“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” —Proverbs 3:5

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” —Isaiah 55:9

1. You are Wrong - The Resurrection Will Happen!

“God’s covenant promise to save his people would not be of any value if conquered by death”. —Sinclair Ferguson

“This is not a claim that these forebears have already been raised from the dead. Rather, it is an affirmation that God’s relationship with them and God’s faithfulness to the covenant is not broken by death. The point… [is] the power and faithfulness of God.” —Anna Case-Winters, Matthew: A Theological Commentary on the Bible

2. The Resurrection and Our Eternal Future:

A. …It Is Real and Physical and Eternal

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.” —Revelation 21:1

“According to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” —2 Peter 3:13

“Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.” —Isaiah 65:17

B. …Our Current Understanding Is Limited

C. …It Is Glorious and Renewed

“So far from sitting on clouds playing harps, as people often imagine, the redeemed people of God in the new world will be agents of his love going out in new ways, to accomplish new creative tasks, to celebrate and extend the glory of his love.” —N.T. Wright, Suprised by Hope

[51] Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] 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. [53] For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. [54] 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.”
[55] “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
—1 Corinthians 15:51–55

3. Do We Live In Light Of The Coming Resurrection?