WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:00.880 Amen. 00:00:02.959 --> 00:00:06.400 What a beautiful day outside this morning. 00:00:06.959 --> 00:00:23.760 It was just early this morning as sun was coming through the blinds, and I was just thinking how good it would be today if the trumpet was to sound and the church would be raptured out. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.760 Would that not be exciting, church? 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.399 Amen. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.960 Hey, listen, I am ready. 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.160 I am ready. 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.520 And I think it's closer than it's ever been. 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:35.119 I really believe that. 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:40.719 And today I want you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:49.920 And uh I have had so much fun sharing about heaven everywhere I've been going. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:52.799 Common is a wonderful place. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.759 Heaven is a beautiful place. 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:04.879 And heaven is a place we're all going if we know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:13.920 And you know, I've been starting each of these messages with an epithet, so I'm gonna start again today with another one. 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:21.120 And this one is uh this time it's from Benjamin Franklin. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.359 We all know Benjamin Franklin. 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:42.079 Well, I say we all know some of our kids may not even know who Benjamin Franklin is anymore, because the way the liberals are trying to change our history and uh our foundation and everything that we this country was what on and stands for. 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.000 But anyway, Benjamin Franklin said this. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.760 His he wrote this as his one of his epithet. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.760 And here's what he said. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:10.159 Benjamin Franklin lies in the grave like the cover of an old book, with its contents torn out, stripped of its lettering, but which will appear once again in a new and more eloquent edition, revised and corrected by the author. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:11.680 Amen. 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.080 Is that not true? 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:31.280 Those words eloquently describe the ultimate extreme makeover every Christian is going to have one day, and it will be received from God Himself. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.439 The title of the message this morning is what? 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:42.400 The extreme makeover that one day you and I are going to have. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:53.199 In fact, these words in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul deals with the doctrine of the resurrection of Christ and the believer. 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:55.919 And I'm telling you, it is awesome. 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:02.800 As part of that doctrine, he talks about the change that will occur in the rapture. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:12.560 Hey, in the change of the resurrection that takes place in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 16 through 18. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:30.400 But here in 1 Corinthians 15, we see the description, basically, the Lord uses Paul to tell the church at Corinth about the resurrection body because they ask really a foolish question. 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.719 And I think Paul's kind of picking at them when he answers it. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:39.599 And look at verse 36 in 1 Corinthians 15. 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.039 And it's kind of, we'll start with verse 35. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:51.919 And he says in verse 35, but some man will say, How are the dead raised up? 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:58.960 And then he goes on and says, And with what body are they gonna have? 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:04.960 Now that's a good question, but then notice what Paul said thou food. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:12.400 That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:22.480 And verse 37, and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bear grain. 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:28.079 It may a it may chance of wheat or of some other grain. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.000 In other words, here's what Paul said. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:40.800 Paul says, When you plant a seed of grain, what grows up is a very different product than what went in the ground. 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:42.160 Amen. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:46.639 I mean, think about a kernel of corn, okay? 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.480 Or seed, a corn seed. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:05:21.120 You put it in the ground, you sow it, you put it in the dirt, you water it, you fertilize it, you do what all you're supposed to do, pick the weeds out, and then next thing you know, in a few months, you look up or you look out into the field and you see these beautiful green stalks growing up with what we call ears of corn on the stalks, and it is a beautiful sight to see, but it all came from one little kernel. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.720 So Paul is saying, don't be foolish. 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.160 In fact, really, what he's saying is, think a little bit. 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.839 Sometimes we have a problem doing that. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.319 You know, we just act before we think. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:35.199 I'm guilty. 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:36.240 Oh me. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.480 Oh me, yes, absolutely. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:54.720 But he's saying, what's gonna take place is this body that you and I are living in right now, this earthly body, you're gonna see in the passage of scripture, this natural body is one day gonna die. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:11.439 In fact, I want you, number one, in your outline, and boy, is this not true, the requirement of resurrection is the death of the body. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:17.439 There is a prerequisite for having a resurrection body. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:18.720 Guess what? 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.120 First, you gotta have a dead body. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:22.240 Hello? 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.560 And that's exactly what Paul is talking about here. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.240 And I think he again is having a little fun with them. 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:44.240 Here, Paul is obviously picking up on the teaching of Jesus, who said in John 12, 24, most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.240 But if it dies, it produces much grain. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:55.199 So then he goes on the biblical perspective here on death is different than that of the world. 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.560 Very different. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:07.040 And what he is telling the church at Corinth, that's the pathway to the wonderful resurrection body God has planned for the believer. 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:15.519 And if we do not die, there's no way we can have a resurrected body unless we're caught up in the rapture. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:16.720 That's different. 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:18.800 And by the way, I pray for the rapture. 