The Ultimate Extreme Make-Over - Part 2

Christian when you work with people you probably have a million questions, you recognize anyone you want to have supernatural ability Turning Point that Jeremiah addresses these questions and others glorified body that you will have this concludes his message the extreme. Micah thank you for joining us.

You know there's a lot about this. I don't know because it has been revealed. On the other hand, there's a lot that is been revealed that we don't know because we don't study and we don't look at it we don't learn it.

I have this insatiable curiosity about things like this that are written about in the Scripture and we've done this exhaustive search into the subject of heaven and today will finish up our discussion of one of the questions about heaven and that is what kind of body will we have throughout eternity and that the title of the message is the ultimate extreme makeover. Much of the truth, for this is found in first Corinthians 15. So find your place in the Bible and be ready to take a few notes and join us as we answer this question. If you have not already done so, let me encourage you to get a letter in the mail to us during the month of July. This is letter month we really want to hear from you. Your letters mean so very much, especially in the summer and especially during this month when were asking you to reflect upon the ministry Turning Point in your life. How is Turning Point changed you.

How is it touched you. How is it encouraged you. What about your family, your children, your parents, your friends, what series is meant the most to you. You know somebody who's come to know Jesus Christ, because they been listening to this program. Well it's Friday and this is the last opportunity we have to deal with this question. The ultimate extreme makeover work antibodies will we have in heaven. And this is part two. The only time that we can observe as humans. The body by Jesus is during the 40 day period between the resurrection of Jesus. And when he went back to heaven. Number one Jesus said that his body was real real bodies is really important. Jesus said he had a real body 2439 we read these words my hands and my feet, that it is I myself handle me and see for us does not have flesh and bones as you see I what I want you to know right now is you not going to have some spirit body surround. Jesus said you can have a real body only my body is real and a spirit body is an oxymoron. There is such a thing.

If you have a body it's not spirited in the spirit not in the body. Jesus body was real and what we have bodies real transport bodies like the body of the Lord Jesus when he was resurrected from the grave.

Jesus said his body was real notice number two. This will greatly encourage many of you, Jesus. On two occasions I don't know of any questions about asked me more is are we going to eat is not just to keep your body alive, but it's a pleasurable experience. Can I get to the notice of things. Here again, this is Jesus in his resurrection body Luke chapter 24 versus 42 and 43 so they give Jesus a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb and he took it and he needed in their presence.

John 2112 and 13, Jesus said to them, and eat breakfast yet none of the disciples dared asking you, knowing that it was the Lord Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it to them and likewise the fish and the assumption is that he ate breakfast with his disciples more than a few have suggested in heaven we will be able to eat without any of the negative effects no acid reflux will eat without gaining weight.

My I thought about this this week we will be able to paste like we never have before because know resurrected body. There will be nothing to take away from the action of our taste buds. You think that's fake was good.

I listen this chocolate will have no greater effect on one's waistline, then float all to be able to eat what you see. It seems to be a parent is a study this is that you will be able to eat what you have to eat eat for pleasure, but not in order to sustain because you need to be sustainably sustained by the power of God its resident within you.

So even will truly be a pleasure that you will enjoy and by the way, in the garden.

We had a picture of the beauty of on interrupted cuisine and I believe will have a great creation of that scenario when we get to heaven someday alright so you have a real body to be able to eat. Notice the third thing Jesus told Thomas to touch his body.

Notice verse 27 John 20. Then he said to Thomas reach your finger here, and look at my hands and reach your hand here, and put it in my side.

Do not be unbelieving, but believing. Once again I want to remind you that our bodies after the extreme makeover going to be real bodies like our current bodies only. Clearly renovated, resurrected, made over will be able to eat. We will have the sense of touch. We know that from this experience. Jesus told Mary not to hold onto him to remember that experience that happened in that period of time. John 20 verse 17 Jesus said to her do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to my father, you can't cling to something that's not touchable. Jesus told Mary, don't hold onto my body because I haven't yet ascended to the father so people are always asking me in my new body will people know me and will I know others. Jesus in his resurrection body was real. His disciples knew who he was listening to us. They know that this Jesus after his death and resurrection was the very same Jesus, they had known before his staff. They knew this so deeply in our hearts that all proclaiming the reality of his resurrection and that he came out of the grave.

The same Jesus who had gone into the grave.

But in his resurrection body was the real Jesus the same Jesus who they knew before they knew now that's the way it will be for you when you get to heaven know all the people that you met down here and they're going to know you. It is unthinkable to me that in heaven we will know less than we do here. First Corinthians 1312 says this for now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part I shall know even as I know we will have a greater sense of recognition in heaven than we ever had here on this earth when Moses and Elijah appeared out of heaven to stand with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration disciples with Christ, recognize Moses and Elijah as real people. When Jesus describes heaven. In Matthew chapter 8 he speaks of it as being a real place with real identifiable people present there.

Matthew 811 says and I say to you that many will come from the East and West, and sit down with who Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who they are and will be no missionary Amy Carmichael wrote these words about recognition and have listened what you said.

