![]() Now, the second thing you notice in the parable is that both of these men retained their identities and some of their memory. ![]() So that’s the first, that’s something we all need to recognize, and I don’t know about you, but I think that’s good news that we will be, we will have physical bodies that will last forever. Now, most theologians agree that the new glorified body we receive will be very similar to Jesus’s glorified body that you see after the Resurrection. He’s saying basically our bodies are like seeds that must go into the ground and die before they become a glorious plant. He’s using an agricultural analogy or illustration. But God gives it a body as He has determined, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body. Ben Patrick, how about reading that, would you? I Corinthians 15:35- 38.īut someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ![]() So, if you turn back to I Corinthians 15, and we’re going to read verses 35 through 38, and he uses a different metaphor to describe what will happen to us. Now, we see this, Paul talks about it again in I Corinthians chapter 15. And when our bodies die, they’re going to be replaced by a permanent structure, a glorified body that will never pass away. What is a tent? It’s an impermanent structure that’s going to wear out over time, just like our bodies. And so, it’s not surprising that he would use an earthly tent to describe our bodies, because think about it. It was kind of a trade basically that he developed because sometimes he didn’t have the financial resources and so he would go out and work as a tentmaker. You see what Paul is referring - some people don’t know this, but Paul sometimes, to make ends meet, would make tents. For in this tent, we groan, longing to put on our Heavenly dwelling. In fact, Warren Lightfoot, would you read, go to chapter five, II Corinthians five and read verses one and two?įor we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. So, if you would turn to II Corinthians and go to chapter five, and we’re going to read verses one and two. Now, there’s a lot of scripture that bears this out, and so I thought it’d be good for us to look at a couple of verses, that shows us that we will have physical, glorified, resurrected bodies. You know, sometimes I don’t think we pay much attention to the words, but it says, “I believe in the resurrection of the body”. We’re not going to be these spirits floating around in the clouds like some people think. And this is something that - yesterday morning, I was amazed, not amazed, I shouldn’t say that - but a number of guys had no idea of the reality that in Heaven, you will have a physical, resurrected body. In fact, one of the first things you need to note, or you should note, is that these men, Lazarus and the rich man, they had physical bodies. ![]() So, we’re back to the parable of Lazarus and the Rich man, and if you look real closely, you’ll recognize that this parable reveals something about eternity.
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