November 24, 2025 • 40 mins
What if your current body isn’t built for your true future? We dive into 1 Corinthians 15 with a simple claim that changes everything: you’re wearing an earth suit now, but you’re destined for a heaven suit. Seeds don’t look like the plants they become, and your resurrected body won’t be a polished version of today’s aches and scars. It will be new in kind—incorruptible, powerful, and glorious—crafted to fully express the life of Christ already at work within you.
We walk through Paul’s vivid contrasts and analogies—fish and birds built for their realms, stars each with their own glory—to show why skepticism about resurrection misses the point. Then we zoom out to the story of Adam and Christ. Adam handed down life that ends; Jesus shares resurrection life with those who believe. That shift in identity reframes everything: the outer self may fade, but the inner life is renewed. We look to the risen Jesus as the best preview of our future body—embodied yet unbound by decay—and discuss the mystery of the rapture and the “last trumpet” with curiosity and care, setting speculation aside to center the clear promise: death is swallowed up in victory.
This hope is not abstract. It calls us to live steady, immovable, and generous lives today—loving our families, serving our communities, forgiving freely, and refusing to quit. If death has lost its sting, then our labor in the Lord is never wasted. Listen for a clear, Scripture-rich journey through resurrection hope, a thoughtful take on the rapture, and a grounded call to suit up with faith that works through love.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:27):
Today's Bible study is called Suit Up.
Suit Up.
When I was I went through aphase of uh when I was
preaching, I always wore a suitand tie.
Not because it was I had to.
In fact, we were a chill,relaxed church, but I thought it
was cool.
And I got in really into thisInstagram, like an Instagram
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channel where you'd have tielike really fancy knots, like
not just a Windsor or a halfWindsor, but like a double,
twisted, rose-looking knot.
It was pretty fun.
I liked it.
But then I got here and that'sdefinitely not happening here.
Definitely not.
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And then our son Jordan uh usedto wear a bow tie to school in
kindergarten.
It was his choice.
We didn't even tell him to.
It was the cutest thing.
And then he started a littletrend where all the boys in the
class were wearing bow ties toschool.
And then he kicked the teacher,and it was all done.
Those are two unrelated stories,but I put them together out of
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context.
Made it sound funny.
So all right, we're gonna befinishing up, finishing up 1
Corinthians chapter 15 today.
Uh so we're gonna be looking atverses 35 through 58.
So I'll just jump in and we'llsee what the Lord has for us.
But some will say, someone willsay, How are the dead raised up?
And with what body do they come?
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Foolish one, what you sow is notmade alive until it dies.
And what you sow, do you not sowthat body?
Or you do not sow that body thatshall be, but mere grain,
perhaps wheat or some othergrain.
But God gives it a body as Hepleases to each seed its own
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body.
So Paul's been teaching aboutthe resurrection, and like we've
said, there's been this problemsomehow in the Corinthian
church, they're like, you knowwhat, the resurrection's weird,
so we're not gonna believe init, and so we're just gonna live
our lives like this is the onlylife that matters.
And so that's what what's beengoing on.
And he we've been looking at allthese different conversations
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that he's been having aroundthat topic of them not believing
in the resurrection.
So another part of them, whatthey were arguing with him, is
they're like, Whoa, what kind ofbody is this?
And he's like, foolish one.
And when I read that, I waslike, ooh.
So I looked up the Greek, andyou know what it means?
Why are you so stupid?
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And I was like, Whoa, Paul, calmdown.
These are your friends.
And I think he's getting alittle frustrated by their dumb
questions.
And I'm like, well, okay, why isthis a dumb question?
But have you ever has you hassomeone ever asked you a
question that just because youknow they're trying to get under
your skin?
I think that's what Paul thinksof this question.
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He's like, what are you guystalking about?
How were the dead raised up, andwith but what body do they come?
And I was like, Well, why isthat stupid?
Because I I literally don'tdidn't understand the context.
And as I studied, I realizedit's because they were focused
on the wrong thing.
They were they were asking thisquestion, and it showed that
they were just focused onearthly things, and Paul wanted
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them to have a heavenly mindset.
Um, so they were challenging thewhole idea of resurrection by fo
focusing on basically thephilosophical problems with it
and the physical problems.
Like they're like, how does Godraise up a dead body?
Dead bodies are gross.
Haven't you ever watched azombie movie ever?
They're just gross, and and thecells don't work anymore in a
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dead body.
So, and what if I get burned todeath?
What if my head gets choppedoff?
What if I get cremated?
And people are like, these areall questions.
Like, how is God gonna raise upa body if it gets cremated?
The body's so decayed, it'simpossible to bring life to
that.
And Paul's like, these are notthe arguments that we need to be
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having.
And some people are like, Idon't even want this body
anymore.
I'm tired of this body.
SPEAKER_01 (04:33):
Any amens to that?
SPEAKER_02 (04:38):
What he's saying here is your body that you're in
right now isn't made for heaven.
It's made to live on this earth.
And what you need is a body madefor heaven.
Your body doesn't match.
It's kind of like that SesameStreet song, you know, one of
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these things is not like theother, one of these things just
isn't the same, right?
Our body doesn't go with, itdoesn't match with what heaven.
So Paul responds to thisargument.
He says, What you sow is notmade alive unless it dies.
And what you sow, you do not uhyou do not sow that body that
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shall be, but mere grain, andperhaps wheat or some other
grain.
And then Paul gives it a body ashe pleases to each seed its own
body.
So the part that they wereforgetting in their thinking was
resurrection life, was is intheir body right now, and that's
the part that blooms and becomesthe plants.
So your new body is gonna looknothing like this one.
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99% of us say, Amen.
Except the few models in theroom.
Who did the cat call whistle?
That was awesome.
It's gonna be a body that's madefor heaven.
Uh, so we should expect that weare there, we shouldn't expect
that we just have the samebodies, they're gonna be
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different bodies, and andthey're not just gonna be
improved bodies.
It's not just like you do get afacelift or some Botox or
something.
Um, each heavenly body iscompletely unique.
Um, it says just like everysingle one of our earthly bodies
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is completely unique, unlessyou're an identical twin, I
guess.
I don't understand that, but umit says each one is gonna be
unique as he pleases.
So God, he's excited and happyto choose your new body for you,
to form your new body.
He his love, he's so excitedabout you.
He's like been planning this,and it's gonna fulfill every
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desire you've ever had and everyneed that you've ever had.
Your new body is going to beable to experience that, and
it's all gonna be able to befulfilled.
This is great news when you havearthritis.
When waking up in the morning islike, oh, it takes me 30 minutes
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just to make it to the showerand like warm my muscles up,
right?
Well, some people mock the ideaof resurrection.
Uh they you know, they say,here's a Christian's body lying
in a grave with no casket.
The atoms in that body are takenup in the grass and eaten by a
cow or a kneel guy.
And the that's a only down herejoke.
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That's not gonna land inColorado at all.
They're like gonna be like,what's a kneel guy?
And then, you know, the the cowis slaughtered and another man
eats the meat and takes the atominto his body.
Where does the atom go in theresurrection?
Well, it's not about that Adam,right?
It's the resurrection.
Life is the seed that's insideyou, and that's the spiritual
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part that gets a new spiritualbody.
It has nothing to do with that.
All right, you guys know I loveSpurgeon, great preacher of the
1800s.
So Spurgeon, quote, Spurgeonquote.
I like that.
Good job.
He says, Dear friends, if suchbe death, if it be but a sewing,
let it let us be done with allfaithless, hopeless, graceless
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sorrow.