Shall we know each other in heaven, shall we love and remember, I don't think anyone need wonder about this or doubt for a single moment. We just think we know.

Would you be yourself. If you did not remember we are told that we shall be like our Lord Jesus and does he not know and love and remember he would not be himself if he did not and we should not be ourselves. If we did not we shall know and we shall remember, and we shall be recognized and will learn more about that going forward well argue bodies will be indestructible.

Our new bodies will be identifiable. Our new bodies thirdly will be.

And I mean that incredible verse 30 3B says we will be so in weakness be raised in power.

We will be buried in weakness is not true in the body is buried it's without a strike without any part but when we come grave, it will be in power in our current bodies we are limited in our ability to sustain effort for very long. Is that true gets harder and harder as we get older and older. We work hard for a few hours and were exhausted.

We went to Africa.

I think a lot of folks found out we have a capacity went out the first data plant gardens in all of the sweltering heat of that country and I noticed that we went out with a lot of energy and we came back in looking like we've just been run over by a Mack truck. I mean it was a hard task and it got harder as the week went on, because our energy supply began to be less and less, but in our new bodies we will have capacities and abilities without any limitation. Nothing will be outside the scope of the possibility for us in our new body.

On one occasion that is unlike Asian Jesus actually enter the room without going through the door just appeared in the midst of his disciples.

John 20 verse 19 says the same day at evening, being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, peace be with you so you need pastor what I did in my new body. I'll be able to just show up in a place without locking the door, it appears that way. It appears that we will not have limitations like we have today to perhaps our thought process will be able to be places in heaven is so vast. Such a tremendous learn more about this later.

Just think, and be where you need to be all of us who went to Africa. We all said it was great going great.

Being there, which is hard going, it was a killer trip to heaven will just say there in the midst says the Scripture Jesus resurrection body surmounted the limitations of this life had no power to stop him and our bodies are going to be the same. Finally, our bodies will not only be indestructible and identifiable an incredible but notice the first thing Paul says in verse 34. Our new bodies will be infinite. It is buried a natural body is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body goes to great effort to describe the difference between our earthly body and our heavenly body.

He points to Adam as the image bearer for this body. He points to Christ as the image bearer for our new body. He says that we are going to have a spiritual body. Now let me just talk with you a moment about that because this is a matter of great confusion for a lot of God's people is a spiritual body. He's not talking about any material body, you already know that Jesus was touched. He was handled. Jesus ate Jesus did not have a quote on quote spirit body.

He had a material body and wouldn't have bodies just like this bodies in the sense that spooky. If you know what I mean. You will bodies Paul is talking here about a real body that is no longer controlled by the physical appetites but a real body that is now controlled by the spirit. Our new bodies will exist on a higher plane and our new bodies instead of being governed by our appetites will be governed by the Holy Spirit. That's what a spiritual body is the basic difference between a natural body, and a spiritual body is that the former body is suited for life on this earth and our spiritual bodies will be suited for life in heaven for eternity with God. The natural body is so controlled the spiritual body will be spirit controlled and Paul tells us that in our current bodies we could not live in heaven. Verse 15 chapter 15 says this I say, brethren, that flash and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption is saying that as we are now in our current bodies we could function in the realm heaven, but God is good to give us new real bodies like the ones we have only completely made over transformed and no longer governed by our appetites of the flesh, but governed by the appetites of the spirit just a moment here. Would you ever had one hour or one 30 minute. Maybe even 110 minutes when you sensed the Holy Spirit was totally in control of who you were.

What you did is the most glorious thing you can have consciousness of that being true when it happens. The Bible says that when we are transformed in our resurrection bodies come out of the grave.

We are going to be totally in the spirit and willing to do only those things that please the Lord in our physical appetites will be marginalized by the appetite we have for the Lord God in his glory. If you are walking with the Lord today that wet your appetite to know what it's like, even for a moment to live in the spirit well one day I believe it soon Jesus Christ is going to come back and he's going to take everyone who is trusted with him to heaven for those who are alive at that time who haven't died first Corinthians teaches us that they're going to experience the text of the resurrection. On the way up. Now that's the way I want be experiencing resurrection, he would vote for that would like to be there when Jesus comes back. So what's this this and this is what it says in first Corinthians 51 and 52 behold, I tell you a mystery.

We shall not all sleep sleep class that's dying for a Christian, but will sleep all going to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed, and so the pattern according to Paul in first Corinthians, and again in first Thessalonians chapter 4 is like this, Jesus is going to come back is not going to come all the way to the rapture is going to come in the air with trumpets going to sound and those who have died in Christ are to be raised up and in the process of the resurrection they will immediately get their transformed body and those of us who are Christians and are still alive on this earth will be caught up together with them in the air since Paul will get our transformation in a moment in the 20 when I last caught up and then together, all of us will be ushered into heaven by the Lord himself. All of us having transformed bodies like the Lord Jesus, while Bible said, I believe him to be alive when that happened. I think all of us as Christians that have that hope in her heart is good be something to see.