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:19.839 Can I get an amen? 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.639 And he's gonna tell us here in a little bit. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.879 There will, when the rapture takes place, there will be some that are alive and some that are dead. 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:32.800 But in order to get a resurrected body, hey, you gotta have a dead body. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:41.199 And even in the rapture, there are, hey, that dead body, that body that we go up in, won't be the same body that we lived here. 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:44.160 It'll be a spiritual body, not a natural body. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.680 So we see right here the difference. 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:49.439 Death is the passway. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.199 Paul strikes a positive note. 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.519 Now, let me tell you what he what I think this ought to encourage us about. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.079 This ought to encourage us not to be afraid of death. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:11.839 In fact, uh it's it's kind of like it's the doorway to the greatest entrance into God's presence that we can have. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:16.959 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:22.639 That earthly body, that natural body, is what he's talking about there. 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.480 So the requirement of the resurrection is the death of the body, but notice the second thing. 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:35.679 The result, number two, of the resurrection is a different kind of body. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.320 Now, this is exciting. 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:46.320 There's much speculation has been offered about what those who are in heaven will look like. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.440 Will they appear as angels or as ghosts? 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:58.799 Well, the Bible makes it very clear that we as believers will have material, touchable bodies. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:07.120 The reason we'll have material, touchable bodies is because we're gonna have a body like Jesus Christ. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:08.320 And I'm so excited. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.919 I preached on this a couple of weeks, I mentioned it, but we're gonna look. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:18.080 I'm I I'm gonna be able today to show you what I think our body's gonna be like. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:24.480 I meant biblically, not what I think, you know, in my own mind, but biblically. 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:36.799 And I personally will go ahead and tell you what I think so you can be applying what I'm thinking as we look at the scriptures, is that we're gonna have a body very similar to what we have now. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:47.039 Except it's gonna be a supernatural body, it's gonna be a spiritual body, not an earthly natural body. 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.240 And I'm gonna show you that scripturally today. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:51.919 I really believe that. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.279 But notice in verse 37 and 38. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.039 Notice in verse 37 and 38. 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:07.039 I want to read this from the New Living Testament, because it puts the wording a little bit better, more understandable. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:08.720 Now listen to what he says. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.559 And let's start back at verse 36. 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.879 What a foolish question, Paul says. 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:19.759 When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:20.960 We talked about that. 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:29.440 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. 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:31.600 Then verse 38, I love this. 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.679 Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:36.639 Did you hear that? 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:37.679 That's very important. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:44.960 Or in the New King James, the body as he pleases, and to each seed its own body. 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:46.559 Now, what's this? 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:47.600 This is powerful. 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:49.679 Verse 39, put a star by it. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:11:00.720 Then he says, All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:02.799 Now that's very important. 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:11.519 In other words, he's saying there are different kinds of flesh: one kind for humans, another for animals, and another for birds, and another for fish. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.519 Now, when I saw that, Paul makes an important point here. 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:21.600 The seed is one thing, but the body of the plant it produces is another. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:25.039 Now, here we see the sovereignty of God. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:30.559 God makes us what he wants us to be. 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:41.840 He's the farmer, he's the one that plants the seed, and then he's the one that changes what he wants us to be when we die and go to heaven. 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:43.919 And I got the thinking about that. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.559 Oh, it's powerful, but now let me show you what I really love about 39. 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:49.919 Did you put a star there? 00:11:50.080 --> 00:12:03.039 You know, we are taught in school evolution that we become, hey, first of all, whatever we are, you know, it just they call it the great bang theory. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:11.360 Bam! It explodes, and next thing you know, we're down, we're a tadpole, then we're a frog. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.559 Next thing you know, we're a monkey. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.120 Next thing you know, we're man. 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.799 Well, there's one problem with that. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:25.519 First of all, we were not birthed from a big bang. 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.120 We were created in the image of God. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:30.480 Amen. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:39.360 Now, watch right here on verse 39 blows evolution's theory out of the window. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:40.799 Just blows it out. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:41.519 Totally. 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:42.960 Look at what it says. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.000 And I love this. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.159 It kills evolution ideas. 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.559 One cannot evolve from that which is different. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.240 Hello! Come on, church. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.440 Is that not good? 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.279 Man, that's good. 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:05.919 So we see right here, in other words, we're, hey, we sow one shape or form and we reap another. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:15.120 The body that dies, hey, the body that dies and is buried in the earth is raised as a totally different kind of body. 