Resurrection = Eternal Life Soon!
1 Corinthians 15:20-26
May 4, 2025
Introduction:
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I. Jesus’ resurrection solves the problem of(1 Cor. 15:20-22)
II. Jesus’ resurrection in theand for our resurrection (1 Cor. 15:23)
a. The guarantee of our resurrection
b. The model for our resurrection
i. They will be renewed in the image of God, clothed in God’s shining glory as was Adam’s before the Fall (1 Cor. 15:43, 48-29).
ii. They will be much like Christ’s glorious body (Philippians 3:21).
iii. They will be human in form. They will enjoy sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. They will enjoy food and drink, yet cannot starve.
iv. They will be personally recognizable as “us,” just as Jesus was personally recognizable by His disciples after His resurrection.
v. They will be complete and without flaw, appearing in youthful beauty and functioning as strongly and as intelligently as God designed them.
vi. They will be immortal and imperishable, neither aging nor subject to weakness, disease, injury, pain nor decay (1 Corinthians 15:42-43; 53-54).
vii. They will not be subject to any of the ravages of sin. There will be no more temptations of the flesh, nor any lingering effects of sin.
– Pope, Randy. The Journey Curriculum: Red Year, p. 296
III. Our resurrection allows us to enjoy the
“The dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare… There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” —C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Closing Thoughts: