1 Corinthians 15:20-58 - Part C

Adam's sin, brought corruption degradation decay. He he bombed out was the atom bomb the bond on Jesus and even radioactive. Ever since, every human being in every generation, Jesus restored that and the full restoration demands physical restoration. That's what all the labors. The physical resurrection: sin means that we are corrupt. Our bodies are: be that way forever today on connect with Skip Skip shares what your future physical resurrection is necessary when it happens to draft of the message.

Skip and his wife, one share why we are still called to maintain the health of our present bodies. I just look at this.

We were stewards of what God has given us were all sort of. We are by our genetics, but we can also have a part in it by our environment choices so if I'm a steward of what God has given me what can I do to make sure that I am is usable in God's hands. For the longest possible thing. Skip, be sure to stay with us after today's message to her the full discussion right now we want to tell you about a resource that will encourage even more in your last rotate around crucial moments in decisions where everything changes. We call them pivot points here. Skip, I think in this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while if need be. You have been grieved by various trials. Peter is actually saying that there are times when God knows you see a trial to say exactly what you can prepare for inevitable upcoming pay that point in your life receive your copy of skits pivot point collection of six messages point package sticks to marriage – depression recovery. The future and moving to a new location, or job.

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Another fish and other birds. There are also celestial bodies is heavenly bodies and terrestrial bodies on the earth, but the glory of the celestial is one glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun. Another glory of the moon.

Another glory of the stars for one star differs from another star in glory, even as you look up into the sky at the stars. Yeah, especially in on a December evening, a clear December evening. If you look up and you have a telescope and somebody can show you the star all the bar and it will have a pink rosy hue.

You look at another star Rigel, it will have a bluish tint look at another star beetle gaze. It'll be yellowish in color different intensities different temperatures different Kelvin temperatures so they're all beautiful but they're all different in their beauty. Shining with different intensities.

There's there's different kinds of bodies with different kinds of intensities not I have I have a thought that could deter us from finishing the chapter. So, I'm to keep going. Maybe I'll pick it up as we go, so also verse 42 is the resurrection of the dead.

The body is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption know you have discovered this. This is not new news flash our body deteriorates your body reaches its peak around 20 years of age or in your 20s and goes downhill after that. Proven fact I have a friend who said that he was with the a group of kids young people in venue and that he noticed a bunch of kids.

His kids included a down on the hallway and then he noticed this older rotund man with graying hair next to him next to them standing in, and he thought to himself.

He says I had this thought is that old fat man exit always get and then he discovered what he was looking at, there was a set of mirrors. At the end of the room and there were his kids and the reflection and it was his reflection it was Sony said was that old fat man at the end of their necks of the kids is like oh it's me body is sown in corruption is raised in incorruption. It is so in this honor. There's nothing majestic about a dead person. The event itself. If you could be awake to look at him and experience of your not your dad, but when you die. If you are conscious you would be embarrassed. It's why we cover up a corpse when they die.

There's a dishonor to that event are the way they look. When a person dies they lose on all muscle control.

All of it and so a person will empty his bladder and bowels, etc. targets a graphic that's is what happens at death eyewitness to the number of times is nothing that is if you were if you were spewing all my good I mean we some of us are so afraid to be out get out of the house without her makeup when you die to see it all its sown in dishonor is raised in glory is sown in weakness is raised in power.

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, there is a spiritual body so it is written, the first man Adam became a living being the last Adam. Jesus became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural and afterword the spiritual so he compares the natural man than or the natural body. The human physical body when he says there is a natural body, and he compares that to a spiritual body. Now that does not mean that the resurrected body will be nonmaterial. That is just a spirit being does not mean it will be a non-corporeal same sort of meaning is nonmaterial.

Don't focus on the adjective so much as the now not to the spiritual is much as the body to be a real body, a better translation I believe is a supernatural body.

There is a physical body. Natural body, you're going to get a supernatural body, a physical body but without the limitations that you have is you're going to be in a place in an environment that demands different capacities.

If you want to go to the moon.

You couldn't go to moan unless you had a contraption you had to have it you have a spacesuit just to be pressurized you have to have the oxygen you breathe on earth transport with you to take to go.

