2. READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-54
[1 Corinthians 15:35] "But someone may ask, "How
are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?'
[36] How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it
dies. [37] When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be,
but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. [38] But
God gives it a body as He has determined, and to each kind of seed
He gives its own body. [39] All flesh is not the same: Men have one
kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish
another. [40] There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly
bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and
the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. [41] The sun has one
kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star
differs from star in splendor.
[42] "So will it be with the resurrection of the dead.
The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;
[43] it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in
weakness, it is raised in power; [44] it is sown a natural body, it
is raised a spiritual body.
"If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual
body. [45] So it is written: 'The first man Adam became a
living being,' [Genesis 2:7]; the last Adam [meaning Christ],
a life-giving spirit. [46] The spiritual did not come first, but
the natural, and after that the spiritual. [47] The first man was
of the dust of the earth, the second Man from heaven. [48] As was
the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the
Man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. [49] And just
as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear
the likeness of the Man from heaven.
[50] "I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit
the imperishable. [51] Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not
all sleep, but we will all be changed--[52] in a flash, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be
changed. [53] For the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. [54] When the
perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal
with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true:
'Death has been swallowed up in victory,'"
[Isaiah 25:8].
a. The natural body will be raised as a what?
b. Whose likeness shall we bear?
c. What cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven?
d. When will we be changed?
e. What will the mortal be clothed with?
f. What saying will then come true?
