same flesh (ἡ αὐτη σαρξ [hē autē sarx]). Paul takes up animal life to show the great variety there is as in the plant kingdom. Even if evolution should prove to be true, Paul’s argument remains valid. Variety exists along with kinship. Progress is shown in the different kingdoms, progress that even argues for a spiritual body after the body of flesh is lost. Of beasts (κτηνων [ktēnōn]). Old word, from κταομαι [ktaomai], to possess, and so property. See Luke 10:34. Of birds (πτηνων [ptēnōn]). Old word from πετομαι [petomai], to fly, winged, flying. Only here in N.T. I Corinthians 15:40 Celestial (ἐπουρανια [epourania]). Old word, from ἐπι [epi], upon, οὐρανος [ouranos], heaven, existing in heaven. Paul now rises higher in the range of his argument, above the merely terrestrial (ἐπιγεια [epigeia], upon earth, ἐπι, γε [epi, ge]) bodies. He has shown differences in the bodies here on earth in plants and in the animal kingdom and now he indicates like differences to be seen in the heavens above us. Is one (ἑτερα μεν [hetera men]) —is another (ἑτερα δε [hetera de]). Antithesis that admits glory for bodies on earth and bodies in the heavens. Experience does not argue against a glory for the spiritual body (Phil. 3:21). I Corinthians 15:41 For one star differeth from another star in glory (ἀστηρ γαρ ἀστερος διαφερει ἐν δοξῃ [astēr gar asteros diapherei en doxēi]). A beautiful illustration of Paul’s point. Ἀστερος [Asteros] is the ablative case after διαφερει [diapherei] (old verb διαφερω [diapherō], Latin differo, our differ, bear apart). On ἀστηρ [astēr] see Matt. 2:7 and ἀστρον [astron] Luke 21:25. Stars differ in magnitude and brilliancy. The telescope has added more force to Paul’s argument. In glory (ἐν δοξῃ [en doxēi]). Old word from δοκεω [dokeō], to think, to seem. So opinion, estimate, then the shekinah glory of God in the LXX, glory in general. It is one of the great words of the N.T. Jesus is termed the glory in James 2:1. I Corinthians 15:42 So is the resurrection of the dead (οὑτως και ἡ ἀναστασις των νεκρων [houtōs kai hē anastasis tōn nekrōn]). Paul now applies his illustrations to his argument to prove the kind of body we shall have after the resurrection. He does it by a series of marvellous contrasts that gather all his points. The earthly and the risen beings differ in duration, value, power (Wendt). It is sown (σπειρεται [speiretai]). In death, like the seed (37). In incorruption (ἐν ἀφθαρσιᾳ [en aphtharsiāi]). Late word from α [a] privative and φθειρω [phtheirō], to corrupt. In LXX, Plutarch, Philo, late papyrus of a Gnostic gospel, and quotation from Epicurus. Vulgate incorruptio. The resurrection body has undergone a complete change as compared with the body of flesh like the plant from the seed. It is related to it, but it is a different body of glory. I Corinthians 15:43 In weakness (ἐν ἀσθενειᾳ [en astheneiāi]). Lack of strength as shown in the victory of death. In power (ἐν δυναμει [en dunamei]). Death can never conquer this new body, “conformed to the body of His glory” (Phil. 3:21). I Corinthians 15:44 A natural body (σωμα ψυχικον [sōma psuchikon]). See on 2:14 for this word, a difficult one to translate since ψυχη [psuchē] has so many meanings. Natural is probably as good a rendering as can be made, but it is not adequate, for the body here is not all ψυχη [psuchē] either as soul or life. The same difficulty exists as to a spiritual body (σωμα πνευματικον [sōma pneumatikon]). The resurrection body is not wholly πνευμα [pneuma]. Caution is needed here in filling out details concerning the ψυχη [psuchē] and the πνευμα [pneuma]. But certainly he means to say that the “spiritual body” has some kind of germinal connection with the “natural body,” though the development is glorious beyond our comprehension though not beyond the power of Christ to perform (Phil. 3:21). The force of the argument remains unimpaired though we cannot follow fully into the thought beyond us. If there is (εἰ ἐστιν [ei estin]). “If there exists” (ἐστιν [estin] means this with accent on first syllable), a condition of first class assumed as true. There is also (ἐστιν και [estin kai]). There exists also. I Corinthians 15:45 Became a living soul (ἐγενετο εἰς ψυχην ζωσαν [egeneto eis psuchēn zōsan]). Hebraistic use of εἰς [eis] in predicate from LXX. God breathed a soul (ψυχη [psuchē]) into “the first man.