You know that many of you have friends who have bodies that have been injured, perhaps friends who were born into this world and the bodies didn't function popularly Johnny Erickson taught a is written so many precious things about heaven. I was with her at the NRB and she spoke about heaven before I did and I wished I could've left and not have to speak because she's such a powerful powerful ambassador for the Lord Jesus one of her books. She says this I still can hardly believe it.

I would strip them fingers atrophied muscles no knees and no feeling from the shoulders down will run very have a new body light, bright and clothed in righteousness, powerful and dazzling. Can you imagine the hope this gives someone spinal cord injured like me or someone who is cerebral palsy brain injured or who has multiple sclerosis.

Imagine the hope this gives someone who is manic-depressive. No other religion. No other philosophy promises new bodies, new hearts and minds only in the gospel of Christ, hurting people find such incredible" no wonder Paul said that if in this life only we have hope.

We are most miserable. We have hope beyond this life. Do not and that hope is in Jesus and one day all the pains in the aches and the deformities in the deficiencies that we sensed in our bodies can all be taken away. When we get our heavenly bodies and women to know the joy of full capacity with the Lord forever and never do you understand why I'm so passionate about trying to take people to heaven with me. No one I don't want anyone to miss God has planned for his children, Jack Welch was an icon is the CEO of General Electric, wrote a book several years ago with the title on it goes a little bit about his ego. The book was titled Jack was all about Jack was about Jack's great illustrated ability by end, a lot I read in the book, but always learn something from every book that I read and I learned some lessons from him about administration little good. Well, he's come out with a new book titled winning that it is a compilation of questions that people ask Jack Welch and then he's answered them and organize them into a business book you can imagine my surprise as I skimmed through the book and discovered that someone had actually asked Jack Welch this question, do you think you will go to heaven when you die, believe that the business book so I can honestly tell you I never do this.

I skip to the last chapter I wanted to hear what this man was going to say and I'll tell you.

Here's what I read.

After rambling about how he has made some mistakes in this business, how he is discouraged over his two failed marriages. Welch finally gets around to answering the question he was asked about heaven and here's what he said so sparse heaven. Who knows. I'm sure not perfect but if there any points given out for caring about people with every fiber of your being, and giving life. All you've got every day than I suppose I might have a shot."

But Jack heaven is not about having a shot. It's not even about caring for people giving your life.

Everything you've got every day.

Heaven is about putting your trust in Jesus Christ and in him alone and I need to tell you guys something. It's harder for successful businessman to get to that point that it is for anybody else on this earth because we have gotten where we have gotten through the effort of our own energy and drive and vision.

But when it comes to heaven all those rules are thrown out in heaven is not something you earns heaven something that's a gift and God says until you are humble enough to say I can't earn heaven by my own works. You will never see the inside of heaven you will spend eternity in hell without Christ. The way you get to heaven as you humble yourself as a little child and you acknowledge that you cannot do enough good things to get to heaven, but you could never make heaven on your own and you put your trust in Jesus Christ and him alone plus or minus nothing, literally eternity on Jesus and to be willing to do that until Jack Welch is willing to do that he can never go to heaven will be any. I think I've got a shot when he stands before the Lord. He doesn't have a hope unless he puts his trust in Jesus Christ he doesn't I don't and you don't so I would ask you today, is there any reason you can think of why you put your trust in Jesus Christ asking to forgive their sin and make a reservation in heaven that is absolutely certain as it can be when you make your decision. Put your trust in Christ, if you let us know will send you to free booklets. One call your greatest Turning Point in the other called first steps of faith, these little booklets will help you get started in your walk with the Lord and would love to send them to you as our way of giving you a real pat on the back. As you begin your walk with the Lord friends.

It's almost Sunday. Sunday has become a little bit strange for a lot of folks over these last weeks.

Some of you are back in church. Some of you still aren't. But wherever you are and however your situation presents itself. I want to ask you to make Sunday special, listen, watch, be part go to involve yourself with your church and make it a priority. More than ever before. We need to do that. So many things are changing in our culture.

If there's ever been a time when we need to be anchored in the truth. This is it that takes place quite often in the church and I want to encourage you to go to church this weekend if it's open for you are to watch online if that's where you are but most of all to make this a priority will be on television over the weekend. You can watch us find us in your area and then will be back on Monday to continue our discussion of the mysteries of heaven. Have a great weekend friends. Thank you for being a part of this ministry message today from Shadow Mountain Community Church and senior pastor Dr. David Jeremiah please write until his hair grows using Turning Point in your life right through us at any point PO Box 3838, San Diego, CA 92163 visit our website at David Jeremiah dog/ready for your copy of the revealing mysteries of heaven informed about your amazing gift of any amount you can also download the free Turning Point favorites not devised in your app store for the keywords Turning Point ministries instant access to programs and resources visit David Jeremiah.org/radio data on very hopefully join us Monday as we continue the series revealing the mysteries of heaven here on Turning Point for taking time from teasing