RESURRECTION

WHO NEEDS IT?

YOUR GOAL

LIVE FOR EVER IN HEAVEN?LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH?

REVELATION 21:1-3

HEAVEN COMES DOWN TO EARTHGOD LIVES ON EARTH

TWO HUMANITIES

1 CORINTHIANS 15:44-47, 50

BY CREATION AND BIRTH - NATURALBY RESURRECTION - SPIRITUALNATURAL = IDEALY SUITED TO LIFE IN THIS WORLDSPIRITUAL = IDEALY SUITED TO LIFE IN THE WORLD TO COMETHE NATURAL CANNOT SHARE IN THE FUTURE

CHANGE IS IMPERATIVE

RESURRECTION MUST EFFECT THE WHOLE PERSONONLY BY RESURRECTION CAN WE ESCAPE DEATH1 CORINTHIANS 15:21-22

ALL ADAM’S REALTIVES DIEALL CHRIST’S RELATIVES LIVEIF CHRIST HAS NOT BEEN RESURRECTED WE HAVE NO HOPE

L I V I N G

P E R S O N

DEATH

GRAVE -DECOMPOSITION

SHEOL –PRISON WHERE THE PERSON IS KEPT TILL

THE FINAL JUDGEMENT

DEATH = SEPARATION AND CONTROL

SPIRIT

BODY

DEATH DISEMBODIES

ABRAHAM’S SIDE -- PLACE OF REST FOR OBEDIENT BELIEVERS

HADES -- PLACE OF TORMENT FOR DISOBEDIENT

UNBELIEVERS

UNCROSSABLE CHASM

SHEOL –DEATH’S PRISON

LUKE 16:19-31

JESUS AND DEATH

LUKE 23:46 HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT TO THE FATHER AND DIEDHE CAME UNDER DEATH’S CONTROLLUKE 23:43 HIS BODY WAS PLACED IN A TOMBACTS 2:24, ROMANS 6:9 HE WENT TO SHEOL THE RESTFUL SECTION OR THE PAINFUL SECTION?

RESURRECTION OF JESUS

GOD BROKE THE POWER OF DEATH OVER HIMHIS BODY AND HIS PERSON/SPIRIT WERE REUNITED HE [THE WHOLE PERSON] WAS TRANSFORMED AND MADE SPIRITUALHE WAS MADE THE SOURCE OF LIFE TO OTHERSLIFE = RESURRECTION LIFE = ETERNAL LIFE

IMPLICATIONS FOR NOW

WE ARE HALFWAY THEREROMANS 8:10-11 THE SPIRIT/PERSON IS ALIVE, EXPERIENCING RESURRECTION LIFETHE BODY WILL CATCH UP AT THE GREAT RESURRECTION DAY 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-55

WHAT HAPPENS TO BELIVERS AT DEATH?

SEPARATION TAKES PLACETHE BODY DECOMPOSESTHE SPIRIT/PERSON GOES TO BE WITH THE LORD PHILIPPIANS 1:21-23

EPHESIANS 4:8 INDICATES THAT THE “ABRAHAM” PART OF SHEOL IS NOW EMPTY

IS RESURRECTION REALLY NECESSARY?

DISEMBODIED PERSONS ARE OF LITTLE OR NO USE TO GODGOD NEEDS US IN OUR BODIESHEBREWS 10:5 CHRIST NEEDED/NEEDS A BODY TO DO THE FATHER’S WILL

WE NEED A BODY TO LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH

THE BIG PICTURE

PHYSICAL

DEATH

RESURRECTION

KINGDOMOF GOD[NEW

UNIVERSE]

GEHENNA[LAKE OF FIRE]

HELL

HEAVEN[REST]

GRAVEDECOMPOSITION

SHEOL – HADES[TORMENT]

SPIRIT

SPIRIT

BODY

OBEDIENT BELIEVER

DISOBEDIENTUNBELIEVER

BODY