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The boss asked a new-hire, "Do you believe in resurrection?"
"Yes, I do," he answered.
"Then I guess it's OK," his boss went on.
"After you left work to go to your grandmother's funeral, yesterday, she stopped by to see you."
That wasn't resurrection.
What is?
What do we believe?
For too many of us, it's like a man in this story.
Pastor was preaching about resurrection to English coal miners.
He asked, "What do you believe?"
A man answered, "I believe the same as the church."
"What does the church believe?" "Well, they believe the same as me."
Pastor saw he was getting nowhere.
So, he asked, "And what is it you both believe?" "Well, I suppose the same thing."
What should we believe?
Let's take a deeper look at Paul's answer in 1 Cor 15:35-38, 42-50.
35aSomeone may ask, "How are the dead raised?
The issue?
Suppose a sailor dies & is buried at sea.
Fish eat his body & absorb his molecules.
Fisherman around the world then catch those fish & people eat them.
Their bodies absorb the fish, further scattering those molecules.
These people too will die, be buried, decompose into the soil.
Years later, someone sow a crop on the grave.
What grows will absorb their molecules.
As others eat the crop, the cycle starts all over.
How can the 1st person's body ever come together again?
Even if the molecules could be gathered, 35bWhat kind of body will they come with?"
What kind of body could they have?
That's a natural objection.
In reality?
36How foolish!
What you sow doesn't come to life unless it dies.
Pick a seed.
Any kind.
Unless you bury it, it remains a seed.
But when you plant it... 37aWhen you sow, you don't plant the body that will be.
What we plant is 37bJust a seed (perhaps wheat).
Not its future body.
Once planted, 38aGod gives it a body as He's determined.
Wheat seeds only grow wheat.
The wheat comes from the seed.
But it's different.
38bTo each kind of seed God gives its own body.
Each seed grows only the plant God designed for it.
And each seed must be buried for that to happen.
42aSo it'll be with resurrection of the dead.
Our bodies will die & be buried.
Like seeds, 42bthe body that's sown is perishable.
Like a buried seed, the body loses its original form.
This far, the analogy holds.
But a seed produces a plant will someday die.
Our bodies won't.
When our body is raised, it's something better.
Our body 42cis raised imperishable.
Eternal.
43aIt's sown in dishonor.
This flesh inherited Adam's sin nature.
43bIt's raised in glory.
Ro 8:18 & Col 3:4 show it's now hidden inside us & will be revealed at resurrection.
A body 43cis sown in weakness.
The instant our bodies gain adulthood, aging & decline start weakening them.
Decline & decay continue until death.
But 43dit's raised in power.
Like Jesus' body.
It can no longer decay.
The point? 44aIt's sown a natural body.
It's raised a spiritual body.
Like Jesus.
Let's look at another way.
44bIf there's a natural body, there's also a spiritual body.
How so? 45aIt's written: "The 1st man Adam became a living being."
Part of the 1st creation.
The natural creation.
The 1st Adam fell & sin entered the 1st creation.
45bThe last Adam, became a life-giving spirit.
Notice the order.
46aThe spiritual didn't come 1st, but the natural.
Only after comes the spiritual.
This is a Biblical principle.
We'll see it over & over.
1st the suffering.
Then the glory.
Our 1st birth is natural.
Our 2nd birth is spiritual.
God rejected our 1st birth.
When Adam sinned, God rejected the natural.
Therefore, in Jn 3:7, Jesus says, "You must be born again."
A spiritual birth.
Only after our natural birth.
Scripture is full of examples.
God rejected Cain, Adam's 1st-born.
God rejected the natural.
He chose the 2nd born, Abel.
God chose the spiritual.
God rejected Ishmael, 1stborn of Abraham.
Natural.
He chose Isaac, Abraham's 2nd-born.
Spiritual.
God rejected Esau, Isaac's 1st-born.
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