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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Bible Questions Answered: Resurrection Body

Bible Questions Answered:

What will our new bodies be like as Christians?
Helen C./ Horsham, Victoria/ Australia

Bible Answers:

I Corinthians 15:35-58 NLT
35 But someone may ask, "How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?"
36 What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first.
37 And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.
38 Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed.
39 Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
40 There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies.
41 The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind. And even the stars differ from each other in their glory.
42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.
44 They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.
45 The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person."* But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.
46 What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later.
47 Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven.
48 Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man.
49 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.
50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever.
51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!
52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.
53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled:

"Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"

56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power.
57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

The resurrected Christ, appeared to His disciples, showing them His new immortal, glorified body.

Luke 24:36-43 NASB
36.While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."
37.But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.
38.And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts ?
39."See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself ; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
40.And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.
41.While they still could not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He said to them, "Have you anything here to eat ?"
42.They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish ;
43.and He took it and ate it before them.

The mortal body we have today, is subject to, disease, pain, decay, and death, but not so of the resurrected glorious body to come, it can never fall prey to any of these things.

The new immortal body, will be raised in glory and power.

I Corinthians 15:54,55,57 KJV
Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?

57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalms 139:13-15 KJV
[13] For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
[14] I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
[15] My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,...”

If these words are true of our present limited physical (mortal) body, and they of course are, what words will there be to describe our new glorious resurrected immortal body?

Christian people, let us start to thank and praise our living God, now.

James 1:17 KJV
17] Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.