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:23.039 On that day of the resurrection, the body comes out of the ground will be very different than the body that you and I are walking around in right now. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:24.639 Very different. 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.279 But you say, how different? 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:36.559 Well, Paul gives us four ways in which the body that comes out of the ground will be different from the bodies that were buried in the ground. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:38.240 Number one, here we go. 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:38.559 A. 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.799 Our new bodies will be indestructible. 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.879 Woohoo! Yes. 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.279 Look at verse 42. 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.600 Indestructible. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.759 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:14:01.120 Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.159 Live forever. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:12.879 In fact, there has only been one body that was perfect, incorruptible, and that was the body of Jesus Christ. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:24.159 Now listen, this was prophesied by the Psalm, the Psalmist who wrote in Psalm 16, 10, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.080 You'll never, in other words, Jesus would never see corruption. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.600 Our bodies, however, are sown, buried in corruption. 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.360 That's what he tells us in this passage of scripture. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.480 But we're raised incorruptible. 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.240 The word there, corruption, is the word decay. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:49.360 But the resurrection body will not decay, not grow old or weary. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:51.600 Our bodies get old, they get weary. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:52.960 Can I get an amen? 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.279 And eventually they die. 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:59.600 These, hey, in fact, I was thinking this morning. 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:04.480 Our bodies stop working like they started out working. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:15.279 Remember when you could go out and work all day and come home, take a shower, and you know, not feel any aches or any pains. 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:23.919 But the older you get or the older we got, oh my goodness, now you're just proud to get out of bed. 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:24.720 Amen. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.919 Or you say, oh, oh, oh, yes, Lord, please, one step at a time. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:41.279 But but I got to thinking about everything we do, you know, the body begins from the moment you're born to decay. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.720 It really does. 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:47.519 But think about a body that's not gonna wear out, eventually die. 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:53.039 I just had a meniscus in my knees fixed, my planifasciitis. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:16:01.120 I the older I've gotten, everything starts hurting and causing me pain and and and heartache. 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:09.120 And I thought to myself, man, I'm reading this and I said, good grief in heaven for eternity. 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:14.399 There be no sickness, there be no pain, there be no sorrow, folks. 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:16.320 There be no heartache. 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.240 Revelation 21, 4. 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:19.759 Do you hear me? 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:26.000 I mean, you'll be able to go and all day long, never get tired. 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.519 I mean, somebody said, Well, are we gonna rest? 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:30.879 I don't understand it. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.919 I don't know how we're gonna rest, but I know we will rest. 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:35.440 Jesus rested. 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:45.759 But but but it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be exciting to see that this old body is gonna be taken away. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:55.039 You know, despite the claims of science today, there is nothing that will ever grant us immortality on this earth. 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.360 Now, let me I don't have this verse on your outline, but write it down. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:00.879 Ecclesiastes 8.8. 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:02.000 Listen to what it says. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.359 God gave me this this week after I turned in the outline. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:10.079 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:16.079 One has power to prevent the day of their death. 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:18.160 Ecclesiastes 8.8. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:19.599 That's a powerful verse. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:28.480 In other words, let me just tell you right now, when your time's up on this earth and Jesus wants you to come home, you're going home. 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:32.000 And I don't care if the doctor's right there with you. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:38.319 I don't care if it's the greatest doctor, the greatest nurse, the greatest paramedic. 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.319 I don't, it doesn't matter. 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:53.519 In fact, I've known several people that went to their doctor, got a great physical, came out of the physical with a glowing report, and have a heart attack the next day playing tennis and go to be with the Lord. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.240 Know of two or three people like that. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:58.160 Not just playing tennis. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.559 I know you're thinking, well, I'm not gonna play tennis, no. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:15.440 But seriously, so but the exciting thing is this our resurrection body will not get tired, it will not get strained or become short in breath. 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.920 Our bodies will be perfect in every way, indestructible. 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:21.279 Think about that. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.359 Wow, that gets me excited. 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:29.519 No more doctors, no more surgeries, no more knee replacements. 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:30.880 Can I get an amen? 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.839 Shoulder replacement, hip replacement. 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.319 What else have you had, I believe? 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:45.359 I know I can pick it, I really think about that. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:46.400 That's all right. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.480 He's still out there whipping everybody in golf. 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:48.880 Amen. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:50.079 Go, buddy. 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:51.359 Get him. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.839 I had somebody call me old man, and then I reminded him I whipped him in pickleball. 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.880 But anyway, hey, our new bodies will be indestructible. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:02.880 But secondly, watch this. 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.240 Our bodies will be identifiable. 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:07.200 Oh, yes. 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.640 Look at verse 43. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.160 Man, this gets good. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:18.240 In verse 43, he says, our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.039 They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised. 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:21.920 Restrained. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.960 Woo-hoo! Glory and power will be our bodies, folks. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.640 We'll no longer be weak. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.240 We'll no longer be tired. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.039 We will be, as Darren said, who knows? 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:40.079 Superman, Batman, I mean, we'll be greater than they are. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:41.359 Wow. 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.000 Our bodies will be identifiable. 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:49.119 Now, I don't know if we're going to have a brilliant glow, as he says. 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:49.759 I don't know. 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:50.720 I don't know what that means. 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:59.200 I think it's that we're just going to have such a radiance about us because we're living so much in the presence of an awesome God. 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:10.799 But he says the glory, but I really believe we have to look at Philippians 3.20 and 21 to get an idea of what Paul is talking about here. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:14.480 Paul says that in Philippians 3.21, listen this. 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:19.759 Our lowly body will be conformed to Christ's glorious body. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.920 In other words, our new bodies will be like the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:24.880 Wow. 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.200 The apostle John wrote it this way in 1 John 3.2. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:34.079 He says, It has not yet been revealed what we shall be. 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:35.279 But now watch this. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:46.000 But we know when he is revealed to us, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:47.119 Wow. 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:48.079 Wow. 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:56.079 And I think really in the rapture, for the ones that'll be living, I think that happens simultaneously in the rapture. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:56.960 I really believe that. 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:58.480 Now that's just my belief. 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.240 There's no scripture, but it does say right here we're gonna be like him. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.440 Paul concludes this thought in verse 49, and look at what he says here in verse 49. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.559 Powerful thought. 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:10.000 Powerful thought. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:11.440 Notice what he says. 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:13.519 Just as we are now. 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:14.880 All right. 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:17.839 Verse 49. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:25.440 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man. 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:32.400 In other words, just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.359 And I got to thinking, that is powerful. 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:36.559 That is powerful. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:38.880 The earthly man is Adam. 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:42.799 We shall also bear the image of the heavenly man Christ. 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:56.640 So as much as we were like Adam in our earthly body, humanly speaking, we're gonna be like Christ, spiritually speaking, with no limitations whatsoever in our body. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.279 Wow, we will be limitless. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.519 Will not be subjected to all the sin and the curse of this world. 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:06.880 Can I get an amen? 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:09.680 There be no curse up there. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.039 Revelation 22, 3. 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:14.079 Wow. 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.599 Man, does that not get you excited, folks? 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.400 And by the way, let me now this really gonna get you. 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:30.160 The best glimpse we have of what Jesus' glorified body was like is found in his body after his resurrection. 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:31.839 Now get ready. 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:33.119 Are you ready? 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:34.400 Get ready. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:39.839 Four characteristics of Jesus' glorified body. 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.319 Number one, Jesus said that his body was real. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.680 Luke 24, 39. 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:53.200 Jesus, when he met with the disciples after his resurrection, look what he did. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.680 He invited them to touch him, to see that his body was real. 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.480 Here's what he said: handle me and see. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:06.319 For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:07.279 Wow. 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:13.759 Jesus had a physical, material, touchable body after the resurrection from the dead. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:19.279 I mean, he was the same Jesus they had seen him prior to the crucifixion. 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:25.519 The only difference after the crucifixion and resurrection, they could see the nail scarred's hands. 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:31.599 They could see the pierce in the side where the spear had gone. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.920 He could place his hand there and touch it. 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.000 Thomas could touch the nail scarred hands. 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:43.519 He was real, just like he was before. 00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:46.000 Except it was supernatural. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:48.480 It was a glorified body. 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:49.599 Wow. 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:54.880 Number two, Jesus ate on at least two occasions. 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.599 People ask me all the time. 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:01.039 The question, more than any other question. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.680 Are we going to eat in heaven? 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.880 Apparently so. 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.160 Why? 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:12.000 Since Jesus ate in his post-resurrection body, look at it. 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:23.279 He ate a piece of fish and some honeycomb on one occasion in Luke 24, and then he shared fish and bread with the disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in John 21. 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:27.839 It seems though that the role of food will change a little bit. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:37.440 Instead of being a necessity to live, it'll be a pleasure to eat. 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.200 Now, somebody say, well, it's a pleasure for me now. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.200 Amen, Barry. 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:46.319 But here's why it's going to be so pleasurable. 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.599 You will not gain any weight. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:52.160 Can I get an amen? 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:59.359 Now I know, I know a few of you don't have any problem gaining weight anyway, Jeff. 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:00.319 Oh, I know it. 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:01.359 Bean pole. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.359 Man eats more than I do, and he's skinny as a rail. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:07.279 Now, watch this. 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:14.960 I don't know about you, but I'm going to be able to eat that strawberry cake. 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:21.680 I'm going to be able to eat that hot nail, the chocolate cream-filled donuts. 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.480 And y'all can eat the fish and the turkey. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:26.079 I'm eating the dessert. 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.160 I'm going to eat all the sugar I want. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:32.559 Why? 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.960 Because I'm not going to gain any weight. 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:38.240 I don't have to worry about cholesterol. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:40.000 Can I get an amen? 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.319 Don't have to worry about high blood pressure. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:43.839 Can I get an amen? 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:46.240 Y'all not getting it. 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:48.799 Some of y'all ought to be hollow, hallelujah, amen. 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:53.279 Can you think about that? 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.559 Watch what you eat. 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:57.839 Can't have salt. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:59.200 Can't have pepper. 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:01.119 Can't have sugar. 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.960 It won't be can't, can't, can't. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:07.920 It'll be indulge yourself. 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:14.400 Somebody said, well, there won't be any donuts in heaven. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:15.599 Who says? 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:17.039 You don't know. 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.359 It may not be donuts, but there'll be honey buns. 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:26.799 Well, no, no. 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:28.960 I can prove there'll be honey buns. 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:32.160 The manna from heaven. 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:33.759 That was honey buns. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.319 And all of them got tired and said, we don't want any more honey buns. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.359 We want some fish. 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:42.880 Well, bless God, y'all eat the fish, I'll eat the honey buds. 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:48.880 Preacher, you're crazy. 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:49.680 I know it. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:51.039 But I believe it. 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:53.680 I believe it. 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:54.319 God says it. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:55.039 I believe it. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.720 All right, now watch this. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:05.599 Not only will we be eating in heaven, but the third thing, Jesus told Thomas to touch his body in verse 27. 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:07.279 John 20, 27. 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:15.680 He said, Reach out and touch my wounds to see that it was really me, Jesus, and the body in which he had been crucified. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.799 Touch me. 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:18.000 Touch me. 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:23.039 You know, I believe there'll be a lot of hugging going on in heaven. 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:25.519 I love to hug you. 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:28.960 Because there's a bond. 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.440 You know, we love each other. 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:44.480 Mary wanted to grab Jesus after his resurrection, which brings me to the fourth thing, but he told Mary to hold on, not to hold on to him in John 20, verse 17. 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:46.960 He said, Do not cling to me. 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.319 He would not have said that had it not been possible for her to cling to him. 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.839 That is, if his body had not been a true physical body. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:00.000 So, wow. 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.440 He's real. 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:03.359 Our bodies will be real. 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:05.920 We can eat. 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:07.759 We can touch. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.000 I think we'll be able to hug. 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:13.440 So if our bodies are going to be like Jesus, watch this, look at it. 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:14.160 Bodies. 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:16.160 Ours is going to be like Jesus' body. 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:23.920 We will be physical, we will be recognizable, we will be able to eat, be able to communicate, we'll be able to touch. 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:32.720 And then that brings me to what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13, 12, that even reinforces what I just taught you out of John. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.400 Listen to what he said. 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:44.880 Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13, 12, now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.960 In heaven, we will know as we are known. 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:53.839 I believe that I will know who Susan is. 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:57.519 She said, Well, you want to, she's your wife. 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.720 Well, there'll be no marriage in heaven. 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.799 Now that I don't understand. 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:05.279 But we'll all be brothers and sisters. 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:06.799 There'll be such a love. 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:09.359 And you say, well, how can that be? 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:11.680 Because we will have a glorified body. 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:13.599 We will be perfect. 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.680 How about that? 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:28.400 In other words, there'll be no jealousy, there'll be no hatred, there be no backbiting, there'll be no gossiping, there'll be no choosing sides, or I like you better, I like you better than I do you. 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.640