Tonight our incredibly gracious hosts at Parkway Presbyterian Church provided a wonderful supper for us. It was great to get to meet some of the folks in this vibrant, mission-focused congregation. Our last three days of work have been good and the whole process is a great reminder that almost all the important things we do are done with others and on top of the work of those who came before.
Today's reading Paul moves from talking about Christ's resurrection to talking about our resurrection. Christ was the first to rise from the dead, but we will all be raised at the right time. One day, when Christ returns, we will rise again or be changed into immortality. Death is not a barrier to God's love. We'll be spending some time with this idea on Sunday, so if it's confusing now, hopefully things will be clearer after that. I'm always happy to talk about it with you more after that.
God bless,
Sam
1 Corinthians 15:35-50
35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
39Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.
42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 47The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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