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April 16, 1995
How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come? Paul responded to these questions with several illustrations, drawing from plant life, animal life, and astronomy. Reminding us that it is necessary to be born again before we can see the kingdom of God, Alistair Begg walks us through Paul’s analogies. While the weak, perishable, natural body is sown in dishonor, we who are in Jesus will be raised in glory and splendor, imperishable and strong.
35But someone will ask, d“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36You foolish person! eWhat you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42fSo is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor; git is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45Thus it is written, h“The first man Adam became a living being”;5 ithe last Adam became a jlife-giving spirit. 46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47kThe first man was from the earth, la man of dust; mthe second man is from heaven. 48As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, nso also are those who are of heaven. 49Just oas we have borne the image of the man of dust, pwe shall6 also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50I tell you this, brothers: qflesh and blood rcannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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