Our Resurrection Body (1 Corinthians 15:35-49)

Although we have complete salvation through his death, because we are reconciled to God by it, it is by his resurrection, not his death, that we are said to be born to a living hope (1 Peter 1:3).

John Calvin

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of springtime.

Martin Luther

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

John Stott; Robert J. Morgan

The resurrection of Christ and the fact of the empty tomb are not part of the world’s complex and continuing mythologies. This is not a Santa Claus tale—it is history and it is reality.

A. W. Tozer

1 Cor. 15:35-49 (ESV) “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.”

AN ILLUSTRATION OF RESURRECTION (15:36-38)

DISSOLUTION (15:36)

DIFFERENCE (15:37)

CONTINUITY (15:38)

THE FORM OF RESURRECTION BODIES (15:39-42a)

THE CONTRASTS OF RESURRECTION (15:42b-44)

PERISHABLE/IMPERISHABLE (15:42)

DISHONOR/GLORY ((15:43a)

WEAKNESS/POWER (15:43b)

NATURAL/SPIRITUAL (15:44)

THE PROTOTYPE OF RESURRECTION (15:45-49)