What Will Our Resurrection Bodies Be Like?

It was 1950 when an American soldier, just 19 years old and from near Americus, Georgia, was fighting in the Korean War. His unit had come under heavy attack, and they were ordered to retreat. His name was Luther Story.

Luther had already been severely injured, and he realized that his injuries were slowing down his comrades from getting back to safety. So that 19-year-old soldier said to his buddies, “You go without me. I’m going to stay here and lay down covering fire so that you can get to safety.” Luther was never seen alive again.

In 1951, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. His father received the medal from General Omar Bradley. But they had no idea where Luther’s body was.

For nearly 73 years, his family prayed and hoped that they would be able to find their loved one and bring his body home. Seventy-three years of waiting. Seventy-three years of not knowing.

Until 2023.

Scientists were able to identify the remains of an American soldier that had been recovered in Korea decades earlier. Through DNA analysis, they determined that the remains belonged to Luther Story.

They brought his body home to Georgia. His casket was taken through the streets of his hometown as people paid their respects, many of whom were not even alive when Luther fought and died. He was finally laid to rest at Andersonville National Cemetery.

Seventy-three years. And all those years, his family had wondered, “What if we never find him? What if we never recover his remains?”

As we have been going through this sermon series on heaven, many of you have asked me questions.

“Pastor, are you going to address this question?”

“Are you going to address that question?”

And some of the questions that have come up are very understandable.

For example, some of you have asked, “Pastor, what about those who were cremated? Is that a problem for a Christian?”

“What about those who were lost at sea?”

“What about those who died centuries ago and whose bodies have returned to dust; ‘earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust?’ How does the resurrection apply to them?”

“When we die, our bodies stay here and we go to be with the Lord. Is that correct?”

You’ve asked some very good questions. And I’m attempting, through Scripture, to answer as many of them as I can. Although, there’s no way a sermon series of just a few weeks can do justice to everything the Bible says about heaven.

But you know, we’re not the first people to have questions about what it means to be a follower of Jesus and to hear the promise of resurrection day that awaits us.

The apostle Paul had people asking questions, too.

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul spends a great deal of time explaining the reality of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and how the resurrection of Jesus guarantees our future bodily resurrection when Jesus returns, as He promised. And there were a couple of questions that the Corinthians had for Paul that he wants to zero in on in 1 Corinthians 15: 35-58.

And that’s what I want us to do today. Because the same questions they had, you have. And the same answers, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that Paul gave them, God gives to us today.

And here’s why this is important. What God will do with our bodies on the day Christ returns should shape how we live for Him today.

What we learn today should give us a new perspective on how we view life and how we do life.

This is practical for every single one of us. And my prayer is that the Holy Spirit of God will speak through His Word as we walk through these verses together.

What I want to do is read verses 35 through 58. I know that’s a lot to read at one time, but I want us to hear the whole argument of Paul before we come back and look at four truths that I want us to see in these verses.

So take your Bible and turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15:35.

I’m going to read from the English Standard Version as you read silently from your copy of God’s Word.

READ PASSAGE 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

May God bless the reading of His holy Word.

Would you pray with me?

Heavenly Father, may Your Holy Spirit help us today to hear this message about the resurrection that awaits everyone who has placed their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

And Father, if there is anyone here who has never received Christ for the forgiveness of sin, I pray that this will be the day they turn from their sin and trust Him with their eternal destiny.

Thank You for the promise that whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

In His name we pray. Amen.

Did you catch the two questions Paul is attempting to answer here?

He mentions them in verse 35. “But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised?’” That’s the first question.

And then the second question: “With what kind of body do they come?”

How are they raised? And what kind of body will they have when they come out of their graves?

And Paul is going to take us from the graveyard to glory by the time we’re done with these few verses.

He wants to begin by addressing the question of how. How can this be? And maybe some of you have asked that question.

The Corinthians were struggling. Some of them believed in the resurrection of Jesus, but they were struggling to believe in their own resurrection, or the resurrection of anyone else. And Paul is addressing them as he seeks to answer their questions.

He addresses an anonymous “someone.” He says, “You foolish person!”

In other words, he’s saying, “Okay, let’s imagine somebody says, ‘I believe Jesus rose from the dead, but I don’t believe we will.’” And Paul says, “You foolish person!” If God has the power to raise Jesus from the dead, He has no trouble raising you from the dead.

Paul then points them to several illustrations to help them understand the power of God. And he wants them to know this first lesson:

I. God will raise the dead by His power.

God’s power. Not yours. Not mine. Not religion’s power. This will be a work of God.

So how are the dead raised?

