The Resurrection Bidy

What the resurrection of the body involves

I. The Bodies We Have

Your body is a gift from God that won’t last forever.

II. The Death We’ll Face

Death is certain. “It is appointed for man to die once” (Hebrews 9:27a ESV).

Death is not the end. “And after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27b ESV)

Christ defeated death. “Christ Jesus … abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (II Timothy 1:10 ESV).

Death remains the last enemy. “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (I Corinthians 15:26).

III. The Resurrection We’ll Enjoy

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”Corinthians 15:51-55 (ESV)

A. It will happen instantly.

B. It will happen when Jesus returns

The trumpet will sound, the dead in Christ will rise, and living believers will be raptured off the earth to meet the Lord in the air (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

C. It will result in our complete transformation.

35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. I Corinthians 15:35-37 ESV

The resurrection of the body is necessary to reverse the effects of sin.

The body that is raised will be a new body

individual personality continues in the resurrection.

The resurrection of the body is the final step in our salvation:

Step #1: We are saved from the penalty of sin. That happens when we trust Christ.

Step #2: We are saved from the power of sin. That happens day by day through the new life given to us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Step #3: We are saved from the presence of sin. That will happen in the future when our bodies are raised from the dead and transformed by God’s power.