THEME:
The Resurrection matters because your body will one day be raised to life again. If you are a Christian, you will receive a future body that will be just like Christ’s resurrected body. You will be glorified. Then, you will live out a wonderful, joy-filled, and problem-free, never-ending story.
KEY SCRIPTURE:
Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Matthew 27:52-53
The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Your never-ending story has already begun because Christ is transforming you
Definition of Glorification – Wayne Grudem
The final step in the application of redemption. It will happen when Christ returns and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers for all time who have died, and reunites them with their souls, and changes the bodies of all believers who remain alive, thereby giving all believers at the same time perfect resurrection bodies like his own.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When your journey on earth is over, you will immediately be with Christ
2 Corinthians 5:8
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Your never-ending story is made possible by the power of Christ
Philippians 3:21b
…by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Your resurrection body will no longer be subject to the ravages of sin
1 Corinthians 15:42-43
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
Your resurrection body will never grow old
Your resurrection body will be full of the vitality and strength God intended before the fall
Your resurrection body will be like Christ’s resurrection body
1 Corinthians 15:49
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Run a strong race until you are glorified and with Christ
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.