Oct 6, 2026 · 32 min · 9 segments
The hope Christians confess will someday be reality. Christians are people who live with the hope of not just new bodies, but eternal life face to face with God. SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 15:12-26
A lot of Christians have this vague idea of what the resurrection and life everlasting looks like.
It's not really talked about a lot in our day to day.
And I can see why people, including myself, have that view.
Media portrays it as if it's a bit of a either it's a bit of a curse or it's like where angels and white clothes and the clouds playing harps and having a disembodied existence.
But interestingly, when we read scripture, the resurrection is different from that.
And the word resurrection means we brought back alive after it has died.
Paul uses the word raised up in 1 Corinthians, meaning to awaken or cause to rise up.
It is usually used for waking someone up, and Paul uses it to describe Christians who have died or those who have fallen asleep.
His point isn't that death is insignificant, but that for the Christian, death is not permanent.
Just as someone who sleeps will rise again, those who die in Christ will be raised.
The first fact is that the resurrection will be bodily and on earth.
Granted, we won't have the same body and it won't be the same earth as they'll be glorified and free from sin.
I can't exactly define or show you what it looks like, but we do get a glimpse of what that looks like in the resurrected Jesus.
Philippians 3.20 and 1 John 3.2 both describe our bodies will be like Jesus' glorified bodies.
So let's take a look at what those physical descriptions look like.
So on one hand, we have the physical bodily resurrected body.
And we know that when Jesus was resurrected, One of the first things he did was meet Peter and John at the beach and eat some fish.
He ate fish with them.
His physical glorified body wasn't just wasn't ghostly.
He sat there and had a meal with them.
He asked them, he said, look at my hands, my feet.
It really was him.
They just could not believe that Jesus was back alive with them.
He was also recognizable by them.
A lot of Christians have this vague idea of what the resurrection and life everlasting looks like.
It's not really talked about a lot in our day to day.
And I can see why people, including myself, have that view.
Media portrays it as if it's a bit of a either it's a bit of a curse or it's like where angels and white clothes and the clouds playing harps and having a disembodied existence.
But interestingly, when we read scripture, the resurrection is different from that.
And the word resurrection means we brought back alive after it has died.
Paul uses the word raised up in 1 Corinthians, meaning to awaken or cause to rise up.
It is usually used for waking someone up, and Paul uses it to describe Christians who have died or those who have fallen asleep.
His point isn't that death is insignificant, but that for the Christian, death is not permanent.
Just as someone who sleeps will rise again, those who die in Christ will be raised.
The first fact is that the resurrection will be bodily and on earth.
Granted, we won't have the same body and it won't be the same earth as they'll be glorified and free from sin.
I can't exactly define or show you what it looks like, but we do get a glimpse of what that looks like in the resurrected Jesus.
Philippians 3.20 and 1 John 3.2 both describe our bodies will be like Jesus' glorified bodies.
So let's take a look at what those physical descriptions look like.
So on one hand, we have the physical bodily resurrected body.
And we know that when Jesus was resurrected, One of the first things he did was meet Peter and John at the beach and eat some fish.
He ate fish with them.
His physical glorified body wasn't just wasn't ghostly.
He sat there and had a meal with them.
He asked them, he said, look at my hands, my feet.
It really was him.
They just could not believe that Jesus was back alive with them.
He was also recognizable by them.
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