1 Corinthians 15:50-58
The world is made up of only two classes of people. In the long run, it makes no difference in what race or nationality you happen to have been born. You were born a sinless individual, but as you matured, you, like Adam and Eve sinned, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” What you do about this then your own decision to make, God has done his part. “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life, for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17). We call a non-believer, lost, but God calls him a sinner and the wage of sin is death. That is a certainty.
Most Biblical prophecies have already been fulfilled, and the remainder deal with end times and could be fulfilled momentarily. They are not all fearful things, but they will all happen.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (Matthew 16:17, John 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Romans 2:7)
There are two parts to this verse. These will happen and the result is certain. No one will go to heaven in this physical body. That is very good news for any adult person. Our bodies were given to be temporary abodes for the real us, our souls. The body is temporary, and the soul is eternal. We inherited a body that is subject to neglect, misuse, abuse, disease, and just plain wearing out. Sometimes there is nothing we can do about that, but, our souls are eternal and we have full control of them.
What is the mystery here?
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (1 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 5:2-4)
The mystery is that not all will die a normal physical death, called “sleep” here. Those who happen to be physically, still living, will be changed.
HOW IT WILL HAPPEN
With the blast of the angel’s trumpets, “the twinkling of an eye” the dead shall be raised and all will witness the Lord’s return to earth. The “saved” among the currently living, shall be changed, and all the physically deceased who died in Christ, those who “sleep;” Will join them
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (Matthew 24:31, John 25:48, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 1 Thessalonians 4:17)
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (Romans 2:7, 2 Corinthians 5:4)
54 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. (Isaiah 25:8)
VICTORY IN CHRIST
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (Hosea 13:14)
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (Romans 5:12, Romans 3:20, Romans 4:15, Romans 7;8)
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 7:25, 2 Corinthians 2:15, Romans 8:37, Hebrews 2:14, 1 John 5:4, Revelation 21:4)
God has prepared the way. He has revealed it through His Word. It is over to us to act upon it. To do nothing is fatal.
MAKE CERTAIN YOU ARE READY
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (2 Peter 3:14, 1 Corinthians 16:10)
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READ THE BIBLE THROUGH AGAIN IN 2011
AUGUST
28th. Sunday – 2 Chronicles 29, 30, 2 Timothy 1, Proverbs 21:1-12
29th. Monday – 2 Chronicles 31, 32, 2 Timothy 2, Psalm 104:1-14
30th. Tuesday – 2 Chronicles 33, 34, 2 Timothy 3, Psalm 104:15-25
31st. Wednesday - 2 Chronicles 35, 36, 2 Timothy 4, Psalm 104:26-35
SEPTEMBER
1st. Thursday - Isaiah 1, 2, 2 Corinthians 1, Proverbs 21:13-23
2nd. Friday – Isaiah 3, 4, 2 Corinthians 2, Psalm 105:1-11
3rd. Saturday - Isaiah 5, 6, 7, 2 Corinthians 3, Psalm 105:12-22
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THIS WEEK'S SCRIPTURE
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, al things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
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