Our family circle has beenbroken, you say.
Yes, but only broken that it canbe reformed.
You have lost a dear friend,yes, but only lost that friend
that you may find him again andfind more than you lost, because
they are not lost, they aresown.
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I like that.
I like that.
So then he's he gives uh thethis next part, he gives an
analogy of living bodies andheavenly bodies or planets and
stars and stuff.
So he says this all flesh is notthe same flesh, but there's one
kind of flesh of man, anotherkind of animals, and another of
fish, and another of birds.
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He's like, is that hard tounderstand?
There's different things thatexist in different environments.
You don't make a very good fish,you can't breathe underwater,
you're not made for thatenvironment.
SPEAKER_01 (09:17):
That's what he's talking about.
You don't make a very good bird.
SPEAKER_02 (09:23):
There are also celestial bodies, that means
heavenly bodies, and there areterrestrial bodies.
That means stars and planets.
Celestial means the stars, andterrestrial means things that
have planet type bodies.
And the glory of the celestialis one, and the glory of the
terrestrial is another.
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There is one glory of the sun,and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars,for one star differs from
another star in glory.
So our resurrection body isgonna match our resurrection
spirit that's inside us.
It's gonna be a heavenly bodymade to express every part of
our spirit that is in us rightnow.
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You're gonna be able to, it'sgonna be able to express that
perfectly.
And so I describe it as likesuit up.
You need to put on this new,instead of an earth suit, a
heaven suit.
We need to suit up because eachbody in space is different, but
they're all beautiful andglorious.
Have you been seeing all thesenew pictures that NASA's been
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putting out every week?
My timeline is filled with likeNASA photos.
I think they're so amazing thatGod did all these beautiful,
incredible stars and nebulas andall this stuff, and he's like,
Yeah, someday someone will findit, but he just does it because
he's awesome at making beautifulthings.
And if God spent a day makingall the stars, the trillions and
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trillions and trillions ofstars, and they're all
individually beautiful, and heknows them all by name, if he
spent a day doing that, what doyou think your body's gonna be
like when he's spent like thelast six thousand years planning
and working on that?
SPEAKER_01 (11:08):
Your new body.
Yeah, it's gonna be incredible.
SPEAKER_02 (11:15):
So he says, so also is the resurrection from the
dead.
The body is sown in corruptionand it's raised in incorruption.
It's sown in dishonor and raisedin glory, it's sown in weakness
and raised in power.
It's sown a natural body, it'sraised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, andthere is a spiritual body.
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It's hard to understand what ourresurrection bodies are gonna be
like.
So Paul uses a contrast to helpus.
He gives us four contrastsbetween our present physical
body and our future resurrectionbody.
He says, Incorruption triumphsover corruption.
So you got cancer, tough beans,it's gonna be all right.
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It's gonna get not just healed,it's gonna be completely the
opposite of incorruption or ofcorruption.
It's gonna be incorruption.
Glory triumphs over dishonor.
Have you dishonored your body bydifferent things?
Have you dishonored like thebody that God's given you, maybe
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whatever sins you participatedin, and you feel shameful about
that?
And you're like, is it evergonna well?
God has already cleansed you ifyou believe in him, but trust
me, you're gonna get a new bodythat is completely glorious.
No spot at all.
And that is your true identity,even now, so you don't have to
feel that shame, but it's goodto know that our bodies are not
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gonna ever have that thoseconsequences of maybe bad
choices that we made.
It says power triumphs overweakness.
Boy, I can describe my body asweak.
I go up the stairs and I twistmy knee and I'm down for a week.
Right?
I I sleep wrong and I twistsomething in my back, and it's
just like weakness, I feel like.
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But our future body is gonna benothing but power.
That's exciting.
That's cool.
Spiritual triumphs over natural.
It's it's raised inincorruption, raised in glory,
raised in power.
Our resurrection, do you see theword raised?
It leads us back to that idea ofresurrection.
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This that the fact that Jesusrose from the dead and he shares
that with you is why our futureis so glorious, because we share
in that same resurrection power.
So you're gonna be raised.
You're gonna so get ready tosuit up.
You're get ready forresurrection life to be your
only life someday.
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All the dishonor will betransformed into joy.
All of it, all the weakness willbecome power, all the natural
becomes supernatural, spiritual.
Everything is healed, fixed,blessed, glorified.
Our dead, yeah, and peoplethink, yeah, dead bodies are
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gross.
They're they're always in theBible, they're described as
unclean.
You know, that if you cameacross a dead body in the Old
Testament, you were not supposedto touch it because it was
unclean, so they would make surethey put it in a grave, right?
But this new gloriousresurrection body that we're
gonna get someday is just asclean and glorious and uh
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amazing as we think of deadbodies as being unclean or an
unglorious.
It's it's the opposite.
And in the Bible, we actuallyget three glimpses of our new
bodies.
Did you know that?
One time was when Moses' faceglowed, shone with the glory of
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God when he received the TenCommandments, because he was
spending time in God's presence.
So we kind of got like theafterglow was like on him and he
was glowing.
That was one time.
Another time is when Jesushimself was transfigured before
the three disciples up on themountain.
It's called the mountain oftransfiguration, and he showed
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them what this new glorious lifewas gonna look like.
And then Stephen, bless you,Stephen was getting stoned by
again, not the good kind.
He was getting rocks thrown athim, and right before he died,
God let his face shine with theglory of this new body, this new
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resurrection life, because he hewas a picture to them of that
resurrection life.
So those are three times wherewe got to see it in this world.
It goes on and says, and so itis written, the first man Adam
became a living being, and thelast man Adam became a
life-giving spirit.
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So Paul backs up a little bitand he looks at all of human
beings, and he says, There wasthe first Adam, and there was
the last Adam.
The first Adam, guess who thatwas?
Adam.
Not very hard.
Ten Jesus points for all of you,because it was an easy question.
Who was the last Adam?
Jesus.
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All right.
Someone wanted their Jesuspoints, but it was too easy, and
the answer was Jesus.
So I don't give Jesus pointswhen the answer is Jesus.
I should give you more, right?
There should be double Jesuspoints.
Adam, why does this matter?
Why is Paul backing up whenwe're talking about our new
bodies and dying and getting ournew bodies in heaven?
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Because he wants you tounderstand the whole situation
here.
The situation is Adam, the firstAdam, passed along his life to
us, and his life is death.
The reason we die is because ofAdam.
We inherited a life that isgoing to end.
We're alive like he was alive.
He was the first one to live,and then him and Eve gave birth
to their kids, and then theirkids gave birth to their kids,
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and here we are.
We're all here.
And we're all alive like him,but we inherited his sinful
nature, and so we arespiritually dead even when we're
born because of him.
So that's why each person needsto be born again through faith
in Jesus Christ.
So through Jesus and his deathand his resurrection, he becomes
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the second Adam, where he passesalong his new resurrection life
and spiritual life to all who goto church every week.
SPEAKER_01 (17:44):
Oh, that's not that's not the gospel all who
don't ever watch rated R movies.
That's not it.
Those who never cuss.
That's not who gets his life?
SPEAKER_02 (17:58):
No, it's those who believe, right?
It's faith in Christ that giveit we are given his life, his
righteousness, for free.
As a gift, being born again.
And what this means is that youno longer have to die Adam's
death because Jesus died thatdeath for you, you now have his
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life, and you get the life ofJesus and the death of Jesus.
Um, so Adam's actions led todeath, Jesus' works brings
eternal life and reconciliationwith God, and so this shows us
the resurrection life, which isa transforming life for us.
Um Jesus rose from the dead,which means he conquered death,
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but not just for himself, but hewants to share that victory,
that conquering of death withyou.
So you will never taste deaththe way that he did.
That doesn't mean you're notgonna physically die because
this body needs to be sown.
This dot body needs to beplanted so we can get the full
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resurrection experience, but youwill not taste the death like he
did.
For us, this means we're nolonger defined like Adam was
defined by sin.
That's who he was, that's hisidentity, and that sin led to
death, and that's why everythingdies in this planet.
Instead, our identity now isthat we're made alive in new
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creations with Christ.
Because in 2 Corinthians 5.17,it says this.
Therefore, if anyone is inChrist, he is a new creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have becomenew.
So we have his life within us,and we live in the reality of
his victory and his grace eventoday.
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The moment you believe, you getall of him.
And this resurrection life willbe your glorified body, but your
inner life already has thatright now.
So your your outward man isperishing, but your inner man is
being renewed day by day.
That's what Paul said, right?
So you have this glorious lifeinside you right now.
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Paul goes on in our text.
He says, However, the spiritualis not first, but the natural,
and afterward the spiritual.
The first man was of earth madeof dust.
I was like, made of dust?
What is that?
SPEAKER_01 (20:31):
In the Greek, it means dirt bag.
Oh boy.
We were we uh dirt bag.
SPEAKER_02 (20:41):
Okay.
He says the second man is theLord from heaven.
As was the man of dust, so arethose who are made of dust.
He was a dirt bag, so we'redirtbags when we're born.
As is the heavenly man, so arethose who are heavenly.
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You get the nature of Jesusimplanted inside you when you
believe on him.
SPEAKER_01 (21:09):
And as we have borne the image of the man of dust,
the dirtbag man, we shall alsobear the image of the heavenly
man.
SPEAKER_02 (21:24):
Jesus, his image is in you, and you bear his image.
Philippians chapter 3, verse 20says, Our citizenship is in
heaven, from whom from which wealso eagerly wait for the
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,who will transform our lowly
body that it may be conformed tohis glorious body according to
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the working by which he is ableto subdue all things to himself.
SPEAKER_01 (21:56):
What we were like Adam, we are more like Jesus in.
SPEAKER_02 (22:03):
The best example we have of what a resurrection body
will be like is what we seeafter Jesus' resurrection when
he was running around on theearth for 40 days.
Do you remember that?
He could eat, he had a materialbody, but he was not bound by
any laws of nature.
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He could walk through walls, hecould probably fly.
I don't know.
He wasn't bound by anything,right?
So that's somehow that gives usa clue of to what our heavenly
bodies are gonna look like.
Now Paul says, Now this I say,brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom ofGod, nor does corruption inherit
incorruption.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery, weshall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed in amoment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
Okay, so since sleep is like asoft way of talking about uh our
friends dying, um, Paul saysthat not all Christians are
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gonna die, even.
SPEAKER_01 (23:06):
Ooh, you guys want to get weird?
SPEAKER_02 (23:10):
All right, there's gonna be this final generation
at some point that is gonna betransformed in a moment in the
twinkling of an eye, and giventheir resurrection bodies just
like woo, yeah, that's a woo.
And we call this in the Biblethe rapture.
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Okay, so it's definitely in theBible.
Now we can debate and we cantalk about when the rapture is
gonna be.
You can believe it's before thetribulation, after the
tribulation, when Jesus comesback, when Jesus comes back a
second time.
There's all kinds of differentviews of that.
We'll talk about that anothertime.
I'd love to debate you on it.
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Just kidding.
I actually love all thedifferent views.
I do have one that I that Ibelieve in, but that's not what
we're talking about today.
Today we're just talking aboutthe rapture and what it's gonna
be like and maybe uh yeah, whatit's like.
He says it's in the twinkling ofan eye.
That means it's a speed oflight.
Okay?
So very, very, very fast, thespeed of light.
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So in a moment, in the twinklingof an eye, your body is gonna be
completely transformed.
If you're alive at the lasttrumpet.
The last trumpet?
Well, what what trumpet is this?
And so people do a lot ofstudying.
Okay, which trumpet could thisbe?
Maybe it's the last trumpet inRevelation chapter 11.
There's seven trumpets ofangels, and the angels are like
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and they blow their trumpets,and then bad things happen on
the earth during thetribulation.
So maybe that's the trumpet.
But it says here, maybe it's thetrumpet of God, the trumpet of
God.
And that's maybe a differenttrumpet than the trumpet of
angels.
You see, let's read 1Thessalonians chapter 4, verse
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16.
This is interesting, reallyinteresting.
For the Lord himself willdescend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of anarchangel, and with the trumpet
of God.
Okay, trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will risefirst, and then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up.
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You see those two words caughtup?
In Greek, those are the wordsharpazo.
Harpazo is translated intoLatin, raptus.
Raptus translated in English israpture.
So some people are like,rapture's not even in the Bible.
No, go to school.
It is there, it's right here.
Raptus is where is what thatword is.
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They're caught the we who arealive and remain shall be caught
up.
There's that speed of lightthing, together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in theair, and thus we will always be
with the Lord.
Okay, so if this was the lasttrumpet, and this is when it's
gonna happen, when was the firsttrumpet?
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Ooh.
Well, I'm gonna take you all theway back to the book of Exodus,
okay?
And this is gonna blow yourmind.
Look in the book of Exodus,chapter 19.
I'll start in verse 13.
It says, so let me set thestage.
The people have just come out ofEgypt, so they're saved, right?
They're at, they've they'vecrossed through the Red Sea.
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God has destroyed their enemiesover here, the Egyptians that
were chasing them, and they'vewalked through the desert, and
they're now here at Mount Sinai.
And God's like, we need to chata little bit right here.
If I'm gonna take you guys intothe promised land, I need to set
up some rules for your nationwhere you're gonna be a special
people that I'm gonna take careof.
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So before they take a journeyinto their promised land, let me
say that again.
Before they take a journey intotheir promised land, God's gonna
do some special things withthem.
He says here, not a hand shalltouch him, but he shall surely
be stoned or shot with an arrow,whether man or beast, he shall
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not live.
Talking about he doesn't wantanyone to come close to the
mountain, even the priest, onlyMoses is supposed to come up on
the mountain to talk with him,and then he'll take the message
God has for the people down tothe people.
He says, Don't come close.
Why?
Because they'll they'll they'lldie.
They'll his glory is gonna bethere on that mountain, so you
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can't see the glory of God in asinful body.
Okay, so then he says, When thetrumpet sounds long, they shall
come near to the mountain.
So there's this idea that whenthey hear the trumpet, they can
come near to the mountain.
And in the book of Genesis andExodus, when Moses writes about
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mountains, it's sometimessymbolic of heaven.
Heaven.
So in the Garden of Eden, it waslike Moses is pictured as being,
or God is pictured as being upon a mountain, the mountain of
God, and that's speaking ofheaven where he lives.
All right, so in Exodus nightverse 16, he says, Then it came
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to pass on the third day in themorning.
That's actually reallyimportant.
Remember those times, the thirdday in the morning.
Something important happens inthe Bible on a third day, I
think.
That there were thunderings andlightnings and a thick cloud on
the mountain, and the sound ofthe trumpet was very loud, so
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that all the people who were inthe camp trembled.
Well, it says Jesus is gonnacome with the clouds, right?
And here we have thissupernatural trumpet sounding
from heaven, like a heaventrumpet.
And it's like it's gettinglouder and louder, and it's it's
accompanied with thunder andlightning.
It's like this crazysupernatural trumpet.
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All right, and then verse 19 orverse 17 says, And Moses brought
the people out of the camp tomeet with God, and they stood at
the foot of the mountain.
Now Mount Sinai was completelyin smoke, because the Lord
descended upon it in fire.
Its smoke ascended like thesmoke of a furnace, and the
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whole mountain quaked greatly.
And when the mount when theblast of the trumpet sound
became long and louder andlouder, Moses spoke, and God
answered him by voice.
Then the Lord came down uponMount Sinai on the top of the
mountain, and the Lord calledMoses up to the top of the
mountain, and Moses went, wentup.
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Okay?
So here we have a type, apicture of the rapture.
And it's very interestingbecause it what is involved?
A trumpet, the mountain of God,God coming down and calling his
people up to meet with him.
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All exactly the same as therapture.
Very interesting.
So if that's the first trump,and then we have a last trumpet,
I think we're gonna hear thatsame sound that they heard
around that mountain.
I think we're gonna hear, and Ithink someday there's gonna be a
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final generation that hears.
That sound and is instantly withJesus.
Hallelujah.
It's going to be a great day.
So back to our text for thetrumpet will sound, and the dead
will be raised incorruptible,and we shall be changed.
So this last trumpet will be theday that calls his people home.
And all the dead people, thedead in Christ, will get their
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bodies first, and those who arealive will be instantly changed.
Okay, so there's where we getlots of questions.
SPEAKER_01 (30:56):
So if I die today and the rapture's not for a
hundred years, where am I?
What do I do?
SPEAKER_02 (31:04):
That's a really good question.
Okay, well, we have a couplepossibilities.
First possibility is you're justin Christ, in heaven, with him.
You just don't have your newbody yet, you're just spirit.
Okay, that's a possibility.
Possibility number two is heavenis outside of time.
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Heaven is not part of our time.
God created time for thisreality.
Heaven is not part of thisreality.
So when you die now and someonedies a hundred years from now,
you might be arriving in heavenat the exact same time.
In heaven.
Does that make sense?
It's all kinds of time travel.
SPEAKER_01 (31:46):
I could pull out charts and do like back to the
future diagrams.
SPEAKER_02 (31:53):
But basically, we don't know.
Okay?
For some somehow, you're gonnaget your body, you're gonna be
fine.
We know that you when you die,you don't just go to sleep and
you don't cease to exist.
Because Paul says to be absentfrom the body is to be present
with the Lord.
So you will be in his presence.
We don't know if you get yourbody now or get your body later.
Don't know those things, but Ithink it's the time thing.
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Because it's kind of like whenwe watch a parade, we're
watching a parade, we just see,by the way, parade, Sarah.
I knew I had to remember.
Okay, we're going back toannouncements.
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So we're doing the parade on thesixth, fifth, on the fifth, and
we're still looking for someoneto let us decorate their truck
with maybe lights and somestuff.
So talk to Sarah.
But there's gonna be anannouncement going out on
Facebook this week with all theinformation about if you want to
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come and walk with us, we'regonna hand out glow sticks and
tell people Merry Christmas andsing Christmas songs as we walk
in the parade.
Cool?
Alright.
So if you're in a parade, youjust see, if you're not in the
parade, if you're watching theparade, you just see it go by.
But if you get in the blimp,right, that's over there on the
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side of the island, and you lookat the parade, you see the whole
parade beginning from the end.
Why?
Because you're outside of the ofthe perspective of one part of
time.
So you can see the beginning andthe end all happening at the
same time.
I think that's more what's goingon with our bodies and stuff.
All right.
For this corruptible must put onincorruption, and this mortal
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must put on immortality.
So when this corruption has puton incorruption, and this mortal
has put on immortality, thenshall be brought to pass the
saying which is written, Deathis swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?
The sting of death is sin, andthe strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God who givesus the victory through our Lord
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Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren,be steadfast and movable, always
abounding in the work of theLord, knowing that your labor is
not in vain in the Lord.
So here we see that death isswallowed up in victory.
A resurrected body is not aresurrected corpse, it's a new
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order of life that will neverdie again.
Death is defeated byresurrection.
Freud was wrong when he said,and finally, there is a painful
riddle of death for which noremedy has yet been found, nor
probably probably ever will be.
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Compare that with what Paulsays: Death has been swallowed
up in victory.
Jesus chewed it up and swallowedit down, and we don't have to
fear anything anymore.
So today's a double Spurgeonquote day.
Here you go.
Two thumbs up.
Spurgeon says, I will not fearthee, death.
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Why should I?
Thou lookest like a dragon, butyour sting is gone.
Your teeth are old and broken.
You're like an old lion with noteeth.
Why should I fear you?
I know you are no more able todestroy me, but you are sent as
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a messenger to conduct me to thegolden gate wherein I shall
enter and see my Savior'sunveiled face forever and ever.
This guy was a poet.
Expiring saints have often saidthat their last beds have been
the best they have ever slepton.
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Sting.
Death has lost its sting.
I want to just tell you onequick, quick, quick
illustration.
There was a little girl whosegrandfather had died, or
something to father had died,and she was on the way to the
funeral, and she was like, Howyou know, talking with her her
grandpa, like, did did it hurtwhen my dad died?
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And he's like, No, your dad wasa Christian, your dad was a
believer, so it did not hurt.
And she's like, I don'tunderstand that.
I mean, obviously he died, Iwatched him die.
So how how did it not hurt?
And as they were driving, theypulled up next to this big
semi-truck that blocked out thesun for a moment.
And he said, Hey, did you justnotice that that semi-truck just
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blocked the the sun?
She's like, Yeah.
And he's like, Well, did thatdid that shadow hurt you?
Did you get hurt by that?
It's a big semi-truck.
I mean, it could destroy you.
She's like, No, it didn't hurtat all.
He's like, That's what death islike for a Christian.
It will not hurt at all.
We only taste the shadow ofdeath because the real part of
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death was tasted by Jesus forus, and we're given his life in
exchange.
What is the point of all this?
What's the application for ourlives right now?
We're just wrapping it up here.
Paul gives it to us in the lastverse of chapter 15.
He sums up this entire entireconversation.
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He says, Therefore, my belovedbrethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding inthe work of the Lord, knowing
that your labor is not in vainin the Lord.
Your life matters right now.
In this dirt bag that we'reliving in, this earth suit that
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we have, your life matters.
Love your spouse.
Love your kids.
Love your friends, love yourenemies.
Give your life to serve allthose people that you meet on
this journey called life.
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Pour it out for them.
Never give up.
SPEAKER_01 (38:02):
Keep loving until they love you back or kill you.
SPEAKER_00 (38:09):
Because they can't kill you.
And if they do kill you, thenpseudo.
Let's pray.
SPEAKER_01 (38:24):
Would you guys stand with me?
Pretend like we're gonna getraptured right now.
SPEAKER_02 (38:32):
Father, we we thank you so, so much that death, we
have the answer for death.
We have the answer for thebiggest questions in life, and
the thing that most people arescared to death of.
But Father, we will dance on ourgraves.
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We will be alive in such a newand crazy way.
We are so looking forward toexperience what our resurrection
life truly will look like.
Father, forgive us for livingthis life like this is the only
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life that matters, and help us,we pray, to be steadfast,
immovable, and always aboundingin the work of the Lord.
I pray that we would choose tolive our life differently this
week, not because we have to,but because we are alive and we
will be alive for eternity withyou.
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We've been forgiven.
We we love you, Lord, becauseyou first loved us.
Help us to clean with all ourmight, to serve with all our
might, to sing with all ourmight, to be steadfast and love
people when it's not exciting,but when it's boring and it's
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difficult and it requires ourtime and all that we would want
to do, Lord, we put aside tolove and serve the people in our
lives.
Jesus, we trust you.
And if anyone in here todayneeds to know that they've been
forgiven of their sins, justturn to Jesus right now and say,
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I believe you died for me, and Ibelieve you rose from the dead
because you're God and you'rethe risen Lord of heaven.
And I ask you to forgive me ofmy sins and come and live inside
me.
I want to taste thisresurrection life for myself.
In Jesus' name we all pray.
Amen.
Today's Bible study is called Suit Up.
Suit Up.
When I was I went through aphase of uh when I was
preaching, I always wore a suitand tie.
Not because it was I had to.
In fact, we were a chill,relaxed church, but I thought it
was cool.
And I got in really into thisInstagram, like an Instagram
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channel where you'd have tielike really fancy knots, like
not just a Windsor or a halfWindsor, but like a double,
twisted, rose-looking knot.
It was pretty fun.
I liked it.
But then I got here and that'sdefinitely not happening here.
Definitely not.
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And then our son Jordan uh usedto wear a bow tie to school in
kindergarten.
It was his choice.
We didn't even tell him to.
It was the cutest thing.
And then he started a littletrend where all the boys in the
class were wearing bow ties toschool.
And then he kicked the teacher,and it was all done.
Those are two unrelated stories,but I put them together out of
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context.
Made it sound funny.
So all right, we're gonna befinishing up, finishing up 1
Corinthians chapter 15 today.
Uh so we're gonna be looking atverses 35 through 58.
So I'll just jump in and we'llsee what the Lord has for us.
But some will say, someone willsay, How are the dead raised up?
And with what body do they come?
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Foolish one, what you sow is notmade alive until it dies.
And what you sow, do you not sowthat body?
Or you do not sow that body thatshall be, but mere grain,
perhaps wheat or some othergrain.
But God gives it a body as Hepleases to each seed its own
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body.
So Paul's been teaching aboutthe resurrection, and like we've
said, there's been this problemsomehow in the Corinthian
church, they're like, you knowwhat, the resurrection's weird,
so we're not gonna believe init, and so we're just gonna live
our lives like this is the onlylife that matters.
And so that's what what's beengoing on.
And he we've been looking at allthese different conversations
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that he's been having aroundthat topic of them not believing
in the resurrection.
So another part of them, whatthey were arguing with him, is
they're like, Whoa, what kind ofbody is this?
And he's like, foolish one.
And when I read that, I waslike, ooh.
So I looked up the Greek, andyou know what it means?
Why are you so stupid?
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And I was like, Whoa, Paul, calmdown.
These are your friends.
And I think he's getting alittle frustrated by their dumb
questions.
And I'm like, well, okay, why isthis a dumb question?
But have you ever has you hassomeone ever asked you a
question that just because youknow they're trying to get under
your skin?
I think that's what Paul thinksof this question.
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He's like, what are you guystalking about?
How were the dead raised up, andwith but what body do they come?
And I was like, Well, why isthat stupid?
Because I I literally don'tdidn't understand the context.
And as I studied, I realizedit's because they were focused
on the wrong thing.
They were they were asking thisquestion, and it showed that
they were just focused onearthly things, and Paul wanted
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them to have a heavenly mindset.
Um, so they were challenging thewhole idea of resurrection by fo
focusing on basically thephilosophical problems with it
and the physical problems.
Like they're like, how does Godraise up a dead body?
Dead bodies are gross.
Haven't you ever watched azombie movie ever?
They're just gross, and and thecells don't work anymore in a
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dead body.
So, and what if I get burned todeath?
What if my head gets choppedoff?
What if I get cremated?
And people are like, these areall questions.
Like, how is God gonna raise upa body if it gets cremated?
The body's so decayed, it'simpossible to bring life to
that.
And Paul's like, these are notthe arguments that we need to be
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having.
And some people are like, Idon't even want this body
anymore.
I'm tired of this body.
SPEAKER_01 (04:33):
Any amens to that?
SPEAKER_02 (04:38):
What he's saying here is your body that you're in
right now isn't made for heaven.
It's made to live on this earth.
And what you need is a body madefor heaven.
Your body doesn't match.
It's kind of like that SesameStreet song, you know, one of
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these things is not like theother, one of these things just
isn't the same, right?
Our body doesn't go with, itdoesn't match with what heaven.
So Paul responds to thisargument.
He says, What you sow is notmade alive unless it dies.
And what you sow, you do not uhyou do not sow that body that
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shall be, but mere grain, andperhaps wheat or some other
grain.
And then Paul gives it a body ashe pleases to each seed its own
body.
So the part that they wereforgetting in their thinking was
resurrection life, was is intheir body right now, and that's
the part that blooms and becomesthe plants.
So your new body is gonna looknothing like this one.
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99% of us say, Amen.
Except the few models in theroom.
Who did the cat call whistle?
That was awesome.
It's gonna be a body that's madefor heaven.
Uh, so we should expect that weare there, we shouldn't expect
that we just have the samebodies, they're gonna be
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different bodies, and andthey're not just gonna be
improved bodies.
It's not just like you do get afacelift or some Botox or
something.
Um, each heavenly body iscompletely unique.
Um, it says just like everysingle one of our earthly bodies
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is completely unique, unlessyou're an identical twin, I
guess.
I don't understand that, but umit says each one is gonna be
unique as he pleases.
So God, he's excited and happyto choose your new body for you,
to form your new body.
He his love, he's so excitedabout you.
He's like been planning this,and it's gonna fulfill every
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desire you've ever had and everyneed that you've ever had.
Your new body is going to beable to experience that, and
it's all gonna be able to befulfilled.
This is great news when you havearthritis.
When waking up in the morning islike, oh, it takes me 30 minutes
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just to make it to the showerand like warm my muscles up,
right?
Well, some people mock the ideaof resurrection.
Uh they you know, they say,here's a Christian's body lying
in a grave with no casket.
The atoms in that body are takenup in the grass and eaten by a
cow or a kneel guy.
And the that's a only down herejoke.
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That's not gonna land inColorado at all.
They're like gonna be like,what's a kneel guy?
And then, you know, the the cowis slaughtered and another man
eats the meat and takes the atominto his body.
Where does the atom go in theresurrection?
Well, it's not about that Adam,right?
It's the resurrection.
Life is the seed that's insideyou, and that's the spiritual
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part that gets a new spiritualbody.
It has nothing to do with that.
All right, you guys know I loveSpurgeon, great preacher of the
1800s.
So Spurgeon, quote, Spurgeonquote.
I like that.
Good job.
He says, Dear friends, if suchbe death, if it be but a sewing,
let it let us be done with allfaithless, hopeless, graceless
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sorrow.
Our family circle has beenbroken, you say.
Yes, but only broken that it canbe reformed.
You have lost a dear friend,yes, but only lost that friend
that you may find him again andfind more than you lost, because
they are not lost, they aresown.
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I like that.
I like that.
So then he's he gives uh thethis next part, he gives an
analogy of living bodies andheavenly bodies or planets and
stars and stuff.
So he says this all flesh is notthe same flesh, but there's one
kind of flesh of man, anotherkind of animals, and another of
fish, and another of birds.
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He's like, is that hard tounderstand?
There's different things thatexist in different environments.
You don't make a very good fish,you can't breathe underwater,
you're not made for thatenvironment.