Look at verse 36: “You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.”

A. Agricultural Argument

Paul begins with an agricultural argument. He’s talking about a farmer taking seed and planting it in the ground. And before new life can come, that seed is buried in the ground, but out of what appears to be death comes life.

Paul writes in verse 37: “What you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.”

You take a seed of wheat and place it in the ground, but that little seed is not what ultimately comes out of the ground. Something comes out that has continuity with the seed, but also discontinuity. It is different. It is gloriously different.

You plant a seed in the ground, just a bare, naked seed, but by God’s power, out comes life. You plant an acorn and you get an oak tree. There’s continuity, but there’s also discontinuity. There’s something different, but it all happens by the power of God.

Look at verse 38: “But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.”

God determines what comes from that seed. You don’t plant a seed of wheat and get barley. You don’t plant an acorn and get a pine tree. God has chosen in His power what will come out of that ground.

And the apostle Paul is saying, if you want proof that the power of God can accomplish your bodily resurrection, or your loved one’s bodily resurrection, when that person has been placed in the ground, look no further than down at your own feet. You see life all around you as it springs up from the earth. It is a picture of the power of God.

B. Biological Argument

Then Paul moves from the agricultural argument to the biological argument. You’ll notice it in verse 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.”

Paul is saying that even in the animal kingdom and even in human life, we see that God gives different kinds of bodies suited to different environments. A fish has a body designed to live in the water. A bird has a body designed to fly through the air. The animals of the field have bodies suited for their environments. And human beings have bodies suited for this present world in which we live.

But on resurrection day, we will receive a new kind of body fashioned by God’s power, fit for the kingdom of God, fit for eternity with God, fit for the new heavens and the new earth.

C. Astronomical Argument

And then Paul moves to an astronomical argument.

You’ll see it in verse 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.”

Then verse 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.”

Paul is saying that whenever you look up into the heavens, you see the power and creativity of God because God spoke the universe into existence.

The sun has its glory. The moon has its glory. The stars have their glory. And even star differs from star in glory.

Now, we know far more today about our universe than the apostle Paul did. We’ve been able to look into the depths of space with telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and others, and we can see the vast creativity and variety God has displayed throughout the universe. Even star differs from star.

Now, many of us growing up were taught in science that there were nine planets. But then, in 2006, scientists reclassified Pluto. Poor Pluto. Pluto probably has an inferiority complex now. After all those years of being in the textbook, with little kids learning their planets, suddenly they had to scratch Pluto out. Scientists narrowed the characteristics required for a celestial body to be classified as a planet, and Pluto no longer fit the definition. But that does not mean Pluto does not have its own glory given to it by God.

And that’s what the apostle Paul is trying to help us see. You plant a seed in the ground and it dies, but it brings forth beautiful life, continuity with what it was, but also discontinuity because what comes out of the ground is even greater.

Look at creation and you see that every kind of flesh is designed for its environment. But there is coming a day when we will receive resurrection bodies designed for the heavenly environment, the new heavens and the new earth, where there will be no more sin, no more sickness, and no more sorrow.

Look up into the stars and you see the glory God has put on display all around us. And that pales in comparison to the glory that will be revealed when you walk out of a tomb alive in a new body like Jesus had when He came out of His tomb alive.

That’s why the apostle Paul would also write that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us (Romans 8:18).

I may suffer, Paul says, down here, but you ain’t seen nothing yet! Groaning will not have the last word over God’s creation. Glory will!

So first: God will raise the dead by His power.

Here’s the second truth today:

II. God will transform our bodies for eternity.

God will change us. He will transform these mortal bodies for eternity. You’ll see that in verses 42 through 49.

Paul is moving now from the question, “How are the dead raised?” to the question, “What kind of body will they have?” What kind of body will come out of the grave on resurrection day? And he gives us four descriptions.

A. Perishable to Imperishable

First, God will raise our bodies from perishable to imperishable. Did you hear that in verse 42?

“So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.”

Our bodies are perishable. You don’t need to be a scientist to know that. You don’t need a pastor to tell you that. You are a walking testimony that your body is perishable. Our bodies are perishing. They’re getting weaker. They’re decaying. And eventually, unless Christ returns, we will pass away. That is the sad reality of what it means to be human in this fallen world. Because the Bible teaches that when Adam sinned, death entered our world. Perishable.

I had a sweet little church lady tell me one day, “Pastor, you’re turning a little gray.” She noticed my sideburns were looking a little gray. And I said, “Yes, ma’am. I am.” And then I told her, “What’s not turning gray is turning loose.”

