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Introduction
[pic]In Mel Gibson’s wildly successful movie from 2004, the Passion of the Christ, he lays out a great account of the crucifixion of Jesus.
It’s a great movie about the crucifixion, but a terrible movie about the resurrection!
You endure two hours of brutal beatings, and then you see the resurrected Jesus for about 12 seconds.
That’s not enough!
You get to see the impact of his death, but not the impact of the resurrection, which makes the death worth it.
Without the resurrection, Jesus’ death was worthless.
TS - We are in this little series called One Thing from .
In the early verses, Paul, a first-century church leader, establishes the gospel, the Good News of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection.
That is the one thing that matters more than anything else.
It is the one thing that defines our lives.
We’ve spent the last two weeks looking into the question of ‘what is it?’
What is the gospel?
What is the One Thing that matters most?
And we learned exactly what it is.
Today, let’s ask another question - so what?
Jesus was crucified, dead and buried.
He rose from the dead on the third day.
So what?
What difference does that make today for those who believe that?
For those who place their trust in Jesus?
TS - The bible will now give us two guarantees because Jesus has risen from the dead.
Jesus’ resurrection guarantees…
OUR RESURRECTION
- 20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.
He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man.
22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.
23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
Because of the truth of the gospel, we know that death is not the end for those who trust in Jesus.
Paul will go all the way back to the very beginning of history in .
He reminds us that death came to the human race through Adam when he and Eve sinned against God in an event called The Fall.
God’s perfect creation, the innocence of humanity…all of it was broken and stained by sin.
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus and Adam are compared and contrasted, even going as far as calling Jesus ‘The Second Adam.’
- 15 But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift.
For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many.
But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.
So now because of Jesus, death no longer reigns supreme.
It doesn’t have the be the final voice.
Forgiveness, grace, new life.
Those now reign because of Jesus.
Because of Jesus, we too will experience the resurrection from the dead.
Now let’s be honest for a couple minutes…we really don’t talk about this much do we?
This isn’t high on the topic list of normal conversation, even in church.
Very few sermons on this topic.
Why?
Because it can leave us with more questions than answers.
There is much we don’t understand.
We struggle with the idea of eternity, of never-ending time.
We struggle with the nature of Heaven.
What will it be like?
We chafe with this issue because some of our popular concepts of heaven and eternity sound awful.
Who wants to sit on a cloud and play a harp forever?
I’ve heard well-meaning worship leaders coerce people into singing during their worship service because “that’s all we are going to be doing in Heaven, so we better get used to it.”
I’m sorry, but singing is not my favorite part of a worship service.
I love it, I enjoy it, but preaching is what captures my attention.
That’s why I’m a preacher, not a worship leader…plus the fact that I don’t have any talent whatsoever!
Perhaps the greatest question we have about eternity and the resurrection is one the Corinthians were already asking - what will we be like?
How does this even work?
- 35 But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised?
What kind of bodies will they have?”
36 What a foolish question!
When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first.
37 And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.
38 Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have.
A different plant grows from each kind of seed.
39 Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
40 There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth.
The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies.
41 The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind.
And even the stars differ from each other in their glory.
42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead.
Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory.
They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.
44 They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies.
For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.
There is a lot of odd language here, but Paul’s main point is this - our resurrected bodies will be nothing like our current bodies.
And isn’t that good news?!
I don’t want to be stuck like this for eternity!
We are encouraged here by an image we are familiar with…farming.
The planting of seeds and the harvest of new life.
Paul gives us four phrases that contrast our bodies now with our bodies then:
—Temporary/Eternal
15:42b - Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
The reality that all of us must face is there is a day coming when our bodies will simply wear out.
Everything in our bodies will fail.
Death is inevitable.
The stats on death are quite impressive - one out of every one person will die.
Right now the stats are hovering at 100%.
But Paul assures us that the passage of time will have no effect on the resurrection body.
It will never fail.
It will never quit.
—Brokenness/Glory
15:43a - Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory.
Brokenness, we know what that is like.
We live in a world with words like spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimers, cancer, depression.
One of my closes friends in the world is 96 years old.
Macular degeneration has taken much of his eyesight and years of being around loud engines in the Air Force has taken much of his hearing.
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