S9E25: Raised in Glory (Love Never Ends: Being the Body of Christ pt. 7)

Sermon #484

Now we come to the question of what our resurrected bodies will look like.  Paul brings us methodically through the image of a seed which dies and is planted in the ground, but then grows into a plant that is different from the seed itself, yet identical in substance.  He goes on to say that we are the same.  We start as seeds bearing the image of our earthly father Adam, from whom we inherit sin and death.  But then we die to self and are raised in the glory of our spiritual father, Christ, and so inherit righeousness and everlasting life.  The church as a body of Christ is the same, taking on the attributes of Christ in our members and so bearing the fruit of Christ's Spirit living in us.

1 Corinthians 15:35-50

Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on February 20, 2022

S.D.G.