Perishable. Right? Perishable. Paul says the ultimate reality of our bodies being perishable is that one day, unless Christ returns first, we will breathe our last.

But what is raised is imperishable.

The resurrection body that God will give us when Christ returns is a body that will never be touched by sin, sickness, sorrow, decay, or death. Imperishable!

I think one of the reasons we are fascinated with superhero movies is because, deep down in our hearts, we know we need a Savior. And Jesus is the Savior. But I also think part of our fascination with superheroes is that we know we were made for more than this. And the day will come when you will have a body that is imperishable.

Paul then gives us another contrast.

B. Dishonor to Glory

In verse 43, God will transform our bodies from dishonor to glory.

Did you catch that?

“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory.”

That word “dishonor” carries the idea of humiliation, and being brought low. And our bodies are acquainted with dishonor.

We struggle with sin. We struggle with temptation. We struggle with frailty. And even physically, we watch as our bodies disintegrate. A once-vibrant mind is brought low by the effects of old age. A little child struggles with cancer. We see hospital wards filled to the brim and emergency rooms overflowing because of the brokenness and dishonor that sin has brought into our world.

And the ultimate humiliation—the ultimate being brought low—is when we lie down in death. But Paul does not stop there.

“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory.”

Glory! Amen. (applause) Yes, you can give God a hand for that.

Glory means beauty and splendor, but it means more than that. It means reflecting the glory of God Himself. Every person you’ve ever met, every person who has ever lived, was created in the image of God. And even though sin has effaced that image, it has not erased that image. That is why you are to love and show respect to every human being, because they are image-bearers.

But sin has disfigured us. Sin has brought us low. But there is coming a day when we will be like Jesus, and we will be filled with the glory of God.

C. Weakness to Power

And then Paul gives us a third contrast in verse 43:

“It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.”

We know what weakness is, don’t we? We spent Wednesday through Saturday with our family in Marietta and Atlanta, just doing some sightseeing. But the most important part was getting to spend time with our granddaughter. And boy, she would wake up at 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning and—boom!—she’s awake. She’s running. She’s laughing. She’s having a good time. She hasn’t even had one cup of coffee. Where does that energy come from?

Meanwhile, I’m upstairs going, “Okay, knees. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to walk slowly. Give you some time to adjust. Then we’re going to make our way down the stairs. Hopefully, no one will speak to me until after I’ve had that first cup of coffee.”

Weakness. Weakness. Some of you know what it is to have a body that seems to be conspiring against you. There are so many things you used to do that you can’t do anymore. Weakness. And the ultimate weak state is when death touches us and our bodies are laid in the grave.

Sown in weakness. Raised in power.

That’s what awaits you. Power. Not your power. The power of God. The power of the Holy Spirit.

You remember when Jesus walked out of His own tomb alive? Power. The angel did not roll the stone away to let Jesus out. He rolled it away to let us look in. “He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.”

The disciples, meanwhile, are hiding upstairs behind a locked door, afraid that the next footsteps they hear might be the executioners who killed Jesus coming to kill them, too. They’re frightened. They’re hiding. They’re hearing rumors about a resurrection, but they don’t know what to make of it. And suddenly, Jesus appears in the room, physically alive. The doors are locked, and yet Jesus is standing among them. One second He is not there, and the next second He is! He has resurrection power. And He appears to His disciples.

And the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in every believer as the down payment and guarantee of what is coming. And one day, when your body is resurrected: Power, power, Wonder-working power!

All because of Jesus shed His blood for you and rose from the dead.

And then Paul gives us another contrast:

D. Natural to Spiritual

Verse 44: “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.”

Now, when Paul uses the word “spiritual,” he does not mean that we will become ghosts or disembodied spirits. He still calls it a body. (Greek, soma) A physical body. A real body, but it is a body perfectly suited to the life of the Spirit; a body no longer characterized by mortality, weakness, and corruption, but perfectly fitted for fellowship with God in the new heavens and the new earth.

And then, in the following verses, Paul talks about Adam.

Look at verse 49: “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

He is referring back to Genesis 2:7, where God created Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Adam became a living being. But Adam fell when he sinned against God, and he ushered death into the world. We are sinners by nature, but we are also sinners by choice. And because of that, we bear the image of the man of dust; Adam. And that’s what his name means; From the earth. We are all children of Adam.

But Jesus came as the last Adam. Jesus came and did what the first Adam did not do. He loved God with all His heart, mind, soul, and strength. He loved His neighbor as Himself. In other words, He lived a perfect, sinless, righteous life. And then, as the Son of Man and the Son of God, God in the flesh, He offered His life on the cross to pay the penalty for sin for you and me. And what is that penalty?

Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death…”

I love that Romans 6:23 doesn’t end with death. It says, “But the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

And Paul says, just as we have borne the image of the first Adam in our sin, our frailty, our weakness, and ultimately our death, so we will also bear the image of the man of heaven, the One who came from heaven, prepared a way for us to be with God, and is coming back for us one day, the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the life-giving Lord. And we will be like Christ.

Here’s the third truth:

III. Jesus will transform us when He returns.

That’s what Paul wants them to know. In the meantime, we wait for the second coming of Jesus before we receive our resurrection bodies.

Paul would say in 2 Corinthians 5:8, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” So when a Christian dies, the body remains here, but the believer is immediately in the presence of the Lord. And when Christ returns, those who are with Him will be raised bodily. Those of us who are still alive when Christ returns will be transformed without experiencing physical death.

Don’t take my word for it. God will transform us when Jesus returns.

A. The Great Impossibility

Paul mentions the great impossibility in verse 50. “I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.”

He’s saying our human existence, as it presently is in this fallen condition, is not fit for the eternal kingdom of God. Our frailty, weakness, and corruption cannot simply be carried over unchanged into eternity.

Which is why we wait not only for our Lord to come back, but for Him to redeem even our bodies. Christ didn’t just die on the cross for your soul. He died to redeem everything that sin has tainted. And He is going to give you a new body untouched by sin. That’s why we pray, “Father, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” That’s why Paul would say in Romans 8:23 that we groan within ourselves as we eagerly wait for our adoption as sons, “the redemption of our bodies.” We groan for that day. “Oh, Lord, come and change us.”

B. The Great Mystery

And then notice that Paul gives us the great mystery in verse 51. “Behold! I tell you a mystery.”

This is not a Sherlock Holmes mystery where you follow the clues and, with enough ingenuity, figure out who did it. That’s not this kind of mystery. When the Bible speaks of a “mystery,” it is talking about something that was previously hidden but has now been revealed by God.

Paul says, “Behold! I tell you a mystery.” And here it is: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.”

At first glance, that sounds like Scripture that ought to be hanging on the wall of the nursery, right? “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” Some of you will get that on the way home.

But in the context of resurrection, Paul is saying this: Not every believer will die. There will be believers who are alive when Jesus returns. Whether a believer has died before He comes or is still living when He comes, we shall all be changed. Every single one of us. It is the great mystery.

Verse 52: “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”

Paul uses a word that emphasizes something instantaneous—something happening in an indivisible instant. That’s how fast this change is going to take place. “In the twinkling of an eye.” As fast as it takes you to blink. As quickly as your eye moves from one point to another.

That’s how fast it will be when Christ comes and changes us. “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.” The trumpet that calls us to Christ. I love that.

In the meantime, what do we do? Paul wrote in Philippians 3:20–21: “Our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body.”

And that leads me to the fourth truth today:

IV. Because of the resurrection, our labor is never in vain.

Because of the resurrection of Jesus, and because our future resurrection is real, our labor in the Lord is never in vain.

You would almost think Paul could say, “Okay. The end.” But he doesn’t stop here. Because the Bible was never merely given for your information. It was given for your application and transformation by the Holy Spirit. Don’t just be a hearer of God’s Word. Be a doer of God’s Word.

So what would God have us do with this knowledge? What God will do to our bodies on that day ought to change how we live for Him on this day.

Here’s how Paul puts it.

A. The Triumph

He mentions the triumph when Christ returns.

When this perishable puts on the imperishable and this mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

That’s what’s going to happen. Since the Garden of Eden, death has been the one swallowing us up. Swallowing up our loved ones. Swallowing up our dreams. Swallowing up our hopes.

But there is coming a day when Christ returns that death itself will be swallowed up in the victory of Christ’s empty tomb.

B. The Taunt

Then Paul gives us the taunt. Did you see it in verse 55?

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

We just sang that a moment ago. Paul is drawing on the language of Hosea 13:14 and turning it into a triumphant taunt against death. Death is a defeated enemy because Jesus has conquered the grave.

Then verse 56:

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.”

Paul is reminding us that death was not the original design for humanity. Death is the consequence of sin. Sin entered the world, and with it came death. The sting of death is sin because death confronts us with the reality that we have rebelled against a holy God and cut ourselves off from the One who is life. And the law of God gives sin its power because it exposes our guilt and our shame. We are left without excuse.

C. The Thanksgiving

But then Paul gives us the thanksgiving.

Do you hear it in verse 57?

