David Marshall Kealy
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"I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to His service."
1 Timothy 1:12 |
David Marshall Kealy
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"I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to His service."
1 Timothy 1:12 |
A pastor friend of mine shared:Last Sunday, Easter, I preached from I Corinthians 15:35-58. I Corinthians 15 is Paul’s persuasive argument to believe in the Resurrection of Jesus and to look forward to our own resurrection. Many of the Corinthians thought there was no resurrection – that such a belief in resurrection was beyond reason, and foolish, and had little to do with the good ethical life of Jesus. But Paul counters that: it is essential. Without resurrection there is no forgiveness of sin and no hope for this life or the next – no good reason to live or care about others. He went on to address another question: what will our resurrected bodies be like? I talked about the nature of our future resurrected bodies. The key descriptive word, among others, is “imperishable” or “indestructible”. This is a phenomenal expectation. In this world we have bodies that decline and decay, but in the next world, we who exercise trust in God through Christ will have full bodies not subject to destruction or disease or dementia or destitution. As CS Lewis said in this writing of The Great Divorce in his description of Heaven: Heaven and our eternal bodies will be more real, more substantial, more solid, more whole, than what we experience now. Do you go to a church that preaches the gospel?
You should.
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