SPEAKER_01 (09:17):
That's what he's talking about.
You don't make a very good bird.
SPEAKER_02 (09:23):
There are also celestial bodies, that means
heavenly bodies, and there areterrestrial bodies.
That means stars and planets.
Celestial means the stars, andterrestrial means things that
have planet type bodies.
And the glory of the celestialis one, and the glory of the
terrestrial is another.
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There is one glory of the sun,and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars,for one star differs from
another star in glory.
So our resurrection body isgonna match our resurrection
spirit that's inside us.
It's gonna be a heavenly bodymade to express every part of
our spirit that is in us rightnow.
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You're gonna be able to, it'sgonna be able to express that
perfectly.
And so I describe it as likesuit up.
You need to put on this new,instead of an earth suit, a
heaven suit.
We need to suit up because eachbody in space is different, but
they're all beautiful andglorious.
Have you been seeing all thesenew pictures that NASA's been
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putting out every week?
My timeline is filled with likeNASA photos.
I think they're so amazing thatGod did all these beautiful,
incredible stars and nebulas andall this stuff, and he's like,
Yeah, someday someone will findit, but he just does it because
he's awesome at making beautifulthings.
And if God spent a day makingall the stars, the trillions and
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trillions and trillions ofstars, and they're all
individually beautiful, and heknows them all by name, if he
spent a day doing that, what doyou think your body's gonna be
like when he's spent like thelast six thousand years planning
and working on that?
SPEAKER_01 (11:08):
Your new body.
Yeah, it's gonna be incredible.
SPEAKER_02 (11:15):
So he says, so also is the resurrection from the
dead.
The body is sown in corruptionand it's raised in incorruption.
It's sown in dishonor and raisedin glory, it's sown in weakness
and raised in power.
It's sown a natural body, it'sraised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, andthere is a spiritual body.
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It's hard to understand what ourresurrection bodies are gonna be
like.
So Paul uses a contrast to helpus.
He gives us four contrastsbetween our present physical
body and our future resurrectionbody.
He says, Incorruption triumphsover corruption.
So you got cancer, tough beans,it's gonna be all right.
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It's gonna get not just healed,it's gonna be completely the
opposite of incorruption or ofcorruption.
It's gonna be incorruption.
Glory triumphs over dishonor.
Have you dishonored your body bydifferent things?
Have you dishonored like thebody that God's given you, maybe
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whatever sins you participatedin, and you feel shameful about
that?
And you're like, is it evergonna well?
God has already cleansed you ifyou believe in him, but trust
me, you're gonna get a new bodythat is completely glorious.
No spot at all.
And that is your true identity,even now, so you don't have to
feel that shame, but it's goodto know that our bodies are not
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gonna ever have that thoseconsequences of maybe bad
choices that we made.
It says power triumphs overweakness.
Boy, I can describe my body asweak.
I go up the stairs and I twistmy knee and I'm down for a week.
Right?
I I sleep wrong and I twistsomething in my back, and it's
just like weakness, I feel like.
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But our future body is gonna benothing but power.
That's exciting.
That's cool.
Spiritual triumphs over natural.
It's it's raised inincorruption, raised in glory,
raised in power.
Our resurrection, do you see theword raised?
It leads us back to that idea ofresurrection.
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This that the fact that Jesusrose from the dead and he shares
that with you is why our futureis so glorious, because we share
in that same resurrection power.
So you're gonna be raised.
You're gonna so get ready tosuit up.
You're get ready forresurrection life to be your
only life someday.
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All the dishonor will betransformed into joy.
All of it, all the weakness willbecome power, all the natural
becomes supernatural, spiritual.
Everything is healed, fixed,blessed, glorified.
Our dead, yeah, and peoplethink, yeah, dead bodies are
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gross.
They're they're always in theBible, they're described as
unclean.
You know, that if you cameacross a dead body in the Old
Testament, you were not supposedto touch it because it was
unclean, so they would make surethey put it in a grave, right?
But this new gloriousresurrection body that we're
gonna get someday is just asclean and glorious and uh
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amazing as we think of deadbodies as being unclean or an
unglorious.
It's it's the opposite.
And in the Bible, we actuallyget three glimpses of our new
bodies.
Did you know that?
One time was when Moses' faceglowed, shone with the glory of
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God when he received the TenCommandments, because he was
spending time in God's presence.
So we kind of got like theafterglow was like on him and he
was glowing.
That was one time.
Another time is when Jesushimself was transfigured before
the three disciples up on themountain.
It's called the mountain oftransfiguration, and he showed
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them what this new glorious lifewas gonna look like.
And then Stephen, bless you,Stephen was getting stoned by
again, not the good kind.
He was getting rocks thrown athim, and right before he died,
God let his face shine with theglory of this new body, this new
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resurrection life, because he hewas a picture to them of that
resurrection life.
So those are three times wherewe got to see it in this world.
It goes on and says, and so itis written, the first man Adam
became a living being, and thelast man Adam became a
life-giving spirit.
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So Paul backs up a little bitand he looks at all of human
beings, and he says, There wasthe first Adam, and there was
the last Adam.
The first Adam, guess who thatwas?
Adam.
Not very hard.
Ten Jesus points for all of you,because it was an easy question.
Who was the last Adam?
Jesus.
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All right.
Someone wanted their Jesuspoints, but it was too easy, and
the answer was Jesus.
So I don't give Jesus pointswhen the answer is Jesus.
I should give you more, right?
There should be double Jesuspoints.
Adam, why does this matter?
Why is Paul backing up whenwe're talking about our new
bodies and dying and getting ournew bodies in heaven?
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Because he wants you tounderstand the whole situation
here.
The situation is Adam, the firstAdam, passed along his life to
us, and his life is death.
The reason we die is because ofAdam.
We inherited a life that isgoing to end.
We're alive like he was alive.
He was the first one to live,and then him and Eve gave birth
to their kids, and then theirkids gave birth to their kids,
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and here we are.
We're all here.
And we're all alive like him,but we inherited his sinful
nature, and so we arespiritually dead even when we're
born because of him.
So that's why each person needsto be born again through faith
in Jesus Christ.
So through Jesus and his deathand his resurrection, he becomes
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the second Adam, where he passesalong his new resurrection life
and spiritual life to all who goto church every week.
SPEAKER_01 (17:44):
Oh, that's not that's not the gospel all who
don't ever watch rated R movies.
That's not it.
Those who never cuss.
That's not who gets his life?
SPEAKER_02 (17:58):
No, it's those who believe, right?
It's faith in Christ that giveit we are given his life, his
righteousness, for free.
As a gift, being born again.
And what this means is that youno longer have to die Adam's
death because Jesus died thatdeath for you, you now have his
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life, and you get the life ofJesus and the death of Jesus.
Um, so Adam's actions led todeath, Jesus' works brings
eternal life and reconciliationwith God, and so this shows us
the resurrection life, which isa transforming life for us.
Um Jesus rose from the dead,which means he conquered death,
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but not just for himself, but hewants to share that victory,
that conquering of death withyou.
So you will never taste deaththe way that he did.
That doesn't mean you're notgonna physically die because
this body needs to be sown.
This dot body needs to beplanted so we can get the full
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resurrection experience, but youwill not taste the death like he
did.
For us, this means we're nolonger defined like Adam was
defined by sin.
That's who he was, that's hisidentity, and that sin led to
death, and that's why everythingdies in this planet.
Instead, our identity now isthat we're made alive in new
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creations with Christ.
Because in 2 Corinthians 5.17,it says this.
Therefore, if anyone is inChrist, he is a new creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have becomenew.
