The Threes Resurrections: First, Faith, Future
Part 3 Future Resurrection - I Corinthians 15:50-58

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The Believers Bodily Resurrection

What can I add to those words to make them more powerful, more beautiful or more hopeful? Nothing, nothing at all. Better to read them again and again and again, for they only grow more wonderful each time we hear them. This is why we read 1 Corinthians 15 so often at the graveside of our loved ones. In these words, is hope, hope that overcomes time, pain, sorrow and even death. Hope for us, hope for our loved ones, hope of all eternity.
Someday Jesus will return, a trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise. Paul says we will be changed, from corruptible to incorruptible, from mortal to immortal. Death itself will have been defeated, destroyed, decimated and disintegrated forever.

Facing Our New Face!

No More Corruption. Every day looking in the mirror, seeing a little more corruption. Everyday a little bit of us dies, our hairline our waist, the wrinkles.

I can kid now but it is no joke in nursing home that used to preach in as a Bible college student.

-To watch a man agonizingly die from tuberculosis
-To see 40-year-old women whose mind was blanked by Parkinson's disease.
-To see a 19-year-old boy with a crash helmet on so he would not slam his head into walls.
-To talk with a 30-year-old husband confined to a wheelchair and his room after he was almost killed in a motorcycle wreck.
But when Jesus comes back, all those who believe in him will be new, totally, wonderfully, absolutely new. Every joint, every ligament, every fiber every atom, resurrected and rearranged in a new body without sin!

Quotes about eternal life

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown! -- D.L. Moody

I feel within me that future life. I am like a forest that has been razed; the new shoots are stronger and brighter. I shall most certainly rise toward the heavens--the nearer my approach to the end, the plainer is the sound of immortal symphonies of worlds which invite me. For half a century I have been translating my thoughts into prose and verse: history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song; all of these I have tried. But I feel I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies with me. When I go to the grave I can say, as others have said, "My day's work is done." But I cannot say, "My life is done." My work will recommence the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes upon the twilight but opens upon the dawn. -Victor Hugo

There are far, far better think ahead than any we leave behind. – C. S. Lewis

Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like gong back. All my life the God of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now? - C. S. Lewis

End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one tht we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.” – J. R. R. Tolkien.

Death is not punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.” – Charles Spurgeon.

“When we first glimpse the light of the eternal day, the disease which was our intractable enemy and finally slew us here will become our great friend. The friend who hurried us to this place. This wonderful, unspeakably beautiful place.” – Larry Jones.

Moody’s Funeral Sermon Research

D. L. Moody when still a young man, was called upon suddenly to preach a funeral sermon. He hunted all throughout the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons but searched in vain. You know what he found? He found that Christ broke up every funeral he ever attended. Death could not exist where he was. When the dead heard the voice of Jesus they sprang to life. He said, "I am the resurrection, and the life."

To Jesus, Jairus daughter was not dead she was only asleep, and it took no more than his gentle touch to bring her back from the clutches of death.

Jesus walked up to a funeral procession coming from the city of Nain. He saw the tears of a widowed mother who had lost her only son. Jesus broke up the funeral as if he just bringing her lost little boy back home.

Mary and Martha watched their brother Lazarus slowly slip from sickness to death and then to the grave. They buried him and for four days he lay in a tomb, four days for his body to decay, four days his flesh to rotted. But Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life" and he told them to roll away the stone. Then He called out, "Lazarus, Come forth" and a decaying body wrapped in grave clothes was remade new and sprang back from eternity at the sound of His voice.

Is the resurrection real to you today? The resurrection will not be real if Jesus is not real to you. Is He your personal Saviour; is he your lord? Do you believe in the power of His death over sin on your behalf? Will you reckon yourself to be dead to sin but alive unto God? Will you quit letting sin defeat you? God’s word says, sin and death are beaten. We just have to believe it and act in that belief. Isn’t it time to believe in the power of the resurrection? Time to believe in the One who defeated sin, death and the grave. Time to let Jesus prove the power of the resurrection in us and in eternity. It is not a myth, but the most powerful reality any of us can ever experience.