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My life after the grave
depends on my life before the grave
Reflections on 1 Corinthians 15
Thursday, May 1, 2014
My life after the grave
depends on my life before the grave
Reflections on 1 Corinthians 15
Thursday, May 1, 2014
“But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life!
Who got the last word, oh, Death?
Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now?
It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 (MSG)
Who got the last word, oh, Death?
Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now?
It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 (MSG)
This passage tells me that
. . . . . . . . . just as Moses came down from the mountain at the blast of a trumpet, when Jesus returns believers will resurrected with their brand new bodies and death will be no more.
. . . . . . . . . . with my being re-clothed with a new body I will also be changed, not just physically but changed in some way that has both a continuity with who I am now and also discontinuity. I’ll still be me but a much improved and better me, a me that will have grown out of the kind of me I had begun to become in this life.
. . . . . . . . . . Guilt? Gone! Sin? Gone! Death! No more!
. . . . . . . . . just as Moses came down from the mountain at the blast of a trumpet, when Jesus returns believers will resurrected with their brand new bodies and death will be no more.
. . . . . . . . . . with my being re-clothed with a new body I will also be changed, not just physically but changed in some way that has both a continuity with who I am now and also discontinuity. I’ll still be me but a much improved and better me, a me that will have grown out of the kind of me I had begun to become in this life.
. . . . . . . . . . Guilt? Gone! Sin? Gone! Death! No more!
What did this passage teach you? (Read the entire Chapter https://www.bible.com/bible/37/1co.15.ceb)
“Lord, Wow! The old saying, ‘if it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is” turns out to be nothing more than the cynic’s cry, the self medicating comfort sought by those who refuse you. Lord, thank you for giving me a vision of life which is not only beyond all imagining, but is, albeit in limited form, available to me NOW! Amen
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