So we have his life within us,and we live in the reality of
his victory and his grace eventoday.
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The moment you believe, you getall of him.
And this resurrection life willbe your glorified body, but your
inner life already has thatright now.
So your your outward man isperishing, but your inner man is
being renewed day by day.
That's what Paul said, right?
So you have this glorious lifeinside you right now.
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Paul goes on in our text.
He says, However, the spiritualis not first, but the natural,
and afterward the spiritual.
The first man was of earth madeof dust.
I was like, made of dust?
What is that?
SPEAKER_01 (20:31):
In the Greek, it means dirt bag.
Oh boy.
We were we uh dirt bag.
SPEAKER_02 (20:41):
Okay.
He says the second man is theLord from heaven.
As was the man of dust, so arethose who are made of dust.
He was a dirt bag, so we'redirtbags when we're born.
As is the heavenly man, so arethose who are heavenly.
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You get the nature of Jesusimplanted inside you when you
believe on him.
SPEAKER_01 (21:09):
And as we have borne the image of the man of dust,
the dirtbag man, we shall alsobear the image of the heavenly
man.
SPEAKER_02 (21:24):
Jesus, his image is in you, and you bear his image.
Philippians chapter 3, verse 20says, Our citizenship is in
heaven, from whom from which wealso eagerly wait for the
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,who will transform our lowly
body that it may be conformed tohis glorious body according to
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the working by which he is ableto subdue all things to himself.
SPEAKER_01 (21:56):
What we were like Adam, we are more like Jesus in.
SPEAKER_02 (22:03):
The best example we have of what a resurrection body
will be like is what we seeafter Jesus' resurrection when
he was running around on theearth for 40 days.
Do you remember that?
He could eat, he had a materialbody, but he was not bound by
any laws of nature.
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He could walk through walls, hecould probably fly.
I don't know.
He wasn't bound by anything,right?
So that's somehow that gives usa clue of to what our heavenly
bodies are gonna look like.
Now Paul says, Now this I say,brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom ofGod, nor does corruption inherit
incorruption.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery, weshall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed in amoment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
Okay, so since sleep is like asoft way of talking about uh our
friends dying, um, Paul saysthat not all Christians are
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gonna die, even.
SPEAKER_01 (23:06):
Ooh, you guys want to get weird?
SPEAKER_02 (23:10):
All right, there's gonna be this final generation
at some point that is gonna betransformed in a moment in the
twinkling of an eye, and giventheir resurrection bodies just
like woo, yeah, that's a woo.
And we call this in the Biblethe rapture.
(23:32):
Okay, so it's definitely in theBible.
Now we can debate and we cantalk about when the rapture is
gonna be.
You can believe it's before thetribulation, after the
tribulation, when Jesus comesback, when Jesus comes back a
second time.
There's all kinds of differentviews of that.
We'll talk about that anothertime.
I'd love to debate you on it.
(23:52):
Just kidding.
I actually love all thedifferent views.
I do have one that I that Ibelieve in, but that's not what
we're talking about today.
Today we're just talking aboutthe rapture and what it's gonna
be like and maybe uh yeah, whatit's like.
He says it's in the twinkling ofan eye.
That means it's a speed oflight.
Okay?
So very, very, very fast, thespeed of light.
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So in a moment, in the twinklingof an eye, your body is gonna be
completely transformed.
If you're alive at the lasttrumpet.
The last trumpet?
Well, what what trumpet is this?
And so people do a lot ofstudying.
Okay, which trumpet could thisbe?
Maybe it's the last trumpet inRevelation chapter 11.
There's seven trumpets ofangels, and the angels are like
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and they blow their trumpets,and then bad things happen on
the earth during thetribulation.
So maybe that's the trumpet.
But it says here, maybe it's thetrumpet of God, the trumpet of
God.
And that's maybe a differenttrumpet than the trumpet of
angels.
You see, let's read 1Thessalonians chapter 4, verse
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16.
This is interesting, reallyinteresting.
For the Lord himself willdescend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of anarchangel, and with the trumpet
of God.
Okay, trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will risefirst, and then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up.
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You see those two words caughtup?
In Greek, those are the wordsharpazo.
Harpazo is translated intoLatin, raptus.
Raptus translated in English israpture.
So some people are like,rapture's not even in the Bible.
No, go to school.
It is there, it's right here.
Raptus is where is what thatword is.
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They're caught the we who arealive and remain shall be caught
up.
There's that speed of lightthing, together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in theair, and thus we will always be
with the Lord.
Okay, so if this was the lasttrumpet, and this is when it's
gonna happen, when was the firsttrumpet?
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Ooh.
Well, I'm gonna take you all theway back to the book of Exodus,
okay?
And this is gonna blow yourmind.
Look in the book of Exodus,chapter 19.
I'll start in verse 13.
It says, so let me set thestage.
The people have just come out ofEgypt, so they're saved, right?
They're at, they've they'vecrossed through the Red Sea.
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God has destroyed their enemiesover here, the Egyptians that
were chasing them, and they'vewalked through the desert, and
they're now here at Mount Sinai.
And God's like, we need to chata little bit right here.
If I'm gonna take you guys intothe promised land, I need to set
up some rules for your nationwhere you're gonna be a special
people that I'm gonna take careof.
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So before they take a journeyinto their promised land, let me
say that again.
Before they take a journey intotheir promised land, God's gonna
do some special things withthem.
He says here, not a hand shalltouch him, but he shall surely
be stoned or shot with an arrow,whether man or beast, he shall
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not live.
Talking about he doesn't wantanyone to come close to the
mountain, even the priest, onlyMoses is supposed to come up on
the mountain to talk with him,and then he'll take the message
God has for the people down tothe people.
He says, Don't come close.
Why?
Because they'll they'll they'lldie.
They'll his glory is gonna bethere on that mountain, so you
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can't see the glory of God in asinful body.
Okay, so then he says, When thetrumpet sounds long, they shall
come near to the mountain.
So there's this idea that whenthey hear the trumpet, they can
come near to the mountain.
And in the book of Genesis andExodus, when Moses writes about
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mountains, it's sometimessymbolic of heaven.
Heaven.
So in the Garden of Eden, it waslike Moses is pictured as being,
or God is pictured as being upon a mountain, the mountain of
God, and that's speaking ofheaven where he lives.
All right, so in Exodus nightverse 16, he says, Then it came
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to pass on the third day in themorning.
That's actually reallyimportant.
Remember those times, the thirdday in the morning.
Something important happens inthe Bible on a third day, I
think.
That there were thunderings andlightnings and a thick cloud on
the mountain, and the sound ofthe trumpet was very loud, so
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that all the people who were inthe camp trembled.
Well, it says Jesus is gonnacome with the clouds, right?
And here we have thissupernatural trumpet sounding
from heaven, like a heaventrumpet.
And it's like it's gettinglouder and louder, and it's it's
accompanied with thunder andlightning.
It's like this crazysupernatural trumpet.
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All right, and then verse 19 orverse 17 says, And Moses brought
the people out of the camp tomeet with God, and they stood at
the foot of the mountain.
Now Mount Sinai was completelyin smoke, because the Lord
descended upon it in fire.
Its smoke ascended like thesmoke of a furnace, and the
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whole mountain quaked greatly.
And when the mount when theblast of the trumpet sound
became long and louder andlouder, Moses spoke, and God
answered him by voice.
Then the Lord came down uponMount Sinai on the top of the
mountain, and the Lord calledMoses up to the top of the
mountain, and Moses went, wentup.
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Okay?
