Transcript If I Could Learn Just one Thing From:

•Perhaps the greatest motivation for holy living is
the faithful expectation of resurrection to eternal
life with God.
•What is involved in resurrection?
•What does the Bible teach for certain about
what will happen when we’re raised to eternal
life?
•Will we have a body?
•Will we be just spirit?
•What can we know for sure?
•TWO GREEK WORDS:
•ANASTASIS – a standing up again, recovery
•ERGESIS – to waken, to rouse, to raise up
•The raising of the
widow of Nain’s
son:
•Luke 7:14-15 -Then he went up and touched the coffin, and
those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man,
I say to you, get up!" The dead man sat up and
began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his
mother.
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John 11:43-44 –
When he had said this,
Jesus called in a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out!" The
dead man came out, his
hands and feet wrapped
with strips of linen, and a
cloth around his face. Jesus
said to them, "Take off the
grave clothes and let him
go."
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For the righteous:
Romans 8:11 -- And if
the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the
dead is living in you, he
who raised Christ from
the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies
through his Spirit, who
lives in you.
•By his
power
God
raised the
Lord from
the dead,
and he will
raise us
also.
John 5:28-29 -- "Do not be amazed at this,
for a time is coming when all who are in their
graves will hear his voice and come out—
those who have done good will rise to live,
and those who have done evil will rise to be
condemned.
•…and I have
the same
hope in God
as these
men, that
there will be
a resurrection
of both the
righteous and
the wicked.
•Resurrection will take place through the power of
God:
2 Corinthians 4:14 -- because we know that the
one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will
also raise us with Jesus and present us with you
in his presence.
Colossians 2:11-12 -- In him you were
circumcised…having been buried with him in
baptism and raised with him through your faith in
the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
•1 Corinthians 15:21-22 – “For as in Adam all
die, so in Christ all will be made alive.”
•John 6:39-40 – And this is the will of him who
sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has
given me, but raise them up at the last day. For
my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the
Son and believes in him shall have eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
•Vs. 44 -- "No one can come to me unless the
Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise
him up at the last day.
•Vs. 54 -- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
the last day.
“For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be
made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the
firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who
belong to him. Then the end will come, when he
hands over the kingdom to God the Father after
he has destroyed all dominion, authority and
power.
The Bible teaches a bodily resurrection:
•Romans 8:11 -- And if the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he
who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit,
who lives in you.
•Philippians 3:21 -- who, by the power that
enables him to bring everything under his
control, will transform our lowly bodies so that
they will be like his glorious body.
Genesis 3:19 -- By the sweat of your brow you
will eat your food until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken; for dust you are
and to dust you will return.“
Ecclesiastes 3:20 -- All go to the same place; all
come from dust, and to dust all return.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 -- …and the dust returns to
the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to
God who gave it.
God will make our new bodies!
1 Corinthians 15:35-38 -- But someone may
ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind
of body will they come?" 36How foolish! What
you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37When you sow, you do not plant the body
that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat
or of something else. 38But God gives it a
body as he has determined, and to each kind
of seed he gives its own body.
A foolish question answered…
All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of
flesh, animals have another, birds another and
fish another. There are also heavenly bodies
and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of
the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the
splendor of the earthly bodies is another. The
sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another
and the stars another; and star differs from star
in splendor. So will it be with the resurrection of
the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it
is raised imperishable;
•Luke 24:39 -- Look at my hands and my feet.
It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does
not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.“
•Notice He doesn’t say “flesh and blood”
•Usual term is “flesh and blood”
•Resurrected body is different, but is flesh.
•Acts 10:41 – Jesus ate and drank with the
disciples after his resurrection.
•…who, by the power that enables him to bring
everything under his control, will transform our
lowly bodies so that they will be like his
glorious body.
•1 John 3:2 -- Dear friends, now we are
children of God, and what we will be has not
yet been made known. But we know that when
he appears,we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is.
1 Corinthians 15:42-44 --So will it be with the
resurrection of the dead. The body that is
sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it
is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is
sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is
sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual
body. If there is a natural body, there is also a
spiritual body.
Perhaps the thought is that the
touch of the resurrection body
destroys all things in the old
body that are unadapted to the
new state; perhaps there is an
idea that the essence of the old
body is what we might call "nonmaterial," so that decay simply
anticipates the work the
resurrection will do. At all
events, such reflections are
"beyond what is written."
I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does
the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a
flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead
will be raised imperishable, and we will be
changed. 53For the perishable must clothe
itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality.
•We can only know so
much
•There are marvelous
discoveries awaiting us
•We will not be left in the
intermediate state
•We will be fully
resurrected to a glorious
eternal life.
•Are you ready for that
great event?