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Does your Bible say, “through being Southern Baptist”? I need to get some glasses. Is that what mine says? No. That’s not what my Bible says. Does it say, “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through being good and paying our taxes”? No. Does it say, “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through trying harder and trying religion”? No.

It says, “through our Lord Jesus Christ.” He is the One who gives us the victory. We give Him thanks. All glory to Jesus.

Because we haven’t lived perfect lives. We have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23. And Romans 6:23 reminds us that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He died on that cross for you. He took your punishment. He rose from the dead to prove that He is the resurrection and the life. And He can save anyone who trusts in Him.

D. The Tenacity

And then finally, Paul gives us the tenacity.

Verse 58: “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”

Be tenacious. Don’t you give up.

I’d be lying to you if I told you there aren’t days when I think, “Why am I doing this?”bWhy read the Bible? Why pray? Why go to church? Why keep serving? You look at the evil and suffering in this world. You look at your own family and see what sin can do. And sometimes you think, “Why am I wasting my time?”

And Paul says, “Oh, no, no.” Because Jesus lives. Because Christ is coming again. Because He will give you resurrection life. Your labor is never for nothing. Your suffering is never for nothing.

You be steadfast. You be immovable. And rather than shrinking back, you step up and abound in the work of the Lord. You worship Him like you’ve never worshiped Him before. You serve Him like you’ve never served Him before. You grow in your faith with other believers like you’ve never grown before. You go and tell more people about this Jesus who loved them, died for them, rose for them, and will save them if they will turn from their sin and believe in Him. And you keep abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing your labor is not in vain.

What God will do for our bodies someday should shape how we live for Him today.

I almost wore my black suit today. Black suit. White shirt. Black tie.

And some people in our church, when they see me dressed like that, will walk up and whisper: “Marrying or burying?” Because they know it’s either one or the other. That’s my uniform when I marry you, or I’m conducting a funeral. “Marrying or burying?”

And I thought about wearing that suit today. And I’m going to let you in on a little behind-the-scenes with Pastor Ricky. This could be scary. When I stand at a graveside officiating a funeral, I often imagine, with my sanctified imagination, that it could be today that Jesus comes back.

Could you imagine that? Standing at that open, gaping grave with a grieving family. Maybe it’s one of my loved ones. Maybe it’s one of your loved ones. Maybe it’s one of our own church members. And we’ve gathered there to pay our final respects.

But somewhere in the back of my mind, before that moment is over, I say to myself: “Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.”

What if we were standing there and, all of a sudden, we heard a shout? The voice of the archangel. The trumpet blast of God. Jesus has returned!

And faster than we can blink our eyes, the dead are raised. Their bodies are reunited with their souls in glorified bodies like Jesus’ resurrected body. And we who are still alive are caught up together with them to meet the Lord!

And I wonder if, in that split second, we will look at our Savior and cry out: “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!”

And then maybe He’ll let us do it, maybe He’ll let us turn and look back down at that gaping, evacuated grave, and at all those cemeteries that are scattered like pockmarks across this planet.

And we’ll say:

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

And maybe we’ll laugh!

Because Christ has come! Death has been defeated! The grave has been conquered! And we are with Him forever!

I’m too dignified to say it at a graveside. But I pray it every time: “Come, Lord Jesus. Come quickly.”

And maybe you say, “Why doesn’t He come, Pastor? Why doesn’t He come before I die? Why doesn’t He come before my loved ones die?”

I don’t know all the answers. But the apostle Peter gives us one. He writes that God is not slow to fulfill His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

Maybe one of the reasons God the Father hasn’t sent His Son back yet is to give us another opportunity to tell another person how to be saved. Another opportunity to tell another person how to be right with God. Another opportunity to tell another person that eternity is secure in Jesus Christ.

So don’t give up. Don’t shrink back. Keep worshiping. Keep serving. Keep growing. Keep going. Because one day, the trumpet will sound. The dead will be raised. We will be changed. And death will be swallowed up in victory.

And until that day, remember:

What God will do for our bodies someday should shape how we live for Him today.

Let’s pray.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the promise of resurrection. Thank You that Jesus Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He rose again. Thank You that because He lives, we will live also.

And Lord, for those of us who are tired, remind us today that our labor in the Lord is not in vain. For those who are grieving, remind us that death will not have the final word. For those who are suffering, remind us that weakness will one day be replaced with power, dishonor with glory, and perishable bodies with imperishable bodies.

And Father, if there is someone here today who has never trusted Jesus Christ, I pray that today they would turn from their sin and place their faith in Him.

And for all of us, Lord, help us to live with eternity in view.

Help us to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because Jesus is coming again. And when He comes, everything changes.

Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.

We pray it in the name of Jesus. Amen.