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The Image of the Heavenly Man

Date: Oct. 28, 2015

Passage

1 Corinthians 15:35-49 

The Resurrection Body

35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There 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. 41 There 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.

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

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Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

First, God gives it a body as he has determined (35- 44). There were those in the church at Corinth that had doubts about the resurrection based on their lack of understanding of how it could be. This is truly foolish. Resurrection is not the truth of this world, it is the truth of God. He has determined to give his people a resurrection body. There are so many splendid examples in God's creation of all different kinds of bodies. When this natural body is sown, the same God who created those will create a spiritual body for his own.

Second, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man (45-49). We are all born of Adam, and we bear his image. Like Adam we are earthly, we are sinful, and we are perishing. Jesus is different. He is not the earthly man, but the heavenly man. He is not perishable, but is a life-giving spirit. He is the example of what God has prepared for those he loves. The Corinthian Christians could not comprehend what the resurrection body would be like. But Paul knew that just as surely as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the glorious Lord Jesus.

Prayer: Prayer: Lord, thank you for the glorious hope to bear the image of Jesus.

One Word: Made new in the image of Jesus

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Key Verse: 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
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