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit (ὁ ἐσχατος Ἀδαμ εἰς πνευμα ζωοποιουν [ho eschatos Adam eis pneuma zōopoioun]). Supply ἐγενετο [egeneto] (became). Christ is the crown of humanity and has power to give us the new body. In Rom. 5:12–19 Paul calls Christ the Second Adam. I Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural (ἀλλ̓ οὐ πρωτον το πνευματικον, ἀλλα το ψυχικον [all ou prōton to pneumatikon, alla to psuchikon]). Literally, “But not first the spiritual, but the natural.” This is the law of growth always. I Corinthians 15:47 Earthly (χοικος [choı̈kos]). Late rare word, from χους [chous], dust. The second man from heaven (ὁ δευτερος ἀνθρωπος ἐξ οὐρανου [ho deuteros anthrōpos ex ouranou]). Christ had a human (ψυχικον [psuchikon]) body, of course, but Paul makes the contrast between the first man in his natural body and the Second Man in his risen body. Paul saw Jesus after his resurrection and he appeared to him “from heaven.” He will come again from heaven. I Corinthians 15:48 As is the earthly (οἱος ὁ χοικος [hoios ho choikos]). Masculine gender because of ἀνθρωπος [anthrōpos] and correlative pronouns (οἱος, τοιουτοι [hoios, toioutoi]) of character or quality. All men of dust (χοικοι [choı̈koi]) correspond to “the man of dust” (ὁ χοικος [ho choı̈kos]), the first Adam. As is the heavenly (οἱος ὁ ἐπουρανιος [hoios ho epouranios]). Christ in his ascended state (I Thess. 4:16; II Thess. 1:7; Eph. 2:6, 20; Phil. 3:20f.). I Corinthians 15:49 We shall also bear (φορεσομεν και [phoresomen kai]). Old MSS. (so Westcott and Hort) read φορεσωμεν και [phoresōmen kai]. Volitive aorist active subjunctive, Let us also bear. Ellicott strongly opposes the subjunctive. It may be merely the failure of scribes to distinguish between long o and short o. Paul hardly means to say that our attaining the resurrection body depends on our own efforts! A late frequentative form of φερω [pherō]. I Corinthians 15:50-58 I Corinthians 15:50 Cannot inherit (κληρονομησαι οὐ δυνανται [klēronomēsai ou dunantai]). Hence there must be a change by death from the natural body to the spiritual body. In the case of Christ this change was wrought in less than three days and even then the body of Jesus was in a transition state before the Ascension. He ate and could be handled and yet he passed through closed doors. Paul does not base his argument on the special circumstances connected with the risen body of Jesus.2 I Corinthians 15:51 A mystery (μυστηριον [mustērion]). He does not claim that he has explained everything. He has drawn a broad parallel which opens the door of hope and confidence. We shall not all sleep (παντες οὐ κοιμηθησομεθα [pantes ou koimēthēsometha]). Future passive indicative of κοιμαομαι [koimaomai], to sleep. Not all of us shall die, Paul means. Some people will be alive when he comes. Paul does not affirm that he or any then living will be alive when Jesus comes again. He simply groups all under the phrase “we all.” But we shall all be changed (παντες δε ἀλλαγησομεθα [pantes de allagēsometha]). Second future passive indicative of ἀλλασσω [allassō]. Both living and dead shall be changed and so receive the resurrection body. See this same idea at more length in I Thess. 4:13–18. I Corinthians 15:52 In a moment (ἐν ἀτομῳ [en atomōi]). Old word, from α [a] privative and τεμνω [temnō], to cut, indivisible: Scientific word for atom which was considered indivisible, but that was before the day of electrons and protons. Only here in N.T. In the twinkling of an eye (ἐν ριπῃ ὀφθαλμου [en ripēi ophthalmou]). Old word ριπη [ripē] from ριπτω [riptō], to throw. Only here in N.T. Used by the Greeks for the flapping of a wing, the buzz of a gnat, the quivering of a harp, the twinkling of a star. At the last trump (ἐν τῃ ἐσχατῃ σαλπιγγι [en tēi eschatēi salpiggi]). Symbolical, of course. See on I Thess. 4:16; Matt. 24:31. I Corinthians 15:53 Must put on (δει ἐνδυσασθαι [dei endusasthai]). Aorist (ingressive) middle infinitive, put on as a garment. Immortality (ἀθανασιαν [athanasian]). Old word from ἀθανατος [athanatos], undying, and that from α [a] privative and θνησκω [thnēskō], to die. In N.T. only here and I Tim. 6:16 where God is described as having immortality. I Corinthians 15:54 Shall have put on (ἐνδυσηται [endusētai]). First aorist middle subjunctive with ὁταν [hotan] whenever, merely indefinite future, no futurum exactum, merely meaning, “whenever shall put on,” not “shall have put on.” Is swallowed up (κατεποθη [katepothē]). First aorist passive indicative of καταπινω [katapinō], old verb to drink down, swallow down. Perfective use of κατα- [kata-] where we say “up,” “swallow up.” Timeless use of the aorist tense. Paul changes the active voice κατεπιεν [katepien] in Isa. 25:8 to the passive. Death is no longer victory. Theodotion reads the Hebrew verb (bulla, for billa,) as passive like Paul. It is the “final overthrow of the king of Terrors” (Findlay) as shown in Heb. 2:15. I Corinthians 15:55 Victory (νικος [nikos]). Late form of νικη [nikē]. O death (θανατε [thanate]). Second instance. Here Paul changes Hades of the LXX for Hebrew Sheol (Hos. 13:14) to death. Paul never uses Hades. Thy sting (σου το κεντρον [sou to kentron]). Old word from κεντρεω [kentreō], to prick, as in Acts 26:14. In Rev. 9:10 of the sting of locusts, scorpions. The serpent death has lost his poison fangs. I Corinthians 15:56 The power of sin (ἡ δυναμις της ἁμαρτιας [hē dunamis tēs hamartias]). See Rom. 4:15; 5:20; 6:14; 7; Gal. 2:16; 3:1–5:4 for Paul’s ideas here briefly expressed. In man’s unrenewed state he cannot obey God’s holy law. I Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God (τῳ δε θεῳ χαρις [tōi de theōi charis]). Exultant triumph through Christ over sin and death as in Rom. 7:25. I Corinthians 15:58 Be ye steadfast, unmovable (ἑδραιοι γινεσθε, ἀμετακινητοι [hedraioi ginesthe, ametakinētoi]). “Keep on becoming steadfast, unshaken.” Let the sceptics howl and rage. Paul has given rational grounds for faith and hope in Christ the Risen Lord and Saviour. Note practical turn to this great doctrinal argument. Work (ἐργον [ergon]), labour (κοπος [kopos], toil). The best answer to doubt is work.3 Verse 50—Paul Changes course and addresses what happens to those who are not dead at Christ’s coming. This is a natural transition because Paul just addressed that one must die in order to take on their spiritual body. What then of those who haven’t died when Jesus returns? Paul now addresses this logical next question. Verses 51-52—Paul now addresses a mystery…we will not all die, but we will all be changed! Namely, although not all of us will die, we will all receive a transformed, spiritual body. The timing of this event is…
Verse 53-54—At this moment our bodies will be changed from corruption to incorruption. Verse 55-As in the allusion to Isaiah 25:8 (1 Cor. 15:54), Paul again recalled an Old Testament passage which prophesied the cessation of death (Hosea 13:14). (The recollections were adapted by Paul and do not correspond exactly to any of the extant Gr. or Heb. texts.) The apparent victories of Satan, in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:13) and on Golgotha (Mark 15:22-24) were reversed on the cross (Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14-15) and vindicated in the resurrection of Christ. From the vantage point of the certain resurrection of the saints, Paul voiced his taunt against death and Satan.4 Verse 56-57-As the word victory which ended verse 54 led Paul into the exaltation in verse 55, so the word sting which ended verse 55 led him into this brief digression in verses 56-57. Like other theological nuggets in this chapter (vv. 21-22), these verses were later given expanded discussion in Paul’s letter to the Romans (Rom. 7:7-13). Death came as a result of man’s rebellion and disobedience against the command of God (Gen. 3:17-19). The Law, which epitomized the command of God, was thus the mirror against which human rebellion and disobedience was starkly portrayed. Like the first Adam, all who followed him rebelled (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14). But through the obedience of the last Adam, our Lord Jesus Christ (15:45; cf. Rom. 5:19; Phil. 2:8-11), came “victory” and life (1 Cor. 15:22; cf. 2:15-16).5 Verse 58--Paul’s doctrinal declarations led to practical directives and this chapter’s conclusion was no exception. The Corinthians were urged to stand firm in the apostles’ teaching (v. 2), unmoved by the denials of false teachers (cf. Eph. 4:14). This certainty, especially concerning the Resurrection, provided an impetus to faithful service (cf. 1 Cor. 3:8; Gal. 6:9) since labor in the resurrected Lord is not futile (kenos, “empty”; cf. 1 Cor. 15:10, 14, 17, 30-32).6 Verse 58 is often quoted out of its context. Christians can be steadfast and immovable, because they know that if their worst enemy (death) has been overcome, they need fear no other enemy. They can abound in Christian service, for that work will count for eternity. Their labor is not in vain. Several times in this chapter Paul uses the phrase “in vain.” It means “empty, without content.” Because the tomb is empty, our faith is not empty! But if the tomb is not empty, then everything else is in vain: our preaching is empty (v. 14), our faith is empty (v. 14), and our works are empty (v. 58). The resurrection of Jesus Christ is God’s answer to Solomon’s lament in Ecc. 1:2: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” Thanks be to God for the victory we have in the resurrection of Christ!7