So here we have a type, apicture of the rapture.
And it's very interestingbecause it what is involved?
A trumpet, the mountain of God,God coming down and calling his
people up to meet with him.
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All exactly the same as therapture.
Very interesting.
So if that's the first trump,and then we have a last trumpet,
I think we're gonna hear thatsame sound that they heard
around that mountain.
I think we're gonna hear, and Ithink someday there's gonna be a
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final generation that hears.
That sound and is instantly withJesus.
Hallelujah.
It's going to be a great day.
So back to our text for thetrumpet will sound, and the dead
will be raised incorruptible,and we shall be changed.
So this last trumpet will be theday that calls his people home.
And all the dead people, thedead in Christ, will get their
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bodies first, and those who arealive will be instantly changed.
Okay, so there's where we getlots of questions.
SPEAKER_01 (30:56):
So if I die today and the rapture's not for a
hundred years, where am I?
What do I do?
SPEAKER_02 (31:04):
That's a really good question.
Okay, well, we have a couplepossibilities.
First possibility is you're justin Christ, in heaven, with him.
You just don't have your newbody yet, you're just spirit.
Okay, that's a possibility.
Possibility number two is heavenis outside of time.
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Heaven is not part of our time.
God created time for thisreality.
Heaven is not part of thisreality.
So when you die now and someonedies a hundred years from now,
you might be arriving in heavenat the exact same time.
In heaven.
Does that make sense?
It's all kinds of time travel.
SPEAKER_01 (31:46):
I could pull out charts and do like back to the
future diagrams.
SPEAKER_02 (31:53):
But basically, we don't know.
Okay?
For some somehow, you're gonnaget your body, you're gonna be
fine.
We know that you when you die,you don't just go to sleep and
you don't cease to exist.
Because Paul says to be absentfrom the body is to be present
with the Lord.
So you will be in his presence.
We don't know if you get yourbody now or get your body later.
Don't know those things, but Ithink it's the time thing.
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Because it's kind of like whenwe watch a parade, we're
watching a parade, we just see,by the way, parade, Sarah.
I knew I had to remember.
Okay, we're going back toannouncements.
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So we're doing the parade on thesixth, fifth, on the fifth, and
we're still looking for someoneto let us decorate their truck
with maybe lights and somestuff.
So talk to Sarah.
But there's gonna be anannouncement going out on
Facebook this week with all theinformation about if you want to
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come and walk with us, we'regonna hand out glow sticks and
tell people Merry Christmas andsing Christmas songs as we walk
in the parade.
Cool?
Alright.
So if you're in a parade, youjust see, if you're not in the
parade, if you're watching theparade, you just see it go by.
But if you get in the blimp,right, that's over there on the
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side of the island, and you lookat the parade, you see the whole
parade beginning from the end.
Why?
Because you're outside of the ofthe perspective of one part of
time.
So you can see the beginning andthe end all happening at the
same time.
I think that's more what's goingon with our bodies and stuff.
All right.
For this corruptible must put onincorruption, and this mortal
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must put on immortality.
So when this corruption has puton incorruption, and this mortal
has put on immortality, thenshall be brought to pass the
saying which is written, Deathis swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?
The sting of death is sin, andthe strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God who givesus the victory through our Lord
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Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren,be steadfast and movable, always
abounding in the work of theLord, knowing that your labor is
not in vain in the Lord.
So here we see that death isswallowed up in victory.
A resurrected body is not aresurrected corpse, it's a new
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order of life that will neverdie again.
Death is defeated byresurrection.
Freud was wrong when he said,and finally, there is a painful
riddle of death for which noremedy has yet been found, nor
probably probably ever will be.
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Compare that with what Paulsays: Death has been swallowed
up in victory.
Jesus chewed it up and swallowedit down, and we don't have to
fear anything anymore.
So today's a double Spurgeonquote day.
Here you go.
Two thumbs up.
Spurgeon says, I will not fearthee, death.
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Why should I?
Thou lookest like a dragon, butyour sting is gone.
Your teeth are old and broken.
You're like an old lion with noteeth.
Why should I fear you?
I know you are no more able todestroy me, but you are sent as
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a messenger to conduct me to thegolden gate wherein I shall
enter and see my Savior'sunveiled face forever and ever.
This guy was a poet.
Expiring saints have often saidthat their last beds have been
the best they have ever slepton.
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Sting.
Death has lost its sting.
I want to just tell you onequick, quick, quick
illustration.
There was a little girl whosegrandfather had died, or
something to father had died,and she was on the way to the
funeral, and she was like, Howyou know, talking with her her
grandpa, like, did did it hurtwhen my dad died?
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And he's like, No, your dad wasa Christian, your dad was a
believer, so it did not hurt.
And she's like, I don'tunderstand that.
I mean, obviously he died, Iwatched him die.
So how how did it not hurt?
And as they were driving, theypulled up next to this big
semi-truck that blocked out thesun for a moment.
And he said, Hey, did you justnotice that that semi-truck just
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blocked the the sun?
She's like, Yeah.
And he's like, Well, did thatdid that shadow hurt you?
Did you get hurt by that?
It's a big semi-truck.
I mean, it could destroy you.
She's like, No, it didn't hurtat all.
He's like, That's what death islike for a Christian.
It will not hurt at all.
We only taste the shadow ofdeath because the real part of
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death was tasted by Jesus forus, and we're given his life in
exchange.
What is the point of all this?
What's the application for ourlives right now?
We're just wrapping it up here.
Paul gives it to us in the lastverse of chapter 15.
He sums up this entire entireconversation.
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He says, Therefore, my belovedbrethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding inthe work of the Lord, knowing
that your labor is not in vainin the Lord.
Your life matters right now.
In this dirt bag that we'reliving in, this earth suit that
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we have, your life matters.
Love your spouse.
Love your kids.
Love your friends, love yourenemies.
Give your life to serve allthose people that you meet on
this journey called life.
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Pour it out for them.
Never give up.
SPEAKER_01 (38:02):
Keep loving until they love you back or kill you.
SPEAKER_00 (38:09):
Because they can't kill you.
And if they do kill you, thenpseudo.
Let's pray.
SPEAKER_01 (38:24):
Would you guys stand with me?
Pretend like we're gonna getraptured right now.
SPEAKER_02 (38:32):
Father, we we thank you so, so much that death, we
have the answer for death.
We have the answer for thebiggest questions in life, and
the thing that most people arescared to death of.
But Father, we will dance on ourgraves.
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We will be alive in such a newand crazy way.
We are so looking forward toexperience what our resurrection
life truly will look like.
Father, forgive us for livingthis life like this is the only
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life that matters, and help us,we pray, to be steadfast,
immovable, and always aboundingin the work of the Lord.
I pray that we would choose tolive our life differently this
week, not because we have to,but because we are alive and we
will be alive for eternity withyou.
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We've been forgiven.
We we love you, Lord, becauseyou first loved us.
Help us to clean with all ourmight, to serve with all our
might, to sing with all ourmight, to be steadfast and love
people when it's not exciting,but when it's boring and it's
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difficult and it requires ourtime and all that we would want
to do, Lord, we put aside tolove and serve the people in our
lives.
Jesus, we trust you.
And if anyone in here todayneeds to know that they've been
forgiven of their sins, justturn to Jesus right now and say,
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I believe you died for me, and Ibelieve you rose from the dead
because you're God and you'rethe risen Lord of heaven.
And I ask you to forgive me ofmy sins and come and live inside
me.
I want to taste thisresurrection life for myself.
In Jesus' name we all pray.
Amen.
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