@dtp1989 Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
The Resurrection Body Revealed: What Will the Glorified Body of the Saint Be Like?
Main Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not some side doctrine tucked away in the corner of the New Testament for theologians to quarrel over while the average Christian stares into the sky and wonders what happens when he dies. The resurrection is the center beam in the house of Christian faith. Remove it, and the whole structure caves in. Paul said plainly, “And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). That means the resurrection is not merely a happy ending tacked onto the crucifixion. It is the divine vindication of the Son of God, the proof that the payment was accepted, the declaration that death got whipped, hell got robbed, and the grave got plundered by the King of glory. And if that same Christ got up out of the grave in a real, living, glorified body, then every saved man and woman in the Body of Christ has a future that reaches far beyond the cemetery, the casket, and the corruption of this present flesh. The world looks at the body as either an idol to worship or a machine to feed. The Bible looks at it as something that was formed by God, corrupted by sin, purchased by Christ, indwelt by the Holy Ghost, and destined for resurrection.
When most people hear the phrase resurrection body, they imagine something vague, thin, mystical, and almost ghostlike, as though eternity means floating around in some invisible fog while plucking a harp in a cloud bank. That is not Bible resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ did not rise as a vapor, an impression, a memory, or a spiritual metaphor. He rose bodily. He said, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:39). That one verse wrecks a truckload of religious nonsense. Christ rose in a body you could see, hear, touch, and recognize, yet it was a glorified body no longer bound by corruption, weakness, or mortality. That is why this subject matters so much. If the saint is going to be raised in Christ’s likeness, then the resurrection body is not some abstract doctrine for a seminary notebook. It is the future of every believer who has trusted the gospel of the grace of God. It is the answer to the aching back, the fading eyesight, the failing organ, the cancer ward, the funeral procession, the graveyard shift, and every tear ever shed over a body breaking down under the curse.
This truth also changes how a believer views life right now. If your body is going to be redeemed, then your body matters to God. If your body is going to be raised, then death is not the end of your story. If your body is going to be fashioned like Christ’s glorious body, then you have no business living like a man whose destiny ends in a worm farm. Paul said, “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” (Philippians 3:20-21). There is enough doctrine in those two verses to keep a saint shouting for a month. The body you drag around now, with all its limitations, temptations, frailties, and humiliations, is not the last edition. God is not done. The grave is not a trash bin where the body is discarded forever. It is a seed plot. It is a waiting place. It is temporary storage for something God intends to raise in power and glory. So let us look hard at what the Scriptures say about the resurrection body, because the more clearly a believer sees where he is headed, the less interested he becomes in making peace with this present world.
1. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Is the Pattern for the Saint’s Future Body
The first thing that must be settled is that the resurrection body of the believer is tied directly to the resurrection body of Jesus Christ. This is not speculation. This is not a
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