“Sown in Corruption…RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE!”

{ 1 Cor 15:42-44}.

 These past few days have been painful, nauseating from the disease, and treatments, “But God…” in His kindness encourages my mind in thinking of the Resurrection and in particular the new bodies Paul speaks of to the Corinthians…Hope it encourages you…

THE PROBLEMS ANSWERED;

“But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With  what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as He has determined, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.”- {1 Cor 15:32-35}

 LESSON FROM NATURE;

Paul uses the analogy of a “seed.” That as a “seed” is “sown” into the ground and disintegrates, what comes forth can be that which produces a giant oak of a tree or another type of seed produces an exquisite flower. Out of death comes life. He uses nature to teach of the resurrection. Paul says what is “Sown in corruption” namely the body weak as it is with it’s limitations, it’s weakness, powerless, decaying, that culminates in death, out of this God will bring forth in His time 1 Cor 15;42-42 teaches 4 ELEMENTS of this New Body, namely; Glorified-v43; Powerful. v43; Spiritual body-v44; to unite with our glorified spirit, and this body will be INCORRUPTIBLE!” -v42!

 INCORRUPTIBLE!

No Disease, No Disability, No Deterioration, No Decay, No Temptation, No Sin, No Pain, No Death, will have any part in it for it will be a NEW Glorified Body, Fitted for eternity to dwell with God and will worship, serve Him and Glorify and celebrate Him without any sinful limitations. It cannot be corrupted by sin, sickness, satan, self or death. A Body that will be equipped by God to live with Him in eternity …DEATHLESS! It is INCORRUPTIBLE! A PERFECT body!  It will be a body that will never decay, deteriorate, grow old, or have no time imitations.  We have a future where there is No capacity for decay! We will be permanently, eternally incorruptible! No decay of any kind! Presently we live in a sphere of decay. All around us people are dying, people are terminal! “But God…” has a future for His followers that will be different, lifted , raised up from this sphere from the grave with a new Incorruptible body- Equipped and made for a new Heavenly sphere, where there is no need of sun nor moon for He Himself will be the light and illumine all present!   Peter wrote, “… to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. “- {1 Peter 1:4;}.

Our “Inheritance is incorruptible,” and our new bodies will be “Incorruptible!” -{ 1 Cor 15:42!}

 DEATH TO LIFE;

“What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever. But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be Raised to Live FOREVER. And we who are living will also be transformed. For OUR DYING BODIES dies must be transformed into bodies that WILL NEVER DIE; OUR MORTAL BODIES MUST BE TRANSFORMED INTO IMMORTAL BODIES.”– { 1 Cor 15:50-53 NLT}

“For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, AN ETERNAL BODY MADE FOR US BY GOD HIMSELF and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For WE WILL PUT ON HEAVENLY BODIES; WE WILL NOT BE SPIRITS WITHOUT BODIES. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, WE WANT TO PUT ON OUR NEW BODIES SO THAT these DYING BODIES will be SWALLOWED UP BY LIFE. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.”-{2 Cor 5:1-5 NLT}

Death is not the end for the child of God, but as the “seed’ that goes into the ground and dies, will RISE by God’s doing, a new glorious body. Indeed it is but, a Body to Die for! “Incorruptible!”

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with Him the believers who have died. We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet Him ahead of those who have died. For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, THE BELIEVERS who have died WILL RISE FROM THEIR GRAVES.” {1 Thess 4:13-16 NLT} ..🙂🙂

POWER;

He will take our weak mortal bodies and CHANGE THEM into GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS OWN, USING THE SAME POWER WITH which He will bring EVERYTHING UNDER HIS CONTROL.”-{Phil 3:21}

PRIORITY; – “OF FIRST IMPORTANCE!”-

Let us be as Paul to deliver of “FIRST IMPORTANCE” The Gospel, in light of the wonderful Provision and potential of eternity with A person’s Maker and Redeemer, The Lord Jesus …”…Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of FIRST IMPORTANCE what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,”-{1 Cor 15:1-5}- SEEK TO SHARE THE GOSPEL!  When you meet someone, is the Gospel of “First Importance to you that they hear of Him who died for their sins, that they need not die IN their sins. He was buried and RAISED again that they too can be raised to newness of Life and spend eternity with Him? 

PRESENT DAY APPLICATION FOR YOU;

What difference should it make in the present? Our Future look and hope should motivate us to serve Him now!

Verse 58: Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

 PROMISE;

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though they die;”- THE LORD JESUS CHRIST -{John 11:25}.:)

“Soon and very soon,

We are going to see the King,

Soon and very soon,

We are going to see the King.

Soon and very soon,

We are going to see the King,

Hallelujah, hallelujah,

We are going to see the King!

 

No more dying there,

We are going to see the King,

No more dying there,

We are going to see the King.

No more dying there,

We are going to see the King,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

We are going to see the King.”-{Andrae Crouch}

“To HIM who is able to keep you from stumbling and TO PRESENT YOU BEFORE  HIS GLORIOUS PRESENCE WITHOUT FAULT AND WITH GREAT JOY —  to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”-{Jude 24-25}