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Friday, April 12, 2024

Sacred Reflections: Daily Devotions for Soulful Living

FRIDAY, 12 APRIL 2024

 

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

 

35: But someone will 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: Not all flesh is the same: People 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”; the last Adam, 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 is of heaven.

 

48: As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

 

49: And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

 

50: I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

 

(New International Version Holy Bible)

 

TOPIC: RESURRECTION DEFEATS DEATH AND SIN

 

Our Lord Jesus taught a very powerful lesson on what the resurrected body would look like for those who looked forward to it.

 

Using the ordinary act of planting and harvesting as example, Paul put the message through very clearly in response to the Corinthians' doubts about what kind of body the dead would resurrect with.

 

Christ's death and resurrection is a proof of carrying a new body as it wasn't the body nailed to the cross that He is bearing now but a new one.

 

Resurrected bodies are no longer subject to sin and death that had already been defeated in the grave through the cross of Christ. The resurrected body of the dead becomes imperishable and is raised in glory, sown in weakness but raised in power.

 

This is what gives Christians the assurance that if we live and die with Him on earth, we shall live with Him eternally. If Christ had not risen, then our faith would have been a pity and we would be most miserable. But, thank God, Christ died, was buried and on the third day He rose, Alleluia.

 

QUESTION: Do you wish to live victoriously over sin and death with the assurance of eternity with Christ?

 

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, grant me the grace to live for You on this side of heaven and live eternally with You afterward, in Jesus name. Amen.

Remain Blessed      

ECWA Food For The Day, 2024.

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