Date: Sunday May 18, 2008
Text: I Corinthians 15:35-58
Title: "Heavenly Bodies"
Summary: Paul
has established the necessity and importance of the resurrection to the
Christian faith. He now turns to the question, "How can an earthly body
be fit for heaven?"
Paul illustrates the nature of the resurrection body in vv. 35-58. His
goal is to teach in what kind of bodies the dead in Christ are to be
raised.
The effect of the goal is to show that the Christian faith does not
despise the physical (that’s the position of pagan dualism).
Historic Christianity revels in the physical: the eternal state will be
a restoration of the original perfect creation. This is what Jesus
purchased for us and proved its reality in His own resurrection.