You could live otherwise will have an going to be like that.

I don't want to live for eternity now in a spacesuit rhyme taking one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. I want no limitation but I can't survive in this body that I have. I can't survive on the moon. I can't survive in the water unless I have something that adjusts my environment. So God is going to give you a body that is suited for the environment of heaven because you'll be in a glorified body to be able to enjoy the glorified state. It will be a body but a supernatural body, not a non-corporeal body or nonmaterial body will be a real physical body you just to get a makeover so people aspect of this question.

What is my body and the look like what if I have a relative who is an amputee comes to Christ or with her body be like or an infant or an old person.

It's a little answer the question by going back to Genesis, when Adam was created by God. He was created as an adult he had an apparent age. Even though he had also a technical itself. When God created Adam on day one. How old was he was a Dale you look like a day-old. He looked body like a 20-year-old 18-year-old on a 20 oh it's hard to know exactly, but a full functioning adult with adult capabilities, but he had an apparent age know I mentioned that peak human development peak development in your genetic structure is somewhere in your 20s they say between 20 and 30.

I remember when I was going to medical training.

They said 19.

Maybe it's right your early 20 somewhere on their and then after that you start going downhill so Henry David Thoreau, the author said, every man ripens until he reaches age 20 and then he begins to rot so that's that's the. The author poet's way of saying what science told me years ago so I believe your resurrected body will have your peak age capacity. So if you are born an infant or for that matter aborted in the womb. You won't be an embryo in heaven you'll be a 2022-year-old full functioning adult if you died at 104 and drooled on the way out. You won't be like that an eternity of you like in your 20s, full functioning adult with incredible capability so it's interesting Jesus when he raised from the dead was unrecognizable by a lot of people at first until he did or said certain thing. Oh my goodness, it's the Lord.

So yes, he bore uniquely the marks of crucifixion and yet he had capability so he was recognizable in one hand, but in other instances, he was not sort of hard to tell you exactly what it's going to be like but it's going to be something like that. Something like that. Verse 47 was finishes up the first man Adam, the first man was on of the earth made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven, as was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust, as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are heavenly just comparing the two bodies, the natural body and the supernatural body and as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man. So Adam was a prototype. Jesus was a prototype in his resurrection. We all know what physical bodies are like we have one extra prototype from Adam, but our resurrected body. The prototype is Jesus resurrected body is comparing once again what Adam did with the last Adam, the second Adam, Jesus did so Adam's sin, brought corruption, degradation, decay, he he bombed out it was the atom bomb. He bombed out Jesus and if we been radioactive.

Ever since, every human being in every generation, Jesus restored that and the full restoration demands a physical restoration. That's why Paul B labors the idea of the physical resurrection, the heavenly man. Now this I say brother in the flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I tell you a mystery.

We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. I think we should put that verse in the nursery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed via good perfect scripture for the moment is not talking about that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, not the blinking of an eye. The blinking of an eye as 1/30 of a second. The twinkling of an eye about 1/10000 of a second.

It's really the time it takes for light traveling at 186,000 mi./s you hit and I bounced back for somebody else to notice.

Twinkling of an eye instantaneous. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed for this corruption must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality.

What Paul is getting at here is the exception because everybody say, like everybody dies. We don't see people coming back to life. Paul says yeah but there's a resurrection coming to the natural next question would be well when that event event takes place.

The resurrection was what. There's living people on earth. At that time. So Paul says behold and behold his word to grab your attention.

Behold, I wanted to you.

We moose carry-on is the Greek word, a mystery, and and a monastery on a mystery.

In the New Testament is something that was concealed in the Old Testament, but revealed in the New Testament and the mystery is of the coming of the Lord what we typically called the rapture of the church.

So first Thessalonians chapter 4 Paul says I don't want you to be ignorant brothers concerning those who are fallen asleep dead, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring those with him who have fallen asleep. For this I declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of income of God, the dead in Christ will rise first.

That's bodily resurrection.

