We Will Be Changed

1 Corinthians 15:20-58

One of my favorite theologians in Germany, he’s a man named Eric Sauer. Eric Sauer said this: “The present age is Eastertime. It begins with the resurrection of the Redeemer and ends with the resurrection of the redeemed. Between lies the spiritual resurrection of those called into life. So, we live between two Easters, and in the power of the first Easter we go to meet the final Easter.” The final Easter is the final resurrection. It is the final resurrection, yet the Bible calls it the first resurrection, the first resurrection.

Romans 6:9 “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”

Romans 8:23 “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

First-fruits is a sign of everything that comes after the first batch.....

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

2 Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”