Title: Glory of the Resurrection
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Glory of the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:35-49)
1. The resurrection of Jesus is a historical event.
(1) Jesus prophesied that He would die on the cross and be resurrected on the third day, and He fulfilled it.
(2) Those who believe in the historical resurrection of Jesus will be saved.
2. How can Jesus' resurrection be explained?
(1) Those who deny the resurrection protest what kind of body the dead come from when they say that they are resurrected (verse 35). Resurrection is like a seed dying and new life sprouting (verses 36 and 37).
(2) However, the future shape of each seed is not made by humans or nature who sow the seed, but God the Creator gives the shape according to God's will (verse 38). God has ordained various glory through various bodies (verses 39-41).
3. The physical body and the spiritual body
(1) Ideas that claim life after death are very diverse.
The first is the idea of the immortality of the soul. The second is the idea of the resurrection of the body. However, there is a difference between the present physical body and the spiritual body that will be resurrected by the power of God (verses 42-44).
(2) Even though we Christians die, we live again (verse 44). Man's animal body dies and will rise again as a spirit body, free from the constraints of time and space.
4. Two Adams Representing Humanity
(1) Death reigns in the first Adam of mankind, and Christ, the second Adam, has the representativeness in which life reigns (Romans 5:14). But we were first born as human beings (verse 46).
(2) Those of us who believe in the Lord will be resurrected by the power of God's love and take on the image of the Lord who belongs to heaven (Romans 8:11). Satan wants to rule the soul and the body.
5. Be a man of spirit.
(1) We Christians must first seek the kingdom of God and its righteousness to become spiritual people.
(2) Resurrection is the work of transferring the life of those who belong to the earth to the life of those who belong to heaven (verses 48, 49).
May eternal life be with you by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior (1 John 5:11-12).