Introduction: Used Car Shopping Do you remember the last time you went car shopping. Maybe you were there looking to trade-in your old car for a different car. In that search you were looking to trade-up for something that was better. Maybe it was better because it cost less, drove faster, drove slower, used less gas, could go off-road, could corner sharper, had a better paint job, etc. There would be no reason to trade if you weren’t trading up to something. This morning I want to tell you about the ultimate trade up involving our body. This trade will take place at the rapture and our physical bodies will be traded up for our new heavenly bodies. Quick Summary of Chapter 15 Verse 1-11—Gospel Recited Recitation of the gospel and a remembrance of who brought them the gospel. Verses 12-21—Futility of a Faith without a resurrected Jesus. Reality of our own coming resurrection Effects of no resurrection from the dead: 1. Our preaching and faith are worthless, empty-handed. V. 14 2. We are false-witnesses of God: v. 15, 16 3. The dead in Christ have perished: v. 18 4. We are the most pitiable: v. 19 Verse 20-28—The end of death itself Verse 29-34—Hopelessness of a non-resurrected Lord 1. We trade the temporary for the permanent A. Your physical body is made to die! (35-36) 2 Cor. 5:1-7 1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) B. Your physical body is the seed for the glorified body (37) Your body is the casing for that perfect body to come and is not necessarily reflective of the body that is yet to come. Illustration of woman and ugly baby A woman walks onto the bus and the bus driver shrieks in horror at the sight of this woman’s baby and says, “That is the ugliest child I have ever seen.” The woman noticeably upset walks to the back of the bus. When she sits down the person next to her notices her mood and asks her what is wrong. The woman replies, “The bus driver just said the meanest and most cruel things to me. I’m going to go up there and give him a piece of my mind.” The man is noticeably moved by her emotion and in his desire to help asks, “Ma’am would you like me to hold your monkey while you go talk to him!”
Don’t let this earth’s body shape your thinking about the next life’s body! 2. We trade the natural for the spiritual (42-49) A. It is incorruptible (42) NO MORE BREAKING DOWN OF THE BODY, SORE JOINTS, ALZHEIMER’S, DISEASES, ETC. B. It is powerful (43) C. It is made of the heavenly realm (44, 47) PAPA JOHN’S-BETTER PIZZA BECAUSE IT IS MADE FROM BETTER INGREDIENTS. V. 47 “The First man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the from heaven.” D. It is distinctly Christ-like (49) -without sin -able to move through walls -not limited by space -not limited by time -not limited by distance -able to be distinguished from others (v. 41) -Glorified-able to reflect the glory of God Differences in glory: (40-42) Verse 42—After discussing the glory of the sun, moon and stars he says, “so also is the resurrection of the dead.” Verse 49—“…we shall bear the image of the spiritual man.” Matthew 13:43 “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father…” Matthew 17:2 “And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light”—Jesus at the Mt. of Transfiguration MOSES’S shining face after being in contact with the Father JUST AS HE IS ABLE TO DETERMINE OUR EARTHLY SEED HE ALSO WILL BE THE ONE WHO GIVES US OUR NEW BODIES AND DETERMINES THEIR MAKE-UP AND APPEARANCE. 1Wiersbe, Warren W.: The Bible Exposition Commentary. Wheaton, Ill. : Victor Books, 1996, c1989, S. 1 Co 15:35 2Robertson, A. (1997). Word Pictures in the New Testament. Vol.V c1932, Vol.VI c1933 by Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. (1 Co 15:35-50). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems. 3Robertson, A. (1997). Word Pictures in the New Testament. Vol.V c1932, Vol.VI c1933 by Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. (1 Co 15:51-58). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems. 4Walvoord, John F. ; Zuck, Roy B. ; Dallas Theological Seminary: The Bible Knowledge Commentary : An Exposition of the Scriptures. Wheaton, IL : Victor Books, 1983-c1985, S. 2:546 5Walvoord, John F. ; Zuck, Roy B. ; Dallas Theological Seminary: The Bible Knowledge Commentary : An Exposition of the Scriptures. Wheaton, IL : Victor Books, 1983-c1985, S. 2:546 6Walvoord, John F. ; Zuck, Roy B. ; Dallas Theological Seminary: The Bible Knowledge Commentary : An Exposition of the Scriptures. Wheaton, IL : Victor Books, 1983-c1985, S. 2:546 7Wiersbe, Warren W.: Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the New Testament. Wheaton, Ill. : Victor Books, 1997, c1992, S. 468 Yüklə 57,1 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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