That's what he's been talking about rise first. Then we who are alive and remain people who are alive living on the earth at the time will be caught up together with them. Those who have been raised did the dead people, Christians raise, we will be caught up together with him rapture caught up taken by force and so shall we always be with the Lord, and he can he can close out by saying yes you conclude that pricing therefore comfort one another with these words so Paul's been speaking about people who are dead getting back to life now is talking about people who are alive when that event happens. So to advance when Jesus comes back will take place the bodies of living saints will be transformed because this corruption must put on incorruption and the bodies of the dead saints will be glorified. The seed that has been sown on the ground will be glorified simultaneously dead in Christ will rise first. We were alive will be caught up rapture to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we always be with the Lord. So verse 54 discloses chapter off. So when this corruptible is put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is your sting O Hades, where is your victory. The sting of death is sin, strength of sin is the law.

The law just accentuates the problem. The wages of sin is death. You read the law, all that thou shalt not's and the only thing you can say is oops. I'm in trouble because reading the law I remind you that you have not kept it.

And so that just makes the sin problem. Even worse, but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brother and be steadfast in movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. I'm been a close is that we that's in the chapter you're done not yet a minute close with Daniel chapter 12 just couple versus why because I want you to know Paul wants you to know I believe that the resurrection is not a new brand you think it's been spoken about from the Old Testament onward.

Even Daniel the prophet believed in and taught and spoke on and predicted a bodily physical resurrection.

Daniel chapter 12. He says those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine notice this like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Could it be just a thought. When Paul talked about you know there's different luminaries in the sky different stars with different glories. They shine with different brightness is in different colors that he was thinking of this when he wrote that we will's shine like the stars forever and could it be that he had in his mind that in heaven were the shine is wrap glorified bodies, but were going to shine with different capacities different intensities depending on how faithful we were to the Lord's calling and work on this earth. Now, I hope you know I'm not introducing some new foreign concept were all saved by grace through faith not of works lest any man should boast.

But I also hope you know that your reward eternally is dependent upon the work that you do for the Lord under and rock to be shining now.

John Lennon said we all sign on and think at this in mind Paul had this in mind, and I believe he is hinting at, at least in part what he elucidates in other places in the New Testament that in eternity. We're all going to have certain rewards depending on how faithful we were to the Lord's calling in our lives and how we lead people to Christ or not. And so, once again, let me disclose you so you keep saying that in the closing. You don't close your Paul did that a lot. Therefore, my beloved brother, be steadfast in movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord keep serving the Lord put some elbow grease into it, put some labor into it.

You're not saved by works, but for goodness sakes. If you have faith, it should work. Your faith should work should produce fruit. So give it all you've got the finish line reads press toward the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus, be steadfast, so that you might shine like the stars in that concludes give hike to message the series expound first Corinthians use as they share why we are still called to maintain the health of our present bodies when they were going to have you glorified that, but that doesn't mean we neglect our physical bodies now Skip can you share about why we should take care our present bodies. Well, you know that is become an issue. I think all of the world, but especially in this country.

I think that if you we traveled the world and you can spot Americans sadly were overweight, yeah, pretty much as a nation, so I just think as believers in anybody get too carried away in in this you may have thought I've gotten carried away and this at one point in our marriage but I just look at this. We were stewards of what God has given us yeah were all sort of who we are by our genetics, but we can also have a part in it by our environment and choices. So if I'm a steward of what God has given me what can I do to make sure that I am is usable in God's hands. For the longest possible time, but silly will take care of our cars get the oil changed.

Rotate the tires and then neglect our bodies yeah I mean you know will give care to something that is Dino not not a part of our frame and impacting our health that skip.

You are one of the healthiest guys that mean he wakes up every morning walk several miles and does more at night and you heat you eat a very healthy diet so it super inspiring but it's also that you can be the best available vessel for God. You know you're in it for the long haul your kind in it to win it and to stay viable and useful to God's kingdom right. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

I just want to make sure that God has something good to work with. For the longest possible time. A disorder comes down to pragmatics Thanksgiving lagniappe. We hope you've enjoyed getting to know Skip and Lenny a little better to this conversation, you can join him in connecting others with the life-changing castle thinking today to keep these Bible teachings going strong on the radio and television and online discount 800 9218 8819 to 88. Four.

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